San Marino celebrate first ever competitive win in international football

The 19-year-old who scored in the San Marino national soccer team's first ever competitive victory wasn't even born the only other time that the tiny republic won a game.

That's because the 1-0 victory over Liechtenstein in the Nations League came two decades after San Marino a country that is nestled inside central Italy with a population of about 33,000 beat Liechtenstein by the same score in a friendly.

We didn't sleep last night. During the celebrations there were those who screamed and those who cried, said Marco Tura, the former international referee who is the president of San Marino's soccer federation.

San Marino had not won a single game in 141 previous competitive matches.

But the Titans are on a roll, having also scored in its three previous competitive games, narrow losses to Denmark (2-1), Kazakhstan (3-1) and Finland (2-1).

Tura attributes the improvement to the San Marino Academy, which has allowed players like Nicko Sensoli, who scored against Liechtenstein, to