{"id":642,"date":"2015-07-05T02:59:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-05T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=642"},"modified":"2015-07-08T04:07:29","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T04:07:29","slug":"fiji-smashes-micronesia-38-0yes-38-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?p=642","title":{"rendered":"Fiji smashes Micronesia 38-0\u2026Yes, 38-0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"Fiji v Uzbekistan: Group F - FIFA U-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-643\" srcset=\"http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Fiji scored five times in the opening five minutes and kept piling on the goals as they defeated Micronesia 38-0 in the most lopsided win in history.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that correctly. 38-0.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record for biggest international win was held by Australia, when the Socceroos defeated American Samoa 31-0 in 2001<br \/>\nBut Micronesia could be in luck as the nation is not recognized by FIFA, meaning they may stay out of the record books.<\/p>\n<p>This match was part of the Pacific Games and also doubled as an Olympic qualifier. Micronesia lost its first match of the tournament 30-0 to Tahiti. That means the nation of about 600 islands currently sits with a goal differential of -68 after two matches. Ouch.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the result, Micronesia\u2019s manager Stan Foster said his team did some things well\u2026<\/p>\n<p>We did quite well in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>The marking was slack in the first half so I told them to make sure they marked man to man, and that worked out a lot better.<\/p>\n<p>Most of these guys are from small villages where they don\u2019t play soccer, so they\u2019ve come a long way.<\/p>\n<p>They\u2019re not used to a crowd in a big tournament like this against real quality players. The Tahiti match was a real shock to them, but they bounced back. I gave them a bit of a pep talk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The tactical changes limited Fiji to just 17 second half goals, compared to the 21 they scored in the opening half.<\/p>\n<p>For Fiji, Antonio Tuivana hit double digits with 10 goals, while Christopher Wasasala bagged seven.<br \/>\nSource: NBC Sports\\ Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fiji scored five times in the opening five minutes and kept piling on the goals&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":643,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[5,9,3,2],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg",320,228,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict-300x214.jpg",300,214,true],"medium_large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg",320,228,false],"large":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg",320,228,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg",320,228,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg",320,228,false],"enternews-featured":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg",320,228,false],"enternews-medium":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg",320,228,false],"enternews-thumbnail":["http:\/\/southasiantimes.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fiji-vict.jpg",320,228,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/?author=1"},"category_info":"Uncategorized","tag_info":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=642"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":644,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642\/revisions\/644"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.southasiantimes.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}