SOLOMON Islands young football striker, Raphael Leai is in Australia waiting for his visa approval before returning to Turkey for the trials with Turkey’s Alanyaspor Football club. Rafa as commonly known by football fans and supporters returned home last week just for a few days and returned to Australia and wait whilst his visa is…
THE Telekom S-league (TSL) competition enters match day 11 today featuring two matches. Matches will start at 2pm for this weekend’s matches featuring Honiara City FC and FC Isabel United. These two teams both have four points and will be aiming for a win to move up the ladder. Isabel United won their first game…
The SIFF Super Futsal league returns this weekend at the multipurpose outdoor court. More interesting matches are on scheduled for this weekend as the competition enters its fourth week. Today’s matches will see Marist FC take on the Saints at 3pm for the first match, Island Brothers and Dawn FC at 4:30pm, Salt FC and…
‘SOLO’, the 2023 Pacific Games official mascot will wrap up its tour of Ghaobata ward, Guadalcanal province today. As part of the Sol2023 Pacific Games Organizing Committee (GOC)’s Community Engagement program, Solo’s visit to Ghaobata was to raise awareness, share information and improve people’s understanding about next year’s Pacific Games in Honiara, Solomon Islands. In…
THE country’s national futsal team, Kurukuru has kicked off their training in preparations for the OFC Futsal Cup 2022 This is the first time the team has come together to train since the FIFA World Cup 2021 and also following the announcement of the provisional squad two weeks ago. The team will train under the…
ATHLETES returning from the Commonwealth Games are questioning why they are the only ones in quarantine since their arrival into the country. The athletes arrived in Honiara on Friday last week from Birmingham, England, However, in a recent statement, the athletes said they arrived and were told to go into quarantine while the rest of…
SEVENTEEN players are named in the Solomon Islands Futsal National Team, Kurukuru provisional squad for the OFC Futsal Cup 2022 to be held in Suva, Fiji, next month. A statement from Solomon Islands Football said only seven players from the last World Cup squad were selected in the current provisional squad. The seven players are…
OFC: Following the third and fourth play-off at the OFC Women’s Nations Cup 2022, there’s plenty more to celebrate for the Solomon Islands and Samoa who were included in the biggest movements made in the latest FIFA/Coca-Cola Women’s World rankings. The Solomon Islands leaped 15 spots to 105 ranking them sixth from ninth in the…
The upcoming 2023 Pacific Games will be the single largest unifying event for the country that will leave a legacy for the young and future generations. The value of hosting the games was highlighted by Prime Minister Manasseh Sogavare yesterday when acknowledging an Australian support of nearly SB$100 million towards the games. The Solomon Islands…
OFC: Central Coast FC of the Solomon Islands are through to the semi-finals of the OFC Champions League 2022 for the first time after edging a five-goal thriller over Papua New Guinea’s Lae City FC at Ngahue Reserve in Auckland. A brace from Clifford Fafale and a goal from Junior Fordney in the first-half secured…