As well as providing the fairy tale of UEFA EURO 2016, Iceland also served in the tournament’s most memorable soundtrack.
Dubbed the ‘Iceland Clap’, ‘Thunderclap’ or, most commonly, ‘Viking Clap’, it was - because anyone who watched their particular matches will recall : a noisy and successfully spectacular display of synchronicity. Like the performances of the team, the Icelandic fans’ display owed much to Cheap Fifa Coins PS oneness and gathering momentum, with pauses - long initially, then steadily shortening - removing claps and chants involving ‘Huh! ’
With Iceland making their particular EURO debut, having become the tiniest nation ever to attend a major tournament, some assumed that this particular chant was a long-held convention finally being showcased towards the wider world. Nothing, though, could have been further on the truth, as veteran defender Kari Arnason spelled out.
“It was completely brand-new - the EURO was initially any of us got seen it. I’d never even discovered it before, ” he told MMO4PAL. com. “It was brilliant though! Whoever started it definitely deserves a pat on the back. It looked and sounded fantastic, and it became something you looked forward to experiencing. Obviously, we would go down to the fans and join in afterwards, especially if we’d won, and those were special, special moments. ”
Given that, for Iceland at very least, the chant only burst suddenly and spectacularly straight into life in France, the question inevitably comes up: where did it result from? Was the Viking Clap really a nod to the role of those legendary explorers in the particular country’s history? Again, apparently not.
“It’s not actually Viking, ” Kristinn Hallur Jonsson, treasurer of the Tolfan supporters’ party, told The Telegraph. “It was taken from fans in Scotland which is more connected to the Spartans in the film ‘300’ than on the Vikings. ”
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