The theme of today's story is
"330,000 and 1,375 million "
Isn't there a poisonous chicken soup, is that what it says? How immodest a person is, how affectionate he is. Today I will tell a story of "how immodest a national team is how affectionate it is".
This national team is from Iceland, Iceland, which is a less serious country.
It is the smallest country in the world with a population of only 330,000. About x are afraid of encountering their relatives.
The people here, each with more than one identity. He could be a national team player, he could be a country dentist, he could be a documentary filmmaker, he could be a popular singer, he could be mayor.
5 years ago, they were ranked 131 in the world, not even our national football team.
But today, the Icelandic national team has reached the World Cup, for the first time in history.
On the rivers and lakes, there are many legends about them. Let's pick a few fun ones.
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Viking roared.
After the group first advanced to the World Cup, the Icelandic team showed the iconic celebration, "Viking Roar".
Vikings refer to Vikings in general, and Icelanders are descendants of Vikings. Roar, that is, the team members as the lead dancer, with nearly 10,000 Icelandic fans in the field together to raise their hands, high-fives, roar.
This domineering way of celebrating is not original to Iceland, according to the Daily Mail, which they learned from Scotland.
In 2014, Icelandic side Stärnan away to Scottish side Motherwell FC in the Europa League qualifiers, saw the opposing fans' domineering way of celebrating. Subsequently, fans brought it back home and gradually spread it to national team matches.
The Icelandic team celebrates in a way that is not limited to the "Viking Roar". In the domestic league, there have been various celebrations such as "human-shaped toilet", "clockwork", "dragon boating" and so on.
"Humanoid Toilet"
Is this on the clockwork?
Dragon boating?
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"I'm going to run my lungs out today, and I'm going to buy a new one tomorrow."
This was confirmed on Twitter after entering the World Cup, and the player Bodwalsson posted. That's the Icelandic player.
But Iceland had no professional players before.
Iceland is actually a very unsuitable country for playing football. The average annual temperature here is 4 °C, 7 months of the year is a state of ice and snow, most of the older generation of Players in Iceland are "gym generation", they have strong physical fitness, but because they can not practice systematically, the technique and ball are very general. So a lot of players are amateurs. They have their own serious professions, and when they can't practice in the winter, they do some other work to make money.
Before 2000, other national teams played football and were ready to win. Only Iceland is thinking of losing better today.
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Standing at the entrance of the village, every home is a football field.
How dense are Icelandic football stadiums now?
After losing for 50 years, in order to win, since 2000, the Icelandic government has been desperately building stadiums. It took them 15 years to build 179 standard football fields and 129 small football fields on a land area of less than 100,000 square kilometers. There are 9 large indoor football stadiums all over the country, all of which are full-size courts, the largest one has a 1800-seat stand, and each large stadium will also have several small football fields.
In addition to every school, even small villages with only a few families have stadiums. Many of the courses are also equipped with geothermal installations.
In 2008, Iceland suffered an economic crisis, the three major private banks collapsed, were nationalized, and the government did not stop building stadiums. And, these stadiums are all free, can you stand it?
Every morning from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., Iceland's courses are open to everyone. Before the age of 19, both boys and girls can go in and train, as long as they want to practice. Because football can be played everywhere, a 19-year-old amateur footballer can have 5 football skills training sessions and 5 to 6 physical training sessions a week.
Two years ago, Iceland had 21,508 registered players, equivalent to one in every 15 people in the country. Of our 1.3 billion people, the football population is just over 25,000, while there are only 8,000 professional players on record.
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Can you believe that the coach who took Iceland to the World Cup is a village dentist by profession?
The dentist worked as a coach and also entered the World Cup.
Heimir, one of the head coaches of the Icelandic national team, doesn't even live on the main island of Iceland, just on a small island off the south coast of Iceland. On that small island, there are 4,000 inhabitants, 80 million puffins, and 80 volcanoes. He, on the other hand, works as a village dentist on the island.
His mother wasn't too happy because she was working part-time as a coach, and in Iceland, working as a dentist earns a lot more than coaching. Leading the team to play a European Cup, you have to delay your job, and you have to row up the patient's appointment.
For us, it is rare for a rural dentist to be the head coach of the national team, but in Iceland, the work of coaching is almost personal.
Also in 2000, Iceland began to train professional football coaches in a frenzy.
Before 2003, Iceland couldn't even get a UEFA B-class coach. Like South Korea's star-making, Iceland has also launched a "star-making program" for its coaching staff. He is supported by UEFA to run training courses at its headquarters in the capital, Reykjavik, encouraging all interested parties to get involved.
In order to lower the threshold, Iceland has reduced the time and cost of coaching examinations, and the UEFA B-level coach certificate may cost 2450 pounds in England and 613 pounds in Iceland.
As a result of this programme, as of February 2016, more than 180 Icelandic football coaches have received UEFA Class A coaching certificates.
This means that iceland's so many A-level coaching certificate coaches can go to the top European giants to take the position of assistant coach. From the very beginning of their exposure to football, Iceland's 6-year-olds receive professional guidance from top UEFA coaches. Iceland now "dominates" a coach for every 100 teenagers, 200 times more than in developed football countries such as Spain and Germany.
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Every day, there is a crossover king reality show.
Icelanders are busy. Although the population is small, the basic social operation must be maintained, and the cultural entertainment that should be there should be no less. How to do it, you can only do multiple jobs in one person.
The national team coach is a village dentist, and goalkeeper Haldasson is a director, and one of his promotional films has been selected to represent Iceland on the stage of the Eurovision Song Contest.
The whole of Iceland is a crossover master.
In 2010, Jón Gnarr, founder of Iceland's largest parliamentary party, became mayor of Reykjavik, iceland, but he was also a taxi driver and professional comedian.
1/10 of Iceland's population has published at least one book, and to prevent books from popping up, members of a family will keep the book out of the box. Iceland has a population of only 320,000, but there are more than 1,000 local bands... Icelanders will proudly advertise themselves as "the country with the most Nobel Prizes per capita," even though they have only one Nobel laureate.
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How is the Icelandic Tintin, no, physique so strong?
The Icelanders were descendants of the Vikings, who, on the one hand, ate whales and other protected animals and were physically strong. Not only is it robust, Icelanders also show their love of robust physique.
In 1997, the Icelandic historian Huttson took out his collection of objects and displayed them in a museum, the Phallus Museum.
There are 93 species of tintin from the animals, including 55 whales, 36 finnipeds such as seals, and 118 terrestrial animals. There are also various tintin-shaped objects, such as tintin storage boxes. Spirits packaging boxes symbolizing male hormones, etc.
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Five years ago, the Icelandic team was not even as good as the national football team.
At that time, the Icelandic national team was still the 131st in the world. What is this concept?
Now ranked 130th in the world is the Vietnamese national team, when the 88th ranked national football team in the world was ahead of Iceland. Today, Iceland's world ranking has jumped 109th to 22nd, and the national football team has risen to 62nd place, and it is still far from being left behind by Iceland.
But now... Let's change the subject.
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"Half of the fans are their own relatives."
After the game, captain Gunnarsson said: "Half of the fans here are my relatives, and when I play the game, I feel like my relatives are next to me. ”
It's no surprise that Icelandic fans love football. During last year's European Championship, Iceland and England match, 8,000 Icelandic fans came to the scene, the scene was very shocking. During the Cup, 28,000 Icelanders came to France to cheer, or 8% of the country's population.
But 8% of the country's population comes, and Iceland is too small. What is the concept of a total population of 330,000? There are a few passages that say this:
According to the latest demographic results, Iceland has 34,319 people, minus 170503 women, minus 40,121 people who are younger than 18 years old, 85,670 people who are older than 35 years old, 24,775 people who are too fat, 788 people who go out to sea to hunt whales, 320 people who observe volcanoes, 2,856 people who shear sheep, 23 people who serve prison sentences, 189 people who have leg and foot disabilities, 189 blind people, 8,781 people who appear in the stands as spectators of the remaining 8,809 people, and 3 people who serve as team doctors of the Icelandic national team , chef, masseuse, 2 coaches, all 23 men in the country, all of whom have been selected for the Icelandic national team, just defeated Kosovo and entered the World Cup. ”
"Dad, don't you go play the World Cup. My uncle, my second uncle, my uncle all went, and there was no one in the house. Don't go no, who let us Iceland on this point of men. ”
The population is too small to avoid dating to their relatives. Three students at the University of Iceland have developed an app called the Icelander App, which is said to contain information about 95% of Iceland's residents for 300 years, and as soon as the two parties touch their mobile phones, they can immediately know if they are related...
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Iceland is finally getting serious.
This part of Iceland, the size of a palm, is boring all day. Unlike us, a relationship between two people in beijing's fourth ring road can paralyze Weibo.
Shanghainese @ Dear Jiaqian now works in Iceland. In April, she wrote this contemporary news headline in Iceland:
"For example, every day on my way home from work, I pass by a hot dog stall. The weather is not good, the rain is sad, and the little brother who sells hot dogs lies on the window and sings, singing with depression and self-absorption. Soon, hot dog brothers made Icelandic headlines.
For example, it snows in Reykjavik and the roofs freeze. These ice picks will be very dangerous for pedestrians on the road, and the news headlines will give the citizens science popularization, and enthusiastically give solutions, calling on everyone to go - lick off.
Today's big news is that yogurt has a new flavor. ”
But this time, they made the World Cup. Their headlines are finally no longer awkward.
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So what is it like to live in Iceland?
After reading a few pictures of @Dear Jiaqian, I thought of a book title by Haruki Murakami, "The End of the World and Cold Wonderland".
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