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in an international football match the game was destined to be one sided american samoa a chain of islands in the south pacific possessing a meagre population of just 54 000 were facing a country boasting 23 000 000 inhabitants a professional football league and a squad positively teeming with potential the american samoans were embarking on their first ever world cup qualification campaign and previous to their encounter with australia had lost 13 0 to fiji and then 8 0 to their ultimate rivals samoa the fear was if fiji could put thirteen goals past american samoa who knows what the score would be versus oceanian giants australia it didn t help that american samoans were found to have only one of their original 20 man squad eligible to play goalkeeper nicky salapu more problems followed as they were unable to include the under 20 internationals in their side they were involved in high school exams at the time the resulting squad comprised three 15 year olds in a team with an average age of just 18 then football federation american samoa vice president tony langkilde would later go on to admit that some members of that team had never played an entire 90 minute match it was a side riddled with weaknesses and no apparent strengths ten minutes in and australia had yet to score nicky salapu in the american samoa goal was having the game of his life making a string of excellent stops then following a corner to australia midfielder con boutsianis scored and then archie thompson netted in the 12th minute before his striker partner david zdrilic found the net just a minute later the goals kept on coming by half time it was 16 0 the second half brought more goals and by time that the whistle sounded for full time the american samoan players crumpled to the ground some exhausted most merely crushed by the wrath of their opponents the scoreboard mistakenly read 32 0 but that made no difference to the american samoans the meagre strands of optimism ahead of the remainder of the world cup qualifying campaign had been blown away in the cruellest of ways i couldn t see any reason why they australia would want to score so many goals said manager tunoa lui after the match it was an opinion shared by many including rangers manager dick advocaat who happened to manage scottish club rangers at the time when australian internationals craig moore and tony vidmar returned from the australian camp to rangers advocaat proceeded to drop them for the team s next match versus dundee later citing their behaviour as unsportsmanlike it would be a match that would prove to hamper the development of the american samoa national football team the internet was awash with news of the match highlights of which was being broadcast on international television this of course generated a lot of negative publicity for the samoans nicky salapu especially in seattle where salapu now lives most of the players there say are you from american samoa you gave up thirty one goals they make jokes of me he said in 2011 this harrowing defeat would go on to haunt salapu over the next ten years we shouldn t have taken a team he recalls that was a huge mistake the loss however did not only affect nicky salapu it also influenced the rest of the team confidence was lost following the match nobody expected to win there was no winning mentality for what was left of it vanished in the aftermath of their contest with australia however there was an inkling of hope for the future of the american samoa team as they defeated tonga in 2011 emerging victorious by a 2 1 score line in the team on that day was jaiyah saelua the first transgender footballer to compete in a men s fifa world cup qualifier a member of the third gender fa afafine people of samoa she was first drafted in to the national football team at the age of just 14 and is now one of the side s most integral players starring in her role at centre back the emergence of a new generation of samoan footballers means that foreign clubs are beginning to show interest midfielder ramin ott and justin manao are amongst the most recent to play abroad ott in new zealand with bay olympic and manao in the usa with plu lutes the goal for the ffas is now to produce a player of european league standards although this is more of a long term ambition obesity is rife in american samoa and with rugby and american football reigning supreme football is fighting a tough battle to make its mark on the tiny island nation it is extremely unlikely that a loss of such magnitude will ever occur again in international football as the minnows of global football are slowly albeit surely improving regardless of whether american samoa will ever develop to the point in which they are challenging new zealand for the title of best team in oceania football is grabbing a foothold in the island s community football on the islands of american samoa is combating fast food and rugby and is slowly beginning to gain the upper hand possessing a structured setup as well as a national side the pacific island nation may suffer from a lack of interest in the beautiful game but an ongoing grassroots programme funded by the football federation american samoa is changing this never before has there been so large a quantity of enthusiasm for football in the aftermath of their thirty one to nil defeat american samoa were mocked and ridiculed by the press following their infamous loss they fell into footballing obscurity for ten years until in 2011 they succeeded in beating tonga 2 1 an uncomfortable win admittedly but a win nevertheless and a sign of better things to come leave a comment back from the ashes the story of montserratian football march 4 2015 tomos knox blogging calcio football football blogging football journalism football writing futbol goal montserrat writing in july 1995 montserrat a small island in the caribbean was shrouded in smoke as its soufrière hills volcano erupted destroying the island s capital plymouth in the midst of its relentless onslaught following plymouth s destruction half of montserrat s population left the island for good convinced that the economy had been crushed only two years later a pyroclastic flow travelled from mosquito ghaut tragically killing 19 people the southern part of montserrat has now been deemed unsafe and is no longer inhabited the old capital plymouth once the hub of the island s life lies desolate in the shadow of the volcano instead of boasting 4 000 inhabitants like before the former capital of montserrat is empty devoid of the life once found on its streets now boasting a population of just less than 5 000 the emerald isle has been seriously damaged by this tragic occurrence with its capital demolished half of its population leaving for britain and a lack of an economy things were looking relatively grim for montserrat however football somehow pulled through and continues to maintain its position as one of montserrat s top sports somewhat surprisingly the island s national team only began playing four years before the soufrière hills disaster montserrat played their inaugural international versus st lucia in 1991 during the caribbean cup losing 3 0 to the hosts however despite this setback montserrat bounced back grabbing an impressive 1 1 draw against anguilla the island proceeded to compete in the next caribbean cup but crashed out after suffering some heavy defeats at the hands of both st kitts and nevis and antiqua and barbuda rounding off rather a cataclysmal display in 1994 three years after the establishment of the montserrat national football team the montserrat football association mfa was formed and subsequently joined concacaf montserrat played their first ever home match on the march 26th 1995 in plymouth gaining their first win by defeating anguilla 3 2 a subsequent victory over anguilla guaranteed their place in the 1995 caribbean cup however montserrat exited from the caribbean cup after losing to st vincent and grenadines by an aggregate score of 20 0 and as the soufrière hills volcano became unsafe erupting on a number of different occasions a large number of the island s footballers departed taking up the uk government s offer of residency in britain it wasn t until 1999 that montserrat played a football match again returning after a four year hiatus montserrat returned a far weaker side as a consequence the island did not even enter the 1998 world cup qualifiers unsurprisingly on their return to international football playing in the 1999 edition of the caribbean cup they lost 1 6 on aggregate to the british virgin islands leaving them last in group d which as anguilla withdrew comprised of just the two teams these two defeats resulted in montserrat departing the tournament which would eventually be won by trinidad and tobago without registering a draw let alone a win however when taking into consideration the various factors weighing against the montserratians the tournament was not all that big a disaster the fact that the islanders could still manage to field a team was an achievement in itself due to their missing out on the world cup qualifiers in 1998 2002 marked montserrat s inaugural world cup qualification campaign this campaign was however to be short lived as they were defeated twice by the dominican republic all the same montserrat were not excessively upset by these two defeats true they may have lost by a fine margin of 6 1 on aggregate to another similarly weak side but a glimmer of hope had emerged montserrat had scored their first goal in an international competition this was the starting point of something that montserrat hoped would develop it was now time to improve and montserrat received the exact opportunity to do this as in a fixture dubbed the other final they contested the other team lying last in the fifa world rankings alongside themselves bhutan the match was to be held on the day of the world cup final the 30th of july 2002 in thimphu the interest surrounding the match was considerable and premier league referee steve bennett officiated the match played in front of 25 000 supporters most of if not all of whom where bhutan fans it was the chance that montserrat needed an opportunity to gain a victory and a move from the basement of fifa s rankings system however there was to be no fairytale ending for montserrat as they crumbled to a 4 0 defeat wangay dorji of bhutan grabbed himself a hat trick while dinesh chhetri scored the other goal for the hosts over a decade on from their loss at the hands of bhutan montserrat continues to plough on in hope of world cup qualification although their dream looks more and more unlikely as time goes by over the course of the last decade they ve lost 13 1 to bermuda 7 0 to saint vincent and the grenadines and have been defeated 7 1 not once but twice by suriname however the emerald isle managed something quite unexpected in 2012 montserrat facing the british virgin islands on the 9th of september 2012 emerged victorious by a colossal 7 0 scoreline as marlon campbell and ellis remy bagged two goals apiece and darryl roach bradley woods garness also scored while the seventh was an own goal the culprit was british virgin islands jamal sargeant for montserrat this victory meant a lot during their short and arid football history they had achieved very little up to this point and to maul a fellow british overseas territory was also special in its own way a derby of sorts it is fair to say that this win spurred the montserratians on to better things as in their next match versus the us virgin islands on the 30th of may 2014 montserrat were the winners with their prolific striker jaylee hodgson scoring the only goal of the match montserrat had only just started making small footprints in caribbean football in the years leading up to that fateful day in july 1995 they were a fledgling side a team that could eventually become a giant in the world of island football however in a series of incidents that nobody could have predicted the montserrat football association s dream of fielding a side capable of competing with the best of the concacaf teams was cruelly struck away by mere fate as thousands of montserratians departed the island they once called home hundreds of potential footballers were whisked away by their parents to live in the united kingdom had the soufrière hills volcano never erupted perhaps the montserrat national football team would be winning matches on a regular basis challenging opponents of a higher standard for example trinidad and tobago and jamaica both having qualified for the world cup on separate occasions however this is not important at the moment because the team that currently represents montserrat recovered from the wounds that the soufrière hills volcano inflicted upon their island when they hammered seven goals without reply against the british virgin islands the only place that the montserrat national football team will go from now on is onwards and upwards leave a comment punk football fc st pauli january 1 2015 january 1 2015 tomos knox aspiring writer blogging calcio fc st pauli football football blogging football club football journalism football writing futbol german german football germany goal goalazzo journalism match soccer st pauli writing for most fans supporting their club conveys pride and joy to see the fruits of their youth team set up burgeoning is the greatest feeling on earth they will follow their team through its highs and its lows they will travel hundreds of miles to watch them playing be they opposing slavia prague or real madrid s galacticos supporting a football club is almost akin to marrying you know at the point you start supporting a team that you will dedicate the rest of your life to watching them play however if you happen to be supporting a team going by the name of fc st pauli the fact that you are supporting them at all may have absolutely nothing to do with the fact that you re passionate about football supporting st pauli is about making a statement in hamburg there are two big football clubs hamburger sv and st pauli hsv awash with cash are dubbed h v by st pauli fans in reference to their wealth meanwhile fc st pauli based in the sankt pauli district of the same city are completely the opposite a poor yet popular district sankt pauli was in the 1980 s an impoverished neighbourhood a hub for prostitutes thieves and lepers known as the die sündige meile the kilometre of sin it also plays host to fc st pauli in the 1980 s with anti semitism and right wing fascism sweeping over europe s footballing community it was inevitable that clubs in germany would be affected that is apart from one fc st pauli s new left wing fan base adopted the skull and crossbones banner as their unofficial club emblem they were the first team in germany to ban all right wing nationalist activities these supporters had emerged in a period of transition for the club most of 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