Even earlier than the FIFA Membership World Cup began, the revamped competitors had generated its share of doubts — over ticket gross sales, safety measures, lack of participant relaxation, and extra.
However as soon as the video games kicked off, the main target was imagined to shift away from the controversies to the motion on the sphere. However what about when an newbie group goes towards probably the most adorned membership in Germany’s historical past and units a doubtful new report in FIFA competitions?
Auckland Metropolis, a non-professional facet from New Zealand, was clobbered 10-0 by Bayern Munich on Sunday within the day two of the Membership World Cup.
Sure, that is the identical Bayern Munich that has received the Bundesliga 34 occasions and has a present participant roster price greater than $1 billion. By comparability, Auckland Metropolis’s flights to the U.S. to compete within the match reportedly price greater than the group’s income for the 12 months.
Michael Olise, who scored thrice, was requested afterward if he began to really feel unhealthy for his opponent as the sport went on and he shook his head, “No,” laughed, after which repeated, “No.”
The ten-0 outcome highlights the quirkiness of the Membership World Cup, which FIFA expanded to 32 groups amid considerations about how aggressive it might be. Auckland Metropolis is the one newbie group within the match.
So the place does this outcome fall in FIFA competitions? Properly, it is the most important shedding margin ever in a senior males’s match hosted by FIFA, in keeping with ESPN World Analysis.
The Membership World Cup has solely been round since 2000, and the worst outcome previous to Sunday was Al Hilal’s 6-1 loss to Al Jazeera on the 2002 version of the match.
The FIFA males’s World Cup has seen its share of lopsided outcomes because the match’s debut in 1930, however by no means a 10-goal loss. Listed here are the largest losses in FIFA World Cup historical past:
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Hungary vs. El Salvador: 10-1 (1982)
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Yugoslavia vs. Zaire: 9-0 (1974)
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Hungary vs. South Korea: 9-0 (1954)
