America Samoa

[palexander]

Anyone see this on Football365?

Apparantly, the American Samoa national team (who lost 20 or 30 odd nill to Australia) played New Zealand recently.

They did very well - only lost 11-0...

The thing is, Samoa kicked off by booting the ball to the NZ keeper and all 11 Samoans ran back to the edge of the box and lined up. Bemused, NZ played on and amazingly scored 11 against the literal 11 man defence.

The most farcical moment though came when Samoa somehow won a throw-in in the NZ half, which meant two Samoans had to sprint deep into the NZ half and take the throw-in... they mearly threw it in, booted it back to the NZ keeper and ran back to their own box!!!!!

 

[Kenny]

I guess tactically it's what you would call a "damage limitiation" exercise.

Maybe Tilson should consider it if we come away from Layer Road defending a slender lead for the 2nd leg - Drewe looks quite effective in defence!

 

[palexander]

Damage limitation?! Just the 11 then...

 

[Ron Manager]

Sort of on topic - the New Zealand footie team are called the All Whites (ie like the All Blacks but play in a white kit) and a lot of their sporting teams follow a similair theme. Best of all though is the basketball team, in a stroke of genius they are called..........The Tall Blacks