San Marino v Andorra: Can The World's Worst Team Finally Win?
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- 35 years, 158 competitive games, 0 wins. San Marino are officially the worst football team in the world. But then, the 2022 World Cup draw threw them into the same qualifying group as Andorra. Will they EVER get a better chance to grab a competitive victory? One thing's for sure: there was no way I was going to miss it...
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I love how the San Marino fan curve consists of exactly five random dudes, none of whom is from San Marino 🤣
It's statistically unlikely for someone to be from San Marino.
I'm always amazed San Marino can find 11 young men to put in a football field. Don't they have jobs outside the game?
@@mirzaahmed6589 You'll be surprised to learn that San Marino has its own league with 15 clubs.
As one of those random dudes... I can confirm this was true. We sat with Tim and talked with some other people in the stands. They were Italian and Swiss. When were in town we kept asking locals if they were going to the game and the common response was "why? We know we are going to lose".
@@mirzaahmed6589 I mean, the same is true about larger countries. The Icelandic team is made up off fishermen and carpenters
"They had us in the first half, not gonna lie.
And the second half too."
😆
I’ve already commented this in previous videos, but it bears repeating: as a wheelchair user, I really appreciate your efforts to get good accessibility info about the places you feature and include it in the videos. Only a few of us may ever need that info, but you always take the time to include it all the same. A rarity on this site. Thanks Tim!
I agree, even though I don’t need one myself (or know anyone who does)
I agree! I’m in the same boat, and knowing ahead of time the accessibility info saves me a lot of time, trouble, and often embarrassment.
Agreed!
Geoff Marshall is including accessibility on his videos on Great Britain and isles trains. His recent video of the Isle of Wight train includes one station with a curved platform that causes gap issues and they talked about level platforms for the new (to the Isle) trains.
Yes it’s incredibly helpful. I have limited mobility and most ppl never think about accessibility. Very appreciative of it!
it's not totally true they're not-titans, since San Marino was founded on Monte Titano
I was waiting for someone to say this :)
So, one can say they're standing on the shoulders of a titan then? Or was it a giant? I forgot how the saying goes. ^^;
They're tiny-tans
Founded on Monte Titano?
Funny because I was found on mountainous tits.
Alternatively:
San Marino are still making tits out of themselves.
I'm sure there's a joke about keeping 'ands off balls/mountains/tits somewhere too.
That must be the most polite group of ultras I've ever seen.
Wish all of them where 😉
It's scaled down to the size of the team.
During the first 10 years they were rioting with every loss.
Lol
@@eljanrimsa5843 😆
Next Video: Tim gets a honorary Badge of the San Marino Football Federation, for being their biggest supporter.
Definitely! This video alone has almost more views than San Marino has people!
How good of a football player is Tim? He should be drafted onto the San Marino team.
There also a channel called Objetivo San Marino, they are 3 argentines supporting San Marino since 2010.
I'm strongly considering becoming an international fan of San Marino.
This is a bandwagon I could heartily jump on.
@@scoutarcher I think Tim should strongly consider becoming the president of the San Marino international supporters club.
I wonder how large the fanbase is
@@Katerspacedopwater with him? probably 6 :)
@@pinsantoni With all of us and them together... 11?
I had literally never been this interested in a sport match before
This was the second best football game I've ever seen. (The best being one my six-year-old nephew was in in Australia once, where there was a break halfway through each side for the referee to do everyone's shoelaces up, and where the players didn't care which goal the ball went through --- either one was good.)
@@hjalfi man, that sounds way more fun and relaxed than actual football
@@hjalfi Ditto.
I had. Just not in football.
@@Zestieee It was, literally, the best sport experience I've ever had and I went to a hellish school with two hours of mandatory sport five days a week...
This is only the second time San Marino lost to Andorra this year.
Still doing better than Mexico who've lost to the US 3x this year ;)
SPOILER!
& it can happen again!
@@malahammer maybe don't read the comments before watching the video
This is a first step for San Marino not to win the worldcup, you'll see...
They just want to play and be polite, they don’t really want to go through whole travel, and getting jet, train or bus lag .
@@philvanderlaan5942 The thing is, San Marino and Romagna in general are really cool places: there's no real need to ever leave them if you're not forced to. The World Cup isn't worth it.
I had to move from Rimini to Rome myself and I really feel uneasy and out of place.
@@LucaPasini Isn't that true of pretty much all places?
I'm willing to bet money on that.
They are doing this first step for many years now
Fantastic game, and a fantastic trip. I was really happy to have met you on this trip Tim. I think we doubled the number of supporters for San Marino.
It’s great to see the people in the videos also in the comments!
Thank you for coming! I'm from Rimini, but we really care about our smaller extra-EU cousins. Plus, a considerable amount of Rimini residents have the double citizenship anyway, or tried to gain it (like my grandfather).
Viva San Marino!!
Your moustachios, sir, are par excellence. Truly captivating, and long may they reign.
He made me a fan of San Marino.
Sadly San Marino also lost their next game against England: 0 - 10... So now it is 160 games without a win. The good news is that Filippo Fabri did score in this game. In his own goal, but it is a start.
161 actually because they played away to Hungary after this match.
A quick look on wiki shows that San Marino conceded more goals in that single match (while playing at home) than they have scored, in total, in the last 16 years. That's just impressive.
@@QuantumHistorian they score like 2 goals a year so is that really a suprise lol
Andorra vs San Marino
*Finally a worthy opponent! Our battle will be legendary!!*
san marino-andorra 0-3
I have genuinely watched this with more interest than all the actual big league football matches I've seen in life
I'm from Rimini, but at the moment I'm spending most of my time in a wild and messy Rome. I read nothing about this match, so as soon as I started watching the video I already knew how it would have ended. If San Marino had won, all the local newspapers and many people from my hometown would have mentioned it, while the team losing again just isn't interesting.
But nonetheless this year has been impressive for sport in San Marino as in Tokyo their team won the most olympic medals per-capita in the whole world! (3)
They won silver and bronze in shooting and another bronze in wrestling. If you guys are interested in what medals they won.
@@ilovelimpfries Guess they gotta vent out the anger about not winning a football match.
Damnand i thought Hong Kong did well already. XD
@@protosszocker5678 Hong Kong's population is like 240 times bigger than San Marino's lol
I was in Monaco a few years ago when they were hosting the Small States of Europe games, which is like the Olympics of the small countries, and it was all free to attend. It was a lot of fun to see for the athletic competition, with very little of the intensity of big country athletics. And it was free, so why not.
Looks like it is best chance to see how original olympics from 1900s would look like
@@paveloleynikov4715 Going to low tier sport matches is a thing of beauty. Really small crowds, smaller stadiums, rag tag teams... its really amazing. I once attended a game of the Argentinean Primera D league, the lowerst tier in the Argentinean league system. I greeted one of the players at the end of the match, who had scored a goal, he was extatic and said "My girlfriend came to see me today, that's her, in the pink shirt" he said, pointing at the people cheering in the stands... all 12 of them. I was immediately aware of who his girlfriend was because she was the only one wearing a pink shirt, and the crowd at the stands was so small that it was impossible to miss her.
San Marino sets records every time they play.
"Will either side manage to string more than two successful passes together?" 🤣
If you like the San Marino football team you may also get into the mighty San Marino Football Championship, an enduring 15-teams tournament whose winner gains access to the UEFA Champions League qualifications (you can guess how they usually score). The current title holder is SS Folgore from Falciano.
Most of the players in all of the teams are Italian citizens, not even Sammarinese. There is however a guy from Cuba who plays for Virtus Acquaviva who's a member of his country's national team!
And don't forget the Associazione Sportiva Dilettantistica Victor San Marino, the San Marino professional football club that plays in the Italian football league system... in Serie D
Is was wondering why there where no National players in Folgore and Tre Penne. Guess they all play in Italy...
@@baukewijnsma I think there aren't simply enough San Marino citizens interested in playing football at that level: after all there are just over 33.000 of them. Rimini, the nearby Italian city, has almost 150.000 inhabitants but a single professional football club (currenly leading the Serie D championship), not an entire championship with 15 teams!
@@LucaPasini I would think Tre Penne and Folgore should have at least a few San Marino players to support their national team. Guess the players who are good enough for their National team don't even wanna play in their own competition. (congrats a leader place in Serie D)
I would think Rimini has a few more amateur teams. Leeuwarden (where I live) has almost 110.000 inhabitants and have 1 professional team and 9 amateurs. If we become an own country we would have 10 teams already ;)
Well done, this is the most football I've watched in about 25 years.
Same, I'm only watching this because of Tim. I might even have enjoyed being at this match.
Same here, I only sometimes read the results in the paper. But if San Marino ever comes to play near my hometown I will be there!
I've never watched a football game but now I'm seriously considering going to San Marino to attend one.
Yeah, that guy in the shorts with the ball was a really good kicker, and that kick at the goal was good. I also enjoyed it when that guy in black and white stripes sounded his whistle. I assume that was some local tradition.
This is the most football I have voluntarily watched in my life.
Was unbelievable when San Marino scored after 8 seconds against England in 1993 !!!
Wasn't it one of the quickest goals ever scored in a qualifying game?
Oh my goodness… I didn't know about that, just watched it, and cheered! I'm now officially a San Marino fan!
I believe Davide Gualtieri goal is still the fastest in a World Cup match.
Maybe they'll do it again.
@@Chris391971 no, it was beaten years ago by Benteke for Belgium
Studies show that among the more popular sports none is as unpredictable as footie when it comes to Underdogs not losing the game.
And then there's San Marino, they can't win by accident, by force, by default...it's almost impressive to beat the odds like this: Not having ONE susprise victory in hundreds of attempts is amazing!
They're flipping the coin and it can't NOT land on tails ^^
San Marino is literally the only one football club I follow, thank you for coverage.
It's a national team, not a club - however, there is actually a team (that plays in the Italian football pyramid, rather than their own) simply called "San Marino Academy"
@@KOTDM1988 Also there is a club manged by the San Marino Football Federation, "Victor San Marino" in Italy 5th division
So it’s a home game for the national team in a European qualifying game and there’s about 20 people watching it, of which 5 are from abroad
Gotta love this!!
Also, first cup qualifier I ever watched (I’m 56)
I'm guessing the locals have just given up? Seems sad, though.
@@allanlindskoog Especially given what a rare shot at a win they had.
A new team record for San Marino. This is the first time they ever lose 159 games in a row.
They smashed their own record by losing 10 - 0 to England on Monday.
@@sarkybugger5009 no
@@Croat955 No? To what? Do you deny that San Morino lost 0 - 10 to England on 15th November. At home.
@@sarkybugger5009 no
You need to talk to Tom Scott about getting San Marino to face the Sark Football Team.
This audience is bigger than both of those countries combined, so it must be possible.
There was that one time when San Marino scored against England after 9 seconds. (They still lost 7-1, but that meant England didn't qualify as they needed to win by seven clear goals.)
That sounds a lot like some match fixing. I would find that very suspicious, especially with the English team involved.
@@rogerwilco2 - They wouldn't fix a match to miss the World Cup entirely!
To be fair: that's the most impressive Andorra side I've seen in decades.
I have no interest in sport and especially not in football but I watched on the edge of my seat and felt utterly crestfallen that 'my team' lost. Am I finally getting it? Thanks Tim.
Getting hyped up even though you know you're gonna lose and then still being sad that you lost is actually the prime football experience if you support underdogs
It's how every sporting match I've ever watched in person has gone, so I think so?
Don't forget Andorra defeated Hungary in June 2017. While that doesn't necessarily tell you how good the Andorra team was, it does tell your how bad the Hungarian team was at the time. (Not sure it's much better these days when you think of it…)
Well at the Euro they did managed to draw against Germany and France at the Euro. Thats quiet strong for a little country like hungary!
They were quite good the year before (they nearly won against Portugal at the knockout stage of the Euro 2016, and were arguably the team closest to achieving that besides France, in the Final) and really very good at the Euro 2020(1), where they drew against France (!) and Germany (!!!) and were at times during the 90 minutes of the third round about to knock out either Portugal, France or Germany out of the competition. So, they just sucked in between...
Hungary are much better than they were in 2017: they spent just six minutes losing in Euro 2020 in a group containing Portugal, France and Germany (and nearly knocked the latter out).
@@felixklenner342 Once upon a time Hungary was the strongest side of the 3.
I've been to San Marino watching Scotland win there. Ever since my trip there, I've kept a soft spot for San Marino. The people there were very friendly and made us feel very welcome. I've had some lovely chats with locals and thoroughly enjoyed my time there. They are proud of their country and have every right to be so. Yes, it's a very, very, small country, but they've got just as much right of having a national football team as any big country. Thanks to my trip I'll always keep a soft spot for them and I'm sure I'll return to explore more of the country itself.
This year is being legendary for Andorra, thanks to the presence of San Marino in same group!
By the way Tim, take a trip to Andorra and make some video!
Conceding 3 to Andorra at home, or anywhere for that matter, must take some special doing.
They have been training for this moment for 35 years now.
Tim: I was interested in this since the moment they were picked with Andorra in the draw, but it turns out I was not the only one
Me: OMG it will be amazing if Tim manages to get one of the highly sort tickets to that match
*Cuts to Tim in a stadium with 10 spectators in it*
the word you're looking for is "sought", past tense of "seek"
I cant believe you made me watch nearly 10 minutes of football, truly a testament to how compelling you make everything!
Tim: And that lose drove some of our group to alcohol
USA: Wait, you only started drinking during the game?
Not just USA, half of Europe, at least.
Get on a train between cities at 8am on a Saturday morning in England - and you'll always eventually see a group of lads heading 100+ miles to an away game, already on the beer.
@@KOTDM1988 Presumably that's only during the season? That said, the season never seems to end, these days, as far as I can tell. I have zero interest in football, except for in this video, but we live within easy shouting distance of a football ground. We hear shouting whenever there's a home match or training session.
I'm mostly astonished that I've been watching your content for over 3 years. It feels like something happened that blanked out 18 months or so, but I can't put a finger on it...
Were there more people on the field than in the stands?
OUCH!
I love your dramatic interpretation of the Flower Pot Men so very much.
Jon Lord would be proud
I know right, it´s amazing
Reminds me of our local baseball team. They have everything: batting themselves in the head, accidentally throwing out their own team mates, sliding past the base into the fence...
But the passion for the game is SO much greater than that of an A grade team!
That sounds like our national cricket team. 😵
Tim, thank you for your series on San Marino, as a result, my not usually sport fan partner has now decided to support them on their ongoing quest for a win, and is invested. So, not only are you increasing your subscribers but San Marino is increasing its fans, nice one, and we love your videos!
Yet I appreciate how they are still supportive with San Marino, even though it is a hopeless national team. Hopefully they win a game someday
They will. In Brazil, Ibis is the 'Brazilian San Marino', known as the worst club team in the world. This year they WON not only a game, but the CHAMPIONSHIP of the Pernambucan Second Division. Now they played giants like Sport, Náutico and Santa Cruz - and stayed up!
San Marino World Cup winners in 2026!
I am not a football fan (my answer to *any* trivia question on football is 'Manchester United' on the grounds that it is (a) statistically more likely to be the answer to a trivia question than any other team, and (b) it's the only one I can remember) - but I watched the whole video with interest. What is it about Tim's quirky trivia that is compelling watching?
I'm not really into football, and I havn't chosen a team to follow... until now. San Marino for life!
San Morino now has more fans on UT than in the stands!
Just a thought, Tim. Could it be that the teams San Marino has fielded over the years are keeping up the standard set by the first team? Is this an example of tradition?
I was expecting a higher scoring game, but the goalkeepers on both sides were pretty good.
I feel bad for the Sammarinese goalie. Poor guy was trying his best but just got bombarded.
Oddly enough, I found this very gripping. You transferred your passion well via the video, Tim!
I always say that UEFA should organize a regional cup where the only invited teams to participate are San Marino, Andorra, Malta, Liechenstein and Gibraltar. And see which one wins.
Tim! Take a trip to the Faroe Islands to make a couple videos! They have lots of tunnels thru mountains and under the sea! They even have a roundabout intersection of tunnels under the sea! They also have the highest number of soccer (football) stadiums per capita of any place on earth. (Well at least I think they do, they have 26 fields and 26 teams for a population of about 50k!). If there is a place with more, I would be shocked! You should go when you can watch their championship matches or what ever they call it there.
They've lost 10-0 against England recently. Poor San Marino. 46 goals against and only 1 (!) for on the 2022 World Cup Qualification
Maybe when Marcello Bielsa has finished at Leeds.. San Marino can have him.. he's gifted at turning ordinary players into good players
If you really want to see San Marino's first win, you should go to a Nations league game against Gibraltar or Liechtenstein.
This is the greatest story about what may be the greatest event of all time.
I love going to small team matches. It's a lot fun meeting the supporters and then usually meeting the team too. I'll have to keep up with San Marino from now on. Excellent video! 😁
This has been the most intense game of soccer I've ever witnessed. And I hate soccer. But this one? This was the good stuff.
I can see San Marino developing a sizeable traveling support, thanks to you
Oh God I'm have tears in my eyes, I never thought I cared so much for the best underdog in the world. I guess there is going to be a movie if 🇸🇲 ever wins :,D
Fantastic. I adore international football and especially the minnow nations, as it were. This video was laced with humour too. Great stuff!
Well for what its worth San Marino did got 1 point (their first ever actually) from my country Turkey in 1994. In an official qualifier game. We have great track record against teams like Andorra or Moldova too lol.
I didn't know the final score of this game before this video, and I was really invested in the result!
Last few months didn't watch many of your videos but I'm coming back to them now and this one reminded me of why I fell in love with your channel. Cheers
30 minutes ago I was meandering the TH-cam sea and was thinking it was time for one of your videos. Thank you for delivering.
my heart was pounding, for like 9 minutes
In 2021 they started the Nations League which is a long tournament between nations in Europe different from EUROs. The interesting thing is that teams are divided in Tiers by FIFA rankings, so strong team play strong teams, while weak teams can play each others. This make some funny matches between Andorra San Marino Lichtestein Malta etc..
I love these San Marino videos, I'm a big fan of the micro nations and all the oddity they entail. Thanks for documenting and posting!
I wondered why there were so few fans … until I saw the quality of the football. My word. 😳
Not knowing the outcome, I genuinely held my breath in hope but there we are, it wasn't to be. But hey, Andorra's first away win.
If San Marino ever wins a game, I will eat many of my hats! Shame they lost. Great video Tim
spoilers damned!
@@JasperKlijndijk I didn’t realise I spoiled it 🤦♂️😂 sorry 👍🏻
Personally I find Soccer is rather boring. I’m a rugby man myself. But I was glued to this amazing piece of sports journalism to the very end. Brilliant Tim, as usual…😊
not soccer, it's football
we don't talk about handegg here
"The giants of San Marino play host to the titans of Andorra, making both seem normal sized!!"
I visited Andorra earlier this year and had a great time there, met some great people, and so I was really happy when I saw that they had beaten San Marino. But it's a shame from San Marino's pov. But the upside is: the day on which they'll eventually win a game comes closer every day, so that's something ;)
Great video. Brings back memories of a trip to watch them against Moldova about 8 years ago (only lost 2-0). Couldn’t find a bar open nearby so settled for prematch drinks at the local swimming pool 🍺
I want to go to a San Marino game, now. What a lovely wee stadium they have!
When you start showing up to 159th game, you're pretty much mandated to keep showing up to all the games because if you miss a winner you'll be really mad.
i watched the other san marino video earlier and this one comes out now, lovely!
Always a pleasure to watch Tim! :-)
Aww bless them! I absolutely LOVED this video, had me cracking up throughout! And aww with the third goal even the stadium announcer couldn't hide his dismay! P.S. Really hope they do end up winning one day...!
This is the international football version of people going to division 7 or higher games in Germany just to meet friends and probably get drunk. Love it.
Technically San Marino has won only one game, against Liechtenstein in the 2004, so technically it's their 18th year of going for a win
San Morino goalie is pretty good.
Both teams are really big sports. The fans have big hearts too. I wonder if they have online streams for the games. I would love to see it.
This was awesome, your commentary was great. Long-suffering Cleveland fans need to see this. San Marino isn't isn't one player away, though, they are just 1 typo away from being NFL superstar Dan Marino - a joke which begins the comedy book Vikings Sack San Marino. But Andorra won a road match! So, it was great to be able to celebrate something.
I never thought Id see anything interesting about football... There it was.... Thank you!
Aw brilliant video. Reminds of all those cold nights supporting your tier 5 team to see them lose even to worst team. But they’re happy memories. Great content and beautifully delivered thank you. I assume you have dual passport, I feel sure your not stuck with just a British one. Happy European travels.
It's official: from now on, I'm too a San Marino fan!!!! FORZA SAN MARINOOOOOO
The running gag line illustrates something - to their Italian brothers, the San Marinese are masters of the running gag, so they'll see somebody elses running gag coming a mile off!
San Marino itself is one giant centuries-long running gag.
Funnily enough Pujol that scored Andorra's 1st goal got sent off when playing my team Hibs in the Europa Conference League qualifiers at Easter Road. Santa Coloma from Andorra ended the game with 9 men and we beat them 3-0
Just the kind of wholesome football content I needed
Keep it up Tim mate, San Marino will get there oneday with support like yours
I guess this is what it takes to get me to watch an entire football-related anything
I do find it funny that half of the away stadiums San Marino visited you could fit the whole population inside with one stadium almost being able of holding double the population and another one being able to hold 2 and half times the total population
Damn, I enjoy the Let’s go to San Marino series so much!
I'm halfway in the video. This is more exciting than I'll ever going to admit.
They should have micronation tournaments where san marino can get more wins because they do that in basketball and san marino occasionally does win
Beautifully told story held me to watch to the end. Bravo!
Wonderful commentary!!!
the 0-0 against turkey in 93 wc qualifications was still their best result ever
The ONLY football(Soccer)-match I'll EVER happily watch, on purpose. I am definitely a San Marino fan now!
Love the theatric opening, matching the epic of “second bottom”. History is made!?
Would love to come here for the 2024 Euro qualifiers!. I’ve even got a match worn San Marino shirt from the 1-4 game against Norway. So it’s a flight to Rimini, then a bus to San Marino!. Am guessing hotels are expensive so staying in Rimini is the best best.
Loving the videos and the diary format. Really good fun adventure meeting sound people along the way!.