Guam basking in dreamy start to World Cup qualifying


(Reuters) - Ahead of what has been described as the biggest match in their history, the President of the Guam Football Association (GFA) says his team's overnight success has been a decade in the making.

With back-to-back wins to open their World Cup qualification campaign, the tiny Pacific island nation sits perched at the top of Asia's Group D, five points clear of the side they will meet on Thursday, Iran.

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