Azariah Soromon

Last updated

Azariah Soromon
Personal information
Full name Azariah Kenneth Soromon
Date of birth (1999-03-01) 1 March 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Vanuatu
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Western Strikers
Youth career
–2015 Teouma Academy
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2015–2018 Tupuji Imere
2018 Nalkutan
2018–2019 Southern United 6 (2)
2019–2020 Malampa Revivors
2020–2021 Tupuji Imere
2021–2023 Suva F.C. 37 (14)
2024- Western Strikers
International career‡
2017– Vanuatu U20 2 (0)
2017– Vanuatu 26 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 2 December 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 December 2023

Azariah Soromon (born 1 March 1999) is a Ni-Vanuatu footballer who plays as a forward for Fijian club Suva F.C and the Vanuatu national team. [1]

Contents

Club career

Soromon started his career in the national Teouma Academy. In 2015 he joined his hometown club Tupuji Imere. In January 2018 he moved to Nalkutan to play for them in the 2018 OFC Champions League. In September 2018, Soromon joined New Zealand Football Championship side Southern United FC. [2] He made his league debut for the club on 26 January 2019 in a 0–0 draw with Team Wellington, coming on as an 89th-minute substitute for Abdulla Al-Kasily. [3]

In 2021 he played for Suva. [4]

National team

In 2017 Soromon was called up for the Vanuatu national football team. He made his debut on 23 November 2017, in a 1–0 loss against Estonia. [5] He came on in the 66 minute of play for Tony Kaltack. He scored his first senior international goal on 2 December 2017 in a 2–1 victory over New Caledonia at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games. [6]

International goals

Scores and results list Vanuatu's goal tally first. [7] [8]
NoDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.2 December 2017 Port Vila Municipal Stadium, Port Vila, Vanuatu New Caledonia flags merged (2017).svg  New Caledonia 2–12–1 2017 Pacific Mini Games
2.6 December 2017 Korman Stadium, Port Vila, VanuatuFlag of Tonga.svg  Tonga 2–05–02017 Pacific Mini Games
3.3–0
4.9 December 2017Port Vila Municipal Stadium, Port Vila, VanuatuFlag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 1–11–12017 Pacific Mini Games
5.12 December 2017Port Vila Municipal Stadium, Port Vila, VanuatuFlag of Tuvalu.svg  Tuvalu 5–010–02017 Pacific Mini Games
6.8–0
7.17 November 2018Korman Stadium, Port Vila, VanuatuNew Caledonia flags merged (2017).svg  New Caledonia 2–02–2 Friendly
8.23 November 2023 Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara, Solomon IslandsFlag of Papua New Guinea.svg  Papua New Guinea 1–11–1 2023 Pacific Games
9.1 December 2023Lawson Tama Stadium, Honiara, Solomon IslandsFlag of Fiji.svg  Fiji 1–12–42023 Pacific Games
10.2–1

Private life

Two family members of Azariah play for the Vanuatu women's national football team: Brenda Anis and Emilia Taravaki.[ citation needed ]

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fiji national football team</span> Mens association football team representing Fiji

The Fiji men's national football team is Fiji's national men's team and is controlled by the governing body of football in Fiji, the Fiji Football Association. The team plays most of their home games at the HFC Bank Stadium in Suva.

The Inter-District Championship (IDC) is the amateur Fijian football cup. Only five teams first took part in the first IDC held in Suva in 1938. From 1938 to 1975, the competition was initially held on a knock out format but in 1976 pool play was introduced. From 1985, the competition was held in two divisions with the introduction of a second level tournament known as the Premier Division. In 1999 there was a short lived third level division. With Navua registering its first ever win of the IDC tournament in 2009, all the current Super Premium Division teams have now won the Lloyd Farebrother Trophy one or more time(s).

This article lists the results for the Fiji national football team from 2000 to present.

Moise Poida is a Vanuatuan football manager and former player. He manages the Vanuatu men's national team and has been a former manager of club side Tafea. Poida has also managed the Vanuatu men's under-20 national team and Vanuatu men's under-23 national team. As a player, Poida made 21 appearances for the national team and scored three goals as a winger and midfielder. At club level, he played for Tafea F.C. for his entire career. In 2008 Poida played for an Oceanian representative side against a team that included members of France's 1998 FIFA World Cup winning team. The game included players such as Zinedine Zidane, Christian Karembeu and Robert Pires.

A cricket tournament at the Pacific Games, previously the South Pacific Games, was introduced in 1979 and was played intermittently at games in the 1980s and 1990s, depending on the facilities of the host nation. It was played continuously from 2003 to 2019, but was not included for the 2023 Pacific Games in Solomon Islands. Detailed records of the tournaments prior to 2003 have not been kept and little is known with certainty of the first three tournaments, beyond knowing what teams won the gold and silver medals at each Games.

Seule Soromon is an association football striker from Vanuatu who currently plays for Wairarapa United in the Central Premier League.

The 2014–15 OFC Champions League was the 14th edition of the Oceanian Club Championship, Oceania's premier club football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC), and the 9th season under the current OFC Champions League name.

Bong Kalo is a Ni-Vanuatu footballer who plays as a midfielder for Port Vila Premier League club, ABM Galaxy

Antonio Tuivuna is a Fijian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Labasa.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tommy Semmy</span> Papua New Guinean soccer player

Tommy Semmy is a Papua New Guinean soccer player who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Victoria club Melbourne Knights and the Papua New Guinea national team.

Laisenia Raura, sometimes called Laisenia Naioko is a Fijian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Suva in the Fiji National Football League.

Pita Biri Rabo, is a Fijian footballer who plays as a forward for Fijian National Football League side Suva. As well as being club captain, Rabo is also a coach for the Suva-based club.

Shene Welepane is a New Caledonian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Magenta in the New Caledonia Super Ligue and the New Caledonia national football team. He made his debut for the national team on June 7, 2017 in a 2–2 draw against Fiji.

Christopher Wasasala is a Fijian footballer who plays as a midfielder for Fijian club Labasa and the Fiji national team.

Alex Saniel is a Vanuatuan footballer who plays as a forward for New Zealander Club Franklin United and the Vanuatu national team.

Pothin Terry James Tein Poma is a footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Tahitian club Vénus and the Tahiti national team. Poma represented New Caledonia internationally at both youth and senior levels prior to 2017. In 2024, he switched his national allegiance to Tahiti and represented the team at the 2024 OFC Men's Nations Cup.

The 2017 Men's Football at the 2017 Pacific Mini Games is the 1st edition of the international football tournament organized by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for players who are playing in the Pacific Region.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2019 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament</span> International football competition

The 2019 OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament was the eighth edition of the OFC Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament, the quadrennial international age-restricted football championship organised by the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) for the men's under-23 national teams of Oceania.

This page details the match results and statistics of the Vanuatu national football team from 1981 to present.

Sairusi Sainitiki Waitawa Nalaubu is a Fijian footballer who plays as a striker for Fiji Premier League club Lautoka and the Fiji national team.

References

  1. ↑ "Vanuatu - A. Soromon - Profiel met nieuws, statistieken en geschiedenis - Soccerway". nl.soccerway.com. Retrieved 10 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "New faces to help Southern Utd progress". Otago Daily Times . 18 September 2018. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  3. ↑ "Southern United vs. Team Wellington – 26 January 2019 – Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  4. ↑ "Players thankful – Vanuatu imports looked after well". Fiji Times. 17 June 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2023.
  5. ↑ "VFF i anaonsem Pacific Mini Games tim". dailypost.vu. 22 November 2017. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
  6. ↑ "Vanuatu vs. New Caledonia (2:1)". national-football-teams.com. Retrieved 22 February 2019.
  7. ↑ "Soromon, Azariah". National Football Teams. Retrieved 7 December 2017.
  8. ↑ "Azariah Soromon breaks through as Oceania's new wonderkid". Oceaniafc.com. 3 January 2018. Archived from the original on 27 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.


Flag of Vanuatu.svg Soccerball mask.svg

This biographical article related to ni-Vanuatu association football is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.