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SOCCER CITY PRESS | Thursday, 21 January, 2016 Issue # 002

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2 | CALENDAR BLONG VANUATU FOOTBALL

Sam kwestin we ol Wellington Phoenix Football Academy i askem hem.

Wanem tim yu joinem?Mi stap long scots first 11.

Wanem ej nao yu stat ple futbol? Mi ple long ej blong naen

Wanem nem blong fes futbol klab we yu joinem mo ple long hem? T United we hemi wan Futsal Team

Wanem nao posisen we yu laekem blong stap ple long em? Midfield

Hu nao hemi nambawan Phoenix pleya blong yu? Roy Krishna

Folem Futbol Kalenda blong 2016, ol big kompetisen i stat long manis January kasem long October, mo sapos i no kat weta isiu truaot long yia ia, pipol i save enjoem fut-bol kasem Novemba o iven long Disemba. Vanuatu Futbol Federesen i stap priper-em U17 woman futbol tim blong em naoia blong difendem kala blong Vanuatu long OFC U17 Jampionsip long Cook Islands.Polynesian Kantri ia i hostem OFC tunamen ia blong 10 day, stat long 13 January kasem ol final aksen long 23 januari 2016, mo Van-uatu emi stap long Pul B tugeta wetem ol kantri olsem, Fiji, Papua New Guinea mo host, Cook Islands. Long Grup A i kat New Caledonia, New Zealand, Samoa mo Tonga, mo wina blong OFC jampionsip ia bae emi ple long 2016 FIFA U17 World Cup long Jordan.West Asian Kantri i hostem namba 5 edisen blong FIFA U17 World Kap long 3 mein taon blong em ia, Amman, Irbid mo Zarqa, stat long 31 Septemba kasem 21 Octoba, 2016. Nara kompetisen we i stap long kalenda blong VFF Kompetisen dipatmen emi Port Vila Shield we bae i koed long manis Jan-uari kasem Februari 2016, wetem ol klab blong Port Vila Futbol Asosiesen. Nara tunamen we i stap long kalenda ia emi ol TVL Jampionsip kem, stat long Feb-ruari kasem long May 2016. Long Period ia, sam lik oli koed long ol Sekon Leg Pro-gram, wael samfala bae oli koed long fes leg mo joenem wetem sekon leg jampion-sip. TVL Jampionsip blong Vanuatu Futbol Federesen bae i koed long manis June, 2016, mo long semfala manis ia bae ol fan blong futbol i stap enjoem ol apdet blong 2016 OFC Nations Cup. OFC Nations Cup emi kohed long manis May kasem manis Jun 2016, mo Vanuatu senia tim i stap long Grup B blong tunamen ia wetem ol kantri olsem Fiji, Solomon Is-lands mo hevi wet, New Zealand. Long Grup A Kompetisen i kat tufala tim we i kasem Grand Final long 2012 long Ho-niara, defending jampion, Tahiti, mo Ra-na-ap, New Caledonia, mo tu Samoa mo Papua New Guinea. OFC Nations Kap emi kompetisen blong ol Senia pleya, mo kompetisen ia i stap long Patwe blong kasem 2018 FIFA World Cup long Russia. Vanuatu tim i mas pripea gud mo traem krietem wan histri blong kam fes Melanesia Kantri mo aelan Nesen blong kasem wan FIFA World Cup kompetisen.Manis July emi taem we pipol blong Van-uatu iko tugeta blong selebretem indepen-dens day blong kantri ia mo futbol emi ol-wes aelaetem ol program blong festiv ia. Long saed blong tufala big futbol asosiesen blong Vanuatu, Luganville Fut-

Ronaldo WilkinsRonaldo emi skul long Scots College (Phoenix Academy) emia long New Zealand tru long wan rilesensip we Asia Pacific Football Academy i kat wetem Oceania Football Conferdration. Ronaldo emi skul long Scots College (Phoe-nix Academy) emia long Niu Silan. - www.wpfa.org.nz

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bol Asosiesen (LFA) mo Port Vila Futbol Asosiesen (PVFA), ikat wan kompetisen we i stap long kalenda we emi Province of Origin kompetisen. Manis Okis mo Septemba 2016 emi wan nara maelston long futbol blong Vanuatu taem Kantri emi luk fowod blong hostem OFC U20 Jampionsip kompetisen blong festaem, long Luganville mo Port Vila. Tunamen ia bae i kivim wan eksaetmen long ol futbol fan afta long saksesful host blong OFC U17 jampionsip long Lugan-

“Folem Futbol Kalenda blong 2016, ol big kom-petisen I stat long manis January kasem long Oc-tober, mo sapos i no kat weta isiu truaot long yia ia, pipol I save enjoem

futbol kasem Novemba”ville long 2013, long Soka City Stediom.Soka City Stediom long Luganville bae emi wan nara venue bakaken blong ol mats blong 2016 OFC U20 Jampionsip kompe-tisen. Las kompetisen kalenda blong Vanuatu Futbol emi Brisk Kap long manis oktoba yia ia. Wan bigfala kompetisen we ol futbol fan blong Vanuatu i stap luk fowod long em tu emi 2016 OFC Champions League Kom-petisen, wan tunamen we Amical Futbol Klab blong Port Vila Lik bae i ripresentem Vanuatu long em. Amical i bitim Malampa Rivaevas blong LFA long 26 Septemba 2015, long Soka City Stediom, mo kwalifae from hae kom-petisen long klab Level, long Oceania Ri-jen. Amical FC i stap long Pul A blong tunamen ia tugeta wetem defending jampion, Auck-land City blong New Zealand, Lae City Dwellers FC blong Papua New Guinea mo Solomon Warriors FC blong Solomon Is-lands. Long Pul B i kat Suva FC blong Fiji, Team Wellington FC blong New Zealand, Hekari United blong Papua New Guinea mo AS Lossi blong New Caledonia. Long Grup C i kat As Magenta blong New Caledonia, As Tefana blong Tahiti, Nadi FA blong Fiji mo wina blong Prelimineri raon, we i tekem tugeta ol klab blong kantri long Polynesian Rijen olsem Samoa, Ton-ga, American Samoa mo Cook Islands. Wetem ol bigfala namba blong ol tunamen ia, Soccer City Tim i biliv se 2016 emi wan nara gud yia blong Futbol long Vanuatu, from big namba blong ol kompetisen we ol Fan blong Futbol i save enjoem long yia ia.


By TAMSAS SR JF, Luganville

Wanem futbol klab nao yu sapotem aot-saed long klab we yu stap long hem naoia?Barcelona

Hu nao hemi rol model we yu laekem we emi helpem yu long futbol karia blong yu? Giovani Fernandes - OFC Consultant & APFA Director of Football

Wanem nao ol drim blong yu long fiuja? Chelsea

Yu bin stat long Phoenix Academy long wa-nem taem? July 2015

Wanem emi haelaet blong karia blong yu?Vanuatu U17, OFC Championships

Senior Men. Photo VFF

U17 Men - 3rd posisen long Oceania.

U17 Women fes kompetisen lo Cooks.

U20 Women - 3rd long Oceania.

Olgeta nasonal outdoor tim blong Vanuatu long 2015/16

3 | Futbol EdukesenSOCCER CITY PRESS | Thursday, 21 January, 2016 Issue # 002

Wanem ia ‘transfer window’?Vanuatu Futbol i stap go long niufala sisen naoia mo emia emi minim se yumi stat go tru wan program we oli kolem long lanwis blong futbol se TransferWindow Period.

Futbol blong Vanuatu i stap ko tru long wan program we oli kolem long lanwis

blong futbol se Transfea Windo Period.Niufala Kompetisen Maneja blong Vanu-atu Football Federation (VFF), Bong Shem i talemaot long manis ia se Transfea Win-do blong sisen ia i open long 15 Januari mo bae emi stop long 15 Februari 2016. Transfea Windo emi taem we ol pleya i save muv long wan klab iko long wan nara klab, weta bitwin ol klab long sem futbol lik or long wan nara asosiesen, mo i mas folem stret rod blong em, olsem ol difren fi we ol pleya mo klab we i joen long dil ia i mas pem. Transfea Windo emi wan lanwis we Media nao i stap yusum blong tokbaot rejistresen blong ol pleya, mo period ia i stap hapen tu taem long wan Futbol Sisen, wan bifo niu sisen i stat mo narawan taem ol kem blong fes raon blong jampionsip emi kom-plit mo lik i stap redi from ol kem blong sekon raon. Folem Ofisol rul blong em, wanwan Na-tional Futbol Asosiesen i disaed long taem blong wan Transfea, be emi no mas bitim 12 Wik, emia blong fes Transfea mo nam-ba 2 Transefea emi no mas bitim 4 wik.Folem regulesen ia, long kes blong Vanu-atu, Kompetisen Dipatmen blong VFF nao i stap disaedem taem blong transfea.Taem yumi tokbaot Window Transfea, wanwan kantri emi kat wanwan way blong em blong ranem ol transfea program blong em, folem rul we FIFA i putum mo level blong kompetisen blong em.Long ol Profesenol Transfea, Transfea emi wan nara program we wanwan klab i me-kem mani blong olgeta, taem oli salemaot wan pleya blong olgeta iko long wan nara

klab, mo ikat ol kondisen we is tap long agrimen blong pleya mo ol klab konsen i mas folem.Bigfala Confederation blong FIFA we is tap mekem plante edlaen long wol media emi Confederation blong European Foot-ball, Union European Football Association (UEFA), we ikat insaed ol star blong fut-bol olsem Lionel Messi blong Argentina, Cristiano Ronaldo blong Portugal, Neymar blong Brazil, James Rodriguez blong Co-lombia, Zlatan Ibrahimovic blong Sweden,

Karim Benzema blong France mo World Record olda transfea, Gareth Bale blong Wales. Long Vanuatu, ikat sam klab olsem Spir-it 08, Tafea FC, Seveners United, Amical FC mo Ifira Black Bird FC we emi karem ol pleya blong nara kantri ikam play long Port Vila long ol yia we i pas, mo ol klab ia oli spendem plante Vatu blong karem ol pleya ia folem rul we FIFA i putumaot,

Maltock outlines football development priorities

Lambert who was re-elected as Vanuatu Football President last year in Santo for another four years. He thanked all the hard working staff for what they have done this year and also thank all the sponsors, football clubs, referees and fans for their contri-bution towards the development of foot-ball in Vanuatu. “Without doubt my focus is to help football primarily in the interest of our children.” Said Lambert Maltock. “I have first to help our coaches get more courses because if we have good local coaches, we will ultimately have good footballers.” “But we still have a long way to go; we have the talent.” “You spot young talented players across this country, which can be turned into

good footballers that can play in top leagues.” “ We need to nurture as many young talented players as possible so that we have a large pool of players to pick from.” “We want to make sure that our boys and girls continue to start playing foot-ball at an early age and this is where we will get the best players in the future.” We therefore need to have an Youth

league where many kids around the country can have a chance to play many competitive games at their age and lev-el.” “But this will depend on the quality of coaches, which brings me to my earli-

Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid

given FIFA trans-fer bans over youth

players

Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid have been banned from registering new

players in the next two transfer windows, FIFA announced on Thursday. FIFA’s disciplinary committee said the two clubs “violated several provisions concerning the international transfer and first registration” of players under 18 years of age. Real and Atletico were each issued a transfer ban to last across two windows for breaking FIFA rules. Atletico were hit with a €823,000 ($893,000) fine, while Real Madrid were fined €329,000 ($360,000). Included in FIFA’s list of players in question were the four sons of Real Ma-drid coach Zinedine Zidane, a fact that Real general director Jose Angel Sanchez said points to the “absurdity” of the ban. Pending appeals, neither club will be al-lowed to register new players until the summer of 2017, as they will be locked out of the next two transfer windows this summer and winter. However, both clubs may register new players during the cur-rent transfer window until it closes on Feb. 1. When the ban is in place, both clubs will

still be able to buy players, as Barcelona did with Arda Turan and Aleix Vidal last summer while still under their transfer ban. However, such players would not be eligible to play for the club until after the ban has been lifted. Turan and Vidal were unable to make their debuts for Barcelona until this month. Both clubs said on Thursday that they would appeal. Atletico Madrid president Enrique Cerezo called the ban a “huge in-justice.” “We do not agree with the sanction-ing ruling from the international football body and are studying the documentation received to lodge an appeal,” Atletico said in a club statement. Real Madrid released a longer statement explaining why FIFA’s ban was not jus-tifiable. They said they never used for-eign underage players without register-ing them with the Spanish federation, as claimed by FIFA, nor signed them with-out complying with the required proce-dures. The club added that they have always in-formed the local federation about all the players on their youth academy, another alleged breach of regulations by the club, according to FIFA. - ESPN

“Real and Atletico were each issued a transfer ban to last across two windows for breaking FIFA rules. Atleti-co were hit with a €823,000 ($893,000) fine, while Real Madrid were fined €329,000 ($360,000)

“Transfea Windo emi wan lanwis we Media nao i

stap yusum blong tokbaot rejistresen blong ol pleya, mo period ia i stap hapen tu taem long wan Futbol

Sisen, wan bifo niu sisen i stat mo narawan taem ol kem blong fes raon blong jampionsip emi komplit mo lik i stap redi from ol kem blong sekon raon.”

saed blong International transfea.Long Vanuatu, wanwan Memba Asosiesen emi kat own transfea rul blong em folem ol advaes blong Vanuatu Futbol Federa-tion, mo bigfala amaon blong mani blong pem pleya, emi no wan bigfala risen tumas, from level blong kompetisen emi low. “Yumi save se Christmas mo New Year Holiday emi pas mo ol klab long Vanuatu bae oli statem ol kompetisen blong olgeta mo mi wantem rimaendem ol futbol klab mo ol pleya se Transfea Window emi open long 15 Januari mo bae emi finis long 15 Februari 2016”, Bong Shem i talem. Emi adem se blong mekem laef emi isi long ol Futbol Administreta blong ol Mem-ba Asosiesen, evri klab mo futbol pleya i mas mekem ol document blong olgeta i redi long taem, bifo kompetisen mo sisen i stat. Bong Shem i sendemaot ol infomesen blong transfea iko long ol 8 Memba Asosiesen (MA) blong VFF finis mo ol kompetisen blong ol Opening Kap blong wanwan MA i sut stat afta long 16 Januari. Taem transfea Sisen emi end long nekis manis, pipol i save witnisim ol niu fes baka-ken long ol difren klab insaed long Vanu-atu.

“Without doubt my focus is to help football

primarily in the interest of our

children.”

er point of ensuring you have afforded enough training to as many coaches as possible, because these are the ones who will pass on the skills to the children.” “So from the Under 15, we shall se-lect the Under 17 national team and on-wards.” “With all these remarks, I take this op-portunity to thank all coaches in Vanu-atu who has given their time to help de-velop football in Vanuatu.” “There is also the plan to grow finan-cially, which comes with working with different partners (sponsors): I also take this opportunity to thank our faithful partner and sponsor, Telecom Vanuatu Limited ( TVL) for their continuous sup-port towards football development in Vanuatu.” “I also thank other Vanuatu Football programs like, Just Play, Grassroots, Centre of Excellence, Development Cen-tres, Woman’s Football, Futsal, Youth football, referees, Media, competition department, clubs, players and fans.” “My thanks to the finance department and our Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mr, Albert Manaroto.” “It was tough year for football in Van-uatu but I just want to remind everyone that challenges makes us strong in life.” “I also thank all the eight member asso-ciations in Vanuatu for their work and on behalf of the Executive Members , I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year 2016.”


By Harry Atisson, Vanuafoot

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2016 emi makem wan nara gud storian blong Vanuatu Futbol long saed blong

infrastrakja taem kavman blong Vanuatu i kivim 50 yia Lis blong Port Vila Stediom long Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF).President blong VFF, Lambert Maltock i saenem agrimen ia wetem wetem Kea-teka Minista blong Yut mo Spot, Samson Sam-sen mo jemen blong Spot Komisen, Wil-liam Nasak long 5 Januari 2016 long Port Vila.“Yumi Kat Ova long 100 Futbol klab long Vanuatu wetem taosen futbol pleya be wan samting we yumi no kat emi gud futbol fil mo fasiliti, mo tank yu tumas long Ka-vman blong tede blong yumi ko tru long wan agrimen olsem,” Mr Maltok i talem.Emi adem se Vanuatu Futbol i wok had we-tem ol pas Kavman mo Spot Minista blong kat wan agrimen olsem be i neva apen kasem long 2016, taem Kea-Teka Minista, Samson Samsen i mekem ol famli blong futbol long Vanuatu i api wetem agrimen

ia.Naoia we VFF i karem agrimen ia, bae emi divelopem mo bildimap long eim blong em we emi blong divelopem stediom we-tem elp blong OFC mo FIFA blong kasem intanasenol standed blong mekem se Van-uatu i save hostem ol OFC tunamen long fiuja.Vanuatu Futbol i pruvum em finis long Kavman se emi save divelopem stediom taem emi Karem 10 yia agrimen wetem foma Minista blong Yut mo Spot, Rapha-el Worwor long 16 April 2010, long Lu-ganville, blong lukaotem Chapuis Stedi-om long 10 yia, mo naoia ikat risal blong em finis.VFF emi apgredem Stediom ia ikam long wan nara level, long saed blong infrastrak-ja blong em, mo jenisim nem blong em ikam Soccer City Stediom, mo naoia emi hostem Futbol Academi blong Noten ri-jen.Standed blong fil i mekem se Soccer City

Stediom i hostem plante National tunamen mo wan rejinol tunamen finis.Long toktok blong em long manis ia, Lam-bert Maltock i komen se taem yu travel iko long ol kantri olsem Tonga, Samoa, Solo-mon Islands, New Caledonia, yu save luk ol gudfala stediom be long Vanuatu yumi kat plante futbol klab be yumi no kat ol gudfala fasiliti.Wetem ol mani we VFF i stap karem tru long FIFA, wish blong ol fan blong kat apged long Port Vila i save apen.

Kea-teka Minista blong Yut mo Spot, Samson Samsen mo jemen blong Spot Komisen, William Nasak i givim lis blong Port Vila ste-dium long President blong VFF, Lambert Maltock long 5 Januari 2016 long Port Vila.

Kea-Teka Minista blong Yut mo Sport, Samson Samsen i enkarejem Lambert maltok blong Continiu divelopem Futbol, ino long Port Vila nomo be long ol nara futbol fil long ol Memba Association (MA) long Vanuatu.Folem kol blong kavman ia, Lamenu Ste-diom long Tanna mo Wilkins Stediom long Malekula i stap long apgred list blong VFF.Wan long ol stedium we VFF i stap wok long em naoia emi Freshwota fil, long Port Vila.Naoia we Vanuatu emi winim Bid blong hostem OFC U20 Championship kompe-tisen long yia ia, long manis Okis mo Sep-temba, mo apgred blong ol Stediom emi wan long ol big praeroti.Soccer City Stediom long Santo i kasem rikwaemen blong OFC finis taem emi hostem OFC U17 Championship long 2013, mo folem emi, OFC i trastem VFF blong hostem U20 long yia ia.50 yia agrimen we VFF ikat stat long yia ia bae emi wan nara step long futbol divel-opmen long Vanuatu.

“Yumi Kat Ova long 100 Futbol klab long Vanu-atu wetem taosen futbol pleya be wan samting we yumi no kat emi gud fut-bol fil mo fasiliti”

At the invitation of the Government of Vanuatu, the Pacific Islands Forum

has deployed a team of electoral observ-ers to Port Vila, Vanuatu to observe the national elections which will be held on 22 January 2016. The Forum Observer Team comprises Mr Pita Vuki, Commissioner and Supervisor of Elections of the Kingdom of Tonga, and Ms Taggy Tangimetua, Chief Electoral Of-ficer of the Cook Islands. The team is sup-ported by the Forum Secretariat. The Forum Observer Team will be de-ployed in Efate from 14 to 25 January and will meet with a wide range of stakehold-

ers –including representatives of govern-ment, civil society, faith based organiza-tions, development partners, regional and international agencies and the diplomat-ic corps – ahead of polling day to gain an enhanced understanding of the electoral and political environment in Vanuatu. The Forum Team will observe all aspects of the elections, including the opening of polls, casting of votes, closing of polling, and the count. “The Pacific Island Forum has deployed observing missions to national elections in our Member countries for a number of years now, with the most recent being to

Solomon Islands in November 2014 and Bougainville in May 2015,” said Forum Secretary General Dame Meg Taylor. “On behalf of the Forum, I welcome the invi-tation from the caretaker Government of

Pacific Islands Forum to observe 2016 Vanuatu national elections

Vanuatu to observe these elections. I would also like to thank the Governments of the Republic of Tonga and the Cook Islands for making their senior electoral officials available to participate in the mission. This represents, in a very practical way, the Forum community’s commitment to the promotion of democratic values and good governance.” ”Electoral observation is an important as-pect of elections which contribute to trans-parency and accountability of electoral processes,” stated Mr Vuki, who leads the Forum team. The Pacific Islands Forum’s electoral ob-servation work is guided by the Biketa-wa Declaration (2000) under which Fo-rum Leaders’ committed, among other things, to ‘uphold the individual’s inalien-able right to participate by means of free and democratic political process in fram-ing the society they lived’.

-Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat

“The Forum Team will ob-serve all aspects of the elec-tions, including the open-ing of polls, casting of votes, closing of polling, and the count.”


Politics - 2016 General Election

Lionel Messi is rewriting football history. Before the emergence of the Argentine

attacker just over a decade ago, the game’s records were spread out among a select band of legends. But now there are hardly any left for anyone else. No player had ever won four Ballons d’Or prior to Messi, let alone five. But at the age of just 28, the Barcelona forward claimed the prestigious prize for the fifth time in Zu-rich on Monday and even if he fails to add to that tally in the next few years, it is un-likely to be beaten any time soon. Perhaps ever. And it’s a similar story with many of his other marks and milestones. The Argentine has long since surpassed Barca’s all-time scoring record and has now netted more than any other player in Spanish football history as well. In addition, he holds the re-cord for goals in a single season in La Liga (50) and in all competitions across Europe (73) and was the first to break Raul’s record of 71 strikes in the Champions League, al-though he currently trails Cristiano Ronal-do in the continental competition. In the meantime, he also has more goals in the Clasico than anyone else and is the only player to score two hat-tricks in the history of the famous fixture. But it’s not only goals. Messi passed Luis Figo’s mark for assists in La Liga last year and along with Andres Iniesta, he has won more trophies (26) for Barca than any oth-er player in the club’s history. His four Champions League crowns is an-other high, while the Blaugrana became the first team to win the treble twice as they matched their achievement in 2008-09 with another triple triumph in 2014-15. And just last week, Messi’s two goals against Espanyol saw him convert in six different competitions in a single season for the sec-ond time. His former team-mate Pedro had been the first to manage that feat in 2009, but Leo has now gone one better - as he usually does. The list goes on and on. And after winning six trophies in 2009, Barca ended last year with five titles to their name as they missed out on the Spanish Supercopa but claimed

the Club World Cup before Christmas with Messi in a starring role in the final against River Plate, a team that could have signed him as a teenager. Ahead of the Club World Cup, Luis En-rique said: “Messi is the best player in the world, and for me, the best player in his-tory.” And over the last 12 months, the Ar-gentine took his game to an even greater level, orchestrating much of Barca’s best football from a deeper position while scor-ing just as many goals and assisting his team-mates as well. However, 2015 did present one disap-pointment for Messi as he missed out on success with his national team once again, this time following defeat in the final of the Copa America to hosts Chile in July. That followed on from losing the final of the World Cup final to Germany a year ear-lier and remains a thorn in his side in an otherwise spectacularly successful playing career. Whether he is able to secure an elusive title at senior level with his national side remains to be seen. But even if he fails to win another trophy in his entire career, no player has dominated an era quite like Leo. Pele won three World Cups with Brazil (in 1958, 1962 and 1970), but never played his club football in Europe and you only have to look at how revered Neymar was in his homeland before struggling some-what in his first season at Barcelona to re-alise there is a significant difference in the respective leagues. Pele was not up against the world’s best players on a regular basis like Messi is now. Diego Maradona was in the 1980s and many Argentines argue that Messi cannot eclipse their other legendary number 10 until he has won a World Cup with the Al-biceleste. But while it is true that Diego dragged an average team through the com-petition in 1986 en route to the title, he also failed to score in the final. It was his pass that set up Jorge Luis Burruchaga for the winner against West Germany, but his team-mate still had to put the ball away. Had Gonzalo Higuain not missed two su-perb chances in 2014, it would probably

have been a similar story. Fine lines. In any case, Maradona’s best years came at Napoli and with Argentina between 1984 and 1990, but he claimed just five trophies in that period and only 10 club titles in his entire career, while his goal stats are no-where near Messi’s. Meanwhile, Johan Cruyff led Ajax to six Eredivisie titles and three European Cups in a glorious spell at the Amsterdam club before moving to Barcelona, while an-other Argentine, Alfredo Di Stefano, won even more at Real Madrid in the 1950s and 1960s: eight Liga titles and five European Cups. Di Stefano was undoubtedly the star in that Madrid side, but Messi is fast catch-ing his compatriot (who passed away in 2014) in terms of goals and the Barca for-ward is plying his trade in a much more competitive era. These days, players are fitter and superior technically, tactics are better, rivals are stronger and faster too, while any look at old footage also shows just how much goalkeepers have improved since the days of black and white broad-casts. The conditions now are more difficult, but still the five-time Ballon d’Or winner is posting the most impressive stats in the history of the game. And with Messi, the numbers only begin to tell the story of his incredible influence.

Back in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the Bal-lon d’Or was an award reserved for Euro-pean players. Although Argentine, Di Ste-fano won it twice during his time at Real (in 1957 and 1959), but that was because he had started to represent Spain in 1957. However, neither Pele nor Maradona were eligible for the prize. And even if they had been, it seems unlike-ly that either would have matched Messi’s achievement of claiming the Golden Ball five times. Because even though Pele won three World Cups, Garrincha was very much the star in 1962 as the striker missed most of the competition through injury. Mara-dona, meanwhile, would have won several, but five seems unlikely in a decade in which three-time winners Marco van Basten and Michel Platini were at their peak. “Pele and Diego Maradona both made a huge difference,” Messi’s former Barca team-mate Xavi said recently. “But foot-ball has evolved. The players are better than they were, the game is better. And Messi stands out as the best at the best time in the history of football.”He is probably right. Despite the difficul-ty in comparing eras, football has indeed evolved and Messi is dominating an era which is supposed to be the hardest in the game’s history like no other player before him. And he’s doing it with what looks like effortless ease. He really is made of gold.


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6 | Football Export News

2015 i makem wan nara ajivmen blong Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF) long

rejinol level, espeseli long Solomon Islands. Kensi Tangis i kam top skora blong Nation-al Super League Competissen blong Sol-omon Islands Football Federation (SIFF) wetem 17 poen evriwan afta long 16 mats we em mo klab blong em i ple long em long Honiara. “Fanafo Boy” i bitim plante big nem blong Solomon futbol olsem Benjamin Totori, Richard Fono, Dennis Ifunaoa mo Robert Laua blong karem awod blong SIFF Gold-en Boot, or top skora. Ajivmen blong Kensi ia i makem wan histri tu long futbol blong Solomon Islands blong wan pleya blong wan nara kantri i kam top skora, from Solomon Islands emi wan kan-tri we i stap prodiusum ol gud straeka long ol yia we i pas kasem long naoia. Ripot long Honiara i soem se tufala Van-uatu Pleya, Kensi Tangis mo Brian Kaltak i skorem 27 poen evriwan long kampen blong Solomon Warriors FC long 2015, mo emia i kivim inaf evidens se tufala pleya blong Vanuatu ia i pleyem big pat blong Solomon

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Warriors Fc i kam jampion klab blong Sol-omon Islands. Solomon Warriors FC i karem seves blong trifala pleya blong Vanuatu ia, Kensi, Bri-an mo Daniel Natou, mo oli elp blong me-kem klab ia ikam jampion mo Kwalifae long 2016 OFC Champions League, long New Zealand. SIFF Supa Lik kompetisen i tekem tugeta ol klab ia, Solomon Warriors FC, Western United FC, Malaita Kingz FC, Marist Fire FC, West Honiara FC, Kossa FC, Koloale FC, Real Kakamora FC mo FC Guadalcanal. Final 3 standing long tebol i soem se Solo-mon Warriors FC ikam jampion; difending

SIFF National Super League Golden Boot Final Top 10 Standing. Source: SIFF

2015 i makem wan nara ajivmen blong Vanuatu Football Federation (VFF) long rejinol level, espeseli long Solomon Islands.



Jason Thomas i bin stap ple futbol long Cambodia.

Slyvian Worworbu and Joseph Iaruel in St.Peter College long Auckland, New Zea-land.

Ronaldo emi skul long Scots College (Phoe-nix Academy) emia long New Zealand tru long wan rilesensip we Asia Pacific Foot-ball Academy i kat wetem Oceania Foot-ball Conferdration. Ronaldo emi skul long Scots College (Phoenix Academy) emia long Niu Silan. - www.wpfa.org.nz

Name Position Club Points

Kensi Tangis 1 Solomon Warriors FC 17Benjamin Totori 2 Western United FC 11Lore Foanaota 3 Malaita Kingz FC 10Brian Kaltak 4 Solomon Warriors FC 10Harrisson Mala 5 Kossa FC 10Richard Fono 6 Malaita Kingz FC 9Dennis Ifunaoa 7 Warriors FC 9Atana Fa’arado 8 Koloale FC 8Robert Laua 9 Marist Fire FC 8Abraham Iniga 10 Western United 7

“Ajivmen blong Kensi ia i makem wan histri tu long futbol blong Solomon Islands blong wan pleya blong wan nara kan-tri i kam top skora, from Solo-mon Islands emi wan kantri we i stap prodiusum ol gud straeka long ol yia we i pas kasem long naoia.”

jampion, Western United i kam namba 2 mo namba 3 emi Marist Fire FC. “2015 emi wan gud yia blong mi wetem Klab blong mi from mifala i winim plante kem mo sam taetel”, Kensi i talem. Emi komen tu se 2016 emi wan nara yia we klab blong em i stap pripea from, es-peseli long rejinol level, long OFC Cham-pions League long manis Eprel. Straeka blong Vanuatu ia emi kat 25 yia naoia mo emi kat big misen blong kom-plitim wetem klab blong em mo national tim long 2016. 17 poen long 16 mats long wan jampi-onsip sisen long wan strong futbol kan-tri long Oceania Rijen olsem Solomon Is-lands, emi wan gud storian long Vanuatu Futbol we ol fan blong Futbol long Rijen i save storian long em. Pefomens blong em long Honiara i karem atensem blong plante foma national pleya mo koj blong Vanuatu. Foma National Pleya blong Vanuatu, Kai-son maki we i kojem Kensi mo National Tim long 2012 OFC Nations Cup long Sol-omon i Congratuletem Kensi long ajivmen blong em. “Kensi emi wan Role-Model long futbol blong Vanuatu mo ol Province long north” Kaison Maki i talem. Emi adem se Kensi emi stil pruvum se emi wan long ol top futbol straeka blong Vanuatu mo emi nid blong wok had redi from ol fiuja kompetisen em. Pefomens blong trifala pleya blong Van-uatu ia long Solomon islands i soem se Vanuatu pleya ikat potensol blong pefom hae long rijen long fiuja, Kaison i talem. Wetem yia we emi kat naoia, emi soem long VFF mo ol Fan blong Vanuatu Futbol se emi save ofarem wan best opsen long fran-laen blong National Tim long 2016

OFC Nations Kap long manis Mei mo Jun. Kensi bae i risivim SIFC Supa Lik Gold-en Boot Awod long sekon wik blong manis Februari long Honiara, Solomon Islands. Kensi i kasem Vanuatu bifo Christmas long 2015 mo spendem taem wetem ol famli blong em long Fanafo bifo emi ko bak long Honiara long 17 Januari 2016.

7 | Player ProfileVFF LICENSE No.:

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name: Chris AndrewAge: Height: Citizenship: Ni-Vanuatu

Home Address: LuganvilleMobile:Email: Facebook:Twitter:

ACADEMIC INFORMATION

School: Class:

ATHLETIC INFORMATION

Sport: SoccerCurrent club: AS Temanava (TAHITI)Clubs played in: Malampa Revivors FC, Atsal United FC, Erakor Golden Star FCCountries played in: Vanuatu, Papua New Guin-ea, New Caledonia, Tahiti

ACHIEVEMENTS

Competitions: LFA, PVFA, NSL, U23, MSC

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9 | OFC U-17 Women’s ChampionshipSOCCER CITY PRESS | Thursday, 21 January, 2016 Issue # 002

Vanuatu U-17 tim i bin ple fes maj blong hem long Pool B akensem

wan strong Papua New Guinea saed long Fraede mo oli bin lus long wan hevi sko blong 7-1 akensem PNG. Seken maj oli winim Fiji long 3-2 mo lus wetem Cook Island long namba tri maj mekem oli lus aot long semi faenal.

Fes elefen tim blong Vanuatu akensem Papua New Guinea.

Name Position Jersey

Ruth TATE GK 1Lilian SAWON 2Lily NIHAMBAT 3Leiwia TANGARASE 6Emilia TARAVAKI Captain 7 Cynthia NGWELE 8Annie GERE Striker 10Vaina BONG 12Delphine KALMET 16Leimata SIMON 17Vanessa KILETIA 21

Substitutes: 4. Shania SIRI, 5. Dorolyn SAMSON, 9. Melissa BANI, 13. Hannah TAIWIA, 14. Tisha RONNY, 15. Keren COULON, 18. Melinda FRED

New Zealand i mentenem spot long Group A wetem wan 12-0 viktori ofa long New Caledonia long Maj Dei 3.

Fiji i winim fes maj blong hem akensem Cook Islands long wan sko blong 3-0 lo maj dei 2. Foto: OFC

Papua New Guinea i kilim Vanuatu long 7-1 long maj dei 2. Foto: OFC

New Caledonia i winim fes maj blong hem long dei akensem Tonga long wan sko blong 5-0 long maj dei 1. Foto: OFC

Tonga i winim Samoa long maj dei 3 we-tem wan sko blong 4-1. Foto: OFC

Vanuatu i bin winim Fiji long 3-2 long maj dei 4 mo muv i go long nekis raon mo lus wetem Cook Islands. Annie Gere long photo afta long wan goal. Foto:OFC

U-17 nasonal tim blong Papua New Guinea. Foto: OFC

U-17 nasonal tim blong Fiji. Foto: OFC

U-17 nasonal tim blong New Zealand. Foto: OFC

U-17 nasonal tim blong Vanuatu. Foto: OFC

2016 OFC U-17 jampionsip blong ol woman long Cook Islands i stap gohed naoia mo emia sam risal blong Maj Dei 1, 2 mo 3.

Pool A Pool B

New Caledonia Cook IslandsTonga FijiNew Zealand Papua New GuineaSamoa Vanuatu

I kat 2 Pools blong A & B

Photo: OFC

10 | Futsal Development

Nasonal futsal tim i stap pripea blong go long 2018 FIFA WC Kwalifaea

Nasonal futsal seleksen we i redi blong go daon long Fiji long Februare

Sunday, January 17, 2016

Tight contests feature on Match Day 4Papua New Guinea maintained their perfect record with a hard-fought win over Cook Islands, while Van...

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Winning starts for NZ and New CaledoniaNew Caledonia and New Zealand both made winning starts in Group A, as the 2016 OFC U-17 Women’s Championship

Thursday, January 14, 2016

Play-off venues con-firmedThe dates and venues have been locked in for OFC Stage 2 of the Women’s Olym-pic Football Qualifiers.

Monday, January 11, 2016

Kurukuru squad namedThe Solomon Islands national futsal squad has been named for the upcom-ing 2016 OFC Futsal Championship


Solomon U-12 side claim titleThe Solomon Islands have made a win-ning start to 2016 on the futsal court, taking out the U-12 champship.

Wednesday, December 16, 2015

New trio to join ASB Pre-miershipNew Zealand Football confirmed on Wednesday the 10 participants for an expanded 2016-17 ASB Premiership.

Friday, December 11, 2015

Hiroshima too much for OFC champions.There will be no repeat of Auckland City FC’s FIFA Club World Cup heroics after the Oceania champion lose to Hiroshi-ma during Club World Cup in Japan.

Vanuatu National Futsal Tim I katem daon namba blong ol pleya blong em

iko long 14 man skuad redi from OFC World Cup Kwalifaya long Fiji long nekis manis. Foma Futsal Koj blong Solomon Islands, Dickson Kadau I spendem 3 wik finis we-tem ol pleya ia, stat long 26 Disemba 2015, mo Hed Koj Louis Dominique I api long priperesen blong tim. Ikat 18 Man Pri-skuad we oli trening tug-eta long Wan SmolBag Komplex mo long wik ia, Manejmen blong tim I aotem 4 pleya mo olem taet 14 we bae I entarem trening Kamp long Mande 18 Januari long VFF Ac-ademi long Teouma. Tim Vanuatu ikat smol taem moa blong wok wetem 14 pleya ia bifo oli katem daon namba blong ol pleya iko long 12 man Fi-nal Skuad we bae I travel iko long Fiji. Vanuatu I laki blong karem experiens blong Solomon Koj ia we I lidim Kuruku-ru Futsal tim, National Futsal Tim blong Solomon Islands iko 3 mein FIFA Futsal tunamen olsem 2 FIFA Futsal World Cup mo 1 FIFA Futsal Confederation Cup long past. “Mi bin letem tim I save se bae emi traem evri best blong em wetem bigfala experi-ence we emi kat blong mekem wan jens long stori blong Vanuatu Futsal”, Hed Lou-is Dominique emi talem toktok ia ova long rikrutmen blong Man Solomon Islands blong kojem Vanuatu tim. Koj Dominique I komen se Dickson Kadau I statem ol trening em wetem sam fisikol trening mo difens system. “ Koj Kadau I emfasaes plante nao long difens from emi wantem se Vanuatu I mas bildim strong difens blong em, afta yumi save ko tru long ol nara eria blong kem”, Koj Dominique I talem. “14 players bai oli go long Kamp long next Monday 18 January hemia long VFF Acad-

emy long Teouma before 12 long olgeta nomo bae oli lego kantri blong go long Fiji long number 5 februari blong Kompit long OFC World qualifier hemia long Vodafone Arena, long Suva”, Koj Dominique I talem. Tunamen blong Fiji ia I tekem tugeta 6 kantri ia mo oli kompit long raon robin fomat, mo wina blong tunamen ia bae I ripresentem Oceania Football Confedera-tion long 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup. 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup bae I tekem ples long Colombia, long Saot America, mo mats bae I tekem ples long fofala taon ia, Cali, Bucaramanga, Medellin mo Iba-gue, stat long 10 Septemba kasem 1 Okto-ba 2016. FIFA Ekesekutif Komiti I anaonsem long 28 May 2013 se Colombia nao I bitim Czech Republic blong hostem tunamen ia, afta we ol kantri olsem France, Iran, Puer-to Rico mo Spain I karembak bid blong ol-geta. Tunamen blong Vodafone Arena ia bae I stat long namba 8 Februari mo Vanuatu bae I pleyem ol kantri olsem host Fiji, New Zealand, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia mo Tahiti. Vanuatu I stat blong tekem pat OFC

tunamen ia stat long 1992 mo emi neva winim yet, or iven kasem long Grand Fi-nal. Aot long ol las 8 edisen blong tunamen ia we Vanuatu I pat long em, emi kam nam-ba 3 long 6 edisen mo namba long las 2 edisen, emia blong 2010 mo 2011 edisen. I kat 2 Kantri nomo we I winim OFC Futsal tunamen ia plante taem, Australia mo Sol-omon Islands, mo tugeta I jampion 4 taem. Australia emi jampion long ol fes 4 edisen olsem, 1992 edisen, 1996 edisen, 1999 edisen mo 2004, mo afta emi ko joenem Asia Football Confederation long 2006.Taem Australia I aot, Solomon Islands I stat selebretem taetel ia long 2008 edisen, 2009 edisen, 2010 edisen mo las edisen long 2011. Edisen blong 2016 bae emi intresting folem, blong luk se wanem kantri I save stopem Solomon Islands. Tim Vanuatu I stap tren anda long Lou-is Dominique blong Vanuatu mo Dickson Kadau blong Solomon Islands mo tim I kat semak drim olsem ol nara kantri we I pat long tunamen ia, we emi blong kwalifae iko from Wol Kap.

Seleksen blong Vanuatu

Futsal Championship Match Schedules

13-23 January 2016

8-13 February 2016

Name Club

Serge Daniel Erakor Golden Star Ben Hungai USIB FCDudley Dominique Santos FCFalkon Joseph Eastern Star FCJimmy Malap T UnitedJacky John Northern Star FCDonald Avock Namba 3 Aveck FCMorsen Lui Namba 3 Aveck FCGeorge Mahit Namba 3 Aveck FCRicky Tuigaloa Tupuji Majik FCPakoa Rakom Tupuji Majik FC

Group stage

08/02/16 22:00 Solomon Islands Tahiti

08/02/16 22:00 Vanuatu New Zealand

08/02/16 22:00 New Caledonia Fiji

09/02/16 22:00 Vanuatu Fiji

09/02/16 22:00 New Zealand Tahiti

09/02/16 22:00 New Caledonia Solomon Islands

10/02/16 22:00 Fiji Tahiti

10/02/16 22:00 Solomon Islands New Zealand

10/02/16 22:00 New Caledonia Vanuatu

12/02/16 22:00 Tahiti New Caledonia

12/02/16 22:00 Fiji New Zeland

12/02/16 22:00 Solomon Islands Vanuatu

13/02/16 22:00 Tahiti Vanuatu

13/02/16 22:00 Fiji Solomon Islands


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By Louis Dominique, Port Vila

TIMELINE

11 | Shefa & JustPlay

Football is the main recreational ac-tivity of countless numbers of chil-

dren around the world. It is an excep-tional tool for social integration and an excellent means of expression. The FIFA grassroots football program offers ev-eryone the chance to play football, with-out discrimination and without the need for major infrastructures. FIFA’s grassroots football program tar-gets boys and girls aged 6-12 years through school, community and club initiatives .The sport is to give them access to football in their own environment whatever their age, sex, physical condition, skin colour, religion or ethnic origin. The training and developing of future pro-fessional players is of course fully justified because it ensures that they are better pre-pared to face playing at the top level . It is however essential to remember that the game of football has a wider role to play and that it has to include basic educative values as part of its agenda. Grassroot a pathway that prepares to train and develop not only kids but also those youngstars who are passionate about the game and who form the base of the football pyramid that the game needs to ensure its continued progress.

VFF has been successful inimplement-ing this program especially in Tafea,Port-Vila,Malampa,Loganvilleand other prov-inces as well. Like an assistant coach to Erakor Gold-en Star FC have seen how well Grassroot Program have had positive impacts to the development of players.Since the last couple of years, being a grass-root development officer my target is to strengthened the base of the pyramid in the club and am glad that my goals have been achieved. Through the program the club itself have produced some of its own best players like Brian Kaltack,now playing for Solomon Warriors FC,Jason Thomas who have just return from Cambodia playing for Asian Youth Champions League,Jean Kaltack a Vanuatu National soccer player,Jacky Reuben, Remy Kalsrap,and the rest of the EGS boys. Am glad the chiefs,pastotor and other community leaders in Erakor have wit-nessed and happy about how soccer is go-ing along in their community.Our society compels negative and posi-tive life driven factors but I think nega-tive out weighs positive too. I am using grassrootfootball as another tool making awareness promoting healthy lifestyles messages and basics of crime prevention.

Am also observing the community and see-ing that young people have changed com-pared to some few years ago and this might be part of not just kicking a soccer ball but another reason to life changing. As it was preached some years ago by the president of Vanuatu Football Federation and the OFC through FIFA that each club must have its own elite program and that is where facilitation of good and skillful players are to be identified. This will make it much more easier that players selected under U17 coaches will be players who already have basic football skills. With experiences through the program I think it is time that all MAs must take some more extra steps to implement grassroot football. We will have professional leagues if we have professional players and to have pro-fessional players each club must address the logic of player development . “Don’t wait for the change , be the change the world is waiting for...” - Barack Obama.

Erakor Grassroot Football

Coaching the PVFA U12. 015 Photo : Vanuafoot

13-23 January 2016

8-13 February 2016

Vanuatu Just Play Team

Project Manager - Rorona Kalsakau

Coordinators - Kaison Maki, Anthony Kalia, Lele William, Dephanny Naliupis, Tavai Soalo, Jessina Williams, Nelson

James, Benjamin Noel

Administrator - Shilda Wilbur

Instructor - Vital Tanemeulip

Progress in Vanuatu

Just Play has been implemented in Emae, Ambae, Luganville, Sanma, Tan-

na and Port Vila.

more than 10,236 children

more than 175 community volunteers

more than 238 teachers

more than 119 schools

more than 78 communities

Signed MoU with the government to fa-cilitate partnership.

Just Play is in a group of NGO’s and government departments called the

‘Child Protection Working Group’. This group participates in festivals deliver-ing awareness to children and parents in their respective areas. This working group has put its resources together to assist each member during an activity.


-Grassroot festival i stap hapen long ol Fraede-Ol divelopmen senta oli tren 2 dei long 1 wik-Senta of ekselens oli tren 3 dei long 1 wik-Ol MA oli ranem ol yut kompetisen

Memba asosiesen Divelopmen ofisa

Grassroot Festival

Divelopmen senta

Senta blong ekselens Comp

Torba Dudley/Keith 3 20 20 yes

Penama Benedict/Tempest 32 32 12 yes

Luganville Richard/Rocky 9 16 16 yes

Sanma Gabriel/Frisco 7 35 20 yes

Malampa Moken/Fredah 9 19 20 yes

Shefa Nelson/Rissa 8 30 45 yes

Port Vila Ben/Ali 8 45 23 yes

Tafea Joel Stephen 30 56 56 yes

By NOEL BENJAMIN, Shefa

Wanem nao grassroot prokram blong futbol i stap mekem long Vanuatu?Tebol ia i soem hao VFF i strakjarem ol MA wetem prokram blong grassroot we insaed long wan MA i kat ol divelopmen ofisa mo oli ranem ol festival blong bil-dim ol divelopmen senta mo ol senta blong ekselens.

SOCCERCITY

Vanuafoot Timeline

TFA 2nd Edition

Wednesday, January 13, 2016

PNG will be strong but we are ready; RaruaVanuatu Spirit 17 Girl’s first match in the OFC Woman’s U17 competition in Cook Islands this week is against Papua New Guinea on Thursday at CIFA Academy in Rarotonga, Cook Islands.

Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Vanuatu named final squad to FijiThe Vanuatu National Futsal team man-agement has named their final squad to Fiji next month to take part in the OFC Futsal Competition 2016.

Saturday, January 09, 2016

Vanuatu Spirit support Vanuatu U17 GirlsThe newly sport clothes shop in town, Vanuatu Spirit has sponsored the Vanu-atu woman’s U17 Girls national team.

Friday, January 08, 2016

VFF secure 50 years lease of PV stadiumVanuatu Football Federation is cele-brating this week after an agreement was reached with Vanuatu government through the ministry of Youth and Sport to secure 50 years lease of Port Vila stadi-um.

Tuesday, January 05, 2016

Transfer window opens 15 JanuaryVanuatu Football Federation new com-petition manager, Bong Shem has con-firmed the dates of transfer windows for all football clubs and players would like to transfer to other clubs before the sea-son starts.


U17 girls ready for Cook IslandsVanuatu woman’s U17 national team is now ready to fly to Rarotonga, Cooks to take part in the OFC U17 Qualifier, kicks off on the 13 to 23 January 2016.


Vanuatu Gideons pre-pares for OFC Futsal qualifiersThe Vanuatu Futsal national team (Gide-ons) has stepped up its preparation for the upcoming OFC FUTSAL qualifiers in Fiji.


Merry Christmas and Happy New yearVanuatu Football Federation wishes all Players, Officials, and Supporters a Mer-ry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2016.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Tafea down Gaitcha in friendlyVanuatu former club champion, Tafea FC has beaten New Caledonia side, FC Gaitcha 4-3 in the international friend-ly last Sunday at Numa Daly Stadium in Noumea, New Caledonia.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Maltock outlines football development prioritiesThe president of Vanuatu Football Fed-eration, Mr. Lambert Maltock has deliv-ered his Christmas and New Year mes-sage at Harbor View restaurant in Port Vila last Friday night during the end of year staff party.


Germany has shown the wayGermany not only wins the World Cup but won many hearts in Vanuatu after their victory in 2014.


Head of administration leaves PVFABong Shem, Head of administrator for the past seven years, will leave Port Vila Football Association (PVFA) at the end of December 2015.

Thursday, December 17, 2015

Vanuatu U17 Women’s

Vanuafoot timeline is a brief column for Vanuafoot’s Harry Atisson in the VFF media department. A time snapshot of brief read on Vanuafoot website, daily 10am radio show program & on social media.

Home of Footbal in VanuatuSports news update

Vanuatu Spirit clothes sport shop spon-sored Vanuatu Woman’s U17 Girls Na-tional team representing Vanuatu Foot-ball in the OFC Woman’s U17 World Cup qualifier in Rarotonga, Cook Islands this week.

Vaes presiden blong Vanuatu Foot-ball Federation Mr. Iau Tuan hemi

bin attendem wan mitting long Tafea Provinsiel Hedkwata long Isangel long namba 18 Disemba 2015 wetem Plana mo SG blong Tafea Provins Mr Reyn-old Surmat from tingting blong sae-nem akrimen blong VFF emi manejem Lamenu Staduim. Administreta blong Tafea Futbol

LAMENU STADUIM READY TO SIGN MANAG-

ING AREEMENT WITH VFF AND TPGC

Asosiesen Anthony Kalia i ripotem se ol tingting i stap kam klia nao afta long disentrelaesesen polisi we oli bin lonjem long Tanna long namba 4 Sep-temba 2014 blong wok tuketa ajivim ol samting wetem patnasip blong VFF mo pronvinsiel kaonsel blong Tafea mo i hapen afta long visit blong Glen Turner we hemi FIFA Development Officer long Oceania Football Confed-

TVL Premiere League

Lik blong Tafea Futbol Asosiesen bae i kikof folem 2015/2016 kalenda

long namba 19 Februare 2016. SG blong TFA, Anthony Kalia i ripo-tem se long taem ia tu ol narafala de-velopment prokram olsem Grassroot mo JustPlay prokram i kohed bakeken wetem ol prokram blong ol skul.

Womens Football Devel-opment Programme.

Administreta Blong Tafea Futbol Asosiesen Mr. Anthony Kalia hemi

mit wetem tufala Developmen Ofisa blong TFA, Ms. Esther Manu mo Ms. Karina blong tokbaot ol prokram blong ol kel we bae i stat long Februare 2016. Tufala DO ia wan i wok long East mo wan long West Tanna. Mr. Kalia i ripotem tu se long nekis manis tu bambae oli openem wan per-training sisen mo senta blong ol kel long Lamenu Staduim mo Namaka Sta-dium. TFA bambae hemi mekem ol rejis-tresen blong fes intek blong hem wetem ol yangfala kel long eij blong 9 kasem 12 yia, mo tu long eij blong 13 kasem 15 yia mo oli stap invaetem ol papa mo mama we oli intres long prokram ia blong mekem save wetem asosiesen bifo prokram i stat. TFA hemi biliv se ol kel Tafea oli save ple futbol mo taem yumi tijim gud foot-ball long olgeta bambae oli save kompit strong wetem ol narafala MA.

Seken edisen blong Tafea futbol nius wetem Anthony Kalia

eration I kam daon long Tanna long tingting blong Developem Lamenu Staduim. Kalia i talem se aotkam blong mit-ing ia, TFA mo TPGC I stap okanaesem wan nara dei bakeken afta long eleksen blong kontiniu long diskasen ia. Kalia long bihaf blong TFA hemi stap talem bikfala tank yu long TPGC blong luksave nid blong developem wan sef envaeronmen blong ol pikinini blong Tafea blong oli save kontiniu blong ple futbol long provins blong Tafea mo divelopmen ia helpem bikwan spot mo yut sekta long Tafea provins.


Vanuatu woman’s team now name: Vanuatu Spir-it 17s Girls.

Team prepares wellThe Vanuatu Women’s U17 National Team is currently in preparation for the 2016 OFC U17 Women’s Championship to be played from 13 – 23rd January 2016 in Rarotonga, Cook islands.

12 | Football in BriefSOCCER CITY PRESS | Thursday, 21 January, 2016 Issue # 002

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FIFA says it has fired Secretary General Jerome Valcke, a move that comes amid alleged corruption in-volving World Cup ticket sales and a number of swirling scandals at football’s governing body. “The FIFA Emergency Committee decid-ed, on 9 January 2016, to dismiss Jerome Valcke from the position of FIFA Secre-tary General with immediate effect,” the Zurich-based organisation said in a state-ment. It gave no reason for the dismissal but Valcke’s lawyer in New York, Barry Berke,

FIFA says it has fired Secretary General Jerome Valcke, a move that comes amid alleged corruption involving World Cup ticket sales and a number of swirling scan-dals at football’s governing body.

was defiant on behalf of his client.“Jerome Valcke is proud of all that was ac-complished for the game of football during his long tenure as Secretary General, in-cluding two of the most successful World Cups in history in South Africa and Bra-zil,” he said. “He remains confident that he will be ful-ly vindicated and history will recognise all of his contributions to the sport he loves.”Valcke was once one of the most power-ful men in FIFA and responsible for en-suring that preparations for the last two World Cups, in South Africa and Brazil, were completed in time. A FIFA ethics investigation into the case

recommended a nine-year ban for the Frenchman, former right-hand man to FIFA President Sepp Blatter who himself has been banned for eight years.Last week FIFA’s ethics judges announced they had opened formal proceedings against Valcke, who has denied wrongdoing in the past. Valcke was placed on leave by FIFA in September following the allegations and initially suspended for 90 days in October when the ethics committee started its in-vestigation. That suspension was extended for another 45 days last week and a ban from all foot-ball activities remains in effect.

The secretary general’s duties will contin-ue to be carried out by Acting Secretary General Markus Kattner, FIFA said. Valcke’s case has been overshadowed by the turmoil which has engulfed FIFA in the last year, with criminal investigations into the sport in both the United States and Switzerland. Altogether, 41 people and sports entities, including top FIFA officials, have been in-dicted by US prosecutors for offences in-cluding corruption, fraud and money laun-dering.

- Reuters

The International Federation of Histo-ry and Statistics of football (IFFHS)

Choose the Argentine Lionel Messi as the best playmaker of 2015 for the first time in his career. After having came second last year behind the German Tony Kroos star of Real Ma-drid, Messi won the award obtaining the 168 points in the vote which participated by representatives from more than 50 coun-tries. Messi has achieved the award after a suc-cessful year with all standards Catalan Bat-talion where he achieved the Spanish league title and the copa del rey and the Champi-ons League and the title of the European Super Cup and the Club World Cup. Messi beat his colleague Andres Iniesta, who won the award twice in 2012 and 2013 to continue their control Barca star over the award since 2008, except in 2014 where he won the Spanish Xavi Hernandez the current Al Sadd player four times in a row from 2008-2011

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The Blancos and Juventus legend has de-cided to keep the same team of coaches

which worked with him at Castilla, while Luis Miguel Ramis succeeds him in the B teamNew Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane has confirmed his technical staff as he pre-pares to start life at the Santiago Bernabeu at the head of the first team.

The Frenchman, who had been the boss of Castilla, was named by president Florenti-no Perez as Rafael Benitez’s successor on Monday.

And Goal understands that he will contin-ue working closely with assistants Hami-dou Msaidie and David Bettoni.Bettoni has been alongside Zidane for much of his career in football, both as a player and now as a coach.

Bernardo Requena will be the club’s new fitness and conditioning coach, while Luis

Premier League Stars Missing From 2015 FIFA FIFPro World XI revealed

The Premier League likes to bill itself as the best league in the

world, and that might be true, but it is not the league where the best play-ers in the world play in. The 2015 FIFA FIFPro World XI was an-nounced on Monday and not one Premier League player made the team. In fact the Premier League was the only of Europe’s top five divisions not to have a representa-tive in the team. Spain’s La Liga led the way by a considerable distance with eight play-ers, while Germany’s Bundesliga, France’s Ligue 1 and Italy’s Serie A each had one. It is not a bad line-up. Lining up in a 4-3-3 formation, Bayern Munich goalkeeper

Zinedine Zidane reveals Real Madrid coaching team

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Manuel Neuer has been selected between the posts with Marcelo (Real Madrid), Thiago Silva (PSG), Sergio Ramos (Real Madrid) and Dani Alves (Barcelona) in defence. The only surprise is that Ramos made the team over Barcelona central de-fender Gerard Piqué. The midfield trio is Andres Iniesta (Bar-celona), Luka Modric (Real Madrid) and Paul Pogba (Juventus) with Real Madrid’s Cristiano Ronaldo joined by Barcelona pair Lionel Messi and Neymar up front. What do you think of the line-up. Other than Pique, who is missing that should be there?

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The Manchester United manager lost patience with members of the media who had criticised captain Wayne Rooney, singling out a journalist from The Sun on his way out Louis van Gaal is no stranger to mak-ing controversial remarks in his press conferences but even he might admit that he overstepped the mark by calling a journalist “fat man” following Tuesday’s draw at Newcastle. The Dutchman responded in typically prickly fashion to the media’s criticism of Wayne Rooney, who returned to some-thing like his best form against Steve McClaren’s side with two goals and an assist. “You have criticised him, I don’t,” Van Gaal said before walking away, pointing to a journalist and adding “You too. Fat man. There.” The Sun journalist Neil Custis was sub-sequently revealed as the man to whom Van Gaal was referring and he respond-ed by writing: “You are right, Louis, I am fat. “I had a knee operation four months ago that stopped me running and going to the gym. That has resulted in me putting on nearly two stone “At least I can hold my hand up to my own failings. Shame others can’t.”

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FIFA women’s football development programmes offer Member Associa-

tions multifaceted support ranging from expertise, teaching and promotional ma-terial to football equipment and finan-cial assistance. The programmes on offer for the next four years strive to encourage and create competition opportunities at all levels for women and girls. FIFA has set guidelines that provide all 209 member associations (MAs) with the necessary information to apply for and benefit from FIFA’s women’s football de-velopment programmes for 2015-2018. They have been developed based on feed-back from member associations and con-federations as well as players, coaches, referees and officials who participated in the 2011-2014 programmes. In total, there are nine different types of programmes for MAs to choose from, fo-

cusing on four main areas of football de-velopment – competitions, management, education and promotion. This includes the Live Your Goals campaign launched in 2011 to inspire more young girls and women to get involved in football. The new guidelines also outline FIFA’s ten key development principles for wom-en’s football, which were defined by the FIFA Task Force for Women’s Football and approved by the 64th FIFA Congress on 11 June 2014. MAs can submit applications on a year-ly basis by end of October latest. FIFA expects and helps its member asso-ciations and the confederations to sup-port and develop women’s football. A lot of progress has been made but there is much more work that can be done by the global football community to harness its true potential for growth. - FIFA

The FIFA Women’s Football Survey was conducted in 2014 with the aim

to gather information on six key areas related to women’s football. The areas range from governance and integration to perception needs and challenges within women’s football. • Overall development and leagues • Governance and integration • Female participation in football • Investment in women’s football • Awareness and media coverage • Perception, needs and challenges The survey was answered by 177 FIFA Member Associations (MAs), which amounts to a response rate of 85 per cent. This response rate has enabled FIFA to make conclusions and recommendations which can be applied across all confeder-ations. The main findings show that: • Only 23 per cent of MAs have dedicated staff for women’s football. • 80 per cent of MAs have a senior team

and only 50 per cent have youth teams • 78 per cent of MAs have a National Women’s Football League • 82 per cent of the top women’s football leagues are managed by MAs • Number of registered players: 4,801,360 • Girls at Grassroots programmes: 1,166,926 • Global participation: 30,145,700 Female representation was also cov-ered in the survey with the results show-ing that only 8 per cent of women serve as members on their country’s executive committees. Seven per cent of coaches and ten per cent of all referees around the world are women. This shows a great need to provide more opportunities for women in football at all levels. The sur-vey also highlighted the crucial role played by the Member Associations and the correlation between success and fe-male participation at decision making levels. - FIFA

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OFC promotes the development of women’s football and pledges to sup-

port women’s football to give women players, coaches, referees and officials the opportunity to become actively involved in football. Led by Women’s Football and Grassroots Development officer, Nico-la Demaine, OFC is helping to popularise the game by increasing public awareness through competitions and courses with the ultimate aim of improving women’s standing in society.

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Dominated by New Zealand’s Football Ferns and women’s age group teams with the former reaching the quarter-finals of the Women’s Olympic Football Tourna-ment at London 2012. The Junior Foot-ball Ferns carved their name into the his-

tory books with a quarter-final finish at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Canada in 2014. Nevertheless, OFC has a rich back-ground of relative success on the inter-national stage with Papua New Guinea making a stamp in the Oceania region. The perennial gold medal winners at the Pacific Games Women’s Football Tournament have a crop of exciting tal-ent emerging from the Papua New Guin-ea U-15 girls’ that made history at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games Girls’ Foot-ball Tournament with a fifth placed finish breaking through. - OFC

“Nevertheless, OFC has a rich background of relative success on the international stage with Papua New Guinea making a stamp in the Oceania region”


“A social responsibil-ity campaign being launched with OFC

partners UNICEF will focus on putting an

end to violence against women and children.

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staggeringly large per-centage of women In

our region and raising awareness Is an im-portant step towards

triggering change” - David Chung, OFC

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aldo, Eto’o, Drogba, Nemanja Vidic, Ra-damel Falcao, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and An-driy Shevchenko in being the only player from their nation to receive the highest recognition from their peers.

The class of 2015. 47 per cent of the players named in the FIFA/FIFPro World XI since its inception have been FIFA World Cup™ winners. Of the 53 names who have been allocated in the 121 slots since 2005, 25 members of World Cup-winning squads, dating back to 1994, have taken their place in the elite XI. Cafu (2005) lifted the trophy in the USA, while three of France’s 1998 squad, five members of Brazil’s 2002 selection (including Cafu, again), a quintet of Ita-ly’s 2006 squad and a trio of 2014’s Welt-meisters have all made the cut. The Span-ish hold a particularly unique statistic: all nine of their World XI representatives are world champions. - FIFA

bond: they are the only players outside of Europe and South America to make the World XI.

Samuel Eto’o featured in the inaugural FIFA/FIFPro World XI in 2005. 11 Brazilians have been named in the World XI, with no other country boasting more representatives. 2015 debutant Ney-mar completes a stellar, if rather defensive line-up. He joins samba heroes of years gone by in a Seleçao XI that would likely rival any of the World XIs with Dida, Dani Alves, Thiago Silva, Lúcio, Marcelo, Cafu, David Luiz, Kaká, Maicon and Ronaldin-ho completing the set. 8 players have been their country’s sole representative in the World XI, with Luka Modric becoming the latest to carry the flag alone for his nation after making the 2015 team. The Croat joins Cristiano Ron-

The FIFA/FIFPro World XI reached a fit-ting milestone when the 2015 team was

announced on stage at the Kongresshaus in Zurich; it was the 11th time the world’s footballers had voted their fellow profes-sionals into a ‘dream team’ of superstars. FIFA.com takes a look back at some of the key figures from the 11 XIs since the inau-gural team was unveiled in 2005. 9 consecutive World XI sides have fea-tured Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi since the pair first made the cut together in 2007. Kaka won the FIFA World Play-er of the Year award in their inaugural ap-pearance, but since 2008 either Ronaldo or Messi have taken home the top individu-al prize in world football, continuing when the FIFA Ballon d’Or came into existence in 2010.

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of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo. 42 combined appearances in the World XI by Barcelona players is the record-ex-tending figure boasted by the Catalan gi-ants after this year’s edition. The inclusion of Dani Alves, Andres Iniesta, Lionel Mes-si and a first appearance for Neymar kept the gap in appearances between Barça and their eternal rivals Real Madrid at 14, with Los Blancos players named 28 times. That means a staggering 58 per cent of appear-ances have been by players who were ei-ther at Barcelona or Real Madrid at the time of their inclusion. 2 African players have represented the mother continent, with Côte d’Ivoire’s Di-dier Drogba the most recent representa-tive back in 2007. Cameroonian legend Samuel Eto’o was named in the first two World XI sides in 2005 and 2006 while at Barcelona, and the two share a unique


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