Ramble Meets… Hannes Þór Halldórsson
Upfront - A Women's Football Podcast
Stak Production
4.8 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2022
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
The Iceland national team’s run at Euro 2016 and qualification for the 2018 World Cup is one of football’s greatest ever underdog stories. Today, Andy speaks to one of the players at the heart of it all!
Hannes Þór Halldórsson was Iceland’s first choice between the sticks for a decade, despite only picking up his gloves when he was 20. From saving a Lionel Messi penalty at the World Cup, to delivering that defeat to England, you could barely write Hannes’ story it’s so unbelievable. And he should know: he’s now a filmmaker! He tells Andy all about a truly remarkable career.
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| 0:00.0 | Missy all back to sitting at the back, it's a penalty. |
| 0:08.0 | Schumann-Marciniac did not hesitate. |
| 0:15.0 | Missy is denied. |
| 0:19.0 | Lionel Messi. |
| 0:21.0 | Lionel Messi. |
| 0:23.0 | Denied from the start by Hannes Haldorson. |
| 0:28.0 | Hello, Ramblers, Andy here and welcome to the latest ramble meets. |
| 0:31.0 | Where my guest today is Hannes Haldorson, the former Icelandic goalkeeper. |
| 0:35.0 | I say former, he's only very recently retired, but he's just got such a fascinating back story. |
| 0:40.0 | You might know him just as the goalkeeper from the Icelandic team that got to Euro 2016, |
| 0:46.0 | breaking England's hearts and then to the World Cup in 2018 in Russia, where he saved that penalty from Lionel Messi. |
| 0:53.0 | But there's so much in between, and there's the fact that he didn't become a professional footballer |
| 0:57.0 | until he was nearly 30 years old. |
| 1:00.0 | And now, of course, he's a film director. |
| 1:02.0 | He's got a fantastic new film, out called Cop Secret, which he'll be telling us about as well. |
| 1:07.0 | It's such a varied and interesting tale. |
| 1:09.0 | Do stay with us for it. |
| 1:11.0 | This is Rambler meets Hannes Haldorson. |
| 1:14.0 | I don't know how I could have eaten it. |
| 1:16.0 | You're not the leader, I want to make a shit. |
| 1:22.0 | We're still gonna bump into glasses there. |
| 1:30.0 | So Hannes, tell us about Cop Secret, because this is an idea that was ingestation for quite a while, |
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