Striker Riley Bidois scored 5 objectives as New Zealand swept apart Fiji 9-0 within the closing of males’s Oceania Olympic qualifying match in Auckland on Saturday.
Bidois posted a hat-trick inside the primary 20 minutes to set the match host up for a simple win that earns it a berth at subsequent 12 months’s Games in Paris, the tenth crew to qualify for the 16-nation competitors.
New Zealand additionally crushed Vanuatu 8-0 within the semifinal of a lop-sided under-23 match which it has dominated since Australia departed the Oceania Confederation in 2006 to align with Asia.
It was a exceptional haul for Australia-based Bidois, who was making his first look of the match within the closing.
The 21-year-old transformed a fourth-minute penalty earlier than finishing two sweeping strikes within the early phases.
His remaining objectives, both aspect of halftime, helped bury the hopes of Fiji, whose trigger wasn’t helped by having defender Mohammed Raheem despatched off within the thirty third minute after being proven a second yellow card.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com