The tournament is set to be held in Tahiti and the Tiki Toa, as the side is affectionately known, will qualify automatically as hosts. The off-field planning for the event by the Local Organising Committee is already well underway but there is much work to be done on the sands and Zaveroni is likely to…
It looked like the points would be shared as the final whistle approached at the Stade Numa Daly but Spaniard Exposito had other ideas, stepping up to curl the ball around the Magenta wall and past goalkeeper Jean Yan Dounezeck in the 83rd minute to earn a vital victory for the New Zealand side.The win…
The tournament had been penciled in to begin tomorrow and end with the final and 3rd/4th play-off matches on Saturday 26 February, featuring four days of action and a rest day on Friday 25 February.But that plan has had to be altered to allow the Vanuatu team to join fellow Pacific sides Solomon Islands, Fiji…
Coach Henry Koto has named a strong squad featuring both experienced campaigners and exciting youngsters to achieve that goal and says the players have gelled together nicely. “We have worked hard on our combinations during our training sessions and I am quite happy with how well the players have done,” Koto says.“The players in this…
Meeting at the OFC headquarters in Greenlane for the first time since January’s elective congress in American Samoa, OFC President David Chung opened the meeting by presenting his vision for the ‘First 100 Days’ of office. In alignment with the OFC Vision 2018, President Chung outlined the 100 day plan for him and his Executive…
Gleeson, an ex-Team Wellington player, produced eight clean sheets for the unbeaten Timbers’ U-23 side as they raced to the USL’s Premier Development League championship title last season. As a result, the Palmerston North-born Gleeson was named in the PDL’s All-Western Conference team and crowned the league’s goals-against-average champion after conceding just five times in…
She is a teacher by profession and played football in Simbu for 20 years before moving into the administration side of the world’s most popular sport.The mother-of-four has three boys and one girl, who is following in her mum’s footsteps as a footballer.Diane first kicked a ball at the tender age of 15 in Kundiawa,…
The Super League is the country’s premier men’s competition but it wasn’t just players at the elite level who were back on the field. Men taking part in other leagues, youth players and women also strapped the boots on again as the football season at all levels kicked off.The new season brings together 11,000 licensed…
The club will put on the 90-minute sessions every Saturday morning and basic football skills such as passing, ball control and playing as a team will be passed on by some of Amicale’s first-team stars.The first session was held last Saturday at Antoise Rossi Field and included the coaching of former Solomon Islands international Batram…
The money was presented to the team by the Port Vila Football Association (PVFA) with the strict instructions that it should be used to make sure the players are eating the right food and preparing in a profession manner for the OFC championship, which takes place in Papeete, Tahiti from February 22 to 26.PVFA representative…