num_pages: 260
description: After one too many late-night discussions football fanatic Paul Watson and his mate Matt Conrad hatch the perfect plan: find the world's worst national team become citizens of that country and win an international cap by playing for them. Wikipedia leads them to Pohnpei a remote Pacific island whose team is described as 'the weakest in the world' - and in urgent need of coach.Sp Paul and Matt travel thousands of miles leaving behind jobs families and girlfriends to train a rag-tag bunch of novices to glory and become the youngest international football coaches on record. What could be simpler?A lot it turns out.
language: English
title: Up Pohnpei: A Quest to Reclaim the Soul of Football by Leading the World's Ultimate Underdogs to Glory
publisher: Profile Books