FIFA CLUB WORLD CUP – GAMBA OSAKA REIGN SUPREME, ADELAIDE TO MEET WAITAKERE

Gamba Osaka are the new kings of Asia. It was always going to be difficult for Adelaide United to overturn a 3-0 deficit from the first leg in Japan, and after the Reds conceded two early goals, the tie was all but over. Although Aurelio Vidmar’s team put up a spirited fight in the second…

Waitakere United will this weekend test themselves out against the only professional football team in the country and in doing so go some way to answering the question about just how big is the gap to the Hyundai A-league? The champions of New Zealand and Oceania play the Wellington Phoenix in the Cuesports Foundation Challenge…

AUCKLAND – The Junior Football Ferns are in a race against time to get ready for their FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup opener on November 20. A hectic 2008 for New Zealand’s women footballers that peaked with an Olympic Games and the inaugural U-17 Women’s World Cup has left the Junior Ferns in danger of…

Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Media and Communications in conjunction with FIFA TV and Fiji Television is pleased to advise the following television coverage for the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup – New Zealand 2008. Papua New Guinea (EMTV), Solomon Islands Television, VBTC (Vanuatu), Samoa Quality Broadcasting, TONFON Entertainment (Tonga), Broadcasting Corporation of Niue, Cook Islands Television,…

Former Manchester United goalkeeper Mark Bosnich is the latest player to join the Oceania All Stars. Bosnich – Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Player of the Year in 1997 – completed a seven match stint with Hyundai A-League franchise Central Coast Mariners and is eager to continue his comeback with the Oceania All Stars.  The Oceania All…

Of the 16 teams that began this FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2008, only four remain. Korea DPR, England, Germany and USA are now only one win away from a coveted place in the final. The semi-final losers will have to console themselves with a third-place play-off. In the first semi, Korea DPR face England…

Local football referees will have a chance to enhance and upgrade their referee knowledge and skills when they attend the FIFA refereeing course in Port Vila this week. The week-long course began yesterday and was attended by football referees from all the affiliated leagues within the Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF). Thirty Seven male and female referees from…

Fiji soccer coach Juan Carlos Buzzetti is a concerned man today following a training run in Nadi after four key players in his squad were ruled out of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier against New Zealand due to injuries. Ba duo Josaia Bukalidi and Avinesh Warran Swamy alongside Star Labasa defender Taniela Waqa and Navua’s…

AS Tefana have increased their in the Tahitian Championnat D1 after securing a hard fought 1-0 win in their top of the table clash with Pirae. Manu Ura continued their rise up the table to third with a 3-1 win over fourth placed Dragon, while Tac, T.Faa’a and Vaiete also all recorded wins. AS Tefana…

AUCKLAND – Franz Beckenbauer – widely regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time – is on his way to New Zealand in time for the climax of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. The German legend, the only man to have won the FIFA World Cup both as a captain (1974) and…