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San Marino the country within Italy and the whipping boys of International Football as the worst team on the planet according to FIFA's World rankings made history on Thursday by beating lonstein 1 to zero in the UEFA Nations League to claim their first ever competitive win in over 20 years they also has ended a 140 match losing streak the tiny country of barely 30,000 people half the size of Manchester and surrounded by Italy came into the match looking for a first win of any sort since beating the same opposition in a friendly in 2004 lonstein had a goal disallowed for a tight offside in the first half before San Marino pounced on a defensive error to grab the winner in the 53rd minute through Nic ens aged 19 he had not been born when the tiny Republic who sit 210th in the world rankings last won a game San Marino who are in the three- team group one of the bottom tier League D in the Nations league with jalter their other opponents held on for