"My understanding is they will be relocating to Australia and if that happens then of course, we'd have another look at them, they both acquitted himself very well."
Victory's Drew Sherman on Raphael Lea'i & Leon Kofana https://t.co/9pG2u8JwXX— RR (@Ryans_Rovers) August 5, 2020
https://www.abc.net.some sense au/radio-australia/programs/pacificbeat/sols-soccer-academy/12525322
Great to see these plans for a professional academy setup in the Solomons. That U17 team they had that gave our boys a 5-0 drubbing obviously had some talent. Lea'i seemingly the biggest.
Interesting that the Victory could offer a bit of a helping hand.
I know there is obviously no cash available now, Weenix Academy has been 'mothballed' for this year after all - but in the future would make some sense for Nix to somehow have some affiliation. NZ being part of the OFC, and the OFC's best A League player being ex Nix.
Maybe a Solomons-NZ travel bubble will happen (SI having zero Covid cases after all), and someone like Paul Temple could fly up there for a few weeks to give his advice on how to setup a successful academy.
Could be some sort of future role for Krishna once he's retired. Being involved with a professionally run academy (with an affiliation to Weenix) somewhere in the Islands (most likely Fiji), that talent spots young kids from all around the OFC. Not such a culture shock for a 13 year old kid from PNG moving to Suva, as cold windy Wellington.