The Futsal Spy : Solomon Islands
Late on Saturday night, a tired but happy group of Futsal players from the Solomon Islands trudged into the Dural Sport and Leisure Centre after a long journey from Honiara.
This is another stage of a project that started back in 2001 when the Dural Sport and Leisure Centre and the Dural Baptist Church sent a team of Futsal coaches and players to help introduce, in a formal way, the sport to that country. A country torn apart by ethnic tension and armed conflict. A country in need of restoration in all aspect of human life: physical, emotional, relational and spiritual. The sport of Futsal was used to bring people together and help, in some way, in the unification and reconciliation process.
All the squad is looking forward to some tough training sessions and 3 highly competitive games that will help round off their preparations for the World Cup qualifying tournament in Suva in 2 weeks time.
The game on Sunday 25th against the Dural Men’s team ended in a very close 7 – 4 victory to the visitors. It was a game played in great spirit, with end to end action and some great goals, which kept a noisy crowd of over 100 people thoroughly entertained.
Tuesday 27th and Wednesday 28th will see the Solomons up against Northern Beaches and Sydney Magic respectively. All games are being played at Dural commencing at 7.30pm.The team will be training every other night before leaving again next Saturday 31st May for a quick stop in Solomon Islands then on to Fiji for the tournament commencing Sunday 8th June. While here in Sydney the team will also take the opportunity to visit William Clarke College, which was home to team members Jack Whetney and Elliot Ragomo during their scholarship program.
The team is largely unchanged to the one that performed so well in the Australian National Championships in January reaching the semi finals. Two players from that January squad have been omitted in the selection process and five new faces added for the trip to Sydney. As a result of these trial games and training on the full size court a further two players will be omitted from the squad for Fiji.
Come along and show your support for some great friends as we wish them all the best in their quest to reach the Futsal World Cup to be held in Brazil in October this year.
Source : The Futsal Spy
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