Torisakia national association football team
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| Nickname(s) | The Ice Birds |
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| Association | Torisakia Association Soccer & Football Alliance (TASFA) |
| Confederation | AOCAF |
| Head Coach | Andy Sanders |
| Captain | Johnny Kelso |
| Most Caps | Jeremy Andel (127) |
| Top Scorer | Fredric Rayner (58) |
| Home stadium | Tokai Memorial Stadium |
| UICA Code | TOR |
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| KPB ranking | |
| Current | UR (Post-WC88) |
| Highest | 95 (Post-WC85 Finals) |
| Lowest | 311 (Pre-WC88 Finals) |
| First international | |
 Torisakia 0-3  Teinohikira(Tegucigalpa, Teinohikira; 15 April 1826) | |
| Biggest win | |
Torisakia 13-6  Gonzalez Isle(Tokai, Torisakia; 2 July, pre-WC69) Torisakia 7-0  Mavinet(Douglas-La Pryor, Torisakia; 4 May, pre-WC85) | |
| Biggest defeat | |
 The Holy Empire 6-0 Torisakia(Imperial City, The Holy Empire; World Cup 68, MD6) | |
| World Cup | |
| Appearances | 11 (first in World Cup 60) |
| Best result | Qualifying group stage, World Cup 85 |
| AOCAF Cup | |
| Appearances | 4 (First in AOCAF Cup 56) |
| Best result | Round of 16 (AOCAF Cup 60) |
| Baptism of Fire | |
| Appearances | 1 (First in Baptism of Fire 76) |
| Best Result | TBD |
| Cup of Harmony | |
| Appearances | 1 (First in Cup of Harmony 77) |
| Best result | Group Stage |
The Torisakia national association football team represents Torisakia in international football competitions. The team has participated in the World Cup since World Cup 60. They have yet to qualify for the World Cup finals, never advancing past the qualifying group stage in each of their appearances. The team has also participated in the Atlantian Oceania Confederation of Association Football (AOCAF) once, where they lost all 3 of their group stage matches. The Torisakia Association Football Federation (TASFA) administrates the national team. The team's home stadium is the multi-purpose Tokai Memorial Stadium in Tokai, the nation's capital. Tokai Memorial Stadium has a capacity of 92,138 and is the largest sports stadium in Torisakia. The team also occasionally plays matches at the Troutwood Bowl (capacity: 90,800) in Douglas-La Pryor, Stadium of Peace (capacity:86,450) in Yasui, and at Mustang Alley (capacity: 78,600) in Dorrsville.
Prior to World Cup 81, the team hads not performed well internationally. They had only won 30 games in the World Cup alone over 7 appearances, and had almost double as many losses. Prior to World Cup 85, their best performance came in World Cup 69 where they went 6-4-4 (W-D-L), and had never placed any higher than fourth in a group. Many had speculated as to why this is, with reasons such as poor management, lack of skill compared to the rest of the world, and lack of popularity of the sport in Torisakia (as opposed to American football and ice hockey) being the most widely accepted. As World Cup 81 approached, the team underwent a large revamp by completely clearing out its old staff and redoing the roster to better fit a competitive play style. This has shown to muster a much better performance, as in World Cup 81 the team went 3-4-11 but produced one of the best scoring offenses of the team in their international history as well as a more solid defense. Torisakia saw its best international performance in World Cup 85, where they went 12-7-5 and finished 4th in Group 2 on a 10 game unbeaten streak. The 12 wins and 51 goals are the most by Torisakia in international history. This was largely due to the 24 matchday qualifying tournament as opposed to the 12-18 matchday qualifiers as seen in previous editions.
Due to a ban on participating in international competitions as a result of the sanctions levied on Torisakia's national teams following Kiragate, Torisakia was not allowed to participate in future World Cups until the ban was up. As such, they did not return for World Cups 86, 87, or 88, as well as AOCAF 61, 62, or 63; however, Torisakia will return for AOCAF 64 for their first international competition in a long time.
Torisakia has typically been low in the KPB rankings, usually sitting somewhere between 150th and 275th. They achieved their highest ranking after the World Cup 85 Finals when they reached 95th, one rank higher than their previous high of 97th. Because they have not participated in the last few editions of the competition, Torisakia has fallen completely out of the KPB rankings, last coming in at 311th in the Pre-World Cup 88 Finals.
Competitive records
World Cup
| Qualification | Main tournament | Manager(s) | KPB rank (pre-WC) | |||||||||||||||
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| Cycle | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | Result | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | |||||
| 60 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 25 | 29 | did not qualify | Donnell Brooks | UR | |||||||||
| 63 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 28 | 39 | did not qualify | Mark Nelson | 248 | |||||||||
| 65 | 18 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 22 | 31 | did not qualify | Michael Tucker | 211 | |||||||||
| 68 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 7 | 18 | 27 | did not qualify | Michael Tucker | 258 | |||||||||
| 69 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 26 | 19 | did not qualify | Damion Segher | 145 | |||||||||
| 72 | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 24 | did not qualify | Damion Segher | 197 | |||||||||
| 73 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 15 | did not qualify | Filip MacCarrick | 147 | |||||||||
| 81 | 18 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 28 | 44 | did not qualify | Andy Sanders | UR | |||||||||
| 83 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 29 | did not qualify | Andy Sanders | 221 | |||||||||
| 85 | 24 | 12 | 7 | 5 | 51 | 38 | did not qualify | Andy Sanders | 193 | |||||||||
| 89 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | TBD | Andy Sanders | UR | |||||||||
AOCAF Cup
| AOCAF Cup record | Manager | ||||||||
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| Edition | Round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | ||
| AOCAF Cup 56 | Group Stage | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | Andy Sanders | |
| AOCAF Cup 59 | Group Stage | 10 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 21 | Andy Sanders | |
| AOCAF Cup 60 | Round of 16 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | Andy Sanders | |
| AOCAF Cup 64 | Group Stage | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | Andy Sanders | |
Baptism of Fire
| Baptism of Fire record | Manager | ||||||||
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| Edition | Round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | ||
| Baptism of Fire 76 | TBD | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Andy Sanders | |
Cup of Harmony
| Cup of Harmony record | Manager | ||||||||
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| Edition | Round | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | ||
| Cup of Harmony 77 | Group Stage | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 11 | Andy Sanders | |
Players
Current squad
Thie following 18 players were named to the squad prior to the start of World Cup 89
| No. | Pos. | Player | Age | Caps | Goals | Club | |||||||
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| 0 | GK | Craig Novak | 25 | 17 | 0 | Laennalos United
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| 1 | GK | Dani Wortham | 27 | 3 | 0 | Fishmarket South FC
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| 5 | DF | Joey Hanson | 26 | 7 | 1 | Port Tudor FC
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| 8 | DF | Jason Cash | 25 | 5 | 0 | East Hook FC
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| 9 | DF | Torin Alden | 23 | 6 | 1 | Beachport FC
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| 11 | DF | Brent Narciso | 25 | 11 | 0 | Tokai City
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| 15 | DF | Ezekiel Van Aggelen | 25 | 17 | 1 | Nausoins A.C
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| 23 | DF | Jamal Landon | 22 | 6 | 0 | Kallanirr CF
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| 26 | DF | Blake Dragan | 22 | 14 | 1 | Presidents City FC
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| 30 | DF | Casey Tyson | 19 | 1 | 0 | Alderney Tech
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| 3 | MF | Sam Lennox | 27 | 10 | 1 | Alderney FC
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| 6 | MF | Faron James | 25 | 57 | 16 | Schottler
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| 7 | MF | Oskar Carlson | 23 | 13 | 2 | Yasui FC
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| 8 | MF | Gregory Franklin | 23 | 52 | 14 | University of Yasui
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| 22 | MF | Drew Franke | 21 | 1 | 0 | SW Lake St University
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| 11 | FW | Aristide Wallace | 29 | 35 | 8 | Dorrsville
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| 12 | FW | Todd Rothe | 24 | 6 | 2 | Hatton Gardens FC
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| 19 | FW | Sergio Meyers | 23 | 5 | 1 | Berchem
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