“That’s What We Want!” PNG Football Association’s baby product, the National Soccer League (NSL) is starting to become a breeding ground for football playing countries to import players from.

“NSL has just finished its second season this year but is gaining a bigger publicity and popularity in the Pacific. This is very evident when overseas clubs are looking into PNG for our NSL football players to play for their clubs. This is what the current management of PNGFA under the leadership of Mr. David Chung has introduced NSL for”.

“PNGFA’s NSL is the highest level of football competition played in the country where the style of football played is improving all the time as the league gets more competitive. The league is also used by PNGFA as a tool for professional player development in the country”.

These were the happy words of NSL operations manager Edward Tauloi after seeing five PNG NSL players having the opportunity to play abroad. He added that NSL is doing a fine job for PNG and they are very proud of it.

“This is what we have been waiting for and wanting to see happen and we will continue to make more PNG players get the abroad exposure”, he said. Now we feel that we have done a big improvement to PNG soccer which has never been done before. Bringing PNG soccer to this level has been thought and talked about but nothing has actually eventuated. However, now under this administration you see real things happening.

He said through the introduction of NSL within the country, PNG players will have a bigger opportunity to have access to the outside world to expose their PNG talents to other countries.

So far, two Hekari players were hired to play in Australia by Sunshine coast FC of Queensland and three Gelle Hills Football Club players to play in different Australian football clubs.

This is the fruit PNGFA is bearing through its baby product, the National Soccer League. This is one of the goals of PNG for introducing NSL is achieved. After the next two to three seasons, we will see more players being exported by our NSL clubs.