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National team holds New Caledonia

26 January 2011
National team holds New Caledonia

The home team took the game to New Caledonia in the early stages and controlled most of the play in the first 15 minutes, before the visitors started to fight back.New Caledonia pressed forward for the rest of the half but could find no way through a resolute Vanautu defence, expertly organised by Selwyn Sese…

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26 January 2011
Just Play family meets in Auckland

The three-day meeting is taking place at OFC headquarters in Greenlane and aims to provide the participants with all the information they need to run the Just Play course successfully in their countries.Through funding support from the Australian Government, the meeting will benefit participants representing eight island nations, including Cook Islands, Fiji, Papua New Guinea,…

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25 January 2011
Teams eye up beach glory

The OFC Beach Soccer Championship 2011 will be held in Tahiti from February 22 to 26 and the winner will go on to represent Oceania at the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup 2011, set to take place in Ravenna, Italy during September.The sides fighting it out for that honour will be Fiji, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu…

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25 January 2011
New additions to SIFF staff

Omokirio has joined the SIFF technical department and will work with existing staff on education programmes spanning across football, futsal and beach soccer. Later in the year, he will assume the newly-created post of beach soccer elite head coach as part of the FIFA-funded Goal Project programme.Omokirio is not a new face within the Solomon…

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24 January 2011
Father John bids farewell

Father John Walenciej SDB – Don Bosco has worked in Samoa for the last 15 years, seven of which have been at the Parish of Saint Michael’s church in the village of Leauvaa.He has been instrumental throughout that time in helping young people get involved with football.“I was a football person from the early days…

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24 January 2011
Fenedy fires team to New Caledonia win

The friendly match at Port Vila Stadium was arranged as part of each side’s preparations for upcoming competitions. Amicale are readying themselves for the second half of their 2011 O-League challenge while New Caledonia are working towards the Pacific Games, to be held in Noumea during August.The visitors, who are defending champions of the Pacific…

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24 January 2011
Ragomo staying with Kurukuru

The Papua New Guinea club had expressed their desire to sign Ragomo but he found the possibility of leading his country to the FIFA Futsal World Cup too tempting to resist.“My decision to stay with Kurukuru is based solely on the fact that I want to help my country qualify for next year’s World Cup,”…

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23 January 2011
Boxall and Keat drafted to MLS

Boxall, who played for New Zealand at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and at the FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada a year earlier, was selected by expansion club Vancouver Whitecaps after a solid university career with UC Santa Barbara. Keat was also a member of the Junior All Whites’ campaign in Canada but injury…

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21 January 2011
FIFA development role changes hands

Cano hails from Paraguay and is also the Development Manager for CONMEBOL, the South American Football Confederation. She will combine that responsibility with her new challenge as Development Manager for Oceania and can’t wait to start helping football achieve its full potential in the Pacific.“The part that will be the most interesting for me is…

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21 January 2011
Cahill sits out Socceroos training

Cahill, who was named Oceania Footballer of the Year in 2004, has been struggling with a thigh injury and team officials were tight-lipped about his prospects of making Saturday’s quarter-final showdown. Iraq pulled off a shock 3-1 win over the Socceroos in 2007 in the group stages, a victory which set them on the way…

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