#Iceland NT

[kraeki]

So I know most of you are only thinking about friendlies this international break but my national team Iceland is actually being forced to play Euro playoffs against Israel in a few days. Israel is the “home” nation for the match but Iceland refused to go there so Hungary will host on behalf of Israel. Unfortunately the Icelandic team has kind of sucked recently, but I really hope they have a rare moment of brilliance on Thursday, Israel has absolutely no business going to the Euros this summer!!

Iceland’s manager enraged Israeli media and sports personalities with this:

“UEFA takes care of all the rules in this and we are part of UEFA. If we don’t play we will be banned and risk further punishment by not playing another member nation. But if you ask me personally, I would hesitate to play Israel, as it stands now. Because of what is going on in Gaza, and because of what they have done to women, children and other innocent citizens. It shouldn’t be done, and we shouldn’t be playing this game if you ask me. But we have to play because the consequences would be so great for Iceland if we didn’t.”

I thank him for not staying silent and wish him and his team the best of luck on Thursday 🙏

[bigblazecoffee]

On the one hand I would love to watch Italy humiliate Israhell but on the other hand why would I waste my time on them when I can watch a delightful Iceland vs Turkiye.

[stuckinakillingjar]

aktürkoğlu hattrick i'm calling it

[ipswichtowns]

still in denial about iceland missing out on the euros again :(

[anytimebitchess]

Match highlights:

* most abt Ruben

Ruben bulling Bernardo.

Ruben spitting.

Ronaldo getting a yellow.

Ruben tugging up his shorts.

My brother and his friend sneaking in to the stands.

A friend of my brother’s getting on the pitch.

Ronaldo being frustrated for not being able to score 2727x

Ronaldo playing like shit for 80 minutes.

Rúnar finally woke up and was unstoppable with these saves.

Ruben falling.

Ruben slaying.

Joao Felix hair looking reddish under the Iceland sun.

Bernardo being MOTM.

Ruben bending down and shaking his ass in my direction.

Iceland’s squad called up their barbarian ancestors.

Ruben waving and smiling in my direction when he was on the bus.

Bernardo Silva is REALLY smol 🤏🏼

Vitinha too.

Pepe looking fierce.

Alfred Finnbogason plying Italian.

Rafael Leao is actually magnificent.

SIUU

Ronaldo setting a world record.

[gomezgal]

[chelscait]

god only knows how they’re gonna survive the next coming month.

i’m not apart of this anymore until they play actual football x

[carebearcody]

english punditry is so lazy and full of bad takes it makes me hate this country even more

[kraeki]

GIRL CONGRATS 🫡🇮🇸

Thank you!! I don’t usually like this lot very much but today I’m very proud of them 🙏 they had never won a game against Israel before and they had a horrendous Euro qualifiers campaign so I really didn’t expect them to pull this off!! But Israel flopped so hard tonight, their only goal was a penalty, they missed another penalty and a player got a straight red card.

Nobody was feeling comfortable about playing Israel, the commentators kept mentioning their discomfort because how much tension was in the air and they were trying to be diplomatic but one of them implied heavily that he sensed a lot of hostility. Iceland has for a long time been a generally pro-Palestine nation and Israel is very aware of that fact, there is no love lost between us.

So, I’m really happy about the win! Not only for my country that now still has a chance of a Euro spot, but mostly because Israel being at the Euros this summer while they actively commit war crimes would’ve been so wrong in so many ways.

[bigblazecoffee]

Despite the ugly pitch, Turkiye managed to serve in the end 💅

[ardans]

[ceruleanharley]

not croatia and morocco playing their opening match together and now playing their last match together we've come full circle. sounds like soulmates to me

[ipswichtowns]

Iceland 🥳🥳🥳

[anytimebitchess]

Y’all *chuckle*🤭 Ronaldo is suffering

[getting-messi]

Messi really went from this

To this💃🏾🤩🙏🏾

[stuckinakillingjar]

no way i posted this and aktürkoğlu made an offside goal 2 minutes later

aktürkoğlu hattrick i'm calling it