LAST COUNTRY ON EARTH WITHOUT A NATIONAL TEAM 🌴🇲🇭 A nation on permanent international break, The Marshall Islands—a cluster of islands in the Pacific Ocean—released their first-ever shirt earlier this year with profits being reinvested into grassroots football. Led by 33yo Englishman and technical director Lloyd Owers, who was discovered via a series of blog posts he had written, they hope to achieve their OFC membership which will allow them to compete globally with hopes of playing their first game in July 2024. The nation of 60K, which was occupied by the US following WWII and used as a base for nuclear testing, hope to use football to raise climate change awareness, the biggest environmental threat the nation now faces. [BBC]