Despite a goal from their football hero Filippo Berardi, San Marino’s national team continued their painfully long dry spell. The bottom of the world rankings lost 1:3 (1:2) against St. Kitts and Nevis on Wednesday evening and has been waiting for a win for almost 20 years.
Berardi, who scored the small republic’s celebrated goal in November’s 1-2 home defeat in the European Championship qualifiers against Finland, gave San Marino the lead with a penalty kick (21′). It was the fourth goal for San Marino in the fourth game in a row – something the small country has never managed before!
But then the guests from the Caribbean, 147th in the FIFA rankings, 63 places better than the hosts (210th), got serious.
In 202 official international matches there was only one win for San Marino: on April 28, 2004 in a 1-0 win against Liechtenstein.
If the mini-landlocked country doesn’t want to complete two decades of sadness, it only has one chance: on Sunday it will play again at home against St. Kitts and Nevis.