SOLOMON ISLANDS – BILIKIKI LEAVE FOR WORLD CUP

The Bilikiki Beach Soccer appeal has provided a much needed boost in morale and resources this morning when a Member of Parliament for West New Georgia and Vona Vona constituency, the Honorable Peter Boyers, handed over a cheque for $20,000 to SIFF General Secretary Eddie Ngava. The assistance from one of soccer’s staunch supporters was…

New Caledonia will begin preparation for the 2007 Oceania Football Confederation U20 tournament this weekend. The team will be coached and selected by former Baco FC coach Didier Chambaron. Federation Caledonienne de Football spokesman Jean-Paul Salvatore was confident the team would be competitive come January when the final squad will arrive in Auckland. The team…

The Bilikiki Beach Soccer team is heading off to Brazil, carrying the hopes of the Oceania to the FIFA World Competition. The team will transit through Brisbane and spend the night in Sydney leaving the next day for Vitoria, Brazil where they will be base before the tournament proper. It will be Solomon Islands first…

Football development in Papua New Guinea has achieved an historical milestone with the arrival of a semi-professional football competition. The PNGNSL is a five team franchise competition that includes clubs such as Tuguba Laitepo Blue Kumuls FC, Welgris Fuel Distributors Momads FC, Alois Kingsley Fox FC, Petroleum Resources Kutubu Souths United FC and Gele Hills…

Oceania Football Confederation club champions, Auckland City, will open the FIFA Club World Championship Finals when they take on the yet-to-be-determined African champions in the first quarter-final in Toyota, Japan on December 10. Excitement is building for the Sandringham-based club with their NZFC domestic programme set to get underway tommorrow against Otago United at Kiwitea…

Former Honiara Football Association champion club, Marist FC, is struggling to maintain it’s footing in the current Solomon Island Premier League table. Sitting fifth, they shared equal competition points with a vastly improved KOSSA FC. Their position, however, is not secured if they lose their next match and team coach Patrick Miniti will have to…

The imminent kick-off of the NZFC has attracted the attention of FIFA.com. With Auckland City Tokyo-bound, the rest of the football world is curious about Kiwi and Oceania football… “The league may be a mere toddler at just two years old, but already the New Zealand Football Championship has seen the emergence of an undisputed…

Solomon Islands Bilikiki coach and former international defender Viv Wickham will help lead his team into their first foray into a FIFA world event alongside Eddie Omokirio. The eyes of the world will be watching the Melanesian side with interest as they take on Portugal, Cameroon and Uruguay. Oceania Football Confederation Media Officer Gordon Glen…

The eagerly anticipated third NZFC season kicks off on Saturday when Danny Halligan’s Canterbury United meet last season’s cellar-dwellers Hawkes Bay United. Hawkes Bay United – coached by former Celtic and Scotland international, Jonathan Gould and his father, former Wales coach, Bobby Gould – will be looking to avoid a repeat of last season’s struggles…

Anticipation and excitement is high in the Solomon Islands with just over 4 weeks to go before their 2006 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup campaign gets underway in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Affectionately known as the Bilikiki, the team carries not only the hopes of their country to the tournament, but that of the Oceania…