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More than 400 players have represented Iceland in international football; of these, Rúnar Kristinsson has won the most caps with a total of 104 between 1987 and 2004, making him the only Icelander to make more than 100 appearances for the country. Conversely, the Iceland careers of 78 of those players consisted of a single international cap.
The goal was to single out the best ever 15 players who had played the game in their respective positions, since the foundation of the GAA in 1884 up to the Millennium year, 2000. Naturally many of the selections were hotly debated by fans around the country.
Football is the most popular sport in Iceland. [1] [2] [3] Iceland hosted the U-18 European Championship in 1997, but an Icelandic national team has qualified for the final competition of a major tournament only five times—three times by the women's national team at UEFA Women's Euro in 2009, 2013 and 2017, and twice by the men's team at UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.
The Iceland national football team (Icelandic: Íslenska karlalandsliðið í knattspyrnu) represents Iceland in men's international football. The team is controlled by the Football Association of Iceland , and have been a FIFA member since 1947 and a UEFA member since 1957.
Lough Arrow (Irish: Loch Arbhach) [6] is a freshwater lake in the northwest of Ireland. This large, scenic lake covers an area of 12.47 square kilometres (4.8 sq mi) and lies mostly in County Sligo with a smaller part in County Roscommon .
Heimir Hallgrímsson, manager of the Iceland national football team, also a football player and dentist; Hermann Hreiðarsson, professional footballer, currently at ÍBV; Ívar Ingimarsson, former professional footballer; Jóhannes Karl Guðjónsson, professional footballer, currently at Knattspyrnufélag ÍA
The Oklahoman sports team delivers the key players, moments and more from the area's top high school football games in Week 11.
Icelandic women are good at football, the national team is ranked eighteenth by FIFA. Archery as a sport started in disabled clubs in Iceland 1974 [21] and has grown particularly since 2013, buoyed by the opening of a new facility in Kópavogur that year. [22] [23] Archery is one of the oldest Viking sports in Iceland.