After a historic win against Vanuatu that sent them through to the semi-finals, the Digicel Baby Bula Boys are one win away from qualifying to the 2025 FIFA U17 World Cup in Qatar.<\/p>\n
Fiji defeated Vanuatu 3-2 in the first semi-final of the OFC under 16 championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Man of the match Rishal Shankar says the goal remains the same and that is to win the competition.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to finish off in the finals and win the OFC Championship, that\u2019s our goal for this OFC Championship and yeah we\u2019ll try to win the next game.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Shankar adds that they are preparing well for their semi-final match.<\/p>\n Fiji faces host Tahiti in the second semi-final at 4pm this Thursday.<\/p>\n In the first semi-final, New Zealand will face New Caledonia.<\/p>\n The two winners from the semi-finals and the winner of the third\/fourth place play-off will qualify for the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar next year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n FBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After a historic win against Vanuatu that sent them through to the semi-finals, the Digicel Baby Bula Boys are one win away from qualifying to the 2025 FIFA U17 World Cup in Qatar. Fiji defeated Vanuatu 3-2 in the first semi-final of the OFC under 16 championship on Sunday. Man of the match Rishal Shankar […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10876,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10878,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions\/10878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}