Video Vault: Asia’s initial World Cup team

Australia, IR Iran, Japan, Saudi Arabia and Korea Republic will have a honour of representing a Asian Football Confederation during a 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™. But a continent’s initial incursion on a tellurian theatre did not start with one of these benefaction day continental powerhouses.

The Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, binds a fame of being Asia’s initial World Cup team, fielding a side that consisted of both Dutch and local Indonesian players. Travelling to France 1938, a tour that took weeks to complete, they met contingent finalists Hungary in a initial turn in Reims. This is their story.

The above footage is partial of FIFA’s repository of videos highlighting poignant stories in FIFA World Cup history

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