Iceland are the first to announced their 23-man roster for the upcoming 2018 FIFA world cup. The official squad announcement was made on the official twitter account of Iceland football team. Team management and coach has picked injured skipper Aron Gunnarsson. He’s been recovering after undergoing knee surgery.

Iceland’s star player Gylfi Sigurdsson also got selected in the 23-player roster even thought he is not fully fit. He has been suffering from knee injury since March. Sigurdsson will be missing final of English Premier League for Everton. Team would be hoping that he’d get fit as early as possible and play for Iceland in the 2018 world cup.

Iceland 2018 World Cup Roster

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Hannes Thor Halldorsson	Ari Freyr Skulason	Emil Hallfredsson	Jon Dadi Bodvarsson
Runar Alex Runarsson	Sverrir Ingi Ingason	Birkir Bjarnason	Alfred Finnbogason
Frederik Schram	Ragnar Sigurdsson	Gylfi Thor Sigurdsson	Albert Gudmundsson
	Birkir Mar Saevarsson	Olafur Ingi Skulason	Bjorn Bergmann Sigurdarson
	Hordur B. Magnusson	Johann
	Samuel Kari Fridjonsson	Rurik Gislason
	Kari Arnason	Berg Gudmundsson
	Holmar Orn Eyjolfsson	Arnor Ingvi Traustason
		Aron Einar Gunnarsson

Iceland is the smallest nation ever to qualify for FIFA world cup with the population of 330,000. The team has been placed in the group D along side with tournament favorites Argentina and Nigeria and Croatia.

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