very inspiring story…shows how much a small nation can achieve with determination, focus and unity of purpose…
133rd in Fifa rankings four years ago to where they are now.
That’s the stuff dreams are made of.
1.One of the managers is a dentist
2. 10% of the Icelandic population went to France to support their team at Euro 2016
3. The goalkeeper was a film director
4.Grass don’t grow well in iceland. They practise footy in domes
It’s cold in Iceland. The average temperature in the warmest month is only 10-13C (50F-55F).
But more pertinently than that, it’s dark in Iceland. There are nearly 20 hours of night-time in December. It’s not ideal for practising football.
So the country has ploughed money in to indoor facilities for the sport over the past 15 years.
Kenya is not a small nation by any standards. The problem is elsewhere.
who talked about Kenya?
I thought you were talking about nations? small nations? in a thread about kenya.
If Kenyan sports federation leaders would just leave out corruption and stupid politics in football matters and for once be serious I believe harambee stars would go very far in the Africa cup of nations and world cup. Iceland is a proof of what happens when you focus on developing sports.
[SIZE=5]Kenya ingekuwa
- The manager is a whiteman with no coaching credentials whosoever but as long as ni mzungu isorait - mshahara 500K which they will be unable to pay.
- Players have not been paid in months
- The artificial turf that was ordered imekwama port for 2 years, once it’s cleared we realize the quality is much lower than the one ordered some chimp in the ministry amekula tender.
- Mnaenda Lesotho mna charazwa 4-0 blame game starts , there is no money to fly the boys back home ! [/SIZE]
In Kenya our politicians are grabbing every piece of open land. Mpaka even primary schools like Langata primary and nairobi primary are in danger of losing their football fields. If vijana vijana have no field to sharpen their skills, Kenya will never produce good footballers.
Imagine a child growing up in Kibera today? Most of them have no field to play on because the place is so crowded with matope houses everywhere. And thats why slums like kibera rarely produce good footballers hata zamani.
In Nairobi, Eastlands is the area that produced footballers because there used to be football fields everywhere. Lakini even those fields are now being grabbed by political bigwigs
doomed.