DEFENDING Coca-Cola Games girls champion and the pride of Lautoka, Jasper Williams High School kick-tart their preparation to defend the title this year with their inter-house this Friday. The event to be held at the Lautoka Mission School ground, is a much anticipated affair as many want to represent their school come April in Suva.…
A lot of movements are expected in the month long Fiji Football Association transfer window which opens on February 24. Ba and Nadi are expected to strengthen their squads ahead of the Oceania Champions League play-offs in April. Lautoka, which is reeling at the bottom of the Fiji Sun/Skipper Tuna National Football League (NFL) has…
Despite a strong showing in their first game of 2014, the Football Ferns were beaten 1-0 by hosts China in the opening match of the Yongchuan International Women’s Invitational Tournament on Tuesday. After a scoreless opening 45 minutes, China struck the decisive goal mid-way through the second half with Tony Readings’ Football Ferns unable to…
PAPUA New Guinea champions Hekari United could be missing the services of attacking midfielder Samuel Kini who left on Sunday. The only Southern Highlander (by way of Erave) playing for the champions, Kini has been one of the players instrumental in the side’s success in their O-League campaign for several years. After turning 27 in…
Exposure to soccer competitions around the region will boost the development of local players. Oceania Football Confederation Head of Television, Tukaha Mua says that players can learn a great deal from playing in competitions in foreign countries. “What we would like to encourage is to have more of our players move and play in…
The Tiki Toa hit new heights in 2013 when they outperformed some of the world’s best teams to take fourth place in the FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup. Not only did the side impress the beach soccer community with their on-field talent, but their exploits on the world stage have also seen them promoted to…
CRICKET Fiji has named 26 players in their senior men’s high performance squad in preparation for this year’s East Asia Pacific Twenty 20 tournament. Nine of the players are overseas-based and the local players are required to attend a fitness test at Albert Park on Friday. High performance manager Joe Rika said the overseas players…
Waitakere United are in danger of missing the ASB Premiership top-four playoffs for the first time in the competition’s history after they were beaten 2-1 by Hawke’s Bay United at Bluewater Stadium on Sunday. It was the champions’ fifth loss of the season and leaves them sitting in fifth place, four points behind Hawke’s Bay,…
Vodafone Fiji 7s team coach, Ben Ryan, will be present at the 2014 Vodafone Ratu Meli 7s on February 21-22 at Ratu Meli Memorial School in Nacula, Yasawa. The chairman of the organising committee, Manasa Takala, says Ryan’s presence would boost the performance of players in the island. “This is a big boost for us…
It was joy for the Samuela Drudru-captained Suva side and a heartbreak for Alvin Avinesh-led Lautoka in the battle of the cities at Churchill Park yesterday. Lautoka started with a bang with a lot of constructive soccer coming from the midfield areas. But this was not fully executed due to the tight and properly organised…