OFC – BEACH SOCCER KICKS OFF AT NARROW NECK

OFC Beach Soccer Championship – New Zealand 2007 kicked off today at Narrow Neck Beach on Auckland’s North Shore. The Narrow Neck venue is a former army barracks used for training of Pacific Islanders from Cook Islands, Niue, Tahiti and Fiji for World War I, a fitting analogy as Tahiti, New Zealand, SolomonIslands and Vanuatu…

Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) representatives New Zealand will require a miracle victory over highflying Mexico to qualify for the Round of 16 at the FIFA U-20 World Cup – Canada 2007 – andthen hope Portugal inflict a heavy defeat on Gambia and wait for results elsewhere to go their way. In Group A, Congo and…

Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) will host a press conference at Narrow Neck Beach Reserve, Devonport, Auckland on Friday 6th July, 2007, 1:30pm In attendance will be OFC General Secretary Tai Nicholas, New Zealand coach James Pamment, Solomon Islands FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup heroes James Naka and Gideon Omokirio, and officials from theNorth Shore City…

New Zealand have targeted more composure on the ball and better finishing as their passport to a place in history when they face Gambia in their `win or bust’ FIFA U-20 Men’s World Cup match onFriday (9am NZT). The winner of the BOM Field clash will remain an outside chance to automatically qualify for the…

New Zealand have again shown they are not out of place at the FIFA U-20 Men’s World Cup but a 1-0 loss to Gambia has left them grappling with the fact it takes goals and points, not credibility, toadvance to the second round. The Oceania champions were made to pay dearly for an inexcusably tentative…

Softly spoken, shy, uncertain, Vanuatu’s U12 football team didn’t quite know what to make of the all the media attention at the 2007 Danone Nations Cup in Lyon, France, yesterday. But they had every reason to celebrate after their eye-opening journey to Lyon finished on a high – in the company of Zinedine Zidane. Oceania…

Michael Gwyther, Stuart Hogg, David Samson, Joel Mathews, Nathan Fry, Dean Johnston, Mikael Munday round off what looks a very solid unit. Defending champions – the Bilikiki Boys from Solomon Islands – received a heroes send off in Honiara last week with high expectations of success following last year’s performances in Brazil. James Naka and…

James Naka was unknown to football fans until he represented Solomon Islands in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup Qualifying – Tahiti 2006. Today, Naka is the name on everyone’s lips whenever he plays for his club Kossa, the senior Solomon Islands national men’s team or on the sand for the Bilikiki Boys. Naka shot…

The venue for the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) Beach Soccer Championship – New Zealand 2007 has been moved from Vector Arena to Narrow Neck Beach, Devonport. OFC General Secretary Tai Nicholas said the cost of building a temporary sand pitch that met FIFA’s specifications and the risk of causing permanent damage to the Vector Arena…

The battle for club supremacy in the Solomon Islands is underway as nine of the countries top club sides fight it out at the Solomon Telekom National Club Championships. The tournament – split into one group of four clubs and another of five clubs – saw perennial powerhouse Marist FC top Group A following an…