Naive Iceland cannot stand still, says captain Viggosdottir

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FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - UEFA Womens Euro 2025 - Group A - Norway v Iceland - Stockhorn Arena, Thun, Switzerland - July 10, 2025 Icelands Glodis Viggosdottir celebrates scoring their third goal REUTERS/Annegret Hilse/File Photo

THUN, Switzerland - Iceland have work to do if they are to keep pace with other European nations in womens football, team captain Glodis Viggosdottir told Reuters after her sides 4-3 defeat by Norway in their final Group A game at the Womens Euros on Thursday.

In a tight, tough group, Iceland found the margins against them as they lost 1-0 to Finland and 2-0 to hosts Switzerland before finally getting on the scoresheet and grabbing three goals only to lose to group winners Norway, bringing Viggosdottirs fourth Euros campaign to a close.

I think its something that weve been maybe a little bit naive to, the 30-year-old said of the pace of development in the womens game. Definitely, you can see that countries are really pushing womens football, and theyre doing a lot to progress as a team.

We need to make sure that we dont allow them to go past us, because we want to compete with the best. We know were a small country but we want to compete with the best, and we need to find that little extra that makes us special and in this tournament, we didnt find it.

Iceland finished bottom of the group with no points and exit the tournament alongside