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Low-key start for 2014 World Cup

Tiny Montserrat, who have won only two international matches, are scheduled to face Belize on neutral territory in a match which will be a far cry from last year's game at Soccer City, watched by an estimated 700 million television viewers.

Football's governing body FIFA said that the game, to be staged at Malabar (pictured), Trinidad & Tobago because Montserrat does not have a suitable stadium, will not be televised and only a handful of spectators are expected.

The preliminary round first leg tie is the first of an expected 832 qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil in which all but five of FIFA's member association's are set to take part.

Running Montserrat's national team has become a complicated exercise since the 1995 volcanic eruption which forced more than half the island's people to move abroad, burying the capital Plymouth and reducing the population from 12,000 to 4,700.

Montserrat's last games were last year when they played three times, conceded 16 goals and failed to score in heavy defeats to St Vincent & Grenadines, Barbados and St Kitts & Nevis.

"Our chances are very good," Dyer, whose squad includes midfielder Anthony Griffith from Port Vale, told FIFA.com.

"They have more experience than us, but we are a quality side especially with the inclusion of some players who play abroad, in the UK and the Australian league."