Viliame Raju

Striker - Navua
3 Dec 2028
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Marked for Viliame Raju

90 Edition

The Navua Chronicle

17 Apr 2028
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

Simione Verevou, 14, plays like he has been here for years — 7.66

A mark of 7.66 means one thing beside a twenty-nine-year-old's name and something else entirely beside a 14-year-old's. Nobody at the ground needed telling which this was.

Market17 Apr 2028

Mohammed Ledua has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Navua they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Match15 Apr 2028

Navua get the job done against Lautoka

A 2‑0 win over Lautoka, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Player ratings17 Apr 2028

One of those days for Jack Wale

There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.08, and no argument anywhere in the ground.

Squad17 Apr 2028

Zainal Ali falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad17 Apr 2028

When it matters, Ali Mekawir plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
59 Edition

The Navua Chronicle

13 Sep 2027
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Market13 Sep 2027

Only the photograph left for Samir Hussain

Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Samir Hussain will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Navua the goodbyes have quietly begun.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Tempers go at Navua

Jovilisi Borisi was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Market13 Sep 2027

Navua promote Viliame Raju from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Viliame Raju has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market13 Sep 2027

Navua promote Josaia Jale from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Josaia Jale has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market13 Sep 2027

Setareki Waqa steps up from the Navua academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Setareki Waqa has been at this club since he was a boy and is now, formally, one of the first-team squad — which for a local readership beats any signing of any size.

Squad13 Sep 2027

Zainal Ali falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

In brief