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Nicky Salapu Personal information Full name Nicky Salapu Date of birth September 13, 1980 Place of birth Pago Pago, American Samoa Playing position Goalkeeper Club information Current club SC Mauerbach Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 2000–2008 PanSa East 2008– Mauerbach National team 2001– American Samoa 13 (0) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).Nicky Salapu (born September 13, 1980 in Pago Pago) is an American Samoan association football goalkeeper who previously played for PanSa East. He left the club in December 2008.[1] He also played for SC Mauerbach in the lower divisions of Austrian league.[2]
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Career
The career of Nicky Salapu is not well documented. It is known that he played for PanSa East for eight years, beginning in 2000 and terminating in 2008. He also played in Austria for SC Mauerbach, a side in the Niederösterreichischer Fußballverband (Lower Austrian Football League). He signed for them on a free transfer from PanSa East in 2008.[3]
Australia vs. American Samoa
He conceded 31 goals to Australia in a World Cup qualifying match on April 11, 2001 and this score Australia 31–0 American Samoa still counts as the official world record. These 31 goals came from 7 different players; Con Boutsianis (3 goals) (minutes 10, 50, 84), Archie Thompson (13 goals) (minutes 12, 23, 27, 29, 32, 37, 42, 45, 56, 60, 65, 85, 88), David Zdrilić (8 goals) (minutes 13, 21, 25, 33, 58, 66, 78, 89), Aurelio Vidmar (2 goals) (minutes 14, 80), Tony Popovic (2 goals) (minutes 17, 19), Simon Colosimo (2 goals) (minutes 51, 81) and Fausto De Amicis (1 goal) (minute 55).
South Pacific Games
In 2007, he missed his flight from Hawaii to the South Pacific Games in Samoa. Because he could not make it on time he was replaced by the 17-year-old Jordan Penitusi. He was not eligible to play until he arrived for the last match of American Samoa in the South Pacific Games with Tonga, but there he was an unused substitute.
Record at FIFA tournaments
He played in the OFC FIFA World Cup Qualifications for World Cup 2002 and World Cup 2006. American Samoa lost all of these eight matches. In these eight matches, American Samoa had scored only one goal while he and therefore American Samoa had conceded 91 goals. Tony Langkilde, who was the manager of American Samoa at that time, said: "Football is a game of three possibilities: win, tie and loss. For us it is a game of only one possibility: loss. We have not had the other two possibilities yet."
National team statistics
American Samoa national team Year Apps Goals 2001 4 0 2002 0 0 2003 0 0 2004 4 0 Total 8 0 International career
April 7, 2001 – Coffs Harbour, Australia – Fiji 13–0 American Samoa – 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
April 9, 2001 – Coffs Harbour, Australia – American Samoa 0–8 Samoa – 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
April 11, 2001 – Coffs Harbour, Australia – Australia 31–0 American Samoa – 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
April 14, 2001 – Coffs Harbour, Australia – American Samoa 0–5 Tonga – 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
May 10, 2004 – Apia, Samoa – Samoa 4 – 0 American Samoa – 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
May 12, 2004 – Apia, Samoa – American Samoa 1 – 9 Vanuatu – 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
May 15, 2004 – Apia, Samoa – Fiji 11 – 0 American Samoa – 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
May 17, 2004 – Apia, Samoa – American Samoa 0 – 10 Papua New Guinea – 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification (OFC)
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Categories:- 1978 births
- Living people
- American Samoa footballers
- American Samoa international footballers
- Association football goalkeepers
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