Mangere Centre Park will become a hive of football again from November 21 to 25, 2012 with the second Fiji Cup Championship Tournament.
After a successful NZ Fiji AFC’s 19th IDC 2012, which was won by Tavua over Rewa.
This was followed by Manukau Sanatan’s NZ Sanatan IDC 2012 at which Malolo Sanatan was crowned as the new champions defeating a young but energetic Ba Sanatan outfit by 3-0 in front of more than three thousand people.
The much-awaited Fiji Cup will kick off on November 21, with twelve teams battling for the top honours.
Ba, Rewa, Lautoka, Nadi, Suva, Nadogo, Navua, Savusavu, Hamilton, Wellington, Tavua and Nasinu teams will be drawn into three pools on November 15, and two best teams from each pool plus the two other best teams will take the seventh and eighth place in the quarter finals.
The tournament will feature some of the top Fiji based players like Jone Salauneune, Krishna Samy, Archie Watkins, Apisai Smith, Waisake Sabutu, Pita Rabo, Emosi Ragata, Kaushik Kumar, Nitan Niltesh Kumar, Laerio Nawatu, Samuela Kautoga and others pitching with our local stars.
Tavua’s IDC winning five-goal hero Shalvin Prasad is likely to come out of injury to provide that killer stint in the strike force for Tavua in their quest to regain supremacy.
Defending champions Ba of Fiji and Runners-Up Lautoka of Fiji were both denied participation by Fiji Football Association in this year’s Tournament, forcing the Organisers to go without teams from Fiji.
However, the MCPSA organisers were happy that their alternate concept of Pacific Cup without teams from Fiji was taken on board by the newly appointed Associate Members of Fiji FA.
The organisers are looking forward to another weekend of great football and welcome you to Centre Park.
Veterans Over 35
The ten-team New Zealand Fiji Veteran Soccer Association’s (NZFVSA), Jo Tubuna Memorial Cup over 35s Tournament coincides with the Fiji Cup.
For the first time, Nasinu Masters team from Fiji, comprising former Nasinu, Suva and Rewa players will be competing against the local veterans.
The organisers have opened the doors for more overseas teams for future tournaments.
The pools drawn after the AGM on November 9 were as follows:
Pool A- NZ Dreketi Masters, NZ Nadro/Federal Combined, NZ Hasbeens, NZ Suva Masters and DAV Old Boys; Pool B- Fiji Nasinu Masters, NZ Ba Veterans, NZ Nadi Veterans, NZ Savusavu Veterans and NZ Rewa Masters.
Secretary, Gyanandra Kumar said that the pools are equally good and that it will be interesting to see the qualifiers for semi-finals.
The AGM of NZFVSA saw the long serving President Master Satyawan Singh stepping down due to personal commitments allowing Secretary Ayaaz Khan to take over the reins of the Association.
Among the other officials elected were Vimlesh Singh (Patron), James Kado, James Kumar and Kamlesh Naidu (Vice-President), Gyanandra Kumar (Secretary), Mohammed Iqbal Hussein (Assistant Secretary) and Krishna Lal (Treasurer).
Viran Kutti, Nur Ahmad and Shalendra Narayan were elected to the Committee Founder, Iliyas Daud retained his post as the Commissioner.*
