Paner Baguga

Paner "Jorax" Baguga (* 1980 in Meneng ) is a Nauruan Australian football player and tennis player . His younger brother Deamo Baguga is an athletics sprinter and also a football player.

His first years he played in the then unofficial junior team of the Panzer Saints . 1997 Baguga already played three games for a local U18 team during a tournament of the Nauruan U14 team in Queensland . In 1998 , Baguga became the first Nauruer to play professional Australian football abroad when he played one season for Morningside ( Brisbane ) in the Queensland State Football League (QSFL) . Before that, he had a trial session with the Gold Coast Stringrays , another club in the QSFL that is now called the Gold Coast Old Boys . He would receive his wages from the Australian Football League (AFL) and the Queensland Junior Football Association (QJFA) as well as from the Nauruan government; Baguga never received that part of the government.

Paner Baguga also plays tennis on the side ; he was a member of the Nauruan tennis team at the XI. South Pacific Games in Guam in June 1999 . But he was eliminated in the team tournament in the first round without a win; and in both singles and doubles he was eliminated in the first round with 3: 6 and 3: 6 respectively. Baguga is not registered with the ATP . In doubles he played with Chris Gobure , Joanne Gobure's brother .

After his assignment in Guam, Baguga returned to his parent club Panzer Saints at the end of June 1999 and played with them the Grand Final in the Linkbelt Oval in front of 3,000 spectators; however, they lost the game to the Menaida Tigers . In the next season they reached the final again with Baguga and ended the years of dominance of the Menaida Tigers with their historic victory . This championship win was Baguga's greatest achievement.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nauru | Travel blog. Retrieved April 3, 2017 . 
2. ^ History of the South Pacific Games (accessed: March 19, 2012)
3. ↑ Paner played in the Grand Final (accessed: March 19, 2012)