Marshall Islands: The last nation on earth without a football team preparing for the historic international level | Football news

Five years ago, the Marshall Islands began his missions to go out of the status as the last country on earth without the football team.

In December 2022, Oxford ramk everything because he hired a basic coach Lloyd’s technical director.

“Currently, he is doing the attention from the ground,” he said in an interview with Sky sportsshortly after assignment.

At the same time, he did not visit a small nation, 29 atolls, 29 atolls, 29 atolls, 29 atolls, 29 and 60,000 people, which consists of 3,000 miles on the north-eastern coast of Australia.

The first goal is to collect basic equipment to play football to play football in a place without pre-historical history, then to get acquainted with school teaching programs to put the foundation for the future.

Last summer, the Football Federation of the Marshall Islands, the opening outrigger challenge cup, organized a futsal tournament that argues with themselves, Kiribati and Micronesia. Kiribati beat 6-2 houses in the final.

The progress of the project was fast.

So far, August 13 and August 16 Marshall Islands as head coach, Helm’de Owers Owers Owergger will play the first 11 vs 11 vs 11 international international play.

“Two years ago, we could only dream about it and will happen now,” he says.

“It was a long-lasting work. As we started, everyone asks when the first game will be, but he wanted to make sure that the project will be continuous, and in the first place.

“This year we could make a safer choice to make a futzal tournament again, but the time is the tire.

“We want to be members of the Confederation and officially applied for a different route. Thus, we must be in 11 vs 11, so we think this summer, this summer.

“To have low-risk games we can play in the area in the region and really good, but we don’t really want to do anything really good, but we are not going to do anything.”

The United States, the United States, the next aspect of the United States, the next aspect of the U.S. Virgin Islands and MLS, replaced GUAM recently announced earlier.

This time the Marshall Islands will not be hosted this time. Instead, matches, Springdale, Arkansas will take place at the Jarrell Williams Bulldog Stadium.

Reason? The United States is about 15,000 people outside the country, outside the country, due to the free movement between the largest population of the Marshalli people. Logically speaking, obviously very simple.

This is what makes the Marshall Islands still lack normal financing flow, because the thing is that it still does not have the flow of normal financing.

“We have good relations to the government and are supported by what they do. Especially with Majuro Island, we have good relations with the Minister of Education.

“But the fact that something is part of something in terms of finance in terms of finance, a little Catch-22.” More at one time.

And thus, the project is sponsored and relied on donations, the last kickstarter campaign increases by £ 21,573.

“This is expensive and we felt a massive task, and at the same time, we needed to take a risk. We were greater than getting the easy choice.

“We will continue to push and increase awareness – and we have more opportunities, so much opportunity for people to attract material.”

Now the countdown of the tournament continues, the pool of players who can make the staff of the focus and the pool of players who are indebted to “around 100 around the world.”

This figure, Marshallese, which raised in the United States, as well as the players of American landing players growing in the Marshall Islands. It also includes two teenagers living in Germany and prove instant and subsequent heritage.

By presenting football to schools, this pool will only grow.

They say “our players are very young.” “A few-year-old player bar in the group, which will play this summer, most of them only graduated from high school, college or college.

“We know that it will be a harsh test, but it is a impression that you can play against the people you want to play against. No one is expecting us to win games, but we can put a little show and we can put a show.

“But we do not want these 11 vs vs. 11 games and then we have not played again for two years. We want it to be a start.”

In addition to playing international football for the first time, the Confederation member always became always on the agenda of the Marshall Islands. Recognizing in the world cup qualifiers, finance and opportunity and chance change the game.

But far from a flat process.

“OCC (Oceania Football Confederation), created an instructions needed to address promising members, and we created our strategy document to align it with us,” he says.

“I believe that we are behind what we can do for the Nisali neighbor, and I do not think that people understand how much people are going to move.

“We really felt that we are not a real membership, but really in a strong situation.

“Unfortunately, Ofc did not respond to our application except a journalist in New Zealand. Almost, ‘Yes, in a strong situation, but not excellent for us.

“At the same time, we now apply to the AFC (Asian Confederation) and Concacaf (North, Central American and Caribbean Sea Football Confederation), because they do not want to close these doors and they are in fact more responsibly.

“Especially with AFC, in a powerful situation to reach Asia from Marshall Islands. Honolulu, then I can contact the Mainland direct flights and one of the people of this Concacaf.

“In the Ocean, maybe he may have probably pushed us in a better direction and I would like to say that until 2026 will be a strong position to meet us a little more.”

The role of the technical director in a working day, he said he said he was on the full work work in England. But it clearly pays.

In addition to organizing the first international international and confessive and confederation, there is a lot of work to move behind the scenes.

There are regular classes in Majuro, Kwajalein and Ebeye Islands and there is hope of creating a league structure than just tournament-oriented matches in the future.

200 children play football in schools and have a women’s national futsal team in the United States to present in two training camps. The Special Olympic Marshall Islands and in 2027 in Chile have a partnership in the world’s games.

Marshall Islands are now a house away from home.

“You enter a supermarket and someone will ask: ‘Soccer Guy?!’ Strangely, in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, there are some mixes known for football near Oxford!

“When I went for the first time, I didn’t know what I was waiting. This is the most remote place ever. But now there is something at home.

“I have friends there.

“It takes two years ago, we see the benefit. The children have acquired a new hobby and have a real way you can represent your country in a different sport.

“You can get out of the island and visit new places and have these experiences you can’t do two years ago and don’t know.

Marshall Islands continues to collect funds for projects via GofundMe – support here