VANUATU – VFF APPOINT HOME GROWN COACH

The VFF has just appointed a new coach within its technical department. He is Job Alwin 44 years from Atchin Island in Malampa Province. His appointment has been decided during a VFF Executive Meeting last week in Port Vila. Mr. Alwin is the first Ni Vanuatu to take up this position which has occupied until…

New Zealand A and Tahiti fought out a scoreless draw in the first of two friendly internationals played at Bill McKinlay Park in Mt Wellington in Auckland. Tahiti can count themselves unlucky not to have recorded their first win over New Zealand with goalkeeper Mark Paston pulling off a superb point blank save in the…

Former Solomon Islands international Stanley Waita says he wants to put on the national colours for his country once more in the Pacific Games in Samoa. He revealed his intentions on the eve of his departure saying that he would like to represent his country once more with the aim to assist Solomon Islands qualify…

Australian international footballer Tim Cahill continued his comeback from injury helping Everton hold arch-rivals Liverpool to a 0-0 draw in the FA Premiership at the weekend. Cahill was missing for 8 weeks with a serious ankle injury but completed the entire 90 minutes as Everton put Liverpool’s UEFA Champions League charge on the skids. Frustrated…

If New Zealand women’s football coach Allan Jones had any romantic illusions about his side’s World Cup chances before Sunday’s friendly against Australia, he certainly doesn’t now. Australia scored three unanswered goals in each half to leave Jones contemplating a sobering 6-0 loss on debut at the helm of the national team at the Australian…

Vanuatu international striker Joseph Namariau will strengthen Suva’s strike force in the return leg of the champion versus champion series in Fiji. Suva Football Association secretary Rajnesh Singh said Namariau would join training on Tuesday. “We’ve booked his airline ticket and he will be in Fiji on Tuesday,” Singh said. Namariau was to feature for…

HORST WEIN has worked with Barcelona, Inter Milan and Arsenal to develop their youth programmes, and is currently Head Coach Educator for the Royal Spanish Football Federation. The main theme of his “Soccer Development Model” is developing game intelligence in young soccer players by moving away from the traditional instruction-based coaching. The new philosophy introduced…

Development of soccer with the country’s elite players is continuing in the Cook Islands with the attendance of two youngsters on partially paid CIFA scholarships at New Zealand schools. Nikao Sokattak player Nathan Tisam and Tupapa-Maraerenga player Grover Harmon will be in New Zealand for this school year – Tisam attending Mount Albert Grammar and…

Suva football coach Zulfikar Khan is playing his cards close to his chest and has tipped his team as the underdog when it faces Ba in their Champions versus Champions fixture on Saturday. Khan says that time hasn’t been on their side in as far as preparations to the meet was concerned but added that…

The FIFA Goal Project at Pago Park, American Samoa, is beginning to show the first signs of life this month with the foundations and slab completed over the Xmas period by a local work crew, now block work is now well under way on the new House of Football. Field work is set to resume…