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Listen to American Samoa goalkeeper Nicky Salapu’s interview for the Sporting Witness podcast on BBC Sounds. Imagine your worst day at work and then multiply it by 31. You may get close to what Nicky Salapu experienced on 11 April 2001. That was the day the American Samoa goalkeeper was on the losing side during the heaviest loss in international football history. Salapu told the Sporting Witness podcast that strangers still approach him to ask about the extraordinary contest. The occasion was a World Cup qualifier with Australia. Fielding a hastily cobbled together team full of teenagers, American Samoa went on to…