News
| Iceland Monitor
| Tue 10 Oct 2017
| 9.58 GMT
Iceland becomes smallest nation to qualify for the World Cup
Iceland rejoices as the Icelandic national men's team in football beat Kosovo 2:0 last night thus qualifying for the FIFA cup finals in Russia 2018.
Fireworks were lit as the overjoyed crowd went wild in Laugardalur sports stadium in Reykjavik.
The team had previously beat Turkey 0:3 on Friday night.
A party ensued at Ingólfstorg square in the Reykjavik city centre with "strákarnir okkar" (Our boys) going on stage to celebrate .