The Other Final is a 2003 documentary film, directed by Johan Kramer, about a football match between Bhutan and Montserrat, the then-lowest ranked teams in the FIFA World Rankings. An enterprising Dutch film crew, who turned their nation’s disappointment at failing to qualify for the 2002 World Cup into an idea to look at those national teams rather more accustomed to losing than their own. Almost nine thousand miles to the east, and significantly higher above sea level, Bhutan were of course hoping to avoid descending to that last place in the ranking. The final whistle brought noisy Bhutanese celebrations in the crowd and on the pitch, as the jubilant players hoisted their coach aloft before embarking on a celebratory lap of honour, hand in hand with each other. The Other Final was a match between the two worst football teams in the world played on the same day as the World Cup Final in Japan, 2002. At the time, they were one of the youngest members of world football’s governing body, having joined a year later than Montserrat in 2000. Germany and Brazil play in the World Cup final. "But now that we have organised this match and done well, we could appeal to FIFA for an improvement in the ranking.". "We are not playing for rankings," he said. Until the current World Cup campaign began in the spring of 2015, Bhutan also had the distinction of being the only FIFA member not to have so much as attempted to qualify for a World Cup. Opposite the main stand, the ornate Royal Pavilion sits serenely observing proceedings, providing entertainment and comfort for the elite. This book of photographs by Hans van der Meer is the photographic component of an overall concept that centered around the meeting of two countries, Bhutan and Montserrat, for an International Friendly. The Other Final: When Bhutan faced Montserrat History. Change ), You are commenting using your Twitter account. But that initial flurry was not to last long as Bhutan began to take over. In all, nearly two-thirds of the island’s population of about 11,500 left Montserrat, many to neighbouring Antigua and around 4,000 to the UK, with only 5,000 or so remaining. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. One of football’s smallest national associations, Montserrat had only been a member of FIFA for three years at the time, having joined in 1999. Monsterrat coach William Lewis attributed his team's lacklustre performance to the altitude. This idea took them to the FIFA website and its world rankings, at the bottom of which sat Montserrat and Bhutan. News, results and discussion about the beautiful game. Colour, 134 x 229mm, 140 pages, perfect bound, soft cover. But they did take their place in 2002’s Other Final, determined to play their part in the quirky, yet somewhat historic, occasion. Plymouth had been initially evacuated in 1995, but was fully abandoned a couple of years later; a ghost town by then destroyed and submerged under several metres of ash, like a modern-day Pompeii. They weren’t spared a few brutal beatings however, and in their first venture into the qualifying rounds of the Asian Cup in 2000 they suffered a then world record defeat to Kuwait, a match described by Bhutanese striker Dinesh Chhetri as ‘quite a bitter experience.’ He wasn’t wrong there. The latest news, titles, covers, creativity, artists. Montserrat tried to keep up their early tempo as the tackles began to fly in, but their efforts came to nought in the second half as Dorji banged in a second with a well-taken free kick, and that was swiftly followed by a third from Dinesh Chhetri. 'The Other Final' adalah sebuah pengingat bagi semua orang yang mengaku menggemari sepak bola. Bruil & van de Staaij Douwenmaat 6 7942 KD Meppel The Netherlands, Postbus 75 7940 AB Meppel The Netherlands.

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