Courtesy: Solomon Star News


Kadau refutes report over drunkard player

Wednesday, 18 August 2010

The head coach of Our Telekom Kurukuru Futsal team Dickson Kadau has hit back over the report of young futsal star Jack Whetney being drunk and misbehaving in Suva prior to the team’s departure from Fiji as not true.

Mr Kadau yesterday was responding to a report yesterday that Futsal star Jack Whetney was drunk on Sunday night turning up into a restaurant in Suva during a fundraising dinner by the Fulton College Pathfinders.

A local student who is also an eye witness said young Whetney was too drunk and acted disorderly inside the restaurant and outside.

The incident was said to have occurred after 8pm on Sunday night, Fiji local time before the team returned the next day to Honiara.

But Mr Kadau said the report was false because all the players were closely watched after the competition.

“It’s true that we did celebrate after our victory but we have rules that guide us during such events, most of all the consumption of alcohol was something that was discouraged by the team management,” he said.

“A family invited me that night so I don’t really quite know what went on that night but as far as I’m concern I never heard of anyone talking about my boys being misbehaving, if such allegations were true then I as the coach should have heard about it already,” he added.

Mr Kadau said the matter will be further investigated by the team management to find out how the story was formed and who it came from.

Another person who wish to have his name withheld told Star Sports yesterday that as a follower and fan of the Kurukuru team the report was somehow damaging to the Kurukuru team’s reputation as a whole.

“Someone is trying to discredit the Kurukuru team after they just won the Oceania Futsal Championship because of jealousy,” he said.

If the boys want to celebrate they have all the right to do so since they proved that they are the kings of futsal in the Pacific, it would be of jealousy that someone had to go to this extent to do form false reports like this.

He also said that he was a Solomon Islander living in Fiji and has never heard of such rumours about Whitney’s bad behavour.

However yesterday a local staff working at the Fulton College also confirmed what had happened on Sunday night in Suva around 8pm Fiji time.

The staff who did not want to be named said the students and pathfinders admitted to him that young Whetney was drunk and behaved disorderly.

“He went in fully drunk that he could not control himself. When the two USP students who brought him tried to control him, they could not.

“Even the New Caledonian players and coach tried but they could not. Eventually he was led outside and he left on a taxi,” the local staff told Star Sports via email yesterday.

However, young Whetney did not cause any harm during the incident.

“I need to mention here also that he did not cause any harm to those who were there.

“He only made fool of himself.

“To the Solomon -Fulton community it is somewhat embarrassing to see one of our soccer ambassadors behaving like that,” he said.


Posted by Luca Ranocchiari --> luca.ranocchiari@futsalplanet.com