Tears rolled at Tuanaimato yesterday after Samoa suffered its third defeat at the ongoing Oceania Football Confederation under 17 Men’s Championship, this time under the hands of Papua New Guinea.
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The game ended 5-0 in favour of Papua New Guinea earning them their second win.
Coach for Samoa Desmond Faai’uaso feels sad for the loss at the same time feels happy for the performance of the boys.
“A simple mistake from the boys and they (Papua New Guinea) got to score but I’m still happy for their performance”, “It’s their first tournament since playing soccer and this is their first international tournament”.
Player for Samoa Peter Hunt also expressed his disappointment, “we have them off the first half really well and the second half we just let five goals in, easy goals”.
Hunt admits lack of communication from the back line is one of the things that went “wrong”.
Samoa’s stands with three losses after being defeated by New Caledonia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea and one win after defeating Cook Islands.
Samoa will face Fiji for its last game in the Pool A qualifiers this Wednesday 4pm.
The Oceania Football Confederation under 17 Men’s Championship kicked off on January 13 with Samoa and American Samoa co hosting the tournament.
The 11 participating nations were divided into two groups. Samoa is hosting the games for the Pool A: Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Samoa while American Samoa is the matches for the Pool B: Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga, Vanuatu and American Samoa.
The two winning teams from both groups will compete in the semi finals and finals in Pago, American Samoa.
For Pool A, New Zealand is currently on the lead with four wins followed by New Caledonia while Vanuatu and Tahiti are the top teams in Pool B.
The winner will directly qualify for the FIFA under 17 World Cup in Chile later this year.
For the past four seasons (2007, 2009, 2011, and 2013) of the U-17 men’s championship New Zealand has claimed the trophy.
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