AMERICAN SAMOA – FUN AND GAMES GALORE

Fun and games galore has been the order of the day during the Elementary School Tournament in American Samoa over the past month. The tournament is currently being fought out by 44 teams and 1,000 young boys and girls, check out the full story on the American Samoa FA website, Fun and games galore

Australia’s opponent for the vital FIFA World Cup qualifier will be Uruguay. Just as they did four years ago Uruguay concluded the South American qualifying tournament as the fifth ranked nation earning them a home and away sudden death play-off against Australia for a place at Germany 2006. Full story, Australia to face Uruguay again

FOOTBALL KIDS LEND A HAND IN QUEEN’S BATON RELAY On the 11th October, 2005 the Queen’s Baton Relay passed through Goroka, Papua New Guinea on its long journey to Australia. Papua New Guinea was the first Oceania country to recieve the baton and over the coming months the baton will find it’s way through the…

CASH BOOST FOR SOLOMON CUP TOURNEY SIFF Marketing Manager, Vivian Wickham is pleased to announce that the Solomon Islands largest softdrink manufacturer Solomon Breweries will provide cash prizes worth almost $30,000 for the Solomon Cup tournament. An agreement to formalize this deal was signed last week between Wickham and Solomon Breweries management. Solbrew is one…

LAUTOKA END 20-YEAR DROUGHT AT IDC Lautoka broke a 20-year drought in the IDC when it beat Ba 2-0 in a toughly-contested and incident-packed final to hoist the Lloyd Fairbrother Cup at their home ground, Churchill Park last night (October 10). The match started brightly until Ba’s Kiniviliame Naika was red-carded for a foul early…

SEMI FINALISTS FOUND AT IDC Defending IDC champions Ba, 2005 Battle of the Giants champions Navua, host district Lautoka, and Nasinu will vie for the 2005 IDC title. The defending champs will take on an in-form Nasinu side, while Navua play Lautoka, who will have the backing of a vocal home crowd. Ba recovered from…

The Socceroos have secured a confidence-boosting 5-0 victory over Jamaica in their final outing prior to their FIFA World Cup play-off matches against South American opposition next month. Australia made the perfect start to this Powerade Series match scoring in just the second minute through a superb long-range strike from Marco Bresciano at Craven Cottage…

The identity of 24 teams who will be participating at Germany 2006 are now known. Of that figure, 14 qualified on a day of drama – Saturday 8 October 2005 – which brought joy, despair, hope and anguish in equal measure. Full story courtesy FIFA Media, Decisive day for Germany 2006

FIFA DELEGATION RETURNS TO SI A high powered FIFA delegation is in Honiara in a follow up visit following the successful Com-Unity Workshop held in November 2004. The delegation includes Urs Zanitti who heads the FIFA Development Programme Service and FIFA Goal Development officer for Oceania region Glenn Turner. Turner says Zanitti had decided to…

NADI, NAVUA, NASINU RULE ON DAY ONE Nadi, Navua and Nasinu all scured wins on day one of the 68th Inter Districts Championship tournament at Churchill Park in Lautoka. Close to 5,000 watched the opening day of the competition. Navua was the first winner of the day after a Pita Bolatoga piledriver soon after the…