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Navua braces for premier showdown

October 6, 2014 12:19 am

The Navua Football side has set its sight on getting back into top level football for next season and this starts with the Courts Inter District Championships.

Navua football president, Gopal Naidu, says that preparations are going well for this week’s tournament but his team knows that playing in premier division won’t be an easy task.

“We know that it will be very tough in the Premier Division where it’s only 60 minutes game as we played 90 minutes in Super Premier and to come to 60 minutes it will take time but we are preparing the team well for Premier Division and we’ll see how things go in the upcoming Courts IDC.”

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Navua plays Lami at 3.15pm at Buckhurst Park in its first match on Thursday.

Meanwhile competition resumes in the Super Premier Division n Thursday at the ANZ Stadium with defending Champions Ba taking on Nadroga at 1pm.

Labasa plays Tailevu Naitasiri at 3pm, Rewa takes on Lautoka at 5.30pm while hosts Suva play Nadi at 7.30pm.

You can catch the live commentaries of the Ba-Nadroga, Labasa-Tailevu Naitasiri and Rewa-Lautoka matches on our sister station Radio Fiji 2 with the voice of soccer Raymond Stoddart.