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Tahiti brave in the face of Spanish giants

21 June 2013
Tahiti brave in the face of Spanish giants

Tahiti started brightly, much to the delight of the crowd, but they found themselves behind within five minutes. Fernando Torres collected possession down the left, played a one-two with Juan Mata, and strode into the area. From an acute angle, Torres surprised goalkeeper Mikael Roche by electing to shoot rather than cross for the lurking…

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21 June 2013
FIFA MA Youth Course wraps up

The aim is to optimise the performance of the team and to develop the full potential of each player – training, developing, directing, advising and correcting players and helping them progress in life.The FIFA MA Youth Course, held last week in Lae, Papua New Guinea, saw 22 participants complete a workshop covering all of these…

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20 June 2013
Spain, chasing that missing trophy

Tahiti share Group B with Nigeria, Uruguay and Spain and oceaniafootball.com is pleased to be bringing you a rundown of the three teams Tahiti will face at the tournament with the focus today on Spain.The Oceania representatives inscribed a momentous piece of history into the ledger for Tahitian football when Jonathan Tehau scored their first…

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20 June 2013
Phoenix to hit the road in 2013/14

The Round 3 match on Sunday October 27 against Newcastle Jets will be played at McLean Park in Napier and the Round 5 match against Perth Glory will be played at AMI Stadium in Christchurch.Wellington Phoenix general manager David Dome said that the decision to take the games to Napier and Christchurch were for quite…

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20 June 2013
Football Ferns face tough friendly

The game will be another step forward for Coach Tony Readings and the Football Ferns as they look towards FIFA 2015 World Cup in Canada and the Olympics in 2016 and offer a different test from that of Australia.“Japan will be another big step up for us, they’re current World Champions and we need to…

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20 June 2013
Tahiti’s amateurs aim to forget daily grind

Tahiti’s 23 resolute battlers arrived in South America with the intention of locking horns with Nigeria, Spain and Uruguay without any semblance of a track record, apart from their unexpected victory in the 2012 OFC Nations Cup, a result which qualified them for the FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013.The Toa Aito (Tahitian for ‘Iron Warriors’)…

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20 June 2013
Vanuatu preparing for futsal invitational

VFF futsal development officer Louis Dominique said the team has already been together for two months, with 14 players currently training as a pre-selection squad.“We used to train once a month, but today we are training four days a week,” Dominique says.“We have a young team and they have to make the effort and prepare…

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19 June 2013
Technology will have an important role

A total of 36 participants from Fiji and each of the OFC member associations took part in the course which was coordinated by the manager for the FIFA Referee Assistance Programme (RAP) Fernando Tresaco along with FIFA instructors Steve Bennett, Ganesan Maniam, Mark Hester and assistant FIFA development officer Lyn Shirley.With the goal of continually…

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19 June 2013
Football open to all in Samoa

Last month the two bodies hosted a series of tournaments around the country specifically for children with special needs.One tournament was held in Savaii while more recently the FFS headquarters at J.S. Blatter Football Complex in Tuanaimato had the honours of hosting a tournament.Football was first introduced to Samoa’s Special Olympics in 2010 through the…

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19 June 2013
Mermer broadens experience

His secondary role of managing Teouma Academy and coaching the national U-17 team saw Mermer take his young charges to a third placing at the OFC U-17 Championship earlier this year and the former international has continued to look for ways to grow his knowledge of the game and how to deliver that new-found knowledge…

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