Johann Laxdal and his team-mates at Icelandic soccer side Stjarnan found global fame as a result of an improbable goal celebration - after netting an injury-time winner, they play-acted the catching of Laxdal's evocative leaping salmon and hoisted him aloft for a make-believe photograph.
Such creative jubilance was soon circulated far and wide, and the YouTube user who uploaded the since removed clip supplemented it with a few more Stjarnan routines: the Rambo tribute, a military parade, and a ballroom dance (though, with typical dry humor, the goalscorer is left without a partner).
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