Bilikiki coach hopeful

Bilikiki coach Gideon Omokirio hopes Solomon Islands will compete against the World’s best at the World Beach Games in Qatar next month.  Omokirio uttered this on Wednesday after naming his final 12-men traveling.  The former Solomon Islands international named four new players in the team alongside eight core players from the recent OFC Beach Soccer Nations…

Self defense training to continue

Yun’s Taekwondo Academy will carry on from where the World Martial Arts Champions Master John Gill has left following his one week tour to the country. During the the tour to Honiara he conducted self defense seminar for total beginners. Yun’s instructor Joses Duddley said they are more than willing to teach self defense more…

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Mani wins ‘Most Valuable Player’ award By CARLOS ARUAFU The national U17 men’s football team captain Charles Mani has been awarded the ‘Most Valuable Player’ award at the New Zealand Secondary Schools Rex Dawkins tournament, Tuesday in Auckland, New Zealand.  Young Mani is very excited to win the award as this is his first award…

Fighters benefit from seminar

YUN’S Taekwondo athletes learned a lot from the World Martial Arts Champions Master John Gill from Australia who ran a series of advance self defense seminar for them for the last few days. Master Gill, a 19 times World Champions of Self Defense conducted the program for them since last week and is anticipated to…

Kurukuru appeals

The country’s national men’s futsal team Solomon Kurukuru is appealing to all its supporters and fans to pledge and support them in their preparations towards the OFC world cup qualifiers next month.  According to a statement posted on Team Kurukuru’s Facebook page, the team is undergoing a very tough preparation in terms of strength and…

Mona ready to defend title

  Mr. Solomon Islands’ Physique model Moffat Mona is ready to defend his title in the upcoming body building championship scheduled for next month. Mona said with the help of his new private sponsors he is confident to defend his title. “With the help of my new sponsors my preparations is getting better with the…

Matildas coach thanks supporters

THE coach for the Australian Westfield Junior Matildas Rae Dowaer has thanked the supporters who came out yesterday to support the two teams in Thursday’s international friendly match at the Lawson Tama Stadium. “It was really cute to hear and see supporters cheering Go Aussie Go and waving the Australian and Solomon Islands Flag,” she…

U-23 squad named

COACH BATRAM SAYS FINAL SELECTION TOUGH By CROFTON UTUKANA The National U-23 men’s football team head coach Batram Suri has named the final 23 man squad that will represent the country in the OFC men’s Olympic Qualifiers known as 2019 OFC U-23 Championship. Suri told Star Sports in an interview yesterday that it was not…

PNG too strong for netters

THEY improved on their last result, but the Solomon Islands netball team have been beaten heavily again. Papua New Guinea (PNG) are considered medal contenders by many especially as Fiji and Samoa have their strongest players away at the Netball World Cup in Liverpool, England.  PNG showed themselves to be a class above their opponents…

Volleyball teams still winless

A TOTAL of seven matches for the men’s and women’s volleyball teams have produced no victories for Solomon Islands, the latest being two defeats on Tuesday. The tournament is being held in the gymnasium of Samoa’s National University, and the men were up first on court one.  They faced The Federated States of Micronesia and…