Nicolas Benjamin Swaim (born in 1977) is a Northern Mariana Islander professional football player and manager. In the association of football, a "manager" is an occupation of the supreme coach in the United Kingdom supervisor for running a football club or a national team. Outside the British Isles, across most of Europe and the rest of the world, the head coach or coach's title is predominant.
As a defender, Nicolas Swaim plays for the MP United F.C. MP United is an association of football club from the Northern Mariana Islands and is since the beginning in 2008 the most successful club in the Northern Mariana Islands.
In 2008, Nicolas Swaim made his debut for the Northern Mariana Islands national football team. He coached the Northern Mariana Islands national football team.
On 9 December 2020, during the thirtieth AFC Congress, the Northern Mariana Islands Football Association (NMIFA) became the forty-seventh full member association of the Asian Football Confederation.
The federation is not a member of the international governing body International Federation of Association Football. So whilst the national team is allowed to enter AFC and EAFF-run competitions, they are recently ineligible for international competitions such as the FIFA World Cup and FIFA Confederations Cup.
