Club licensing key to National Leagues

Sugihara, formerly with the Asian Football Confederation, made a presentation to delegates from the OFC member associations outlining a multi-layered approach to Club Licensing and its implementation in emerging countries.“To strengthen the league you need to strengthen the bottom club, if the top two clubs in a competition are good, but the bottom club is…

It will be a battle of the provinces as the cream of local stars will be playing for pride for their respective provinces.A total of six men’s teams and four women’s teams will be vying for top honours in the Cup, with the final on Saturday. The six men’s teams are Goroka, Wau, LFA, Port…

The famous venue lived up to the pre-match hype today as the All Whites struggled to overcome the enormous task of halting Mexico, the 24th-ranked side in the World, on the Road to Rio.Faced with 100,000 Mexican supporters the Kiwis, ranked just 79th, were outclassed and outplayed 5-1 by a cohesive Mexican side to end…

And they will be playing in Estadio Azteca in Mexico City – a stadium with a capacity of 105,000 and perched 7,200 feet above sea level and set to be full of patriotic Mexicans intent on disrupting the visiting Kiwis concentration.Not to mention the fact that Mexico have only ever suffered two losses at the…

Valcke says the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup was a huge success with far-reaching scope and exceeded all expectations.“This was the first senior FIFA competition ever to have been held in the Oceania region (outside of Australia and New Zealand), and it gave us the opportunity to enjoy the best of beach soccer in a…