Now he is battling to keep Tongan teens away from the sport.Likiliki has fond memories of winning the Moascar Cup with Westlake Boys High School in 1989 and playing in…
On Wednesday evening, after a full-on day of fun at Auckland Zoo, the Tonga U-13 and U-15 teams were just relaxing at their accomodation when they were called into the…
A group of 40 young footballers from the Kingdom of Tonga are in New Zealand for two weeks on a football and cultural exchange.The national U-13 and U-15 boys’ teams…
FIFA’s signature ‘Developing football everywhere’, promoted during the FIFA World Cup™, materialised when at the beginning of July the first ever FIFA Grassroots Course was held in the islands of…
Soakai Vea and Hemaloto Polovili got their first experience of Academy life with the Asia Pacific Football Academy when it was based still based in Christchurch last September. Since partnering…
Three matches were played against the Tonga U-17 women’s team, a Centre of Excellence squad and Tonga’s “Coerver” girls, who travelled to New Zealand in April to attend a Coerver…
The group of 11 players, TFA technical director Kilifi Uele and women’s development officer Adelaide Tu’ivailala, were invited to attend a week long Coever Performance Academy camp in Auckland, by…
Hemaloto Polovili, 16, and Soakai Vea, 15, attended the Asia Pacific Football Academy (APFA) and became the first from their country to make the leap into an elite environment from…
In Tonga there are numerous barriers that have hindered the growth of women’s football in particular, since it was first introduced in 1986 by the late King Taufa’ahau Tupou IV.Support…
Marist ran in five goals in the second half to mark an outright lead in the challenging tournament that only features the top four teams of Tonga Football Association’s Major…