American Samoa national football team

Infobox National football team
Name = American Samoa
Badge = Blogimg 144 10411-20080305105547.jpg
FIFA Trigramme = ASA
FIFA Rank = 200
FIFA max = 192
FIFA max date = October 1998
FIFA min = 205
FIFA min date = March 2005, January-May 2006
FIFA rank = 196
Continental rank = 11
Elo Rank = 228
Nickname =
Association = Football Federation American Samoa
Confederation = OFC (Oceania)
Most caps = Nicky Salapu
Top scorer = Duane Atualevao-3 goals
Home Stadium = Veterans Memorial Stadium
Coach = Flagicon|England David Brand
Asst Manager = Flagicon|American Samoa Alapati Aaasa
Goalkeeping coach = Flagicon|England Nathan Mease pattern_la1=|pattern_b1=|pattern_ra1=
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First game = fb|Samoa|name=Western Samoa 3 - 1 American Samoa Flagicon|American Samoa (Apia, Western Samoa; August 20, 1983)
(not FIFA sanctioned)
Largest win = Flagicon|American Samoa American Samoa 3 - 0 fb-rt|Wallis and Futuna|local (Apia, Western Samoa; August 22, 1983)
(not FIFA sanctioned)
Largest loss = fb|Australia 31 - 0 American Samoa Flagicon|American Samoa (Coffs Harbour, Australia; April 11, 2001)
("International Record")
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Regional name = OFC Nations Cup
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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.

World Cup record

*1930 to 1998 - "Did not enter"
*2002 to 2010 - "Did not qualify"

Oceania Nations Cup record

*1973 - "Did not enter"
*1980 - "Did not enter"
*1996 to 2008 - "Did not qualify"

outh 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

Notable players

* Nicky Salapu

Current squad

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

External links

* [http://www.sportingpulse.com/assoc_page.cgi?c=0-996-0-0-0&sID=12640 A Picture of the Team]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Yy1uhCWJ3s A video of match American Samoa 0-31 Australia on April 11th, 2001 at YouTube]
* [http://www.weltfussball.de/teams.php?m_id=193 Weltfussball]
* [http://www.national-football-teams.com/v2/country.php?id=4 National Football Teams]