{"id":10928,"date":"2024-08-09T04:50:16","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10928"},"modified":"2024-08-09T04:50:16","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:50:16","slug":"fijis-baby-bula-boys-create-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=10928","title":{"rendered":"Fiji&#8217;s Baby Bula Boys create history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Digicel Fiji Baby Bula Boys has booked a spot in the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar next year.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The side gained qualification for the world cup after defeating Tahiti 2-1 in the OFC Under-16 Championship, and will now face New Zealand in the final.<\/p>\n<p>The side proved too strong for the home side, who had missed out on a handful of scoring opportunities costing them the match.<\/p>\n<p>Both of Fiji\u2019s goals came from the boot of their star striker Veleni Rasorewa, getting a double for himself.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-650918\" src=\"https:\/\/www.fbcnews.com.fj\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/fiji-wn5-640x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Veleni Rasorewa scores one of his goals against Tahiti [Source: OFC Media via Phototek]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first came in the 7th minute, after Rasorewa managed to beat two opponents to find the back of the net.<\/p>\n<p>The second came back in the 67th minute, where an attempt at goal was reflected by Tahiti\u2019s keeper, before rolling in goal.<\/p>\n<p>The side switched into defence mode after their second goal, where they was able to defend their line until the sound of the final hooter.<\/p>\n<p>fbc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digicel Fiji Baby Bula Boys has booked a spot in the FIFA U-17 World Cup in Qatar next year. &nbsp; The side gained qualification for the world cup after defeating Tahiti 2-1 in the OFC Under-16 Championship, and will now face New Zealand in the final. The side proved too strong for the home [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928","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=10928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10930,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10928\/revisions\/10930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}