Sports Archive October 2009

The Swiss Assistant Beach Soccer Head Coach is here in Honiara to assist the Solomon Islands National Beach Soccer team with its preparations for the FIFA Beach Soccer Wold Cup in November.

The Isabel Provincial Team for the upcoming Our Telekom Solomon Cup has begun training this week as it looks ahead to the tournament.

A basic refereeing course is being conducted at the SIFF Academy in Honiara for potential referees. Twenty-four participants, including 13 women, have registered for the course.

The Guadalcanal Cup tournament kicked off to a good start yesterday with two matches played.

The National Futsal Team has arrived back in the country last week after competing in the Alfateh Intercontinental Futsal Championship in Libya.

Australian High Commissioner, Frank Ingruber, returned a powerful serve from Solomon Islands Tennis Federation, Head Coach, Joel Benjamin to win the match point in a friendly doubles tennis match played at the High Commissioner's Residence on 14 October.

The To'abaita Authority for Research and Development (TARD) student volunteer group provided more than four thousand dollars ($4,038.50) yesterday to help complete the 2009 North Malaita Soccer and Netball League at Malu'u.

The National O-League Representatives has gone into camp for the final week of its preparations to meet Lautoka Football Club of Fiji.

The Guadalcanal Football Association (GFA) Guadalcanal Cup tournament is set to kick off on Monday 19th October, 2009.

The young Kurukuru side lost to hosts Libya in their first match but made for themselves a heroic introduction at the Alfateh Intercontinental Futsal cup.

Solomon Islands National Futsal Team 'Kurukuru' left Honiara yesterday heading to Libya for the Alfetah Continental Futsal Cup.