Qualifier sides ready to launch
(WorldNews Asia)

The annual OFC Champions League will get underway Saturday 20 January with two tasty encounters to kick-off the 2018 edition of the competition in American Samoa. The OFC Champions League 2018 Qualifiers are being held at Pago Park Soccer Stadium in Pago Pago, with the winning side and the runner-up due to earn progression to the Group Stage of Oceania`s premier international club competition. The Cook Islands and Samoan representatives were the nations who took that honour last year, and this year`s edition opens with the club champions from those same two nations - Tupapa Maraerenga and Lupe Ole Soaga. After finishing second to Puaikura in 2017, Paul Ualesi`s Lupe are out to return to...