When Micronesia lost the opening match of the Pacific Games 30-0 to
Tahiti, they probably thought it could not get any worse than that. They
were wrong.
In a scoreline tournament organisers claim is a world record, Fiji beat them 38-0 on Sunday July 05,2015
However Micronesia are likely to escape their place in the record books as they are not affiliated to world football's governing body Fifa, and the squads at the Pacific Games are Under-23s because it doubles as Olympic qualifying.
Micronesia's final group game is against Vanuatu, who drew with Fiji
What is Micronesia?
The Federated States of Micronesia, in the western Pacific, consists of about 600 islands grouped into four states: Kosrae, Pohnpei, Chuuk (Truk) and Yap.
Occupying a very small total land mass, it is scattered over an ocean expanse five times the size of France and has a population of about 100,000.
Though formally independent, in 1986 Micronesia signed a "Compact of Free Association" with the US. Under this, Washington took on responsibility for defence and gained the right to set up military bases and deny other nations access to Micronesia
Note
The official world record remains Australia's 31-0 win over American Samoa in a World Cup qualifier back in 2001.
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