OFC Champions League debut

The Southern club, based on the island of Tanna, won the Vanuatu National Super League grand final in August, beating Erakor Golden Star 1-0.

But head coach Moise Poida, a former Vanuatu men's national coach, said they have not played since and haven't got much time left to prepare.

"We will try our best to get ready before February because our country is different from the others. Now is the Christmas season/New Year season - everybody (is) on holiday, everybody is preparing food and things like that," he said.

However, the Malampa Revivors’ captain gives full credit for his development as a player and leader to the support and pure drive of his young but devoted football club.

The towering 25-year-old joined the Luganville-based club when it was established in 2010 and has never looked back, wearing the blue shirt when the side became the most successful Ni-Vanuatu football club outside Port Vila, qualifying for the 2017 edition of Oceania’s premier club competition.

“The past seven years there has been good,” he said.