Nicky Salapu
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nicky Vitolio Salapu | ||
| Date of birth | September 13, 1980[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Pago Pago, American Samoa | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2008 | PanSa East | ||
| 2008–2011 | PanSa East | ||
| 2012–2013 | Mitra Kukar | ||
| 2013–2019 | PanSa East | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001–2015 | American Samoa | 22 | (0) |
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of July 18, 2019 | |||
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Nicky Salapu (born September 13, 1980) is an American Samoan footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for PanSa East. He previously played for PanSa East from 2000 to 2008 and 2008 to 2011, then he left them to sign for Mitra Kukar in 2012. Salapu has played for them since 2013. He played in American Samoa's 31–0 loss to Australia, where he was the only player from the senior squad due to his teammates' passport issues.[2][3]
Salapu played in the OFC FIFA World Cup Qualifications for World Cup 2002 and World Cup 2006. American Samoa lost all of these eight matches and conceded 91 goals.[4]
Salapu was the goalkeeper, under whom the American Samoa National Football Team registered their first ever official FIFA World Cup qualifiers win. After the game, Salapu said: "I feel like a champ right now. Finally I'm going to put the past behind me."[5]
Club career
Salapu played for PanSa East for eleven years, beginning in 2000 and terminating in 2011. In 2012, he went to play for Mitra Kukar, a club playing in the Indonesia Super League (ISL), which is a fully professional football competition as the top tier of the football league pyramid in Indonesia.
International career
Salapu conceded 31 goals to Australia in a World Cup qualifying match on April 11, 2001, and the score Australia 31–0 American Samoa still counts as the official world record.[6][7]
In 2007, Salapu missed his flight from Hawaii to the South Pacific Games in Samoa. Because he could not make it on time, he was replaced by the 17-year-old Jordan Penitusi. He was not eligible to play until he arrived for the last match of American Samoa in the South Pacific Games with Tonga, but there he was an unused substitute.[8] In November 2011, Salapu was the goalkeeper when American Samoa won its first ever full FIFA match, a 2–1 win over Tonga during the first round of the OFC qualifiers for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.[5] In 2015, he was called up as substitute goalkeeper for the 2018 World Cup Qualifiers.
He represented American Samoa at the 2019 Pacific Games in Apia.[9][10] Salapu has been selected for the American Samoan team at the 2023 Pacific Games in Honiara.[11]
Club career
| American Samoa[12] | ||
| Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 4 | 0 |
| 2002 | 1 | 0 |
| 2004 | 4 | 0 |
| 2011 | 8 | 0 |
| 2015 | 5 | 0 |
| Total | 22 | 0 |
See also
References
- ↑ "Nicky Salapu". FBRef. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ "31-0: The scoreline that made American Samoa famous". Football Bloody Hell. 2 March 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ "Nicky Salapu, la redención del portero humillado" (in español). Libertad Digital. 11 April 2021. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ "Nicky Salapu, el portero que más motivos tuvo para odiar su trabajo (pero que no lo hizo) #Díainternacionaldelportero". Toni Cruz. 14 April 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Montague, James (November 23, 2011). "American Samoa, Winless and at Bottom of Rankings, Wins a World Cup Qualifier". The New York Times. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
- ↑ "31-0 – The plight of American Samoa – Back Page Football". Back Page Football. March 13, 2015. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
- ↑ Cockerill, Michael (November 25, 2011). "Finally making history for all the right reasons". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved October 1, 2018.
- ↑ Mark Gleeson (29 August 2007). "Coach of world's worst team must grin and bear it". Reuters. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ "INTERVIEW: American Samoa's Nicky Salapu and Jaiyah Saelua on their love of the game". Football in Oceania. 10 July 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ "American Samoa men's National Team ready to play". Samoa News. 7 July 2019. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ "More than 20 years after his Australian nightmare, keeper's enthusiasm for representing American Samoa shows no signs of wavering". ABC. 9 December 2022. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
- ↑ Nicky Salapu at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
External links
- Nicky Salapu – FIFA competition recordLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 23: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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