A former player turned coach is hired to transform the worst soccer team ever into a competitive squad for an international tournament.
Team Legends in the world of international soccer. Not legends in a good way, mind you; they were the ones on the end of that epic lambasting. Think about how crushing that must have felt, to see your hopes of glory on the pitch and your sense of national pride transformed into public humiliation. There’s a happy ending to this story, however: The official Federation of the tiny nation hired a former player turned coach named Thomas Rongen to whip this ragtag group into shape.
He only had several weeks to turn a squad dubbed “the worst soccer team ever” into players who could hold their own against the neighboring country of Tonga for first-round consideration. What followed was a real-life sports underdog story — the kind of incredible, triumph-of-the-human-spirit tale that usually only happens in the movies. (and it’s a pity you can’t stream it anywhere at the moment), you know the detail
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