Iceland national football team arrives to Russia 2018 as the smallest country who ever participated into a World Cup, after they catched the attention of the football fans in the last 4 years.

Before the play-off lost against Croatia in order to qualify to 2014 World Cup, there is a fact that worth knowing.
It was 1996 when in a friendly match against Estonia, something very curious happened. At the 62nd minute Iceland was winning 3-0, and there was a substitution. Arnor Guðjohnsen was replaced in the game by his son: Eiður Guðjohnsen. It was the first time in the history of professional football that father and son played in the same match.
Eiður Guðjohnsen was only 18 and then will win 2 Premier League with Chelsea and the "triplete” of 2009 with Guardiola's Barcelona.

Six years ago Iceland was ranked 133 by FIFA, now they're 22. Heimir Hallgrímsson is the coach responsable of this sports miracle (as coach-assistant in 2016) but behind the first national team there is a whole football association working.
In the early 2000s the KSI (Football Association of Iceland) made cheaper and easier for Icelanders to take coaching courses and licenses by UEFA. Also, in the past 15 years KSI built over 150 indoor pitches across the country, most of them next to schools.
As a result Iceland qualified for the 2011 European under-21 championship and then barely missed the qualification to 2014 World Cup.

In a country of 330 thousand inhabitants dealing with storms, earthquakes, snowfalls and eruptions, there is only one way to move forward: being together. So did the Icelanders of football as Gunnarsson, Sigurdsson and Hallfredsson that are going to play the 2018 World Cup.

For the occasion, Retrofootball® launches the “Father and Son” retro shirt of Iceland National Football Team in 1996.

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