OFC: The Solomon Islands have booked their place in the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Oceania Qualifiers final after a brace from Alvin Hou helped them win a 3-2 thriller v Papua New Guinea at the Grand Hamad Stadium in Doha. Solomon Islands head coach Felipe Vega-Arango sent out the same starting eleven that overcame…
THE Rotary Club of Honiara has cancelled the Annual Easter Fun Run for this year. In a statement yesterday, the Rotary Club of Honiara said this is due to the emergency health regulations currently in place. The fun run is normally held on Easter Monday of each year and thousands of runners enjoy the 5k/m…
OFC: The Solomon Islands have defeated Tahiti 3-1 at Grand Hamad Stadium in Doha today, meaning they take top spot in Group A of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Oceania Qualifiers. The game was played in unusual circumstances, with both teams assured of making the semi-finals, due to the Cook Islands and Vanuatu unfortunately…
THE Solomon Islands National Institute of Sports (SINIS) says only athletes endorsed by various National Sports Federation (NSF) can access its High Performance elite training program. SINIS issued the clarification in response to questions being asked as to what criteria can athletes from other provinces apart from Honiara can follow to be part of the…
LOCAL boxer Lemuel Silisia claims he lost his bout over the weekend because his Australian opponent weighs more than him. The young lad lost his bout on Saturday night at Gunnedah Town Hall, Gunnedah in New South Wales Speaking to Star Sport yesterday in an interview he said, “I’m not happy with my opponent.” He…
NUKU’ALOFA,(LOVE RUGBY LEAGUE)—Tonga coach Kristian Woolf insists the squad he will pick for this year’s World Cup will be the strongest squad the nation has ever had in rugby league. The Tongan national squad have enjoyed a meteoric rise through the rankings in international rugby league in recent years. They reached the semi-finals of the…
PORT MORESBY, (POST COURIER)—Cricket Papua New Guinea (CPNG) for the first time in history will be sending a women’s Under-19 team to attend the East Asia Pacific qualifiers in Bali, Indonesia from 01- 07 April. The tournament will serve as a qualifier to the 2023 women’s U19 World Cup in Bangladesh. PNG is amongst two…
Vanuatu and Cook Is. out SOLOMON Islands has received an early decision that they have secured a spot for the semi-final playoffs of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ OFC preliminary competition in Qatar. This followed the untimely omissions of two teams in group A, Vanuatu and the Cook Islands. These two teams had to…
OFC: The Oceania Football Confederation can confirm that due to a number of positive cases of COVID-19 in the Vanuatu and Cook Islands squads, Match Day 3 of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Oceania Qualifiers will not go ahead. As a result of the vast majority of the squad testing positive to COVID-19, Vanuatu…
OFC: A Sairusi Nalaubu double saw Fiji edge New Caledonia 2-1 in a thrilling encounter on Match Day 2 of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ Oceania Qualifiers. While much of the pre-match attention on Fiji focused on the inclusion of captain Roy Krishna in the starting side, just over 24 hours after he arrived in…