Tahiti looking east
May 13, 2022
3 minutes
SAMINDRA KUNTI
“Thanks, boys. We are proud of you!”
That was the message the staff of Tahiti’s national team, led by coach Samuel Garcia, left on the blackboard at the team hotel following their semi-final defeat to New Zealand in the Oceania qualifiers. They had been just two matches away from a spot among the 32 World Cup finalists.
Yet, it had been a strange mini-tournament. Tahiti hadn’t played a single game in almost three years, mainly because of the pandemic. Both the Cook Islands and Vanuatu withdrew
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