Oga Hareida caused quite a stir when he called for a sports boycott of Israel a few weeks before the meeting with Alon Hazan and his players in the playoffs for promotion to the Euros. The coach of the Iceland national team had time to retract his words, but now, after the resounding 1:4 that set him a date against Ukraine for the coveted ticket to Euro 2024, he referred again to the war in Gaza.
Hareida claimed that the rival journalists "tried to carry out psychological warfare": "I have a conscience and that's why I speak. I don't like the Israeli politicians"