2 SANTOS FC PLAYERS IN THE CENTRAL SHIELDS TEAM

Two Santos FC players are in the Central Shields Squad currently in Honiara taking part in the Our Telekom Cup National Under 23 Tournament. The players are Leslie Haikau and Michael Hui. The two named players featured in the Central Shields first 11 lineup in their opening match against the Avaiki Chiefs on Saturday 24th November 2007. Central Shields comfortably won the match 4-2 with both Leslie and Michael proving to be players to watch in this tournament. Michael Hui scored two of Central Shield's four goals whilst Leslie was always at the forefront for breaking the Avaiki Chief's defence on the right flank and setting up the goals.

There were surprise upsets caused by two Provinces on two Honiara teams on last Saturday during the opening games. The Makira-Ulawa (Our Kakamora U23 Team) proved too good for the Central Honiara in outplaying and outscoring their opponents by 3 goals to 1. The Guadalcanal Honnets was also too good for the West Honiara side winning the match by 2-0.

The 3rd Honiara team (East Honiara Lions ) plays the Malaita Eagles team this afternoon at Lawson Tama - the match is expected to be a thriller and an exciting one to watch.

Due to the current national U-23 tournament, the remaining games and catch up matches in Division 1 of the 2007 HFA DJ League have now been postponed to recommence on 11/12/2007 until 22/12/2007 and again in the second week of January 2008. The same also applies to the Division 2 matches. Santos FC has three (3) catch-up matches for Island Brothers FC (now Eastern Knights), Lau Valley and Kolei United FC.