the world's last-ranked team finally won! the players earn 300 euros a month, and they really love football
2024-09-06
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in the first round of the uefa nations league d match that ended in the early hours of beijing time today, san marino defeated liechtenstein 1-0 at home, winning its first international match since its establishment and its first victory in 20 years. san marino player sensoli scored the only goal of the game in the 53rd minute.
screenshot of the video of san marino's 1-0 victory over liechtenstein
the last time san marino won a game was in a friendly match in april 2004, 20 years, 4 months and 8 days ago. during this period, they did not win in 140 games. at that time, they also defeated liechtenstein with a score of 1-0.
the problem of san marino's long-term defeat is easy to explain: san marino is too small. it is a country within a country surrounded by italy. it has an area of only 61.2 square kilometers and is the third smallest country in the world after vatican city and monaco, with a national population of only 33,000.
after fifa accepted san marino as a member in 1986, its all-time top scorer shelvey only scored 8 goals. in order to score these eight goals, he spent 18 years and participated in 74 games, thus becoming the player who represented the team the most in history. among these 8 goals, 3 goals were scored against belgium, one of which was scored in february 2001, when belgium defeated san marino 10-1. however, even though he has become the best scorer in the history of the national team, shelvey did not deny:in italy, football is a job, but in san marino, it is just a hobby!
according to the authoritative data website "transfer market", among the 22 players in the san marino team, only 16 have a record of their value, and the other 6 have a value of 0. among these 16 players, the highest value is only 100,000 euros, and the other players are as low as 10,000 euros. it can be said that the san marino team is a team mainly composed of amateur players. in the 2020 european cup qualifiers, according to media reports, the amateur players of the san marino team,the monthly income from football is only 300 euros, which is not even the minimum wage in italy, so they all have their own stable jobs outside of football.
screenshot of transfer market
for a long time, san marino has been the smallest member of fifa. however, this record was rewritten in 2013: fifa accepted gibraltar, which has a population of just over 30,000.
in the 38-year history of the team, san marino has only won once: in 2004, against liechtenstein, san marino won 1-0, and shelvey scored the goal. however, that was a friendly match.
at present,san marino is ranked 210th in the fifa rankings, ranking last.
interestingly, 20 years ago, san marino defeated liechtenstein 1-0 to achieve their first victory in team history. at that time, ronaldo had only 9 goals in his career. 20 years later, when san marino won again, ronaldo happened to score his 900th career goal on the same night.
red star news editor ou peng
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