When Micronesia lost the opening match of the Pacific Games 30-0 to
Tahiti, they probably thought it could not get any worse than that. They
were wrong.
In a scoreline tournament organisers claim is a world record, Fiji beat them
38-0 on Sunday.
However Micronesia are likely to escape their place in the record books as
they are not affiliated to world football's governing body Fifa, and the
squads at the Pacific Games are Under-23s because it doubles as Olympic
qualifying.
Micronesia put an outfield player in goal at half-time with the score
21-0. Midfielder Dominic Gadad conceded 17 more
Antonio Tuivana scored 10 goals for Fiji; Christopher Wasasala hit seven
Fiji failed to score between 12th and 22nd minute
Micronesia's final group game is against Vanuatu, who drew with Fiji
Minnows only have 18-man squad, rather than 23
The official world record remains Australia's 31-0 win over American
Samoa in a World Cup qualifier back in 2001.
What is Micronesia?
The Federated States of Micronesia, in the western Pacific, consists of
about 600 islands grouped into four states: Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk
(Truk) and Yap.
Occupying a very small total land mass, it is scattered over an ocean
expanse five times the size of France and has a population of about
100,000.
Though formally independent, in 1986 Micronesia signed a "Compact of
Free Association" with the US. Under this, Washington took on
responsibility for defence and gained the right to set up military bases and
deny other nations access to Micronesia.
Micronesia now has a total of 68 goals against on the table
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