Marshall Islands assistant manager Justin Walley admits the actuality of kicking off the country’s first ever international football match still feels like a dream.
The Marshall Islands have long claimed to be “the last nation on earth without a football team”, and did not even have a federation until 2020, let alone the national set-up which has only existed for the last two and a half years.
For some members of the squad, Thursday’s meeting with the US Virgin Islands at the Outrigger Challenge Cup in Arkansas will be their first competitive game of 11 v 11 football – ever.
