MAJOR sports events in Honiara have been called off since last week following the civil disturbance in the city. The disturbances had led to rioting, looting and burning of shops. Because of safety issues and fear many sportsmen and women have decided to take a break from sports games. Many just remain at home and…
Felipe says all teams will be tough HEAD Coach for the men’s national football team, Felipe Vega Arango says all other teams in group A of the OFC preliminary competition on the road to the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022™ will be tough. Solomon Islands are drawn into Group A alongside Tahiti, Vanuatu and the…
CENTRAL Roviana team is unlikely to participate in the upcoming Western Cup (WC) in Gizo, Western Province on 8TH December next week. This is due to the disrupted New Georgia and Vonavona Cup that was held in September this year. According the Chairman for the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) under Western Football Association (WFA), Frank…
THE Malaita Football Association (MFA) will hold an extraordinary meeting on December 10th at Auki. The MFA confirmed in a statement yesterday that the three main agenda are to present the Annual Activity Report, Financial Report and other relevant documents. “The MFA has organized an extraordinary congress meeting for all its Constituency Football Associations around…
MARTIAL Art students of M.P Quan Wing Chun School Solomon Island in Honiara are yet to resume training after part of the Honiara High School was burnt down last week. The students usually conduct their evening classes and training session at Honiara School’s Hall. Part of the school was destroyed by criminals and hooligans on…
The Umi Cup semi finals which was scheduled for last week has been postponed until further notice. That’s according to the Umi Cup management. A statement reaching Star Sports said that the Umi Cup management committee will have a meeting this afternoon to discuss the date for the rescheduled semi-final matches. After the brief meeting…
SIFF, Dec 1, Honiara – A new national football competition called the President’s Cup will be staged for the first time in early February 2022 featuring the top three clubs of the Telekom S-League namely Central Coast FC, Solomon Warriors and Waneagu United with the two 2020 Solomon Cup finalists Western Tomoko and Malaita Eagles.…
AS volunteers flooded in to do clean up at Chinatown, Kukum area and Ranadi the Haura Womens Football Club FC also participated in the clean up exercise. Haura FC team join group of volunteers at China to do general cleaning up on Sunday. About five team members volunteered their time to clean up the mess…
REAL Kakamora FC’s forward Jaygray Sipakana is confirmed to be the latest Telekom S-league (TSL) player to join the country’s men’a national training squad. The confirmation was made through a statement from the Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) yesterday. “Sipakana has been called up by Coach Felipe Vega-Arango for the national team training squad.” The…
THE Solomon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) has officially appointed Batram Suri as a team coach for the Solomon Islands Women’s national team. Suri was known to have taken up past national coaching duty leading the National U-19 reaching the semi-finals in 2018 and finished second with the U23 at the OFC Olympic Qualifiers. SIFF revealed…