Tito Mocenica

Central Defender - Ba U18
30 Apr 2028
Sunday
Process

Marked for Tito Mocenica

35 Edition

The Ba Gazette

29 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

Words at Ba training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Darold Kakasi is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

Player ratings

Leandro Ruiz was the difference for Ba

Marked 7.28. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

Match

Ba share the spoils with Suva

A 1‑1 draw with Suva leaves the dressing room somewhere between relief and regret.

In brief

Back issues
32 Edition

The Ba Gazette

8 Mar 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Market

Kafiatur Rizky puts it in writing

“This is not anger. I have thought about it for months, and nothing that has happened lately changed my mind.” The request is on a desk at Ba, and it is not being withdrawn.

Squad

Tevita Koroi signs on for more

“Some decisions take a long time. This one took ten minutes, and most of that was finding a pen.” Tevita Koroi and Ba agree another 2 years.

Boardroom

Graduation day at Ba

5 boys move up, and somewhere in the building the people who coached them at twelve are quietly having the best morning of their working year. Nothing about this shows up in a result and it is why the academy exists.

Match

A bad afternoon for Ba against Tailevu Naitasiri

1‑2 to Tailevu Naitasiri, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

Market

One of our own: Akuila Nakaci joins the Ba first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Akuila Nakaci is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market

Tito Mocenica steps up from the Ba academy

There is no fee, no unveiling and no agent on the steps. Tito Mocenica 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.

Market

One of our own: Tito Lal joins the Ba first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Tito Lal is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Squad

Darold Kakasi 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.

Squad

Tempers go at Ba

Malakai Rere 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.

In brief