Nicky Salapu can count to 57 or How the players of American Samoa lost every game but really won
6 min readDec 26, 2023
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.