Fiji Times – Replacement Filipe Nasilasila touched down the winning try to gift the Fiji under-18 rugby 7s team a bronze medal at the Youth Olympic Games in China. The Ratu Kadavulevu School U18 inside centre stepped past three Kenyan defenders and raced away 30 yards to score the try in the corner as Fiji…
Solomon Islands’ former football star, Batram Suri has been confirmed as the new head coach of Premier League club, Ifira Black Bird FC. Club President Christian Kaltabang says, the club is always looking to the future and for the last two years. They have recruited other players from other clubs in Port Vila to come…
OFC: Papua New Guinea’s hopes of reaching the Girls’ Youth Olympic Football Tournament semi-finals rest on downing Slovakia on Wednesday in Nanjing. Beaten 7-0 by South American hot-shots Venezuela in their first match, Papua New Guinea can still slip into the last four if they can somehow beat the European side in their final group…
OFC – The Oceania football community has mourned the loss of Sheik Mohammed Ibrahim, Senior Vice President of the Fiji Football Association Ibrahim, 67, passed away on Thursday 12 August at C W M Hospital in Fiji following a battle with kidney disease first diagnosed in 2011. “Sheik Mohammed Ibrahim was a proud servant of…
RNZI: The Tonga Secondary Schools’ Principals Association says cancelling future rugby matches will not stop violence between supporters. Ex-students at a senior rugby game between Liahona High School and Apifo’ou College started a brawl in the weekend cutting the match short. The police and the principals’ association will meet this week to decide if the…
ABC: Ewen McKenzie chuckles when he recalls the baptism of fire in international coaching he underwent last year when Australia took on New Zealand in back-to-back Tests to open the Rugby Championship. Two defeats followed and the Wallabies went on to lose the third Bledisloe Cup test to their trans-Tasman Sea rivals, all the optimism…
Fiji Times: The Fiji Invitational netball side defeated the visiting Singapore team 65-43 during their friendly match on Monday night at the FMF Gymnasium. The friendly game was organised to assist Singapore’s build-up to the Netball World Cup in Australia next year. The visitors will play a series of matches in order to qualify. Fiji,…
Fiji Times: The Fiji 7s team to the Youth Olympic Games to be held in Nanjing, China will travel without their mentor Ben Ryan. The Vodafone Fiji 7s coach was to guide the under-18 team for the Games which will be held from August 16 to 28. According to a statement from the Fiji Rugby…
NZ Herald: The world champion Black Ferns have been stunned by Ireland 17-14 at the Women’s Rugby World Cup in France Wednesday morning. It was the first World Cup match the Black Ferns have lost since the semi-final against USA in 1991. Ireland all but booked their place in the semi-final with the win, while…
IRB: With two years to go until Rugby Sevens makes its Olympic Sevens debut at Rio 2016, Brazilian boys and girls are getting into Rugby in record numbers. Rugby participation has grown by 25 per cent since 2011 and, in 2013 alone, more than 9,000 boys and girls in Rio and Sao Paulo were introduced…