The OFC Social Responsibility programme Just Play Sport 2 Life will be launching in Vanuatu for the first time this month. The Just Play Sport 2 Life is aimed at youth aged 13-16 years old, and follows on from…
Often it is the people behind the scenes which make or break the success of an event or programme and in Fiji the hard work of Kinismere Ravai has been recognised with the 2017 Fiji Sports Volunteer Award. Ravai’s…
Almost 500 students at the St Michael’s Primary School in Hanuabada Village in Port Moresby’s National Capital District welcomed football basics into the community last week. PNG Football Association launched the 2018 season of the OFC Just Play programme…
Capable of terrorising an opposition defence on the football field, Ba FC striker Saula Waqa is also becoming known as a ‘gentle giant’. The Fiji international has achieved a lot in his short career. Qualifying with Fiji to their…
2018 OFC Champions League, Features, OFC Just Play, Vanuatu
Football’s roots in Erakor
Feb 19, 2018, 3:48 PM 0
Erakor Village is home base for OFC Champions League participants Erakor Golden Star and a place where football runs in the blood. At the end of a rural road in Vanuatu’s Port Vila, a school overlooks the well-used football…
Korman Stadium welcomed the first kick of the OFC Champions League 2018 Group Stage, but there was also some other significant activity at the Port Vila venue on the opening match day. Prior to the first match getting underway…
On 9 December the Queen’s Baton arrived to the island of fire, Ambae, Vanuatu where over 600 children from the Just Play Emergency Programme were awaiting its arrival at the base of the volcano, Manaro. The Just Play Emergency…
On 28 September 2017, the Vanuatu Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency and ordered the mandatory evacuation of all 11,600 residents of Ambae Island amid the continuous eruption of the Monaro Volcano. The evacuees were relocated across…
Papua New Guinea is one of the most dangerous places in the world to be a woman, but the level playing field of sport offers a rare atmosphere of equality and football, known colloquially as soccer, is at the…
The OFC Just Play Programme continues to extend its reach in Papua New Guinea with the latest two-day course in Port Moresby bringing a new set of schools into the fold. Seven teachers from four primary schools in the…