After a historic one all draw against 2014 World Cup finalist Argentina, it has been revealed that nobody in Iceland is paid to play or coach football in Iceland.
Although they have professional players in the team like Everton’s Gifyl Sigurdson, Iceland’s goalkeeper, Halldorsson is a part-time film-director in his native country.
Also the coach of the team, Heimir Hallgrimsson, is a dentist and had to take permission from his superiors to be at the World Cup.
Surprisingly, it has also been publicised that they are not paid to play or to coach in football.
The World Cup debutants first shocked the world in 2016 when they eliminated England from the Euros in France.
When the world thought Argentina was going to show England how to beat Iceland, Iceland ended up showing the world how strong their team is.
Iceland’s Cricket official twitter handle made the revelation about how much the players and coaches are paid to play for their national football team.
