New Management Committee Elected To Lead SFC Into The 2007/2008 HFA DJ League

On 5th May 2007, SFC elected its new Executive Committee for the 2007/2008 financial year, which coincides or falls in line with the upcoming new 2007 HFA-DJ first league season – for office bearers, please refer to the attached Minutes – about 20 members attended the meeting. During the said meeting, the outgoing SFC President also handed a new set of uniforms recently sponsored by RAMSI to the new President and his new Executive – refer to the attached photo (Outgoing President in yellow cut-shirt and new President in dark grey cut-shirt, flanked by members of the new Executive in the background). SFC is ranked 4th in the 2006 HFA League.

The club was established in the 1980’s by some members of the Honiara- Are’ Are Community and had since then been participating in the HFA Leagues. The club has been predominantly made up of players and members of the Are’ Are Community and had been managed largely on an informal or ad hoc basis prior to the election of the current new Executive Committee. The primary aim of the club is to provide the opportunity for young and talented Are’ Are players who cannot make it into other football clubs in Honiara, to participate in a much more better organized and higher competitive football playing environment such as the HFA DJ League. However the club has an open door policy and welcomes members of other communities in Honiara and Solomon Islands to join in if they wish. The club had reached the Premier/Super League Division only once in the past and managed to survive one season only. So one of the aims of the new Executive Committee is to make the club qualify again for the Premier/Super Division at the end of the first season in Division 1 of the new 2007 HFA-DJ League and to remain in the Premier League Division for as long as it can take.

The club is also looking at changing the current name “Santos” with a new original name to reflect the members’ origin and national identity – a new club name will be decided at the next general meeting which has been scheduled in about three (3) weeks time. The club is looking at playing with a new name at the start of the 2007 HFADJ League first season. The club will also be adopting a new Constitution at the next proposed general meeting in order to address the said change in club name and also to guide and govern how the club’s affairs and businesses are to be run in the long-term for consistency and continuity of the club.

The club has about 30 existing members and about 20 new members. The club’s official training programme in preparation for the new HFA-DJ League has already commenced on 7th May 2007 – the team trains Mondays to Fridays from 5.00pm -6.30pm and on Saturday mornings from 8 am - 9am at the KGVI School south field. Currently, there is great spirit of commitment and cooperation being shown by most members/players of the club. The new Executive has assured the club and vowed that, with the cooperation and support from all members, it will take the club to new heights this season and that the club will one day in not too distant future will become one of the football powerhouses or a household name amongst the football fraternity and fans in Honiara, Solomon Islands or in the region.

The first meeting of the new Executive Committee will be on 13/05/07 at 1.00pm at Mr. Alick Ha’apio’s residence, White River, Honiara. The new Executive Committee is urging on the Are’ Are Community and potential sponsors to come forward and assist the club in one way or the other during the club’s upcoming fundraising drives to be published and notified soon.