Nicky Salapu can count to 57 or How the players of American Samoa lost every game but really won

Matthew Hall
6 min readDec 26, 2023
American Samoa goalkeeper Nicky Salapu in Coffs Harbour, 2001.

Coffs Harbour, Australia, April 2001

Nicky Salapu picked the ball from his net 57 times during his country’s four World Cup qualifiers over Easter, 2001, but then he is the goalkeeper for American Sam­oa, officially the worst national team in the world.

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