The first match of round two sees home side Ba FC face Tafea of Vanuatu. Both teams came out better off on the first match day of the OFC Champions League, with Tafea beating Hekari United 3-1, while Ba won with a more modest yet no less significant scoreline of 2-0 against AS Magenta. Tafea…
STRIKER Samuela Drudru saw red on his debut as Nadi went down 0-3 to Auckland City in the Oceania Football Confederation Champions League at Churchill Park in Lautoka Monday. Drudru was given the marching orders by referee Bertrand Billon in the dying stages after a heavy collision with Angel Berlanga who had to be stretched…
In a historical first for local rugby league, four players from the Sabeto Roosters and Saru Dragons rugby league clubs departed yesterday to join the Gulf Isapea team in Papua New Guinea. The imports include Rooster’s center forwards Semi Wainiqolo, Jone Uneune and Livai Nairogo, as well as Dragons’ fullback Netava Rarokoliwa. Their recruitment follows…
The Central Islands province (CIP) 2014 futsal competition now enters its second round of matches. The competition which kicked off last week. Despite the bad weather experience last week matches continued. Reports said that games now in its second stage and the competition is going on well. “The weather here has improved and we are…
NATIONAL soccer striker, Benjamin Totori has once again proved his class internationally by scoring and helping his club Waitakere United seal a 2-0 win over O-League newcomers, Kiwi FC of Samoa on Wednesday. The electrifying pace setter in Totori made his presence felt within the opposing team instantly dribbling his way into the Kiwi FC…
SOLOMON Islands Club Champions and O-league reps, Solomon Warriors were on Wednesday edged 1: 2 by Tahitian Club Champions AS Pirae in their nail biting encounter. Two goals inside 12 minutes in the first stanza were enough to seal all three points for the Tahitians over their Solomon Islands opponents who had fought back strongly…
The 2014 edition of the OFC Champions League is the largest we’ve seen in 12 years and potentially the most anticipated as 12 sides compete for the ultimate prize – a ticket to the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup in Morocco. The group stage, being held in Lautoka and Ba in Fiji, has seen the…
Fiji’s Tanoa Waterfront Hotel played host to a UN reunion of sorts as 12 different nationalities were represented on day one of the OFC Media Officers Workshop. Held annually since 2010, with a brief hiatus in 2013, the workshop works to build on the skills of each of the OFC Member Association media officers in…
Dear reader, welcome back to the April edition of Perspectives in Sports. A quarter of 2014 is now history, which also means there are only three more months until the Commonwealth Games are upon us. This week, the rain seems to want to impose itself upon many willing athletes and stop them from getting out…
ONE of the oldies fun soccer clubs around Kickaraon last week took on the might of Tetere inmates on the pitch. The inmates kept Kickaraon at bay until the final whistle. There were no scores. Kickaraon is a registered oldies club which is a fitness based team that has been around for for quiet sometime,…