Fiji hammer Micronesia 38-0 in 'record international win' at Pacific Games
It must be hard for a football manager to find positives when your side has conceded 68 goals in its last two matches and scored none, but for the coach of the Federated States of Micronesia looking on the bright side is part of the job.
“We did quite well in the second half,” said Stan Foster after overseeing a 38-0 defeat to Fiji in the Pacific Games on Sunday, two days after a 30-0 loss to Tahiti. “The marking was slack in the first half so I told them to make sure they marked man to man, and that worked out a lot better.”
All things being relative, Foster had a point. Micronesia conceded only 17 goals in the second half, compared with 21 in the first. This was possibly a result of his audacious tactical decision to replace the goalkeeper Walter Pengelbew with midfielder Dominic Gadad at half-time. It was one of several scarcely believable moments in a match that bolstered Micronesia’s candidacy for the title of worst international football team in history.
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The eventual goal haul eclipses Australia’s record of 31-0 against American Samoa in 2001, but as this was officially an under-23 contest, Fiji’s place in the history books is uncertain. Not that Carlos took any pleasure in the margin of victory. He was concerned solely about goal difference.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/jul/05/fiji-hammer-micronesia-38-0-in-record-international-win-at-pacific-gamesAnd, of course, while I was writing this, USA scored another
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