Sosoro calls for united Kapuls

Sports

By HENRY MORABANG
A CALL has been made for a unified PNG men’s soccer team to play the remaining game to qualify for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
Kossy  Sosoro from Lake Kutubu in Southern Highlands, made this call after he watched a 10-man PNG Kapuls side going down to Tahiti 3-1 in their first match at Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby last Thursday afternoon.
“It was really heartbreaking to see the Kapuls go down fighting after David Browne was sent off for early showers and the last 10 men standing against the visiting Tahitians,” Sosoro said.
Sosoro is no stranger in football, being a strong supporter of Hekari United FC.
Sosoro called on the two football factions, the PNG Football Association and the Football Federation PNG, to reach a compromise and allow a full team to take on the Solomon Islands next month.
“I personally feel that the team lost direction throughout the match,” he said. “There was no midfielder and there were too many individual plays up front by the forwards.”
Sosoro urged the football governing body in the country to work with FFPNG to resolve the matter for the good of the sport.
He also urged former OFC president Fred Do Jong to come out publicly on his understanding of OFC politics as it was the stumbling block to promoting football in the region.
Jong came out on Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat programme, calling on OFC and Fifa to intervene and resolve the PNG soccer debacle before FFPNG kicks off its National Premier League this Saturday.
The New Zealander said he was surprised that neither OFC nor Fifa had stepped in yet.