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If you can’t be the best in the world, there’s no shame in being the worst. Somebody has to be. A ranking’s a ranking, after all, and is it not better to have that place in history than none at all. When it comes to international football, American Samoa proved themselves a contender for rock bottom back in 2001. They lost 31-0 to Australia. Two decades on, it’s surely a dubious honour for the team to find themselves subject to the Taika Waititi treatment. Not that the team’s record breaking loss is Waititi’s focus here. Following the lead of Mike Brett and Steve Jamison’s superior 2014 documentary, of the same name, Next Goal Wins concerns the hiring of Thomas Rongen as beleaguered coach some ten years later. Nothing like a white saviour to get the drama going.