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This Icelandic Soccer Commentator Is All Of Us When Our Team Scores a Vital Goal

He can't contain his excitement at the victory

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 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.

 

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