American Samoa national football team

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American Samoa
Association	Football Federation American Samoa
Confederation	OFC (Oceania)
Head coach	David Brand
Asst coach	Alapati Aaasa
Most caps	Nicky Salapu
Top scorer	Duane Atualevao- 3 goals
Home stadium	Veterans Memorial Stadium
FIFA code	ASA
FIFA ranking	199
Highest FIFA ranking	192 (October 1998)
Lowest FIFA ranking	205 (Mar 2005)
Elo ranking	228
First kit 　 Second kit
First international
Western Samoa 3 - 1 American Samoa (Apia, Western Samoa; August 20, 1983) (not FIFA sanctioned)
Biggest win
American Samoa 3 - 0 Wallis and Futuna  (Apia, Western Samoa; August 22, 1983) (not FIFA sanctioned)
Biggest defeat
Australia 31 - 0 American Samoa (Coffs Harbour, Australia; April 11, 2001) (International Record)

The American Samoa national soccer team is the national team of American Samoa and is controlled by Football Federation American Samoa. It is one of the weakest teams in the world, and holds the distinction of suffering the largest loss in international football history, having been defeated by Australia 31-0 on April 11, 2001.

American Samoa has never won a FIFA-sanctioned match. The team has only recorded one victory in its history over Wallis and Futuna in 1983, when neither team was a member of FIFA (Wallis and Futuna Islands still is not).

In the current FIFA ranking, it is joint last of all countries registered for full internationals.

Ramin Ott made history for American Samoa when scoring a penalty goal against Solomon Islands on August 25th 2007. The goal was American Samoa's first ever in an official World Cup qualifying fixture and proved to be American Samoa's only goal of a 2010 qualifying campaign which saw them lose all four of their matches with an aggregate score of 39 goals to 1. Their 0-4 defeat in their final qualifying fixture against Tonga ranks as their best world cup result to date. The 39 goals conceded were the most let in by any team at the South Pacific Games.

Contents 1 World Cup record 2 Oceania Nations Cup record 3 South Pacific Games record 4 Notable players 5 Current squad 6 External links

[edit] World Cup record

• 1930 to 1998 - Did not enter
• 2002 to 2010 - Did not qualify

[edit] Oceania Nations Cup record

• 1973 - Did not enter
• 1980 - Did not enter
• 1996 to 2008 - Did not qualify

[edit] South Pacific Games record

• 1963 - Did not enter
• 1966 - Did not enter
• 1969 - Did not enter
• 1971 - Did not enter
• 1975 - Did not enter
• 1979 - Did not enter
• 1983 - Round 1
• 1987 - Sixth place
• 1991 - Did not enter
• 1995 - Did not enter
• 2003 - Did not enter
• 2007 - Round 1

[edit] Notable players

• Nicky Salapu

[edit] Current squad

The following players have been named for the South Pacific Games in Samoa, August 2007. Players are sorted by shirt number.

No. Pos. Player DoB (Age) Caps Goals Club 1 GK Nicky Salapu 3 January 1978 PanSa East FC 2 DF Terence Sinapati PanSa East FC 3 DF Travis Pita Sinapati 24 July 1979 PanSa East FC 4 DF Pesamino Victor PanSa East FC 5 DF Alexander Victor PanSa East FC 6 Tuaoloina Solofa 7 Thomas Leota 8 MF Natia Natia 2 February 1984 9 Ieti Taulealo 10 Kitiona Faatamala 11 MF Maika Molesi 10 October 1985 Konica Machine FC 12 MF Hansel Maiava 13 Johnny Saelua 19 July 1988 14 MF Tafuna Toilolo 15 FW Uasilaa Heleta 27 February 1987 8 0 Pago Boys 16 Ieti Ieti 17 Alo Vakatau 18 Frankie Silao 19 FW Ramin Shahin Ott 22 June 1986 8 1 Konica Machine FC 20 FW Sue Tonise 24 GK Jordan Penitusi

[edit] External links

• A Picture of the Team
• A video of match American Samoa 0-31 Australia on April 11th, 2001 at YouTube
• Weltfussball
• National Football Teams

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