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ed in 1958 and the greenland football association gbu was formed in 1971 in recent years with an artificial turf pitch built in qaqortoq football has progressed steadily the greenland national team have been competing at the island games since 1989 they crashed out of the tournament in the semi finals in their first appearance but have improved in recent years they finished second in the 2013 edition of the games losing in the final to hosts and approved fifa members bermuda achievements like these reinforce their dream of international football at a higher level however just playing football in greenland is more difficult than it may appear ice blankets the country for most of the year and football can only be played for roughly three months annually the sheer distances players must travel by plane or boat to reach other settlements in greenland makes national team training extremely expensive adding greenland s remote location to the already lengthy list of obstacles presents yet another problem the average plane ticket costs around 1 000 these complications partly explain fifa s continued refusal to allow greenland a place in their collection of national football teams that said greenland s national side did play a high profile match in 2001 that managed to attract the attention of football s global governing body although in fifa s case not for the right reasons a young dane going by the name of michael nybrandt contacted the gbu to ask if their national side would be interested in facing the tibet national football team the tibetan squad of course was not made up of players from the region itself but of footballers with tibetan heritage the greenlanders accepted and a match was arranged to be played in copenhagen china infuriated by this threatened to embargo greenland s shrimp exports a major industry on the island unless the game was to be cancelled the greenlandic government under enormous pressure decided to let their football association decide the gbu sanctioned the match and tibet versus greenland hosted in the vanlose arena took place in a largely one sided affair the greenlanders proceeded to win 4 1 despite the chinese government s threats nothing materialised and shrimp exports have continued greenland also competed in german club st pauli s alternative world cup in 2006 which was held around the same time as the fifa world cup took place in germany the competition ingeniously titled the fifi wild cup featured teams such as northern cyprus zanzibar now uefa members gibraltar tibet and the republic of sankt pauli unfortunately greenland were unable to make an impact in the tournament losing 1 0 to eventual winners northern cyprus and 2 4 to zanzibar although the tournament received a fairly high level of attention crowds were disappointing with an average of just 400 people turning up to watch games sadly the inaugural edition of the fifa wild cup was also the last but just a few months later greenland travelled to northern cyprus to contest the elf cup which was contested by crimea gagauzia an autonomous region of moldova fifa members kyrgyzstan and tajikistan tibet greenland and of course northern cyprus greenland fared relatively well but failed to make it beyond the group stages overcoming gagauzia by a comfortable 2 0 scoreline losing 1 0 to kyrgyzstan and mustering a 1 1 draw with zanzibar although they left in disappointment yet again defender teller mortensen managed to reach the golden team an all star xi made up of the best players in the tournament which injected a little pride into the heart of the dejected greenland team they had performed well and only just missed out on the knock out stages yet again northern cyprus emerged as victors beating a side that included denys holaydo a four time ukrainian international by three goals to one the national football championship in greenland can only be contested over a series of days as distances between the clubs are too great regional qualifiers are played before one large tournament is contested if fifa granted greenland membership perhaps the money that would bring in could be used to improve the league and help the national team greenland should be as eligible for membership as the faroe islands who currently reside within the global governing body s auspices there has been no recent push for fifa membership from the gbu whether that is because they are happy with their current situation or because they have decided to concentrate on the island games due to be held next year in jersey is debatable with the likes of niklas kreutzmann and joorsi skade playing in denmark s respected professional leagues rather than in their home league in greeland it remains to be seen how football will fare on the island there has been a campaign for a team from greenland to play in the danish leagues in the way that guernsey fc compete in the english league system but this seems unlikely after all if greenland struggles to send a team to the island games there is little hope of a greenlandic club sending an 18 man squad to denmark every fortnight in a country where football is impossible for most of the year due to extreme weather conditions that mean grass cannot even grow the game s influence is quite astonishing not only do they boast a national tournament but they also have a national football team football has a long way to go in the far flung greenland but it has at least begun its journey this was originally written for these football times which is in partnership with the guardian you can see the guardian featured piece here leave a comment football blogging awards and my journey so far october 14 2014 tomos knox aspiring writer blogging football football blogging football journalism football writing journalism soccer after a month of vote gathering i can safely say that i have qualified for the football blogging awards of 2014 due to be held in the national football museum in manchester and having heard the news i decided to write something about my journey in football writing so far my interest in journalism came when i was about eleven and i was very interested unlike most children of my age i had already amassed a strangely large amount of footballing knowledge probably because i couldn t kick a ball to save my life however it wasn t until early 2014 that i had realised that you cannot become a football journalist or any kind of journalist for that matter without any experience whatsoever i had been remarkably interested in non fifa football since around january and embarked on a tireless project to find a team so remote that nobody else had heard of it and this is where i discovered the far flung islands of saint helena ascension and tristan da cunha in the middle of the south atlantic ocean upon realising that football was pretty big out there i decided to start a blog southatlanticoceanfootball blogspot com having been inspired by the wonderful pat s football blog an absolutely excellent site may i add the blog went well and by may 2014 i had been published in the st helena sentinel a newspaper on the island of saint helena writing about the state of football on the island of tristan da cunha although it was a fairly poorly written piece it gave me confidence and i decided to aim slightly higher these football times had appealed to me from the beginning their site was fantastic with its sleek design and its equally wonderful collection of articles i wasn t initially expecting them to be interested in my piece it was an article on an alternative world cup held in sweden for teams not affiliated with fifa however omar saleem the editor was extremely kind and published it my first article for a major website following my success i decided to experiment with a variety of different websites world football weekly s editor will burns was also very kind and published a number of my articles including an iran world cup preview and a player profile of joel campbell i had come to the conclusion that i could not carry on writing feature articles but had to write match previews and the like to gain experience and develop my writing further since the beginning of my time as a football blogger and writer i have contributed to the likes of these football times just football and the football pink i also run my own blog which is quite obvious for yet again obvious reasons i also continue to run my south atlantic ocean football blog but now use the more efficient wordpress as oppose to google s blogger i hope to achieve more success but for now i must continue my writing and hope that one day i can do it for a living leave a comment south atlantic ocean football far from the madding crowd october 8 2014 tomos knox football as we know it is changing before our very eyes ticket prices are rising and billionaire club owners are spending obscenely large sums of cash on footballers however on a series of remote islands in the south atlantic ocean football continues to do what it ought to do best bring communities together saint helena is perhaps best known for being napoleon bonaparte s place of exile the frenchman died on the island in 1821 a small place st helena boasts a population of just 4 000 and this number is set to decrease as more young islanders opt to study and work in the uk it s hardly surprising after all the average annual salary is just 5 500 however despite the difficulties involved saint helena has a football league as well as a football association the saint helena football league begins in may and finishes around midway through winter to allow the commencement of the cricket season saint helena is a british owned island but its location means that the winter runs through the uk s summer and the summer occurs at roughly the same time as british winter the league is an exciting affair for the close knit community of saint helena and large crowds are regularly in attendance the 2014 league comprising of 12 teams has proved to be a tight and testy affair with rovers and harts the top two teams contesting for the title despite reigning champions st helena wirebirds disappointing campaign the team positioned seventh in the league their star man jason george has also been the lead scorer thus far with an astonishing 17 goals to his name saint helena also has aspirations in international football the island s fa attempted to send a team to the 2011 island games in the isle of wight an olympic themed competition for small islands throughout the world the aim was to send a squad of around 17 five players from the island and the rest from the uk with saint helenian roots unfortunately nothing ever materialised with financial difficulties playing an integral part in the downfall of their dream the saint helena fa have also contacted fifa recently and with gibraltar another british overseas territory now a part of uefa there is no reason as to why they would be unable to join the global governing body however in tristan da cunha s case this might be slightly more difficult a volcanic island over a thousand miles away from saint helena tristan da cunha has a population of just 300 people named after explorer tristao da cunha football is an integral part of many islanders lives including leon glass who founded tristan s first and only football club tristan da cunha fc the tristan football team was founded in 2002 as the introduction of tv increased the interest in football he says we play as soon as we get visiting opponents but there have been none in the last few years i don t think it would be possible to found another team here as there is few opponents to play interest in joining the team has dropped tristan da cunha fc is the most remote football club in the world although they have played matches before against navy ships their location is an enormous disadvantage leon glass has like saint helena considered the possibility of sending a team to the island games we have discussed this the island games but the logistics and funding makes it very difficult for us to travel we would love to take the club abroad should the we obtain funding and the right opportunity arrive unfortunately a lack of matches has taken its toll on the club who now field a five a side team despite the team s grandiose remotest team in the world title they continue to struggle onwards a team without an opposition however on an island over a thousand miles away the situation couldn t be more different ascension island has roughly 800 inhabitants the majority of whom are originally saint helenian british or american like tristan da cunha and st helena it is ruled by britain football is very popular on the island and akin to their larger counterpart saint helena they boast their own league football on the island is not without its difficulties mind you the only football pitch on the island is situated beside the beach and tortoises can regularly be seen resting on the playing surface the field has barely any grass on it promisingly there are plans to build a new one at some point as local football journalist catherine leo explains a new pitch will be built but there is still time with the current one lots of history steeped in the longbeach football field that some people won t want to let go of but i believe when a new one is built it will probably offer a better facility in that it can be used for other sport and will most likely be close to the island school so they too can make use of it due to the fact that there are no permanent residents as such on the island the inhabitants are on work permits a team in the island games is all but impossible the league however is in full swing the ascension island football league features around six teams including inbetweeners two boats united and the reigning champions vc milan it s the most popular sport on the island and the local newspaper the islander includes match reports and analysis while the saint helena sentinel often dedicates a page to the ascension league ascension island s population may be meagre but driven by determination and a love for the game their teams continue to arrive at the longbeach football pitch every saturday to find it invaded by tortoises or flooded in true british fashion they carry on nevertheless departing ascension island and heading south you ll find the falkland islands the location of the tragic war between britain and argentina the falkland islands have something that no other island in the south atlantic ocean do they have a national football team but despite this they do not currently have a league football on the islands has been dwindling over the last decade the falkland islands football league the governing body for football on the islands gave up on the league in 2011 when there were just four teams competing a lack of interest is one problem with cricket the more popular sport but despite not having a league the falklands continue to compete in the island games facing the 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