Helgi Kolviðsson is the assistant coach of the Icelandic national football team, after playing in Austria and Germany as a professional football player, Helgi is perhaps the first national player to cultivate the „Viking look."
Albert Guðmundssson, the youngest player in the Icelandic national team for the World Cup in Russia this summer at 21 years of age, secured his place in the squad by scoring 3 goals in 5 games prior to the tournament. Playing for PSV Eindhoven as an attacking midfielder, he is an exciting prospect for the future.
I have been obsessed with Health and Data for a while now and the more I think about this and explore the possibilities, I am extremely optimistic about the opportunities to make Iceland the healthiest country in the world.
Prime Minister Bjarni Benediktsson will join his counterparts from Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden in Bergen on Tuesday to present a common approach on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Unfortunately, the prime ministers have their priorities backward.
As much as I believe we are in good hands, we have tools and technology at our disposal that should give us more actionable data so we are empowered in our own health.
Like the many Icelanders who decided to leave Iceland to try to live elsewhere, most of us to pursue our studies or to find work, returning home even for a short stay is almost always a cause for a joyous occasion.
Iceland was united when supporting the National Football Team at the EURO 2016. Now it is united again for a very different reason. A young girl is missing and the nation is screaming internally. No one is left untouched.
The number of people that every year is coming to Iceland is only increasing. Many of these people are carrying, along with their luggage, a number of popular ideas concerning this country’s culture which, to a close inspection, turn out to be inaccurate or simply false.
Iceland is participating in EURO 2016. Being the smallest nation ever to participate, the Icelandic nation is ecstatic. As I walked out of my house, heading downtown to watch the Iceland-Austria match I heard a group of men singing the unofficial anthem of the national football team. It was on.
Þetta reddast, the quintessentially Icelandic phrase that every expat and most visitors to the country will have come across, is often translated as ‘don’t worry, everything will be fine’. At its best, it does indeed mean that – it is a cheery, optimistic invitation to throw off the worries of life.
A month ago, a colleague of mine celebrated their birthday and brought some ice-cream into work for us all to enjoy. And jolly nice ice-cream it was too.
