Faroe Islands Home 2011

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First international: Shetland 5-1 Faroe Islands (1930)

Biggest win: Faroe Islands 3-0 San Marino (1995)

Biggest loss: Iceland 9-0 Faroe Islands (1985)

Most capped: Oli Johannesen (83 caps)

Top scorer:  Rogvi Jacobsen (10 goals)

Star player: Gunnar Nielsen (Manchester City FC)

Faroe Islands is a small country just above Scotland. Their main source of income to the country is through their fishing business which is very big over there. In 1992 Faroe Islands reached 94th in the FIFA world rankings but nowadays they sit towards the bottom of the 209 FIFA teams.

USA Home 2008

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First international: Sweden 2-3 USA (1926)

Biggest win: USA 8-0 Barbados (2008)

Biggest loss: Norway 11-0 USA (1948)

Most capped: Cobi Jones (164 caps)

Top scorer: Landon Donovan (49 goals)

Star player: Michael Bradley (AS Roma)

The United States are probably more famous for their American sports such as baseball, ice hockey, basketball and American football but the game of soccer has become more popular in the last few years in the USA. It is apparently the most played sport in the country now and is attracting more and more fans to games. USA have 4 Gold Cup wins to their name and shocked most people by beating Spain in the 2009 Confederations Cup before losing in the final.

Ghana Home 1994

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First international: Ghana 1-0 Nigeria (1950)

Biggest win: Kenya 0-13 Ghana (1965)

Biggest loss: Bulgaria 10-0 Ghana (1968)

Most capped: Richard Kingson (90 caps)

Top scorer: Abedi Pele (33 caps)

Star player: Asamoah Gyan (Al-Ain)


This is one of the wonderfully designed football shirts from the early 90's. Although their is no badge on the shirt of Ghana, if you look at pictures you'll see that at the time they did not wear a badge on the kit so this shirt is authentic. Around this time Abedi Pele played for Ghana who you may notice from the Classic XI on a few of the games within the FIFA series. A very unique shirt that I now own.

Solomon Islands

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First international: Solomon Islands 6-3 New Hebrides (1963)

Biggest win: Solomon Islands 17-0 Wallis and Futuna

Biggest loss: French Polynesia 18-0 Solomon Islands (1963)

Star player: Benjamin Totori (Wellington Pheonix FC)


Solomon Islands came 2nd in the OFC cup in 2004 which shocked everyone as they all expected New Zealand to come 2nd. Unfortunately for them Australia were much better and won the 2 legged final 11-1 on aggregate.

Vanuatu

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First international: New Zealand 9-0 Vanuatu (1951)

Biggest win: Vanuatu 18-0 Kiribati (2003)

Biggest loss: New Zeland 9-0 Vanuatu (1951)

Vanuatu's biggest achievement is a semi final in the OFC cup, apart from that they have not done much at all.

American Samoa 2012

                                 
                                              Flag of American Samoa

First international: Tonga 3-0 Am.Samoa (1998)

Biggest win: Am.Samoa 2-1 Tonga (2011)

Biggest loss: Am.Samoa 0-31 Australia (2001)

Most capped: Nicky Salapu (17 caps)

Top scorer: Shalom Luani and Ramin Ott (2 goals)

Star player: Natia Natia 

American Samoa are probably known to be the worst country in football that are FIFA recognised but that is no longer the case. Ironically it took them 31 games to get their first win which is the same amount of goals Australia scored against them in one game. Because of this one win they have shot up to 182nd in the FIFA rankings instead of remaining at the bottom with everyone else. I highly doubt we will be seeing them move up much higher than that though.

Cook Islands Home 2012

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First international: Tahiti 30-0 Cook Islands (1971)

Biggest win: Cook Islands 4-1 Tuvalu (2007)

Biggest loss: Tahiti 30-0 Cook Islands (1971)

Most capped: Tony Jamieson (31 caps)

Top scorer: Campbell Best (3 goals)

Star player: Kundamundi Tom (Yoro FC)

Cook Islands has a population of around 24,000 making it one of the smallest FIFA affiliated nations. Although it is estimated that 100,000 people each year visit the country. It is made up of 15 different islands but in all honesty they are not very good at football compared to other countries. Maybe one day that will change.