Football in Nauru

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Football only plays a minor rolein the Republic of Nauru . When Australian Football , however, is the national sport of Nauru.

history

On October 2, 1994, a game between Nauru citizens and phosphate workers from the Solomon Islands took place in the Denig Oval in Denigomodu , which won the Nauru selection 2-1. Sometimes the match is seen as the only international match of a Nauruan national soccer team. Around 1998 six teams ( Nauru Police , Comp Phos, Buada Sport, Hospital , Work Force Phos and University ) took part in soccer competitions. In 2004 games on the island were stopped due to a lack of sports facilities . The most successful team up until then had been the "Black Brothers", consisting of members of the Solomon community. In 2009, the incumbent Sports Minister Rayong Itsimaera stated that the lack of coaching staff and the previously low level of interest in football would be the biggest problems on the way to becoming a FIFA member. In honor of World Refugee Day , a football match between a Nauruan team and a team of refugees living on the island took place in the Denig Oval on June 20, 2014 .

Paul Watson reported in late 2014 that a soccer team would train on the former golf course , the current national association told him. A Nauru Amateur Soccer Association (NASA) founded in 1973 as a national association can be read differently . The future Tuvaluan national soccer player Mati Fusi was born on Nauru in 1982, but was never a Nauru citizen.

In August 2020, the blog Football in Oceania reported that the Nauru Soccer Federation was working to create soccer competitions. Problems are a bad place and the lack of interest in the population.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mark Cruickshank: Nauru - International Matches. In: rsssf.com (October 10, 2004).
  2. ↑ Hans Schöggl: Nauru 1998. In: rsssf.com (July 24, 2014).
  3. ↑ Steve Menary: Micronesia is struggling to keep the game afloat. In: worldsoccer.com (November 19, 2009).
  4. ↑ Nauru honors World Refugee day ( Memento from July 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Paul Watson: Fifa's Exiles. In: theblizzard.co.uk (December 1, 2014).
  6. ↑ Associated or non-OFC member countries. In: dfs-wappen.de , accessed on October 18, 2019.
  7. ^ Republic of Nauru Government Gazette , GNNo. 244/1982 ( online ), p. 5.
  8. ↑ Ola Bjerkevoll: This is the real state of soccer in Nauru. In: Football in Oceania. August 14, 2020, accessed on August 23, 2020 .