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story. coming up though the national football coach. talked about his country's historic path to the twenty world cup. welcome to sophie shevardnadze a moscow welcomes to draw for the fifa twenty world cup where the lucky teams already looking forward to the group stage one of the levittown tells the competition iceland has already won the hearts of fans to world over twenty six and heroes and its manager a mere hog is my guess. first

time in history iceland screwballs is bring in the viking spirits to the future world cup being the smallest of the nations and five for sports owes them a prize which parent iceland's meteoric rise from food boss punching bags to fear giant killer is the nordic under no cure just a passing fad or are we about to see the birth of a new food bowl superpower on the world stage. him here whole grimson welcome to the show it's a pleasure to have you on our program now this is going to be asked lance first ever world cup are you going to pull off another app sat on progress out of the group stage or even further well after year or so it seems like anything is possible for iceland. if course. to do well. we have to be in russia lake lake everyone else and it's done quite

a lot of good results so why not in the world cup finals we least hope so but we are also realistic that we can have a fantastic games but but still lose against the. nations normally in the world cup final so we are realistic but ice on this are normally really optimistic so how optimistic are you i mean what is your goal to to what to win to reach semi finals quarter finals. well to begin with of course it's a great honor just to be there if we progress from the group stage i think that is a big achievement for for iceland but we know from the past from unlike past five six years that if we have our best games we can beat anyone. but. i think it's healthy to dream to hold the world cup. in our hands but of course it's. statistically probably not likely we're going to win it but.

like i said before we have we're optimistic and we don't know yet more teams we played against or what nations we are playing against so we haven't set any any gauche yet but of course we go in there to to progress from the group stage and from there it's champion it is like a cup. so if we have a good game we can we can we never want to let now only play in the cup but now your team iceland has all this international experience facing top teams so you could choose which countries do you want to get and which ones do you want to avoid in a world cup. i don't think there's an easy team in the world cup final so . my opinion is we don't actually mind who we get we know we're going to get strong teams i don't think for ice on this team that we should win. but

hopefully you know the best teams in the world you can't avoid them because they are in group one. so yeah we're always going to have a team that's really really really difficult to beat in from from. group one and group two so. i don't mind which team we get we just. we accept what we get so you have this big breakthrough right iceland isn't an underdog anymore everyone he has seen what it is capable off isn't going to be a lot harder this time around i mean do you feel the pressure now that you've sat you know sort of the limit that you can be really good. no the pressure just more or less from our selfs. that has been in. many groups. all the games were top. teams play a little bit different against us from the days in the past so we just prepare for

everything. and yeah we have pressure on doing resoled but it's harder and harder because it's very unlikely that people who are underestimating us i just wonder why didn't you leave the team after a year or two thousand and sixteen like larsen leatherback i mean to leave on a high and try your hand in coaching a club or another national team. i actually believed that we could do even better than none the euro and luckily i did. have the contract so i couldn't leave the contract but no it was never in the plan to to leave the national team because i think still we can improve from what we are doing so. i still believe i think it through even better than we have been doing yet and the dutch team coach dick i'd look at says your team should bill looked up to having no inner conflicts

no personal ambitions but common ground discipline is that your personal achievement as a coach or more of an icelandic national trait what's the secret. i wish i could say it's all me but but it isn't it's. is a really big group that's come in together and trying to do this as a team both the play is the stuff the f.a.a. and we have a special relationship with the founders and we have a special door it's a big team working together to make this happen and in the world as it is today like all the money involved in all the. i don't want to say greek but it's a lot about. the individual today everything today is about the individual so it's so nice to be a little bit different and it's all about and i think it's. it's a quality that icelandic football players have maybe because we come from one on

the tour in violent so we know that the other nations have better individuals and more individual qualities than we have so we have to be collectively better than the new icelanders and to the kids in iceland we have to stick together and work together to achieve one thing i mean it's like a national tray of smaller nations because every other football team's coach actually dreams of the kind of unity that you have in your team why isn't it working now with others. i can't answer that one because i don't know what the others are doing but we have and we have and. we don't try to hide what we are doing so we are open about how we have achieving things and how we are working so this is no secret in it. and you know you can't do anything in a sport like football unless you have good football players that it's always number one two and three you have good football players luckily for us they're really

really good characters so it's possible to build a good team around good football players and that's of course a fantastic blend so most of your players they play in europe how do you keep the. coersion going the players see each other so rarely. i think that's a good thing about thing i don't think that's any different from. other national teams you know that they are playing everywhere on our own europe. in other national teams so it's no different from my son but what is a little bit special within the ice international team is that the players have been playing together since the bulk of the squad has been playing together since they were in the under seventeen under one thousand and twenty one so they know each other quite well that they played many of them together in the same team as us players so the relationship between the players is also suspect in our squad and if

they are probably closer to each other than in most other national teams know what you are a doctor by trade i know that when doctors work on medical problems like before an operation. they sit there and analyze and think about the job months before it happening off in for the next game. i guess it's just every other national team coach we opponent is probably easier for play in europe we have about answered to actually tell their secret yeah sometimes we do but in russia. we're spread all over europe show more or less we use the modern technology to watch as many games as we can during especially the weekend and before. hey mere say you know how it works which success usually comes with downfalls and now that the whole world is in iceland fans get in there's a danger that your players maybe will lose that humility and with that the team

spirit. not afraid of the we talk about did regularly about why we were in football much is why we are we are good as a team so we remind ourselves what we are about and what we like to represent. as a national team and especially how we win football matches for so i think it's really dangerous to overestimate yourself when you have success but that's the job of the staff and the coaches to remind the plays about. what we should stand for and. probably at the moment that is the biggest task for us. because if i study football doesn't stand in for with the work of final in russia. with the sentence we use so often is that success is not the destination success is not the world cup finals in russia success is

a continuous journey to the right direction and i think that is so that's why for us to remind us that was that. we have to keep on building on what we are good at and don't try to it be something else just because we had success and i think that's so healthy and not so important for us and at the moment to remind ourselves continuously on on why we have success and not just the team. that's the team. all right amy we're going to take a short break right now when we're back we'll discuss what's to say credo iceland's football team raving success with their manager came here paul graham sent stay with us.

rich scheme though no one can tell you. what are the risks. to growth. and we're back with a mere hall grimson manager of iceland's football team discussing the team's standing rise at euro two thousand and sixteen and their expectations for the world cap so there are as i've said earlier. you all also mentioned there's too much money in football and that money is the enemy of lots of ation. players who play in the english primarily you have players from barcelona monod and corrupt them so it must be something else and no no. of course you have.

the best football players in the world a lot of lot of money really motivated so it depends on the personality. but of course. it is difficult to motivate yourself when you don't need anything in the world but that's. the person. during this quarter finals with frames i slipped fans occupied a relatively small part of standard floats yeah it was like ten percent or less less population as summons to takes to statistics put it and i remember vividly the viking clap chanting and singing is one of those guys i mean they're really some shock waves throughout the world let alone the stadium was it all the result of some coordinated effort or spontaneous. i think it's a blend of both it's been slowly increase in the support from the national team is

getting in and all the credit goes to the supporters club has been. stick growing all the time to win more more things and if you look back four five years ago. it was you didn't see many with the icelandic national should on on team games but know all the stand this blue everybody has a national team sure the singing the national anthem before the game and the iceni national anthem is maybe not the most motivational song ever made so the change is enormous in the support and it's both spontaneous of course the. interest increases with better resorts but it's again also the supporters' club that has been growing steadily and i kind of take in control of what's happening and and i hope so tremendously that russia will see the best of icelandic fans

because it's kind of a family. family fun you know to you take your kid you take your wife you to get your grandmother to the game and it's a different kind of support because it's a lot of ownership and from the fans in the team almost everyone has. a relative or a friend he's playing or in the stuff so i think was unique regarding the icelandic support and also unthinkingly that many fans came to the euros perhaps even more will come to the world cup so he's actually just going to take one giant holiday for a whole month i mean who is going to stay behind to work and that was the problem in the euros it was a lot of a lot of companies that almost how to close because there were so many many people in france and i hope it's going to be the same and in russia next summer. and i hope the icelandic fans will show the best sides because they were really

something to be proud of in front and i think and i know that when they come in numbers to russia and know they will be good guests in russia so i know you have a tradition of going to this fancy pub before home games of the national team having a chat with them what do you do this for i mean how do you deal with everyone there telling you how to do your job yeah it's difficult to explain and it's. it's hard for many to under understand how this is possible but i think firstly it's something that makes us different. not a national team coach can walk into a pub. to enough hours before a game and talk to. maybe four or five hundred people that's there so much drinking

beer you know different kinds of people that but there's a lot of respect. to do it of course we respect our fans and we show that with was doing this and what i think is more unique and more special is that we have done it no i've done it now for six years and nothing has gone online . in the media so it's a rule for the fans that they shot their phones off nobody's recording anything nobody is tweeting anything other first want to know the lineup and the fans are given what how we are going to play against the opponent and so on and so forth so that they have a lot of information about how we want to play and for me that that is something unique that that is something that i don't want to lose because it's we give the fans ownership in the team they respected enormously and we respect them and then

we trust them like we do and i think it's very hard to do that anywhere in the world so this makes us a little bit this is something that we have the only national team that does this and i love it it's kind of strange of course for some to think about it but. while it works i think it's a fantastic way to give ownership to the fans. so like you said everyone knows everyone and somehow each family is related in one way or another to the soccer team how hard is it in the circumstances for you to be a public person it's quite easy. actually it's quite easy to live in a four thousand people will age or an island just in the south coast of weissmann so push yourself for what you are and you don't have to play in it then you don't have to be you know you don't have to act anything because everybody knows locks after. but it's quite easy being done on any media and it's again

something spec so it's quite easy to be in iceland in a time of success and iceland that's compared to one per eleven thousand in the u.k. for instance iceland has also the highest density of indoor for country in the world was made in such a massive investment into basically just a game it's not factories where. the country is investing in right. no it's the local communities that not pay for the for the facilities in every village in every town and that's nuts again good facilities and good coaching is. the two most necessary parts to produce good who plays. but what we like to think and what we have known from research is that the kids they do better in school. when they do sports. they become more healthy they do less drugs they do less

alcohol when they do sports and or holy juice and ice then thrive and pride themselves of good facilities for for sports. and football especially in quite well with their with coach education so so it doesn't matter if you come from two thousand people a village or the icelandic jumpiness you almost get the same coach and so you don't need to drive your kid a long distance for good coach in it's own local locally based so i think that's again something unique in iceland and it's difficult for big nations to to replica. so. we're quite. it's quite a bit routine in what we're doing now so distance is ok and a coach always has to keep a certain distance and but you can see everything work you can see.

like a coach it like a dictator and you can see a coach that's hugging everyone so you have to evaluate what players you have or what club you have or what team you have. it might be the culture of the nation or whatever so it's not worn in my opinion is it's not not one type of code that's better than the other you just have to look at the surface circumstances and surroundings footballers are tempted to break the rules for the sake of winning you pull a share or tackle someone's leg instead of the ball or just outright dive do you think winning is worth doing things like that. again depends on the board game what's the score. but of course nobody wants to cheat and and it's not it's never any. shortcuts to a place worth coming to and i think that's

a good sentence. but. even applaud the player for. an opponent go in for an account difficult question to answer present there was this case in germany when referee gave a penalty but the player who earned it who was fouled came up to the raf and set there was no foul and the penalty should be counseled other countries have seen similar cases of course and i wonder if you've seen it like that influence is it more important to be honest like than fair in fair play or to actually put the team forward to help the team win reward the fans. would be very. would be very stupid to say that you should cheat. it is always it's not only in football it's in life you should always try to be as honest as you can and you should always be honest. and i think that's

a philosophy everybody should should live by and work but. thank you very much for this interesting insight into the world of football we're talking to him here hall grimson iceland's football coach and one of those behind the national team's stunning success at the euros twenty sixteen that is it for the latest edition of sophie and koalas see you next time. really bankers are jumping up buildings and coming up here about at the fia world being crushed by corrupt out max fisher magic you can fish for the bankers patented

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