BILIKIKI BOY&039;S TO REPRESENT OFC AT FIFA BEACH SOCCER WORLD CUP

Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) General Secretary Tai Nicholas has confirmed that the Solomon Islands will represent OFC at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Marseille 2008. “The change in timing of the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup from November to July created significant challenges for OFC which prevented a qualifying event being made possible,” said…

Defending champions Auckland City maintained their one-point lead over the pack in the NZFC after cruising to a 3-0 win over bottom placed Canterbury United at English Park. Solomon Island international Benjamon Totori  made sure the gap didn’t stretch too wide after handing Waitakere United three points in Wellington, scoring the only goal of the…

TAHITI – There were few goals as Federation Tahitienne de Football’s (FTF) Division Federale competition woke from the festive break with only AS Pirae and TAC recording victories. AS Pirae’s 1-0 win over Tamarii Faaa has resurrected “les oranges” playoff hopes thanks to a raft of draws that continues to compact the league table with…

Vanuatu Football Federation has increased the number of referees who have recieved FIFA badges. The VFF saw their numbers of qualified referees rise from six to nine this year. Newcomers Tony Meltetamath (Assistant referee), Alick Lukai (assistant referee) and Allan Daniel (futsal referee) have joined the existing list of Lency Fred (Referee), Mahit Chilia (Assistant…

Vanuatu international midfielder Francois Sakama has left his home country for a two week trial with Israeli professional football club Maccabi Netanya FC. The 20 years old from Imaki, Tanna flew to Israel on Saturday following an invitation to trial from the club’s owner, Daniel Jammer. Jammer originally contacted PVFA president Robert Calvo about Sakama,…

NOUMEA – The race for minor premiership honours in New Caledonia’s Super Ligue has been blown wide open following a decision by the national governing body to dock AS Magenta three points for failing to meet administrative requirements set out in the Super League regulations. Federation Nouvelles Caledonienne de Football (FCF) has penalized two other…

Kossa FC team manager Willie Lai is stressing the importance of unity to his players in preparation for their O-league quest this year. His side will face Fiji champions Ba on February 24th at Lawson tama and will be looking to improve on their first round 0-0 draw with Tafea. Lai stressed the importance of…

AUCKLAND –  Paul Temple’s Young Football Ferns will face Germany in their first match of the ‘Future Stars’ tournament at North Harbour Stadium on January 29. New Zealand have then drawn USA on January 31 before finishing the round-robin tournament against trans-Tasman rivals Australia on February 2. The tournament continues the Young Ferns build-up to…

Fijian soccer fans will be given a voice in this year’s ‘Popular Footballer of the Year’ award to be presented at the Fiji FA/Air pacific Annual Awards night on January 26. Fiji FA Executive Officer Bob Kumar said he is expecting the public to be vocal about their nominees like last year. The ‘Popular Footballer…

  TAHITI – Federation Tahitienne de Football (FTF) will kick-off 2008 with a youthful flavour with two grassroots development programmes kicking into life this Saturday in seperate parts of French-Polynesia. In Mahina over twenty seven football clubs will be represented by their junior members as coaches run a series of fun-orientated technical training sessions and…