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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tell me about the Icelandic soccer culture [/quote]

OK, its one of the more popular sports in Iceland, behind Team Handball (apparently).
After 60 years of trying, they qualified for the World Cup, and they've had some success in the Euros.

Good for them.

If you're trying to say that they don't have "soccer culture", you're right and they did qualify for  a World Cup. So What?
So has the U.S. --- it doesn't mean that there is "soccer culture" in either country.
Liechtenstein has won gold medals in skiing beating Austrians, Swiss, and the all other skiing powers --- it doesn't make them a skiing powerhouse.

The reality soccer isn't a sport that most Americans who follow a sport have any passion for --- its certainly behind American Football and Basketball, probably baseball and Nascar and golf, and regionally hockey. 
U.S. Women's soccer has more of a buzz because they've been more successful, and women don't have as many professional leagues as the men do.

If you look at South America, Central America, Europe, and Africa soccer is king. At least as a summer sport.
Those countries have soccer culture --- its important to them. Really important.

You can bet if American football was ever played world wide, we'd have the culture for that just like basketball.
We may not win every basketball medal or tournament, but when a US basketball team plays poorly on an international stage, its a big deal.
In contrast, most people don't track US Mens Soccer enough to know the difference.

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