BRISBANE, Australia Lloyd Owers recalls with fondness his initial visit from his home in England to the Marshall Islands, a small nation of five islands, 29 atolls and about 60,000 people situated in the western Pacific Ocean between Hawaii and Australia. “I felt at home,” the 33-year-old soccer coach said of…
Oh, by the way, the Marshall Islands has no national soccer team. The Marshall Islands are not a member of FIFA, soccer's international governing body. The country’s first attempt to join an official regional soccer organization could come with the Oceania Football Confederation or the Asian Football Confederation.
The Marshall Islands are the last country on Earth without a national football team - but Englishman Lloyd Owers is at the forefront of attempts to change that.
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