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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Dennis Passa

Coach hired, team still required: Soccer's status in the Marshall Islands is a work in progress

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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 his first impressions. “The community welcomed me with open arms."

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