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Vahirua hopes to contribute experience

31 July 2013
Vahirua hopes to contribute experience

Despite announcing his retirement the former player for Nantes, Nice, Lorient, Nancy, Monaco and Panthrakikos would love to top off a successful career with a World Cup appearance. But while he has joined the team at FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland he’s realistic about his chances of being named in the squad come September.Marama, what…

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30 July 2013
Junior Football Ferns end series level

In contrast to the previous games yesterday’s encounter was a tight, tense game with few clear cut chances and defenders on top from the start. With the series tied at one each neither team wanted to lose the deciding game, leading to a cautious game.Coach Aaron McFarland knew it was going to be a tight…

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30 July 2013
Samoa hosts youth coaching course

The course was run by OFC player development officer and instructor for FIFA Daniel Shirley with the aid of OFC coach/mentor Simon Toselli.Covering a variety of topics including longe term plans for player development, the coaching approach, the laws of the game and goalkeeping, participants were kept busy throughout the five days.As part of their…

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30 July 2013
Tuiloma makes French move

The 18-year-old was unearthed by the club’s scouts during the FIFA U-20 World Cup held in Turkey during June and July and the wheels were put in motion. While the New Zealand squad didn’t win any of its group games the Asia Pacific Football Academy graduate clearly did enough to attract the attention of those…

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29 July 2013
Referees receive referesher course

Led by FIFA Referee Instructor Mark Hestor, with the assistance of FFAS referee instructors Uini Aliva and Lemusa Alatasi, the course was held from 23-26 July with 16 participants looking to update their knowledge of the game.“The main objective of this course is to assist the FFAS referees’ education and to improve the quality of…

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29 July 2013
Vanuatu referee makes international debut

Also taking advantage of the chance to gain some top level experience was Vanuatu futsal referee Love Lui Malenarave who made his international debut last week.Having spent the past seven years developing his skills at home in Vanuatu’s national league the five day tournament has inspired the young official to work towards FIFA accreditation in…

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27 July 2013
Australia mark return to OFC with victory

Malaysia’s Qaiser Abdul Kadir, one of their standout players throughout the tournament, gave his side an early lead scoring less than two minutes into the first half. However a determined Australia were not interested in going home runners up and heaped the pressure on their Asian counterparts with the tactic paying off after just nine…

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27 July 2013
Malaysia 1 – 5 Australia

See below for all the play-by-play action.Starting line-ups:Malaysia: 1. Firdaus RAZALI (GK) (c), 2. Abu HASAN, 4. Shamsul ZAMRI, 9. Qaiser ABDUL KADIR, 10. Fawzul MOHAMADSubstitutes: 3. Asmie ZAHARI, 5. Firdaus AMBIAH, 6. Shamar FADZIL, 7. Khairul MOHD BAHRIN, 8. Muizzudin MOHD HARIS, 13. Nizam MOHD ALI, 14. Hadee MOHD TAUFIQ (GK)Coach: Maizal MARZUKI (MAS)Australia:…

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26 July 2013
Australia and Malaysia secure final meeting

The highlights were the two semi-finals, which both served up tense encounters as all four sides fought desperately to earn a shot at the title.The first was the more high scoring affair as Tahiti once again employed their counter-attacking style to great effect in holding Malaysia to a 3-3 draw after extra-time. The Aito Arii…

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26 July 2013
Australia 2 – 0 New Zealand

See below for all the play-by-play action.Starting line-ups:Australia: 13. Angelo KONSTANTINOU (GK), 5. Mark SYMINGTON, 6. Eddie ALPKAYA, 7. Toby SEETO (c), 10. Daniel FOGARTY, 11. Dean LOCKHART.Substitutes: 1. Kieran PATES (GK), 2. Adam COOPER, 3. Daniel FULTON, 4. Wade GIOVENALI, 8. Marino MUSUMECI, 9. Chris ZEBALLOS.Coach: Steve KNIGHT [AUS]New Zealand: 18. Elias BILLEH (GK),…

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