Fiji broke the record for the biggest win in international football after pulverizing Federated States of Micronesia, 38-0 in the 15th Pacific Games in Papua New Guinea. The win eclipsed Australia’s 31-0 win over American Samoa in 2011. However, Micronesia is not a FIFA member and the tournament was an under-23 event, which means it is unlikely to go in the FIFA record books.

The scores looked more of a rugby game when Fiji led 21-0 at halftime. Micronesia has given up 68 goals in its last two games in the tournament and lost its first match 30-0 against Taihiti. Fiji manager Stan Foster still took the chance to stay positive despite an embarrassing loss.

"We're here for development purposes mainly and I'm just trying to keep the guys upbeat. I just wanted the guys to keep fighting all the way through the game so they knew that when they came off they tried their hardest," Foster said on the Pacific Games’ website as per ABC.net.au.

Foster commended his inexperienced players for showing the desire to finish the game in spite of being down big citing that most of his players came from small villages where people do not play football. He also added that the Micronesians are “not used to a crowd in a big tournament like this against real quality players” and the Australian manager was convinced that his team had bounced back from their loss against Tahiti even without scoring a single goal according to reports of the Guardian.

Fiji ranked 195th in FIFA world rankings and had a golden opportunity to play like football superstars against a raw Micronesia. Antonio Tuivuna scored 10 goals for Fiji with other four players completing hat-tricks. Fiji coach Juan Carlos does not seemed satisfied with 38 goals saying that they missed an “incredible amount of chances” to score. However, Carlos felt bad about the merciless scoring of his squad, but admitted they had no choice because of the quotient system of the tournament.

“We feel very bad about having to do that, but we had no choice because Tahiti scored 30 and we play Tahiti in our next match,” Carlos said.

Micronesia will have the chance to redeem themselves on Sunday when they play Vanuatu, who forced a 1-1 draw against Fiji. Unfortunately, Foster and his young guns need to expect a replay of what transpired in their recent matches.