Nicky Salapu
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nicky Salapu | ||
| Date of birth | September 13, 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Pago Pago, American Samoa | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2000–2008 | PanSa East | ||
| 2008–2012 | Mauerbach | ||
| 2012–2013 | Mitra Kukar | ||
| National team | |||
| 2001– | American Samoa | 16 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Nicky Salapu (born September 13, 1980 in Pago Pago) is an American Samoan association football goalkeeper who currently plays for Mitra Kukar in Indonesia. He is the holder of the record of conceding the most number of goals in a single match. He previously played for PanSa East, whom he left in December 2008. He also played for SC Mauerbach in the lower divisions of Austrian league.
He played in the OFC FIFA World Cup Qualifications for World Cup 2002 and World Cup 2006. American Samoa lost all of these eight matches, and conceded 91 goals. He was the goalkeeper, under whom the American Samoa National Football Team registered their first ever official FIFA World Cup qualifiers win.
The career of Nicky Salapu is not well documented. It is known that he played for PanSa East for eight years, beginning in 2000 and terminating in 2008. He also played in Austria for SC Mauerbach, a side in the Niederösterreichischer Fußballverband (Lower Austrian Football League). He signed for a fee around 850 us dollars. transfer from PanSa East in 2008. In 2011, he came back to PanSa East, from where he went to play for Mitra Kukar, a club playing in the Indonesia Super League (ISL), which is a fully professional football competition as the top tier of the football league pyramid in Indonesia. He has played there until July 2013 and from this point his current club is unknown.
He conceded 31 goals to Australia in a World Cup qualifying match on April 11, 2001 and this score Australia 31–0 American Samoa still counts as the official world record. These 31 goals came from 7 different players; Con Boutsianis (3 goals) (minutes 10, 50, 84), Archie Thompson (13 goals) (minutes 12, 23, 27, 29, 32, 37, 42, 45, 56, 60, 65, 85, 88), David Zdrilić (8 goals) (minutes 13, 21, 25, 33, 58, 66, 78, 89), Aurelio Vidmar (2 goals) (minutes 14, 80), Tony Popovic (2 goals) (minutes 17, 19), Simon Colosimo (2 goals) (minutes 51, 81) and Fausto De Amicis (1 goal) (minute 55).
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