Darwin: Award a boost in my career By CARLOS ARUAFU The award winning goal-keeper for the Renbel U19 boys in the recent Youth Solomon Cup tournament Darwin Aomatangi says the ‘Golden Glove’ award is a boost to his football career. Speaking to Star Sports after being awarded the U19 Youth Solomon Cup Golden Glove Award…
Western province U16 team has won the Youth Solomon Cup tournament for the U16 category. They sealed victory after they won their final round robin match over Renbel 3-1 at the SIFF Academy field on Tuesday. Western drew two matches and won three matches to give them 11 points. Yesterday’s match was tough against the…
A SPORTS Journalist Association will be setup in the country by the Oceania National Olympic Committee (ONOC) as part of their task to strengthen the industry in the country as well as to link sports journalists in the region and internationally. As part of their visit in Honiara ONOC Media Specialist Matai Akauola has met…
Football has always circulated well amongst the Solomon Island provinces but the development of the game in the Renbel Province has always been indelible. The recent Solomon Cup and the current Youth Solomon Cup has definitely been a platform for Renbel Province football to shine as players from the remote Province continued to improve in…
The Archery Federation of Solomon Islands (AFSI) has officially kicked off their training session for this year over the weekend. Senior archer Andrew Lano has revealed AFSI official training session has commenced over the weekend at the Rove Police ground, west Honiara. “We’ve kicked off our training over the weekend,” he said. “It’s quite interesting…
The start of the Youth Solomon Cup U16 category has been tough with all three results ended in all draws. The opening match saw Guadalcanal and Western province end with a 1-1 draw. The second match featured Malaita and Central province who finished goalless after 70 minutes of play followed by the final match of…
Western province and Renbel U-19 teams are at the top of the table in day two of the Youth Solomon Cup tournament. Both teams registered four points each from two matches played. They won their respective opening matches of the tournament on Wednesday and drew 0-0 in their match on Thursday. Western defeated Central 3-2…
SOLOMON Islands Under-17 head coach Stanley Puairana says his young guns have gained a lot of experience participating in the 2018 Australian National Futsal Championships. The Junior Kurukuru reached the semi-finals but were unfortunate to went down 6-1 at the hands of Australia futsal state, New South Wales on Thursday. Star player Raphael Lea’i continues…
President of the Solomon Islands Sports Coalition (SISC) Pastor Nacanieli Seru expressed his gratitude over the Junior Kurukurus performance in the Australian National Futsal Championships. “Thank you our Jnr National futsal teams 12s, 14s and 17s for representing Solomon Islands so well in this year’s Australian Futsal Nationals,’’ he said. “The glory belongs to the…
THE week-long Auki futsal challenge tournament has attracted hundreds of youths together with futsal fans in and around Auki town. The futsal challenge consist of 15 futsal teams including a based futsal clubs, G-camp FC and Fijian based USP Bati. The two clubs were consisting of most experience futsal players in the country with the…