Posted on 11/24/2011 2:33:50 AM PST by Cardhu
American Samoa's football team - ranked as the worst international team in the world - has won a game for the first time in its history.
The US protectorate managed a 2-1 victory over Tonga after 30 straight defeats in almost two decades.
Reports said the players and coach of the Pacific nation celebrated as if they had won a major championship.
In 2001 American Samoa lost 31-0 to Australia - the heaviest defeat in international football history.
American Samoa are joint bottom of world governing body Fifa's international rankings.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
How can anyone lose a soccer game 31-0?
I’m thinking playing 30 games in 20 years might have something to do with it! (If I read the snippet correct).
Sounds like me and my buddies on the High School debate team. We joined ‘cuz we got to skip school on Friday, travel a lot, and party at the hotel. (Well, sodas and chips and a late movie kind of party!)
In two years we never one a match either.
Well the probably don’t count the ones they played with the girls in Junior High.
Looks like they’ve really turned the program around, and have the league on the run.
Ever see some of those Samoan NFL players? (Polamalu excepted)
They practice with coconuts?
Ah something about samoa brings to mind Nancy Pelosi, oh yeah here it is
http://newsbusters.org/node/10131
Just more criminal activity from the former house speaker
Watching soccer is an excellent cure for insomnia.
And the NFL, erectile dysfunction. Who knew that there are so many different medications?
OTOH, baseball for me would cure insomnia for me. never understood how anyone could sit and watch that wretched tedium.
There have been worse blowouts in football history. USC beat UCLA 76-0 to kick off the 1929 football season.They'll be at it again tomorrow, but the score will likely be closer.
American Samoan football is soccer only one point for each goal.
If they had a World Cup for American Football, American Samoa might very well win it.
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