The Blizzard: American Samoa 2-1 Tonga, 2011
Football Ramble
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🗓️ 25 July 2020
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Summary
Imagine losing all thirty of the games you've played as an international side, losing by a combined score of 229-12 as well as sitting bottom of the FIFA rankings. On top of that, imagine suffering a 31-0 loss to Australia in an OFC Nations Cup qualifier as headlines around the world declared you the 'Worst Team in World Football.'
On today's episode of Greatest Games, in association with The Blizzard, globetrotting author James Montague joins us to discuss that very team. In 2011, Thomas Rongen took over a side with "the lowest footballing IQ he'd ever seen" and players with emotional scars from a long line of relentless losses. Against all the odds, they somehow won their first-ever competitive game against Tonga in a 2011 World Cup qualifier - with James among the 20 people in attendance!
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| 0:47.9 | Now the 21st minute it was 7.00. Soon after Archie Thompson grabbed his third on Australia's |
| 0:59.5 | 10th, where was the keeper? It began with a tremendous shaking unlike anything in |
| 1:05.8 | the living memory. Then came the water, destroying everything in its path. As Looting continued |
| 1:19.0 | with impunity in London for the first time British police used these armored jankled trucks |
| 1:25.4 | to clear roads in a number of areas. This was Peckham, South London. 31 no even the score |
| 1:33.4 | lost count. And you have to say that with no away goal America's more we're going to find |
| 1:38.0 | the second leg very difficult. |
| 1:40.4 | I never scored a goal in the fishing competition. We win, we score. To me that's this is going |
| 1:53.5 | to be part of supper history just like the 31 nothing against Australia's part of history. |
| 1:58.8 | We just made part of history. These guys did. I didn't. I'm so proud of the players. |
| 2:03.0 | Hello ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Great Scames podcast on football ramble daily |
| 2:06.7 | in association with the Blizzard. My name is Marcus Speller, opposite me is Jonathan Wilson. |
| 2:11.4 | With us today it's the Indiana Jones of football journalism. It's James Montague journalist |
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