Step up in promoting soccer

AS a soccer fan following the Women’s National Soccer League (NSL) matches, I am not impressed by the camera crew of the PNG Football Association (PNGFA) who were live-streaming the matches through PNGFA’s website and Facebook page.
Why is it that some matches are not captured on camera while others have only parts of the match captured?
Is there a shortage of cameras and other essential accessories that the live-streaming is not complete and not done well?
What is the problem here?
The PNGFA should understand that this is the NSL, the top competition in the nation and if the games are not properly live-streamed, it means that the PNGFA and its media team are not serious in promoting soccer in the country.
I have been following the matches live from abroad and I noticed in the first weekend that there were many instances where the camera lenses were focused on the wrong part of the field while the game was going on in another part.
It is an embarrassment if PNG fans are watching in other Pacific nations where such things don’t happen.
On Saturday, a camera was placed in a wrong position for 46 minutes of a game.
It was placed at 90 degrees to the ground level and someone who is watching the live-streaming of the match would have to place their head in an awkward position to watch the game.
This is unbelievable.
Are the people operating the camera amateurs or were they picked off the streets to do the job?
PNG football fans deserve better and PNGFA should take this seriously.
We are in the 21st century.
You cannot be capturing matches without knowing what you are doing?
If you do not have the personnel for the job, ask journalism students to help you with the cameras.
You can get them to commentate on the games as well.
Last week, a commentator said he did not have the names of the players to call them by name and was referring to them by their jersey numbers.
How substandard can that be?
Couldn’t someone run down to the coaches to get the names of the players before the game starts?
The PNGFA should be serious about this.
Soccer will not be promoted to the level we want it to be if this sort of substandard efforts continue.
Come on PNGFA, step up in your efforts to promote the beautiful game.

PNG Man
Soccer Fan