Toakai Puapua
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Place of birth | Tuvalu | ||
| Playing position | Manager | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Tuvalu | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2006–2008 | Tofaga A | ||
| 2006–2010 | Tuvalu | ||
Toakai Puapua is a Tuvaluan gymnastics and football coach and the former coach of the Tuvalu national football team. Since 2014 the president of the TNFA.
Career
In 2007, he was appointed football coach of Tuvalu during the 2007 South Pacific Games in Samoa. The first game of his tenure was a 16-0 loss to Fiji.[1] This was followed two days later by a 1-0 loss to New Caledonia.[2] The third group game against Tahiti finished in 1-1, Sekifu scored for Tuvalu.[3] Puapua's last game in charge was a 4-1 loss to Cook Islands,[4] causing Tuvalu to finish last in group A, with one point.[5]
Puapua were just succeeded in 2011, Foppe de Haan.[6]
In 2010, were Puapua coach of the Tuvalu national futsal team at the Oceanian Futsal Championship 2010, they became seventh of seven teams.[7]
From 2006 up to 2008 he was coach of Tofaga A, where he caught 4 prices.
References
- ↑ Unknown. "2010 FIFA World Cup Preliminaries, Oceania - Group A, Fiji, v Tuvalu". FIFA. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ Unknown. "2010 FIFA World Cup Preliminaries, Oceania - Group A, Tuvalu v New Caledonia". FIFA. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ Unknown. "2010 FIFA World Cup Preliminaries, Oceania - Group A, Tuvalu v Tahiti". FIFA. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ Unknown. "2010 FIFA World Cup Preliminaries, Oceania - Group A, Cook Islands v Tuvalu". FIFA. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ Unknown (September 7, 2007). "Ladder for SPG Men's Football". Sporting Pulse. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ Anton Lippold (July 7, 2012). "Coach Foppe de Haan gets Dutch successor in Pacific". Unknown. Unknown. Retrieved 18 October 2012.
- ↑ Unknown (July 20, 2010). "Squads named for OFC Futsal Championship". Unknown. OFC. Retrieved 18 October 2012.