Young footballers braved wet conditions at the Ba Academy grounds as Fiji Football Association’s grassroots festival highlighted resilience, passion and community spirit in youth development.

Gounder is looking to recruit more girls in his team for player development.

“We had so many difficulties in getting the players in but the boys stood up the test and we managed to execute what we planned through the three weeks.”

“I’m more frustrated at not scoring the goals than anything else because otherwise we are pretty solid and we are created chances,” Auvray said.

“We’ve got 22 players and everyone has their fitness assessed, so we’ve started our fitness programme.

“Consistency, is when we are able to offer game after game that same level of performance. Let’s be honest, to me that is most important” he said.