Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) has re-elected Reynald Temarii as president following the OFC Congress in Papua New Guinea today.
On a big day for Oceania football, FIFA president Joseph S. Blatter further endorsed Temarii’s re-election by naming him as a FIFA vice-president, the first time in the game’s history such an honour has been bestowed on an OFC president.
There were three new faces voted onto the OFC Executive Committee. Former New Zealand international striker Fred de Jong was named OFC vice-president, New Caledonia’s Claude Fournier was voted in as treasurer. Vanuatu’s Lambert Maltock was the other new face.
PNGFA president David Chung became an OFC senior vice-president and won high praise from both OFC president Temarii and FIFA president Blatter for his sterling work during his tenure.
OFC’s previous track-record of political discord once saw the confederation serve up three presidents in a two year period of tumult and controversy. FIFA president Blatter said the “ocean of solidarity” catch-cry of the Temarii era had delivered a harmonious election outcome that reflected maturity.