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Soccer team earns silver medal

9 December 2013
Soccer team earns silver medal

“I am happy we got the silver medal medal,”said the team’s goalie,” Hanipale Tovale.“This is the best we are able to achieve so please accept our result,” said Tausisi Amituana’i.They lost to the Philippines in the gold medal match 4-1, losing to a strong team in terms of fitness, speed and being technically sound.“We tried…

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9 December 2013
White’s Bruins win national title

The 1-0 win over Florida State was played out in cold and rainy conditions which provided a difficult setting for both sides.White’s side came close to taking the lead in the 66th minute when the young Kiwi sent a cross in towards Kodi Lavrusky who couldn’t quite get a foot to it on this occasion.In…

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8 December 2013
From OFC grassroots to world stage

As a child, Burfoot played in the OFC U-12 Festival of Football in Lautoka, Fiji, in 2006 before going on to play in the Danone Nations Cup later the same year.Now the 19-year-old finds himself on the biggest stage of all – the FIFA Club World Cup – and rubbing shoulders with the likes of…

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7 December 2013
Globetrotting Auckland hit Morocco

Including Auckland City’s OFC Champions League travels, the team has racked up an astonishing 36,663 kilometres distance, nearly 48 hours in the air, stops in seven countries on four continents.Coach Ramon Tribulietx described Auckland City FC’s travels as a “very long journey” but is now focussed on preparing for the all important clash with Raja…

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6 December 2013
Dvorak cultivates seeds sown in 2010

Instead of heading to Brazil, Dvorak chose to address up to 800 young people at the 2nd Pacific Youth and Sports Conference in Noumea, New Caledonia yesterday.“It was very important for me to come here for this conference because we planted the seed about the health programme Football For Health, 11 For Health, at the…

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6 December 2013
Campus receives state visit

Over the past four days New Caledonia has played host to representatives from islands all around the Pacific as they learn more about sport for development and the issues affecting the Oceania region.This afternoon all their hard work will culminate in the presentation of projects that use sport as a development tool to tackle the…

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6 December 2013
Pyne shares inspiring journey to the top

But on 24 December 1996 everything changed for the then six-year-old.“I slipped and fell from a cliff, bushwalking with my brother in Western Sydney in the Blue Mountains,” he says.“I spent Christmas and New Year in a coma and the first three weeks of January 1992. When I woke up, I couldn’t walk and I…

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6 December 2013
PYASC wraps on a high-note

Thirteen of the countries attending the conference had the opportunity earlier this afternoon to spend ten minutes presenting the projects they have developed and refined over the past five days.The eight different prizes had certain criteria attached with the Prix du gouvernement de la Nouvelle-Caledonie being available only to New Caledonia projects, the SPC Award…

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6 December 2013
Vasapolli: ‘We have realised something incredible’

FC Ferrand and its President Vincent Vasapolli were crowned 2013 Futsal Super League champions in a thrilling last match day and recently added the New Caledonia futsal Cup. Ferrand is the first team in New Caledonian futsal history to achieve a double and oceaniafootball.com sat down with Vasapolli to learn more about this successful season….

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6 December 2013
Oceania champs push Espanyol in warm up

It took a long range goal by substitute Mamapou midway through the second half to undo the Oceania champions but coach Ramon Tribulietx was satisfied the aims of the friendly encounter were met despite the defeat.“I think it was a great experience for us. We played against a different kind of football against players who…

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