Samoa Amerika adalah sebuah negara dimana sepakbola kalah popularitasnya dengan olahraga-olahraga lainnya seperti America Football, Baseball, dan Basketball. Jumlah penduduk yang kecil dan bukan fans sepak bola menjadi alasan kenapa sepak bola di Samoa tidak berkembang.
Tim ini hanya mencetak sekali kemenangan ketika mengalahkan tim nasional Wallis dan Futuna di babak penyisihan turnamen sepak bola South Pacific Games pada tahun 1983, tetapi kedua tim tersebut pada saat itu belum menjadi anggota FIFA sehingga Samoa Amerika tetap memduduki posisi paling bawah versi FIFA. Berikut skor Samoa Amerika selama mengikuti Piala Dunia 2002-2010.
Pertandingan yang yg Di ikuti Samoa Amerika :
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Piala Dunia 2002
Samoa Amerika 0 13 Fiji
Samoa Amerika 0 8 Samoa
Samoa Amerika 0 31 Australia
Samoa Amerika 0 5 Tonga
Piala Dunia 2006
Samoa Amerika 0 4 Samoa
Samoa Amerika 1 9 Vanuatu
Samoa Amerika 0 11 Fiji
Samoa Amerika 0 10 Papua Nugini
Piala Dunia 2010
Samoa Amerika 1 12 Kepulauan Solomon
Samoa Amerika 0 7 Samoa
Samoa Amerika 0 15 Vanuatu
Samoa Amerika 0 4 Tonga
Daftar Pemain Samoa Amerika :
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1 Nicky Salapu
4 Lisi Leututu
5 Soe Falimaua
7 Lavalu Fatu
8 Sulifou Faaloua
9 Travis Sinapati
13 Sam Mulipola
15 Pati Feagiai
16 Ben Falaniko
18 Tiaoali Savea
20 Young Im Min
Ive really got a female starting at centre back. Can you imagine that in England or Spain? - American Samoa coach Thomas Rongen.
American Samoas 2-1 win over Tonga on Wednesday in Oceania World Cup qualifying was not only historic for being the first time they had ever won a competitive game in FIFA competition.
Incredibly, and this could open up a whole can of worms for Sepp Blatter, American Samoa fielded a transgender footballer called Johnny Jayieh Saelua.
Although there are no records for this type of information, Saelua is believed to be he first transgender player to compete in a World Cup qualifying match.
According to assorted media, Saelua is part of the faafafine, biological males who identify as a third sex that is widely accepted in Polynesian culture.
The American Samoa defender was raised as a woman and said after the World Cup match: The team accept me and we have that mutual respect. Which is great. Its all part of the culture.
Probably the most brilliant part of this story, concerning the win over Tonga, was that Saelua was named man of the match, providing an assist for the opening goal and crucially making a hugely important goal line clearance in the final seconds of the encounter.
APIA, Samoa (AP) -Ramin Ott and Shalom Luani scored as American Samoa beat Tonga 2-1 on Wednesday to open the first stage of Oceania qualifying for the 2014 World Cup.
Ott put American Samoa ahead with a speculative long-range shot in the 43rd minute and Luani sealed the win when he lobbed over Tonga goalkeeper Kaneti Falela in the 74th.
Tonga pulled a goal back three minutes before fulltime when Unaloto Faeo headed home a cross from Lafaele Moala.
Samoa was due to play Cook Islands later Wednesday.
Only one of the four teams contesting the first round will progress to the next stage in Oceania qualifying, which involves seven other teams - including 2010 World Cup qualifier New Zealand - playing a tournament at Fiji next June which doubles as the 2012 OFC Nations Cup.
The top four teams from the OFC Nations Cup will advance to the third and final round of Oceania qualifying for Brazil 2014.