My New Announcer Hero is Gudmundur Benediktsson, Play-by-Play Guy for Iceland at the Euro Cup

June 28, 2016 Alan Cross 0 Comments

There’s a school of thought that says play-by-play announcers should remain neutral, even if they’re the home team’s official guy. Gudmundur Benediktsson, the man doing the announcing for Iceland’s national broadcaster during Euro 2016, did not get that memo. I LOVE this guy! Love the fans, too.

Here’s how he reacted to Iceland’s upset over England.

“You can leave Europe! You can go wherever the hell you want!”

Icelandic commentator after win. Voice of #Euro2016 pic.twitter.com/7EaLD3kV3t

— Gissur Simonarson CN (@GissiSim) June 27, 2016

So what exactly was he going on about? Here’s a translation:

PT: Many people have asked me to do a translation of this. Here you go.#ISL vs. #ENG #Euro2016 pic.twitter.com/s96x0PWp46

— Gissur Simonarson CN (@GissiSim) June 27, 2016

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