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higher level of football than the majority of the ellan vannin squad which mostly comprises footballers playing on an amateur basis on the isle of man he says that it is important for more manx footballers to play abroad but also concedes that there is a lack of interest on english clubs behalf in manx youngsters i think if the manx players were playing at a better standard of football every week they would be become better footballers he comments there are some good players over there who if they were in england as teenagers they would have been snapped up by professional teams however the squad is still strong enough for the manxmen to target european glory this june according to sharkey it would be silly of us to go there and not aim to come home as champions he says confidently we would like to build upon our sucess last year so winning it would be our next achievement ellan vannin s is an incredible story of determination faced with sanctions from the isle of man county fa the team ploughed on eventually acheiving hero status on the island regardless of where the manxmen end up in the conifa european championships it s clear that they are a team heading in the right direction it s an exciting period in the history of manx football and the youngsters like ellan vannin international rowan richardson who plays for blackpool academy are setting the benchmark for young footballers from the island a victory in the conifa european championships would be a fantastic way to elaborate on last year s success for ellan vannin and the manx ifa and would bring immense pride and joy to the isle of man it may not carry the same pedigree as the 1966 fifa world cup win for england but it would be just as prestigous an achievement for the manx 1 comment the future of football on the island of saint helena april 18 2015 april 18 2015 tomos knox the premier league is rolling towards its conclusion and the fate of all clubs will be decided by the remaining fixtures yet to be contested however as the 2014 15 campaign approaches the finale another league is about to commence tomos knox interviewed damien o bey to give us more insight the league in question is perhaps not as well known nor as rich but its title still evokes relative pedigree the barclays premier league may be the most viewed league on earth but the saint helena football league located on the british overseas territory of saint helena island is equally remarkable in that it is the most remote league on earth lying 1 200 miles away from the african continent saint helena is a small island situated in the south atlantic ocean with a population of just under 4 000 perhaps best known for being napoleon bonaparte s place of exile the frenchman died on the island in 1921 saint helena s remoteness means that it is both arduous and expensive to travel an airport is currently being built and is scheduled for completion in 2016 it is hoped amongst locals that the airport will bring along with it a better future for saint helena as the island s population is decreasing rapidly due to the young men and women being unable to find work on island football on the island is fairly basic a senior league runs from may until november and there are also junior competitions but cricket is the dominant sport on saint helena despite this former saint helena football association secretary damien o bey insists that the island s inhabitants retain a love for the beautiful game now the st helena sentinel s chief football writer he is optimistic about football s future on the island although he acknowledges that there are problems that need addressing football is certainly a sport that saints st helenians enjoy in terms of popularity it s probably the most popular sport on st helena based on numbers who participate and watch he says there are other sports which have higher participation numbers but have fewer spectators despite the popularity of the english premier league islanders retain their enthusiasm for the saint helena football league it may only be an amateur league but it is fiercely contested and supporters are always to be found on the island s only football pitch francis plain due to saint helena s small population the anticipation and high levels of enthusiasm is felt throughout the island o bey explains the league is normally a highly competitive event with between 3 to 4 teams vying for the title each season however the saint helena football association receives no funding whatsoever from the english fa despite being a british island this means that money can often be in short supply also problems with bad weather meant that the league lost almost 8 weeks last year which proved incredibly problematic for the shfa having just the one pitch to play all of the island s outdoor sports can throw up problems with maintenance and the time available for each association to complete their respective sports o bey comments it is an opinion shared by many but due to st helena s mountainous and rugged terrain it would be extremely difficult to build another pitch it also seems that st helena s footballing community have aspirations on a more international scale as recently as 2011 it was proposed that the island should send a team to the island games an olympic themed tournament for islands all over the world amongst its more notable members are bermuda greenland gibraltar isle of man and saint helena s south westerly neighbours falkland islands st helena are members but have never sent along a football team sadly due to the sheer costliness of such a project the proposal amounted to nothing with financial difficulties playing an integral role in the downfall of the dream all the same islanders remain hopeful that with the airport and cheaper travel the saint helena national football team will compete in the island games great amounts of training will be required for a team to reach the standard capable enough to participate in such a competition he concedes despite this saint helena have a good grassroots system in place and it is no surprise that football on the island is played to a high standard undeterred by the meagre population there is quite a good youth setup in place for football states o bey after school clubs are hosted on a weekly basis in various districts on the island during the football season and leagues for various age groups are contested alongside the senior league according to damien o bey the next step is to form a national team that could compete at the island games or another similar tournament and as the airport nears its opening this may be sooner rather than later the saint helena fa have also contacted fifa recently and with gibraltar another british overseas territory part of uefa there is no reason as to why they would be unable to join the global governing body however it remains unlikely that they will join for saint helena and its community a national football team would be something that would be able to take pride in as of yet the island s national cricket have been making strides since joining the icc so the same could go for the football side albeit on a smaller scale these are exciting times for saint helenian sport the future is bright leave a comment guest blog chris darwen on cd torrevieja march 25 2015 tomos knox cd torrevieja chris darwen football spain spanish football the fans were amazed they had not seen football like this for many years the final whistle went and the players celebrated with a sense of pride and relief that their seven game winless streak was over the new manager who had instigated the change in style that led to the 6 1 win beamed a huge smile at a debut he could not have imagined cd torrevieja had just beaten cd acero 6 1 at estadio vicente garcia in the tercera group vi a result produced under the watchful eye of new manager pedreno who replaced the sacked galiana the previous weekend for a team that had not scored six goals since christmas to beat the opponent s goalkeeper that many times was little short of remarkable considering that cd acero were only one place and one point behind them cd torrevieja are a little spanish football club based on the costa blanca except they are no longer just a spanish football club they are an international football club torrevieja as a town has a population of about 100 000 people when everyone is here but it is the sort of place where people have a holiday home meaning that for nine months of the year it is very very quiet the town itself has a healthy mix of residents we have the spanish locals of course and then a high percentage of ex pats be them british russian german french or scandanavian this in turn is shown in the football club the board is an even split of spanish and british and the small gates at the ground are made up of a mix of the local community in recent weeks following the addition of a new board member to drive more commerical pr activity cd torrevieja have had their membership base or socios as they are called in spain almost double with people signing up from the usa canada norway and the uk to get behind the club the new member of the board chris darwen explains more i joined the club at the start of march having moved out here one of the first things i did having fired them up on the computer game football manager 2015 and got them promoted was go and watch a game and i instantly felt a connection with the place i then contacted the club and offered my services to help the club commercially with a simple but ambitious aim to get them self sufficient in the next three years we have a wonderful president at the club and he like many others in lower level football across the world funds the shortfall in revenue from his own back pocket when i heard that the club used to have a following in the thousands at home games and now it is down in the lower hundreds it became an instant challenge to me cd torrevieja had been followed by a large and loyal set of fans and just under a decade ago would regularly run out at estadio vicente garcia to a crowd of over 3000 that crowd were made up predominantly of british ex pats members of the torry army an official pena made up of retiring british football fans living on the costa blanca following some internal club politics seeing a large chunk of the fans switch allegiance to another local club many growing old and moving back to the uk to see out their years and frankly some passing away the torry army has dwindled in numbers and have not been replaced darwen continues it is not living in the past to think we can get those sorts of numbers into the club again maybe not from exactly the same source as before sure but the club feels very disconnected from it s local community by that i mean it is not a british club it is not a spanish club it is the official club of torrevieja which is a truly international town therefore as a club we have to start working harder and connecting with it s local community and not just expect people to turn up that doesn t mean go out and just tell people to come and watch it is giving them something they feel they are a part of can have a say in and really be proud of i look at some of the football clubs that i really respect and they have a huge element of fan ownership i don t just mean literally owning the fixtures and fittings of the club but the local community own the club in the sense that they want to be part of it will help it and feel like they are getting something in return it is not just about money if as a club we start doing the right things then i am sure the revenues will increase but we cannot just chase the money from the word go darwen has many new initiatives that will be launched between now and the start of the 2015 16 season and has been helped by the side winning 6 1 at the weekend under the watchful eye of the new coach pedreno one of the early ones that has been successful has seen the club form an official link with a website that is made up of fans and players of the computer game football manager 2015 it has been amazing said darwen and it shows that even by not being here that people can feel part of the club the group did a fundraising event earlier in the month and raised over 400 in return for signed merchandise from the players and plenty of thanks no other club has ever had this kind of link in the football manager community and we are very proud cd torrevieja are a club that needs to embrace the international culture it lives in new people that move to torrevieja or even just come on holiday do look to see what the local club is especially if they are football fans if the club can become the hub of the community where new people can come to make friends feel part of torrevieja and help people start to call the town home then it will not be long before the community will stand up and be proud of their football club written by chris darwen comeontheoviedo if you are interested in becoming an official member of cd torrevieja please email chris darwen on cdtorreviejaofficial gmail com leave a comment the plight of american samoa march 15 2015 march 15 2015 tomos knox 31 0 american samoa blogging football football blogging football journalism football writing samoan soccer writing it s april 2001 and american samoa goalkeeper nicky salapu lies on the ground beside his goal the rest of his team are also flung on the pitch s surface battered beaten like fallen soldiers in a battlefield salapu raises his head for just a moment before slumping to the floor again as his opponents his tormentors australia depart the international sports stadium satisfied they have won and by a fine margin too thirty one goals in fact the final score reads australia 31 0 american samoa it remains the largest victory ever to be witnessed 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 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