{"id":473388,"date":"2026-02-11T18:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473388\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T18:39:13","slug":"fiji-rugby-legend-alivereti-dere-passes-away-fbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/473388\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiji rugby legend Alivereti Dere passes away \u2013 FBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Dere.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The late former Fiji Bati, Flying Fijians and Fiji 7s great Alivereti Dere. [Photo: FNRL]<\/p>\n<p>Former Fiji Bati, Flying Fijians and Fiji 7s great Alivereti Dere has passed away.<\/p>\n<p>Dere, who proudly represented Fiji in rugby sevens, rugby union and rugby league, is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the sport in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The Fiji National Rugby League confirmed the passing of the former Fiji Bati captain last night, describing him as a trailblazer whose contribution to the game went beyond the field.<\/p>\n<p>Article continues after advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Dere was a member of the Fiji Water Flying Fijians from 1986 to 1991, earning national honours during a significant era for Fijian rugby.<\/p>\n<p>After his playing career, he continued to serve the sport, including a stint as head coach of the national men\u2019s 7s team in 2011, where he played a role in guiding and mentoring elite local talent.<\/p>\n<p>As a mark of respect, the FNRL has announced that all its programmes will be placed on hold over the next few weeks until Dere\u2019s burial.<\/p>\n<p>Tributes have begun to pour in for a man remembered not only for his achievements, but for his leadership, humility and lifelong service to Fijian rugby.<\/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":"The late former Fiji Bati, Flying Fijians and Fiji 7s great Alivereti Dere. [Photo: FNRL] Former Fiji Bati,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473389,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-473388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473388","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=473388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}