Football at the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games – Team squads bgcolor="#B0D3FB" align="left" | Football at the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games – Team squads The following is a list of squads for each nation that competed in the football tournament at the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games in Seychelles from 4 August to 14 August 2011. Each squad consists of at the most 20 players. "Caps, goals, club teams and ages as of 4 August 2011, before the 2011 Indian Ocean Island Games." Head coach: Mohamed Abdéramane Chamité ! colspan="9" bgcolor="#B0D3FB" align="left" | ! colspan="9" bgcolor="#B0D3FB" align="left" | ! colspan="9" bgcolor="#B0D3FB" align="left" | Head coach: Andrés Cruciani ! colspan="9" bgcolor="#B0D3FB"
Indian Ocean Polynesians reached most of the far flung islands and atolls and populated them, almost all the islands, archipelagos and atolls of the Indian Ocean were uninhabited until colonial times. Although there were numerous ancient civilizations in the coastal states of Asia and parts of Africa, the Maldives were the only island group in the Central Indian Ocean region where an ancient civilization flourished. Maldivian ships used the Indian Monsoon Current to travel to the nearby coasts. From 1405 to 1433 admiral Zheng He said to have led large fleets of the Ming Dynasty on several treasure voyages through the Indian