IN concrete basketball courts on tiny islands in the Pacific Ocean, bare-footed footballers dream of representing their country. Yet few other aspiring soccer stars have so much standing in their w…
Last year the nation — 1,225 islands 8,000 miles from Britain, some sitting atop submerged volcanoes — didn’t even have an amateur league.But that is all changing in the country most famous for witnessing nuclear weapon tests on its Bikini atoll in the Forties and Fifties.Ex-Liverpool star retired from 'toxic' football at 25 and now flies a plane
The Marshall Islands will next year have a stadium with a proper pitch and in the summer intend to field a side against neighbouring islands.They already have a football strip, which has been selling more than 100 replicas a week since it went on sale last month, even though there is not yet a team to cheer on.
By the start of this year Lloyd and his fellow Brits, communications director Justin Whalley and commercial director Matt Webb, set about raising sponsorship and the project’s profile.“When the sales started rolling in, you realised how popular the project is.In the summer Lloyd flew to the Marshall Islands for his first coaching sessions.to the islands was cancelled and he had to wait two days for the next one, although he admits that being stranded in Honolulu was no hardship.
The multi-purpose complex, which includes a track and field for athletics and a football pitch, is due to open in July next year. But the logistics of getting supplies to the remote eight-acre Omelek island proved to be so tricky that the staff reportedly mutinied in 2005 when they ran out of food.
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