Papua New Guinea Home 2012

Flag of PNG

First international: Fiji 3-1 Papua New Guinea (1963)

Biggest win: Papua New Guinea 20-0 Am.Samoa (1987)

Biggest loss: Australia 11-2 Papua New Guinea (1980)

Star player: Mauri Wasi (Waitakere United)


Papua New Guinea's biggest victory came against American Samoa. The game finished 20-0. These Oceanian games seem rather exciting and one sided. They've made 3 OFC cup appearances in their life times. England ashes winning wicket keeper Geraint Jones was in fact born in Papua New Guinea and now represents them in T20 cricket.

Samoa Home 2012

Flag of Samoa

First international: Wallis and Futuna 3-1 Samoa (1979)

Biggest win: Samoa 8-0 Am.Samoa (2001)

Biggest loss: Tahiti 13-0 Samoa (1981)


Samoa are probably famous for being the national that WWE wrestler The Rock comes from. In the footballing world they are not so good though but Tim Cahill's brother does play for the national side. Samoa's national sports are rugby, American football and baseball meaning they do not put much effort into football and it shows.

Fiji Home 2012

Flag of Fiji

First international: Fiji 4-6 New Zealand (1951)

Biggest win: Fiji 24-0 Kiribati (1979)

Biggest loss: New Zealand 13-0 Fiji (1981)

Most capped: Taniela Waqa (32 caps)

Top scorer: Roy Krishna (14 goals)

Star player: Roy Krishna (Waitakere United)

Fiji as a nation have made the OFC cup semi final 4 times but cannot seem to get into the final. Maybe next time.

Tonga

Flag of Tonga

First international: Tahiti 8-0 Tonga (1979)

Biggest win: Tonga 7-0 Micronesia (2003)

Biggest loss: Australia 22-0 Tonga (2001)

Tonga have recently started the second goal project where they aim to improve football in the country. Tonga are not one of the better nations in Oceania but hopefully this project helps them improve a bit.

CF Benidorm Home 2011

CF Benidorm have now unfortunately folded as a football club as they could not afford to keep it running. Benidorm to most English people is known as a cheap holiday place to go to and also here in England there is a successful comedy series about the place. The shirts were going for pretty cheap so I decided to buy a few for my 5 a-side team and this will be the new shirt for my team.

England Away 1996

England after losing on penalties to Germany

Flag of England

First international: Scotland 0-0 England (1872)

Biggest win: Ireland 0-13 England (1882)

Biggest loss: Hungary 7-1 England (1954)

Most capped: Peter Shilton (125 caps)

Top scorer: Bobby Charlton (49 goals)

Star player: Wayne Rooney (Manchester United FC)

I finally got this shirt after being outbid on ebay for quite a lot of these. This shirt was worn during Euro 96 when England hosted the tournament and got to the semi final. Unfortunately England's downfall again was a penalty shootout in which Gareth Southgate missed from the spot leaving Germany to score and then go on to win the whole tournament. If only Gascoigne had slightly longer legs then England would of won but it wasn't meant to be.

Turkey Away 2008

Flag of Turkey

First international: Turkey 2-2 Romania (1923)

Biggest win: Turkey 7-0 Syria (1949)

Biggest loss: England 8-0 Turkey (1987)

Most capped: Rustu Recber (120 caps)

Top scorer: Hakan Sukur (51 goals)

Star player: Arda Turan (Atletico Madrid)


This in my opinion is the best Turkey shirt that they have had. It is a bit strange though as Turkey often never wore light blue on a kit but it goes very well with this shirt. In Euro 2008 Turkey managed to get through to the semi finals but only lead for about 5 minutes in the whole tournament with a lot of late goals scored. Did you know Turkey have never scored a goal against England in 8 matches?