Bula and welcome to Season 2 Episode 23 of Breakfast Bites by TeivovoSports.com – a wrap of Pasifika Peoples sports on this warm Saturday morning 23 July 2022 - coming to you from the 180th meridian in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. We start with the Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham rugby 7s day one on 29 July: Women Australia v South Africa, Fiji v Scotland, England v Sri Lanka, New Zealand v Canada and Men Australia v Jamaica, Kenya v Uganda, NZ v Sri Lanka, England v Samoa, South Africa v Malaysia, Scotland v Tonga, Canada v Wales and Fiji v Zambia. In football - Eight times EURO Womens Champions Germany beat Austria 2 nil to move into the EURO Women’s Semifinals alongside England after Lina Magull's clinical 25th minute strike and an opportunistic finish by Alexandra Popp in the last play of the day at Brentford Stadium in London. The Austrian girls, in bright Tongan red, were so unlucky, hitting the woodwork three times. Speaking on Tongan red – the Tongan Tala national netball team created history finishing as the numero uno netball nation in Oceania winning the championship undefeated after belting the Cook Islands 44-69 last night. The Fijian Pearls came in second after pipping Samoa 43-45 and so both Tonga and Fiji qualify from Oceania for the Netball World Cup 2023 in South Africa. Meanwhile in rugby in New Zealand NOTHING’s CHANGED. That’s right, absolutely nothing. In typical NZRFU fashion, they have thumbed their nose up at their fans after the Ireland test Series disaster retaining Ian Fozzy Foster as the All Blacks Coach and Sam Cane is still the Captain for the upcoming Rugby Championship. Foster’s 36-man squad named yesterday includes the same old, same old with at least half a dozen “has beens” along for a free ride in - Dane Coles, Nepo Laulala, Angus Ta’avao and Ofa Tu’ungafasi pretty much all the same blocks of wood – no skills and too slow. Brodie Retallick after 95 Tests he is burnt out and no longer the force he once was. Also badly beaten by the younger more skillful Irish locks. Sorry but Sam Cane is NOT an All Black and certainly should not be Captain. Again after 80 Tests he is done. My All Blacks Match Day 23: 1 George Bower 2 Samisoni Taukeiaho 3 Ethan de Groot 4 Samuel Whitelock 5 Scott Barrett 6 Dalton Papalii 7 Shannon Frizell 8 Ardie Savea 9 Folau Fakatava 10 Richie Mo’unga 11 Caleb Clarke 12 David Havili 13 Rieko Ioane 14 Sevu Reece and 15 Will Jordan. Reserves Codie Taylor Aidan Ross Tupou Vaa’i Akira Ioane Finlay Christie Beauden Barrett and Jordie Barrett. In the NRL - Queensland and Newcastle star, Kalyn Ponga has had a horror run of head injuries lately. The Knights skipper was concussed in the game against the Roosters. He left the field and did not return after failing his third Head Injury Assessment out of five HIAs this season. And finally in boxing - Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao, the only boxer to win world titles in 8 weight divisions, says the only reason that he is fighting again in December against Korean YouTuber DK Yoo in an exhibition fight, is to raise money for one of his charities which donates homes to the poor. Go Manny Go! For TeivovoSports.com – I’m Culden Kamea, Malo, vina’a and thank you! Please hit the “subscribe” button below if you’d like to receive more Pasifika sports highlights on Breakfast Bites, and thank you too mas for your support! #BreakfastBites #TEIVOVOsports #TeivovoRugby #TeivovoDigital #rugby #rugby7s #FijiRugby #rugbyunion #rugbyleague #Raka #team #rugbytraining #sports #FRU #Fiji