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Toakai Puapua
Toakai Puapua is a Tuvaluan gymnastics and football coach and the former coach of the Tuvalu national football team. From 2014 to 2020, he has been the president of the Tuvalu National Football Association (TNFA). Career From 2006 up to 2008 he was coach of Tofaga A, Tofaga won the NBT in 2006 & 2007 and the Independence Cup in 2006. In 2007, he was the football coach of Tuvalu during the 2007 South Pacific Games in Samoa. The first game of his tenure was a 16-0 loss to Fiji. However Tuvalu fought hard against New Caledonia (who were joint leaders of the competition) and only lost 1-0. Tuvalu then drew 1–1 with Tahiti, with a late equaliser from Viliamu Sekifu, who becoming as the first World cup scorer for his country. However the Cook Islands defeated Tuvalu 4-1. Tuvalu finished last in group A, with one point. In 2011 Puapua was succeeded as coach by Foppe de Haan Foppe Geert de Haan (, born 26 June 1943) is a Dutch association football, football coach. He is kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuvalu National Football Association
The Tuvalu Islands Football Association is the governing body of football in Tuvalu. The association is responsible for the Tuvalu national football team and the Tuvalu national futsal team. Football in Tuvalu is played at club and national team level. The association is a member of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) but not affiliated to FIFA. The association has been wanting to be a member of FIFA since 1987. However the lack of football facilities in Tuvalu is a major obstacle membership of FIFA. Tuvalu does not have a stadium, or training grounds or hotels for visiting teams and supporters. History was made in 2007 when Tuvalu became the first non FIFA member to participate in an official World Cup qualifying match. The situation arose when the regional governing body used the 2007 South Pacific Games, as the first stage of the qualification tournament for the 2010 FIFA World Cup and qualification tournament for the 2008 OFC Nations Cup. Tuvalu performed with gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FIFA
FIFA (; stands for ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (French language, French), meaning International Association Football Federation ) is the international governing body of association football, beach football and futsal. It was founded in 1904 to oversee international competition among the national associations of Royal Belgian Football Association, Belgium, Danish Football Union, Denmark, Union des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Athlétiques, France, German Football Association, Germany, the Royal Dutch Football Association, Netherlands, Royal Spanish Football Federation, Spain, Swedish Football Association, Sweden and Swiss Football Association, Switzerland. Headquartered in Zürich, Switzerland, its membership now comprises List of FIFA Member Associations, 211 national associations. These national associations must each also be members of one of the six regional confederations into which the world is divided: Confederation of African Football, CAF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tuvalu National Football Team Managers
Tuvalu ( or ; formerly known as the Ellice Islands) is an island country and microstate in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean. Its islands are situated about midway between Hawaii and Australia. They lie east-northeast of the Santa Cruz Islands (which belong to the Solomon Islands), northeast of Vanuatu, southeast of Nauru, south of Kiribati, west of Tokelau, northwest of Samoa and Wallis and Futuna, and north of Fiji. Tuvalu is composed of three reef islands and six atolls. They are spread out between the latitude of 5° and 10° south and between the longitude of 176° and 180°. They lie west of the International Date Line. Tuvalu has a population of 10,507 (2017 census). The total land area of the islands of Tuvalu is . The first inhabitants of Tuvalu were Polynesians, according to well-established theories regarding a migration of Polynesians into the Pacific that began about three thousand years ago. Long before European contact with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
