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In Losing A Coach, Bhutan Nearly Found A Winning StyleTHIMPHU, Bhutan – Even at the press conference the day before, we could sense the merry-go-round beginning to turn here in Thimphu. One coach arrives, another coach leaves …...

Deadspin’s favorite soccer team, the Bhutanese national team, lost 15-0 to Qatar in World Cup Qualifying today. Ali Asadalla Thaimn scored four goals for Qatar, while Mohammed Muntari got a hat trick. ...

"The Worst Team In The World" Is Living Its World Cup DreamTHIMPHU, Bhutan – Six to zero. 6-0. The final score of the June 16 China-Bhutan World Cup qualifier was six to freaking zero in favor of the Chinese. And do you know what the Bhutanese fans did after the game? They sang to the players. They cheered. They screamed with absolute joy when the keeper, H...

Bhutan Wins Again! A Match Report From A Deadspin Reader In Bhutan

Bhutan pulled it off! The tiny landlocked Himalayan nation advanced to the second round of World Cup qualifying—where they could be placed into a pool with Asian heavyweights like Iran, Japan, or South Korea—by knocking off Sri Lanka 2-1 yesterday, winning the two-legged tie 3-1 on aggregate. The ...

Scenes In Colombo As Bhutan Wins In First Ever World Cup Qualifier

The soccer team representing the tiny nation of Bhutan (estimated population: 733,643) traveled to Sri Lanka Thursday for their first ever World Cup qualifier. Now, Sri Lanka isn't a very good soccer nation, but compared to Bhutan they might as well be Brazil. Bhutan is the lowest ranked team in t...

Why These Four Countries Are The Only Ones Not Trying To Qualify For The World Cup

Yesterday, the road to the 2014 World Cup kicked off with the first AFC qualifying round. (Technically, Montserrat and Belize played their first match two weeks ago, in Trinidad and Tobago because Montserrat doesn't have an acceptable stadium. The game drew 100 spectators.)...