Justicebork
The King in the North
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Dv7 are you gonna be ok?
Iceland has what, maybe 400K people? I mean, that's like 2 million fewer than Slovenia and Uruguay. How the eff does a country that small field a team? And another thing they have going for them is they'll still have blue in their flag 2 years from now. England will have a white field with a horizontal and vertical red stripe. Maybe if Wales stays, they can have 2 red stripes and a green dragon on it, and maybe they could get Bale to play for them. They may as well put a picture of Khaleesi on that flag with the dragon. Better yet a naked picture of Khaleesi, and it would actually be a good flag.
Iceland has what, maybe 400K people? I mean, that's like 2 million fewer than Slovenia and Uruguay. How the eff does a country that small field a team? And another thing they have going for them is they'll still have blue in their flag 2 years from now. England will have a white field with a horizontal and vertical red stripe. Maybe if Wales stays, they can have 2 red stripes and a green dragon on it, and maybe they could get Bale to play for them. They may as well put a picture of Khaleesi on that flag with the dragon. Better yet a naked picture of Khaleesi, and it would actually be a good flag.
Iceland has what, maybe 400K people? I mean, that's like 2 million fewer than Slovenia and Uruguay. How the eff does a country that small field a team? And another thing they have going for them is they'll still have blue in their flag 2 years from now. England will have a white field with a horizontal and vertical red stripe. Maybe if Wales stays, they can have 2 red stripes and a green dragon on it, and maybe they could get Bale to play for them. They may as well put a picture of Khaleesi on that flag with the dragon. Better yet a naked picture of Khaleesi, and it would actually be a good flag.
That paragraph ended in a different postal code than I expected. Impressive to start on Iceland's size, cruise by Slovenia and Uruguay for a quick look-see, linger on the specifics of flags for those two or three of us who are flag-o-philes, and then smash that mothafucking paragraph square in the chest with some unreferenced Game of Thrones truth bombs. Nice.
Getting back to Iceland - yes, very small. I think they have open tryouts and just kick off everyone under 20 or over 35, and then kick out everyone with a body fat count higher than 8% and voila - your Iceland side.
15 years ago Iceland decided to spend a ton of money on soccer development. They built 150 indoor practice fields and 30 or so full size state of the art indoor pitches. They also have over 600 licensed youth coaches.