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Nigeria, the surprise challenger

12 June 2013
Nigeria, the surprise challenger

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 their opening opponent, Nigeria.Nigeria were crowned African champions after winning the Africa Cup of Nations earlier this year with a 1-0…

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12 June 2013
Women’s football on the rise in Fiji

Last month Lockington was one of a number of women’s football representatives from around the Pacific who travelled to Wellington, New Zealand to take part in a three day FIFA Women’s Football Development Seminar.Lockington says the seminar, attended by FIFA Senior Women’s Football Development Manager Mayi Turner-Kerr Cruz Blanco, was hugely informative.“Because I have only…

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11 June 2013
Crusaders snatch title from Poro

The women’s crown had evaded Port Moresby teams for the last two seasons, with Bara FC of Lae Football Association taking top honours.The victory was sweet for Crusaders’ Esther Kurabi as well as her teammates Jacqueline Chalau, Miriam Lanta and Linda Bunaga as they snatched the title away from Poro.Kurabi sent a message to women’s…

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11 June 2013
Junior All Whites defeated in trans-Tasman warm up

Twenty-four hours after arriving in Australia the Junior All Whites lined up against the Young Socceroos in Wollongong in their first outing since qualifying in Fiji in March and coach Chris Milicich made no excuses following the result.“We were beaten by a very, very good Australian side today. They have just returned from a three…

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10 June 2013
Matildas pick side to face Football Ferns

The Matildas squad was selected following a number of training camps held at the Australian Institute of Sport in Canberra over the past three months which have given de Reus a good chance to get to know the players ahead of their first internationals of the year.“I am very much looking forward to the upcoming…

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7 June 2013
Futsal championship to have international flavour

The tournament will be held at The Trusts Arena in Auckland, New Zealand, from July 23 to 27 and the two Asian teams will be joined by sides from five OFC member associations – New Caledonia, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, Tahiti and Vanuatu.As this year’s event is not a regional qualifier for the FIFA Futsal…

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7 June 2013
Milicich: We can reach the quarters

oceaniafootball.com sat down with coach Chris Milicich to get his views on the side’s preparations and goals ahead of the FIFA U-20 World Cup which kicks off in Turkey on 21 June.How are the team’s preparations going?We just started the preparations today with the team, obviously we’ve done a tremendous amount of prep coming into…

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7 June 2013
All Whites move up 30 places

The move comes despite the side not playing any internationals since the FIFA World Cup qualifiers in March yet the side were easily the biggest movers in the May rankings.The All Whites, who were ranked 130th in May last year, were the benefactors of other nations sliding back down the table, moving up from 87th…

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6 June 2013
Road to Tahiti 2013 glory revealed

The event, live streamed on FIFA.com, saw a dash of typical Polynesian flavour mixed with the formalities of drawing the group line-ups for the September event which will be the first FIFA tournament to be held in a Pacific Island nation.President of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) Vairani Davio welcomed representatives from each of the…

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6 June 2013
Huia holds unusual record

In 2006 the South Pacific islander was in his country’s squad for the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup in Brazil, where he helped his side to a 5-2 victory over Cameroon.Approximately six years later Huia made his debut in Brazil 2014 qualifying, coming on shortly before half-time for injured first choice custodian Samson Koti in…

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