{"id":177200,"date":"2025-09-29T09:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177200\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T09:21:07","slug":"honest-mistake-says-navua-fc-president-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/177200\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Honest mistake\u2019, says Navua FC president \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/epl-navua-fc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Source: FFA \/ Facebook<\/p>\n<p>Navua Football President Rajeev Prasad has admitted that the club made an honest mistake after overlooking player eligibility when they fielded Simione Damuni in their 5-2 Extra Premier League win over Nadi yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Damuni was ineligible to play against Nadi after accumulating double yellow cards from previous matches.<\/p>\n<p>An email containing the summary of every match played, including cards accumulated and player eligibility for the next round, is sent weekly by the Fiji Football Association.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Prasad explained that the official responsible for checking the weekly eligibility was preoccupied throughout the week and unfortunately missed Damuni\u2019s suspension.<\/p>\n<p>Prasad maintained that the club had no malicious intent and immediately substituted the player at half-time after receiving a notification call from the Fiji FA confirming the oversight.<\/p>\n<p>The Nadi Football Association has since filed a formal protest, with a decision expected from the Fiji FA this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>If the protest is upheld, Nadi could receive three points, which would improve their standing and secure them a spot in next week\u2019s Inter-District Championship overtaking Nasinu FC.<\/p>\n<p>The league table currently shows Nasinu holding 18 points, just ahead of Nadi\u2019s 17 points.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"viti-plus-link-article\" href=\"https:\/\/www.viti.plus\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stream the best of Fiji on VITI+.  Anytime.  Anywhere.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Source: FFA \/ Facebook Navua Football President Rajeev Prasad has admitted that the club made an honest mistake&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-177200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}