--- title: Euro 2016: This Icelandic Soccer Commentator Is All Of Us description: This Icelandic soccer commentator is all of us when our team scores a vital goal—as Iceland did against Austria at Euro 2016 on Thursday. canonical: https://time.com/4379374/euro-2016-iceland-austria-commentator-soccer-football/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-23T07:05:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:40.390Z article:section: Sports og:title: This Icelandic Commentator Is All Of Us When Our Team Scores og:description: He loses his voice and his mind when Iceland scores against Austria at Euro 2016 og:url: https://time.com/4379374/euro-2016-iceland-austria-commentator-soccer-football/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Icelandic Commentator Is All Of Us When Our Team Scores twitter:description: He loses his voice and his mind when Iceland scores against Austria at Euro 2016 twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # This Icelandic Soccer Commentator Is All Of Us When Our Team Scores a Vital Goal by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 23, 2016 7:05 AM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 23, 2016 7:05 AM UTC You’d be hard-pressed to find a country more excited to be at Euro 2016 than Iceland. The tiny Nordic nation of 330,000 people is participating in the high-profile quadrennial soccer tournament for the first time ever and has consistently punched above its weight in the opening matches, much to the [delight](http://time.com/4371015/iceland-twitter-euro-2016-reykjavik-grapevine-soccer-football/) of its citizens. And thanks to the Iceland team’s incredible last-gasp win over Austria on Thursday that saw it enter the next round, we now have a viral video (shared tens of thousands of times) that captures that euphoria perfectly. Listen below as an Icelandic commentator completely loses his mind — and his voice — at the winning goal. > [](https://twitter.com/TheEuro2016/status/745702108918222848) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4379374/euro-2016-iceland-austria-commentator-soccer-football/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4379374/euro-2016-iceland-austria-commentator-soccer-football/"},"headline":"This Icelandic Soccer Commentator Is All Of Us When Our Team Scores a Vital Goal","datePublished":"2016-06-23T07:05:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:40.390Z","description":"He can't contain his excitement at the victory","url":"https://time.com/4379374/euro-2016-iceland-austria-commentator-soccer-football/","keywords":["Soccer","Newsfeed","Austria","Iceland","Euro 2016"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/soccer/","name":"Soccer"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4379374/euro-2016-iceland-austria-commentator-soccer-football/","name":"This Icelandic Soccer Commentator Is All Of Us When Our Team Scores a Vital Goal"}}]}] ```