The BBC writes about the troubles of small nationals: “A player told the coach that he should let the exercise bind the cow. ”

19 - year - old Jason Roberts had soon discovered that national football was not always glamorosis.

For global stars such as Paul Pogba, Neymar and Cristiano Ronaldo, playing for their country also means racing for the world's largest prizes in football, writes the BBC, translates Periscope.

But if we look down, then expectations are lower.

However, national levels allow farmers to play against the images of the game, where islands of small nations are confronted and sometimes even defeated by nations made up of millions.

Roberts had played at the highest club football level, marking 37 goals in the world's strongest league, Premier League of England.

But when he joined his country of Grenada, things changed dramatically.

The majority of the players on my national team of S.C. had never left the island, and they never had the opportunity I had to prove myself in England. There is no coaching system, no football academy, no Manchester United or Chelsea getting professional. ”

But the team was made up of people who worked hard as farmers, builders, other laborers. Their passion for the country had nothing to do with money. ”

Grenada never made it to the World Cup finals. It's only 107 thousand people but Roberts insists they have very high standards.

One of our best results was losing 3-2 from America in 2004. I equalled the score of 1 to 1 to a country of 300 million people. ”

For Pakistan, meanwhile, problems are of another nature.

This country is home to more than 200 million inhabitants. But the large number of residents do not always translate into football success, continues the Periscope translation.

Pakistan is 200th in FIFA rankingr. The main problems of this football are climate, weak infrastructure and internal wars.

Fulham's former defender Zesh Rehman knows these deep problems of his country.

“Kriket and hockey are much more popular sports than football. ” he says.

But the talent is there after the large Spanish club Atletico Madrid opened a youth academy in Pakistan during January.

But it's not just Pakistan. Even the principles under the United Kingdom's ownership, Gibraltar, have a group of players playing in their league in a very low standard [remarking translators: however, they are on the level with Kosovo teams].

Captain Danny Hickingbotham, representing this country from accession in 2016, declared the match he had had had in Portugal.

When we went to Portugal, I didn't understand why the boys went to sports stores all the time. Later I learned that they were buying shoes to play in the grass. ”

Since then, Gibraltar has lost all European and World qualifying matches and has not scored a goal in two years. /Periscope