{"id":26909,"date":"2026-02-27T20:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/26909\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T20:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T20:36:35","slug":"%f0%9f%87%ab%f0%9f%87%b4-the-faroe-islands-at-the-2026-world-cup-dont-rule-it-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/26909\/","title":{"rendered":"\ud83c\uddeb\ud83c\uddf4 The Faroe Islands at the 2026 World Cup?! Don&#8217;t rule it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!DIoT!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F834afa41-0210-49b8-81bc-336f3be69a81_1600x900.png\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img can-restack\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/834afa41-0210-49b8-81bc-336f3be69a81_1600.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"819\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/834afa41-0210-49b8-81bc-336f3be69a81_1600x900.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:819,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:2995545,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/thesoccerdispatch.substack.com\/i\/177512398?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F834afa41-0210-49b8-81bc-336f3be69a81_1600x900.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are easier, certainly more sheltered, places to play football than the Faroe Islands.<\/p>\n<p>Wind hits the tiny archipelago in the north Atlantic Ocean hard. Regularly. So much so that no fewer than 15 games in the Faroe Islands Premier League have been postponed this season due to gale-force gusts.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s windy and rainy and it\u2019s also home to one of the best stories anywhere in football right now.<\/p>\n<p>While the Faroe Islands might seem a million miles from the elite level of the global game, their national team has never been closer to qualifying for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>They couldn\u2019t\u2026 could they?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are easier, certainly more sheltered, places to play football than the Faroe Islands. Wind hits the tiny&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21001,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[43],"class_list":{"0":"post-26909","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-faroe-islands","8":"tag-faroe-islands"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}