After a seven year hiatus, the Samoa National Football Cup is back, with five teams across 30 clubs competing for the top prize. The five teams are from five geographical zones, four in Upolu and one from Savaii.
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Malae Sofe has been appointed to officiate as an assistant referee in the OFC U-16 Men’s Championship taking place in the Solomon Islands, this week. Sofe is one of only two Assistant Referees from Samoa to officiate in Oceania competitions.
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Samoa women’s football draft team continued their preparation for the qualifying games last night with a friendly match against American Samoa.
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The shadow of Cristiano Ronaldo is still hanging over Real Madrid as the team prepares to face fierce rival Atletico Madrid in the UEFA Super Cup final on Wednesday.
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Usain Bolt is quickly closing in on a professional soccer career. The Jamaican great has negotiated an "indefinite training period" with Central Coast Mariners in Australia's A-League.
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The annual national football league for Upolu clubs kicked off on Friday night at the F.F.S. fields at Tuana’imato. Twenty clubs have registered to compete in this year’s tournament.
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Samoa coach Martin Tamasese said the final victory will hopefully buoy the team as they now prepare to make the step up to meet their Group B opponents in Solomon Islands; New Caledonia, Tahiti and Fiji.
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When Football Federation Samoa were looking for a poster child for their football programmes they found a perfect example in Jarvis Filimalae.
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After winning its first two games in the Preliminary Championship convincingly. Samoa will play its final match against host Tonga today.
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Samoa’s U-16 Boy’s football team competing at the Oceania Football Confederation U16 Preliminary Championship qualifiers in Tonga began its campaign on a positive note winning its first match against the Cook Islands 3 - 0.
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Watch:Oceania U-16 Football Confederation qualifiers.
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It was a victory for all of France and the home crowd did it justice, pouring into Paris' Champs-Elysees Avenue by the tens of thousands to celebrate in an explosion of joy.
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Sliding across the rain-soaked turf holding the World Cup trophy tight, teenager Kylian Mbappe and the rest of France's players acted like the youthful bunch they are. Nothing, not a Pussy Riot protest nor a postgame downpour that soaked Russian President Vladimir Putin, was going to stop the party.
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For Belgium and England, the third-place match at the World Cup was more like a dress rehearsal for future finals.
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In the Balkans, soccer is so political that it has created bitter divisions about Croatia's surprising success at the World Cup.
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When the final whistle blew and they knew they were going to their first World Cup final, the Croatians ran to their jumping and cheering fans in their iconic red-and-white checkered jerseys.
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Cristiano Ronaldo is leaving Real Madrid to join Italian club Juventus in a move expected to benefit the Portugal forward's tax return.
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France is back in the World Cup final for the first time since Zinedine Zidane's headbutt in 2006.
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Forget bending them like Beckham. At this World Cup, it has been a case of teasing them in like Trippier and angling them in like Ashley.
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The Samoa national Under-16 men’s football team has departed Samoa to compete in the 2018 Oceania Football Federation Under-17 men’s championship in Tonga.
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Chairman of the Samoa Rugby Union and Prime Minister Tuilaepa Lupesoliai Dr. Sailele Malielegaoi is keeping a vigil that a group of Pacific Islanders originating from the lucrative United States gridiron, (the National Football League, NFL) will deliver their offer to finance the combine Pacific Islands Rugby franchise for Super Rugby sanctioned by the SANZAAR.
No sooner had Anthony Joshua brutally dispatched another pretender to his heavyweight titles than attention turned to who the British fighter would face next as he seeks to clean up boxing's most glamorous division.
He can laugh about it now, the concept of being "too big" that led him on this extraordinary journey to the Philadelphia Eagles.
The Samoa Basketball Federation started its four-day tournament at Apia Park gym earlier this week. The various categories competing in the tournament include open women and men, Under 17 and 14 boys, girls’ teams from Upolu, Savaii and an open men’s team from American Samoa.
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