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In recent years, the Icelandic women’s national team in soccer has raised the performance bar for Icelandic soccer culture, and two team members recently showcased their skills in a match they played for their team Malmo in Sweden.
Although the media coverage of female player’s individual successes are seldom reported as much as those of their male counterparts, the women who play for Iceland play a phenomenal game with their individual teams.
Sara Björk Gunnarsdóttir scored the winning goal in the 25th minute for her Malmo team in a match against Frankfurt in the Women’s Champions League. The team won a 1:0 victory in the first match of two in the semi-finals. The goal is Sara’s fifth goal for the team in the leagu e this year.
The other hero in the game was goal keeper Þóra B. Helgadóttir, who like Sara played the full 90 minutes. She fiercely defended several attempts by her opponents to score in the match played in Sweden last Thursday.
The teams will meet again next Wednesday in Frankfurt. Frankfurt was thought to be the stronger team with a strong group of players, many playing at a national level for Germany and Sweden.
The Icelandic national team was ranked 15th among national teams by FIFA in September 2011
whereas the Icelandic Men’s team is ranked 106th in the world.
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The number of tourists in Iceland has been going up almost every year and a forecast by Arion bank predicts that the number will be about 750 thousand in 2013, increase over 800 thousand in 2014 and go up to 870 thousand in 2015.
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Icelandic Minister for Foreign Affairs Gunnar Bragi Sveinsson attended an annual consultative meeting last weekend with colleagues from the Nordic and several African countries, as announced in a press release from the Minstry of Foreign Affairs.
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From many salmon rivers anglers are reporting great opening days. Reykjavík Citizen of the year caught the first salmn in Ellidaár in Reykjavík this morning.
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The Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature has approved new names for nine craters on Mercury including one for Icelandic littereture Nobel Prize winner Halldór Laxness.
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The 2013 June-July issue of Iceland Review is out. Themed ‘We Are Young’ the magazine celebrates the arrival of summer by interviewing young energetic Icelanders who excel in art, sports, business and politics—and Sigmundur Davíð Gunnlaugsson, the youngest PM in the republic’s history and the world’s youngest ruling state leader. Click here to take a look at a selection of the current issue and here to subscribe to the magazine.
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The road to Höfn, a 1,690-person harbor town by the fjord Hornafjörður, is lined with reindeer. Whole herds of the wild horned animals rest peacefully on withered pastures, grace next to sheep and horses and bounce along the road. Soon, Vatnajökull, Europe’s largest glacier and the region’s biggest attraction, comes into view. Looming over Höfn, its outlet glaciers flow down from the mountains on which the bright white icecap rests.
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Sin Fang will celebrate the release of his third album with a release concert in Iðnó on June 12. Flowers was released in February by Morr Music and has been well received by music enthusiasts and critics alike. The concert will be supported by Vök, this year’s winners of the Icelandic Music Experiments.
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