AG congratulates Rewa Football

I was very glad listening to the head of your association mention that they are very focused on development of youth in football because your future can only be guaranteed by your investment in the young.

Attorney General, Aiyaz Sayed-Khaiyum highlighted this at the Rewa Football Club Premier League win celebration at Ratu Cakobau Park in Nausori.

He says today in Fiji, 65% of the population is below the age of 35 which means we have a lot of young people, so any organisation, any football association, any sports association should be spending a lot of time in developing the young footballers, the upcoming footballers because they are the future.

He says we have also seen female football has taken off quite dramatically in a very positive manner so that type of development is critically important, and he acknowledged the work program Rewa Football has put in place.

He says all of these things cannot happen without the entire team.

Sayed-Khaiyum says he does not mean just the football players themselves, but the management, coach, families, friends, fans, trainers, the people who do the massaging of the players, the entire group effort which brings them to this particular stage.

He says he would like to thank all of those who have contributed towards Rewa’s success in this particular area.

Sayed-Khaiyum says football has a very interesting history as to when it started, but Rewa Football Association has one of the oldest histories as far as football is concerned and the development of football in Fiji.

The AG says in the same way many young people in Fiji do not know that the Rewa area used to be sugar cane plantations and there used to be a sugar mill there many years ago.

He says it was those people that worked in the sugar cane fields and their descendants who really started football in the area.

Sayed-Khaiyum says the British after a while realised that sugar cane does not grow well in wet areas, and that is why the sugar plantations went out to the western division and out to Vanua Levu.

He also wished them all the best at the OFC level and says that of course is a completely different level altogether.

He told them they will be competing with clubs outside of Fiji, so not only will they be representing Rewa Football Association but in fact they will be representing Fiji.