BEST NATION NOT OFFICIALLY RECOGNISED BY FIFA POLL

Sealand?! winner.

I voted Zanzibar but was tempted to go for Sealand. Considering Palestine is now recognised by FIFA I don't see why, say, Tibet couldn't be.

with its population of ~10, Sealand could probably squeeze a home draw out of England.

That was really my reason for setting this up, I find it bizarrely fascinating which countries that FIFA is prepared to acknowledge and which ones it isn't. If Palestine is a country, there's no reason that Northern Cyprus isn't.

lol at Northern Cyprus's star player being a striker from Bognor Regis Town, though.

xp

No Basque country, no credibility.

voted TRoNC, gotta show some solidarity, plus we have more or less the same cuisine and it rules

Also Åland | Alderney | Andalusia | Aragon | Asturias | Azores | Balearic Islands | Basque Country | Brittany | Bornholm | Cabinda | Canary Islands | Cantabria | Cartagena | Catalonia | Christmas Island | Chuuk | Cocos (Keeling) Islands | Cornwall | Corsica | Crimea | Curaçao | Falkland Islands | French Guiana1 | Frøya | Galápagos Islands | Galicia | Gǎgǎuzia | Gibraltar | Gotland | Guadeloupe1 | Guangxi | Guernsey | Hitra | Isle of Man | Jersey | Kiribati3 | Kosovo | Kurdistan | Madeira | Marshall Islands | Martinique1 | Mayotte | Micronesia3 | Minorca | Murcia | Nauru | Navarre | Nevis | Niue3 | Northern Mariana Islands3 | Orkney | Palau3 | Pohnpei | PEI | Quebec | Rhodes | Republic of Srpska | Réunion2 | Saaremaa | Saint-Barthélemy | Saint Croix | Saint-Martin1 | St. Pierre & Miquelon | Saint Thomas | Sark | Shetland | Silesia | Sint Eustatius | Sint Maarten1 | Sikkim | Tobago | Tokelau | Tortola | Tuvalu3 | Vatican City | Valencia | Virgin Gorda | Wallis and Futuna | Ynys Môn | Western Isles

On December 18, 2006, the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, stated that he did "not preclude the possibility that the Vatican, in the future, could put together a football team of great value, that could play on the same level as Juventus, Roma, Inter Milan and Sampdoria".

Presence of Cornwall in that list = just silly. Valencia = even weirder.

The idea of the Vatican City having its own football team just prompts images of 11 priests running around on the pitch, Father Ted stylee.

The defence is a bit static on Easter Island.

Really? I heard they had a rock at centre back.

At least one of the Easter Island statues has gone on to have a succesful football career:

http://www.uefa.com/multimediafiles/photo/competitions/ucl/286466_mediumsquare.jpg

http://politiken.dk/archive/00150/Danmark_-_Kroation__150302c.jpg

that's not our danny, is it?

'Right lads, we'll go with a flat back four...'

http://designer-daily.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/07/easter-island-statues.png

good work chaps

no-one can say they're lacking width

The answer as I understand is the Sami nation of lapland, who won something like 20-0 in the final of the first unofficial world cup for countries that don't exist.

I voted for Tibet, which at least *was* a country until it was invaded by China.

I find no evidence online of an independence movement in South Lower Saxony, although I did find out that they spoke a Slavic language called Sorbian.

Presence of Cornwall in that list = just silly

Don't knock the Cornish international side, we stuck three past Trinidad and Tobago. That's one more than England managed.

Admittedly they stuck six past us but, you know.

'just Scilly' pun avoided fortunately.

A let-off for us all, there.

quebec

kiribati

colbert nation
nation of domination
kid nation

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Maasai People mistreated like always

if England pull out of FIFA, which one of these teams will beat them in the quarter-finals of the VIVA World Cup?