FIJI – TURUVA SET TO JOIN LABASA

Former Rewa skipper Apisalome Turuva is set to join Labasa for the new season after applying for his district release last week. Rewa president Faiaz Ali said Turuva made his intentions clear about joining Labasa and he would not force the former national U20 defender or any other player to play for the Delta Tigers….

New Zealand will face two-time winners Portugal, African bronze mediallists Gambia and feared North American contenders Mexico in Group C of the FIFA U-20 Men’s World Cup in Canada this July. The Oceania champions will open their maiden FIFA Youth World Championship campaign against 1989 and 1991 champions and 1995 bronze medialists Portugal on July…

New Zealand Soccer has provisionally backed Wellington as the new home of a New Zealand-based Hyundai A-League franchise. But the Wellington consortia must secure further capital base funding before NZ Soccer will commit to a licence agreement with A-League administrators Football Federation Australia. NZ Soccer chief executive Graham Seatter said the national body would “partner”…

PNGFA Finance Committee Member and the Bursar of Divine Word University, Mr. Paias Bokorum with OFC Treasurer Frederic Guillemont and OFC FIFA Development Officer Glen Turner represented the Oceania in an Administration and Management Seminar at the FIFA Head Quarters, in Zurich Switzerland early February this year. Paias Bokorum after returning from Zurich said he…

“HAPPY to be back” was his opening statement when approached to comment briefly on his return. `King Allan Gillett’ as he is known in 2004, when he guided Solomon Islands to its first World Cup play off with Australia returned this time not to coach the national team but to pass on his knowledge to…

Fiji FA postpones CVC finale The Fiji Football Association has postponed Saturday’s return leg of the Champion versus Champion series between title holders Ba and challengers Suva. The decision was made after officials of Ba Football Association requested the parent body for deferment because most of its key players were injured in the recent Oceania-League…

The ANZ – ASNOC “Sports for All Day” was a major success on Saturday with American Samoa Football Association (ASFA) playing a major role in promoting healthy sport. Hundreds of school children and adults spent time at the ASFA tent both watching the latest 2006 FIFA World Cup Film, “THE GRAND FINALE” and participating in…

New Zealand Prime Minister Clark declares full support for FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup 2008 New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Helen Clark, today (Tuesday, 20 February) welcomed a five-member FIFA delegation to Parliament House in Wellington where she expressed her full support for her country’s hosting of the FIFA-U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2008. “This event…

The Oceania Football Confederation’s (OFC) Emergency Committee today confirmed the top-five clubs in this season’s O-League will gain automatic entry into the 2007/08 edition of the continental championship. They will be joined by the winner of an O-League qualifying competition involving this season’s sixth-placed club and one club each from the Cook Islands, Vanuatu and…

Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) will assist Bouganville and parts of Vanuatu develop their football. SIFF president Martin Alufurai made this revelation in his opening address on Friday saying that an understanding was reached with the OFC and the two football associations of PNG and Vanuatu of SIFF’s intention to extend its football development programme…