Icelandic team's Rúrik now has over a million Instagram followers
Rúrik Gíslason Eggert Jóhannesson
Thirty-year-old Rúrik Gíslason, midfielder in the Iceland men's football team now has over one million Instagram followers. He only had 30 thousand followers before the World Cup.
Rúrik Gíslason playing the Iceland- Nigeria match on Friday. mbl.is/Eggert
Gíslason's following increased immediately after the Iceland- Argentina match. Many of his followers are Argentinian women who comment on his model-like good looks drawing comparisons to Brad Pitt.
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