After 20 years of absence, the Melanesia Cup is back under a new name, the MSG Prime Ministers Cup, and it takes place in Vanuatu. This is an international tournament played between Fiji, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and New Caledonia.
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Published on September 15, 2022 at 6:52 p.m.,
updated on September 15, 2022 at 7:09 p.m.
The Cagous will take off on Saturday with a new coach at their head. This is Johann Sidaner. He succeeds as coach, Thierry Sardo and more recently Dominique Wacalie. Johann Sidaner, 45, the newly appointed coach of New Caledonia’s A football team, says he needed to start a ” new challenge. In this sense, I met the office of the federation in mainland France during the first part of the year and one thing leading to another, we got to know each other”, he explains.
We agreed on quite a few points, points of convergence. Me the desire to discover a new project and them the desire to launch a new project over the next few years. It was a meeting with President Tavergeux.
Johann Sidaner, coach
Freshly arrived in New Caledonia, the new “red and gray” coach and his technical staff will finally be able to get to work, given the next sporting events, because “sIn the short or medium term, the next few months will be very busy”according to Johann Sidaner, which begins with “ the trip to Vanuatu for the Melanesian Cup. We have two pulse matches against Fiji and Solomon. The top two qualify for the semi-finals.
It is a tournament on Fifa dates, which counts for the Fifa ranking. We therefore decided on a list of 18 players who would represent New Caledonian football. The idea is to now put a maximum of cohesion and coherence into it.
Johann Sidaner, coach
Johann Sidaner will experience his very first experience as coach of the New Caledonia team, this Saturday at 6 p.m. against Fiji. The competition takes place from September 17 to 30 in Vanuatu.
William Lecren has met the new coach. His report:
Melanesian Cup, Johann Sidaner, selection A