Being in UEFA and not having its young players counted as foreigners in EU leagues are two obvious advantages Iceland has over us.
But they have a population of less than the Wellington region. By those stats the Phoenix should be a better team than Iceland. The team that won the icelandic premier league last year plays in a stadium which holds 1000. Surely it's ASB Premiership level at best?
Yes but football is the number 1 game.
It would be interesting to know the player numbers, and also what the quality of their league is. Perhaps its only Cap Prem level, who knows.
As far as beating the dutch goes, with determination and decent tactics you can punch above your weight on the odd occassion, look at us in the world cup or ACFC in the club world cup. If we had enough games against the netherlands we would beat them.
What's interesting is that iceland is rated at 23 by FIFA, I know those rankings are not that accurate but thats a huge difference between us.