ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 6月26日 09時53分

Before 2011, it was hard to get people excited about soccer in Iceland. Arni Thor Gunnarsson, a longtime fan, remembers a match with Germany in 2003 that ended in a 0-0 tie — a miracle, when @footballiceland only scored 1 win that season. Gunnarsson was thrilled, but his enthusiasm was drowned out by the sound of 7,000 fans not cheering. All of that has changed. A few outliers have grown into thousands of chanting, singing, thunder-clapping Nordic people with near-South American levels of enthusiasm. Part of this change is due to how unusually close Iceland’s soccer team is with its fans. In a country of fewer than 350,000 people, most everybody either knows someone on the team or knows someone who does. “If they’re here, you run into them in the street,” said Kristinn Hallur Jonsson, the secretary of the supporters group called #Tolfan, or 12th man — the idea being that the fans are an invisible extra member of the lineup. The fan group was astounded when Heimir Hallgrimsson, now Iceland’s head coach and then the assistant, started his famous practice of meeting fans at a local pub to unveil his strategy before home games. The news media was barred, enhancing the sense of occasion. “He was basically motivating the supporters to do more, to bring more support into the stadium so that the players would feel the atmosphere,” Kristinn said. “He gave us a little ownership, a sense that there is no football without the fans.” @tom__jamieson took this photo of Johann Bianco, a member of Tolfan. Visit the link in our profile to read more. #??#⚽

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