OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL COORDINATOR
REGIONAL ASSISTANCE MISSION TO SOLOMON ISLANDS
MEDIA RELEASE Thursday 7th September 2006
Solomon Islands a soccer powerhouse
RAMSI Special Coordinator James Batley today congratulated the Solomon Islands Bilikiki Beach Soccer team on its recent
success in Tahiti and urged the team to train hard for Brazil.
Mr Batley said the team had made all Solomon Islanders proud.
“The win shows, once again, that Solomon Islands is a soccer powerhouse in the Oceania region,” Mr Batley said.
The latest victory was sure to remind the rest of the region that Solomon Islands could not be underestimated. It was a
sign of even bigger things to come in future.
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