The 16-year-old is the first recipient of the Rémi Taea Scholarship created by the FTF as a means of nurturing emerging talents through the provision of financial aid to attend training centres either in France or overseas.
Rémi Taea was one of the main architects of the revolution of Tahiti football which occurred in 1988, led by Napoleon Spitz which led to the creation of the FTF.
Taea is the former general secretary of FTF who, in the company of Freddy Vernauden and Pierre Reichert, attended a congress meeting in Rome in 1990 to obtain FIFA affiliation for the federation.
Wanting to be active in supporting young talents achieve their goal of top-flight football, the federation has budgeted to grant three scholarships per year of 180,000XPF.
From the town of Mahina in Tahiti, Tetauira has grown up playing for the AS Jeunes Tahitiens, the youth team at Olympique Mahina.
In 2011 he was captain of the U-15 national side and has participated in trainings with the Toa Aito, the Tahiti national team, as they prepared for the FIFA World Cup qualifiers.
Keen to make his passion for football a career, Tetauira would love to turn professional one day but is aware that it is a difficult path to follow from Tahiti.
However, with his two week stint in Christchurch having gone well, the future is looking bright for the up-and-coming talent.

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