World Cup results for Monday 17th may

[eoinh]

17-May-2004

Oceanian Zone

FT Tahiti 2:0 Tonga
FT Samoa 0:4 Fiji
FT American Samoa 0:10 Papua New Guinea
FT New Caledonia 8:0 Cook Islands


Group 1

Team MP W D L GF GA Pts
Solomon Islands 3 3 0 0 13 0 9
Tahiti 3 2 1 0 4 0 7
New Caledonia 3 1 1 1 8 2 4
Tonga 3 1 0 2 2 9 3
Cook Islands 4 0 0 4 1 17 0

Group 2

Team MP W D L GF GA Pts
Fiji 3 3 0 0 19 2 9
Vanuatu 3 2 1 0 13 2 7
Papua New Guinea 3 1 1 1 13 5 4
Samoa 3 1 0 2 4 7 3
American Samoa 4 0 0 4 1 34 0


The top two from each group advance to second stage. byes to second stage - New Zealand and Australia

[Dodge]

Eoin, you couldn't find out who American Samoa scored their goal against and what the score in that game was?

Cheers

[eoinh]

American Samoa 1:9 Vanuatu :)

Vanuatu must be red hot :D

AS you can see from the pic of them playing agianst Papua New Guinea there werent many paying customers. :cool: HERE (http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/fifa/gen/fi/20040511/i/1697047928.jpg)

[Schumi]

Do the teams in these groups play each other home and away or just once?

[eoinh]

just once.

They gave byes to australia and new zealand to stop them being massacred. If vanuatu can destroy american samoa imagine what australia would do to them :eek:

[Dodge]

Wasn't American Samoa the country Tim Cahill played for when he was 14 which meant he had to go to FIFA to play for Australia? OR was that some where else?

[eoinh]

Whos Tim Cahill? :confused: ?

Theres also Western Samoa - different country. Apparently in the years ahead there will be some more countries from Oceania joining FIFA. Even smaller than the members who are taking part at the moment. Nauru is one. A population of 9,000 with the centre of the island mined so they all have to live on the coast.

Three of my uncles were Columban priests. Two of them lived in Fiji for years doing missionary work. Although Fiji in fairness dont seem to be that bad

[tiktok]

Wasn't American Samoa the country Tim Cahill played for when he was 14 which meant he had to go to FIFA to play for Australia? OR was that some where else?

Western Samoa if i remember the thread on here about him correctly

[pineapple stu]

They gave byes to australia and new zealand to stop them being massacred. If vanuatu can destroy american samoa imagine what australia would do to them :eek:

Jayz - they'd probably rack 31 or 32 goals against them! :D

[adamcarr]

Jayz - they'd probably rack 31 or 32 goals against them! :D
Actually it was 32-0 I think Bosnich scored aswell! :D :eek: