Match Officials named for Olympic play offs

OFC, Auckland: The Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) announced today the match officials for the 2004 OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifying play-offs to be contested by Australia and New Zealand on 26 & 30 January. Tahitian referee Charles Ariiotima will be in control of the first play off match on Monday, 26 January at Sydney’s Parramatta Stadium….

22 JAN: New Zealand and Australia will meet in a home and away playoff to decide the Oceania representative to the Athens Olympic Games men’s football tournament in August. In a highly entertaining finale to the group stages, New Zealand recovered from a 0-2 deficit in the first half to beat Vanuatu 3-2 in the…

OFC: It will be the ultimate moment of truth for four teams heading into the tomorrow evening’s final round of the group qualifying stages at the 2004 OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Sydney and Auckland. Sydney’s Marconi Stadium will play host to what promises to be, a bruising and much anticipated battle between Australia…

OFC: The 2004 OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament reached its halfway point with an intriguing night of football at both match venues in round three action on Sunday. Over in Sydney, Group A produced the first upset of the tournament when Samoa stunned the highly rated Solomon Islands 1-0 at Marconi Stadium, while in Auckland,…

OFC: The 2004 OFC Men’s Olympic Men’s Qualifying Tournament kicked off with four exciting matches being played in Sydney and Auckland in first round fixture last Wednesday. Ground and weather conditions at North Harbour Stadium were near perfect as Group B opened with Tonga making hard work of its 3-0 win over American Samoa while…

OFC Auckland: Just who will qualify to represent the Oceania region in football (soccer) at the Athens Olympic Games in August will be decided at the 2004 OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament, which kicks off with first round fixtures tonight. Group A kicks off at Marconi Stadium in Sydney, Australia with a Melanesian derby between…

OFC AUCKLAND: The Oceania Football Confederation today confirmed the match officials to officiate at the 2004 OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Australia and New Zealand from 14-22 January 2004. The tournament will see ten teams from the Oceania region placed in two groups playing a round robin format on a league system. The winner…

FIFA: The 52nd and Final match of the FIFA World Youth Championship UAE 2003 was billed as the most prolific attack, Brazil, versus the meanest defence, Spain. But in the end, the highlight of the 23rd day’s play turned out to be a far more complicated affair: the 4th-minute sending off of Spanish centre-half Melli…

ASA: OFC match officials, Australian referee Matthew Breeze, as well as assistant referees Matthew Cream and Nathan Gibson, have been rewarded by FIFA for their excellent performances by being appointed to this weekends’ 3rd / 4th play-off final at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship. The play-off for the 3rd / 4th place will be…

COURTESY FIFA: The 13th FIFA World Player Gala, broadcast in over 160 countries and taking place in Basel (Switzerland) for the very first time so as to focus additional attention on the event itself as well as the “Match Against Poverty” shortly afterwards at the St Jakob Park, has ended the suspense and revealed the…