What tournament is this? New nations cup?
The Pacific Games is like the Olympics but for the Pacific – like the African, Asian Games, European Games Pan-American Games – featuring a whole host of sports.
Traditionally Australia and New Zealand haven't taken part, but that was relaxed in some instances where it wouldn't ruin the competitive balance in 2015.
In 2015, the Pacific Games were also used as OFC's Olympic qualifying tournament, so it was under-23 teams taking part, including the ill-fated New Zealand one (that was eliminated as a result of theDeklan Wynne eligiblity saga, with Fiji going to Rio).
Traditionally it's been a senior tournament, with bragging rights in the Pacific at stake.
This year New Zealand Football sought to enter an under-23 team alongside the senior sides from the Pacific (the likes of David Browne, Micah Lea'alafa, Tommy Semmy are all taking part) in order to prepare domestic players for OFC Olympic qualifying tournament in Fiji in September, as the timing of both tournaments makes access to college players and professional players very difficult.
Hopefully we will soon get an idea of who's going to be involved.
Not aligned with international windows I assume. Does Ufuk know he’s going to lose half his squad?