SIFF investigation will decide Telekom S-League Golden Boot award

The Telekom S-League night of awards already took place in Honiara; both Henderson Eels and Solomon Warriors – the teams qualified for OFC Champions League – are already prepearing for their trips to represent Solomon Islands in the regional competition. We already know Solomon Warriors won the league, Henderson Eels, Kossa and Isabel United came just behind them respectively. Anthony Talo was already awarded the best goalkeeper of the competition, while the Ni-Vanuatu international John Alick was the best player of the league.

The prizes were awarded, the season is over and the results are set, but we are still to get to know who will end up with one of the most important prizes of the season: the top goalscorer, the player who will received the golden boot award. Raphael Lea’i scored 24 goals in the competition, while the Ni-Vanuatu Tony Kaltack scored 19. The doubt is that if the final match – Henderson Eels 19-0 Real Kakamora – will count or not for the league; a serie of rules infractions happened in this particular match where Lea’i scored no more than eleven times – taking the lead of the golden boot race five goals upfront Kaltack from Solomon Warriors.

SIFF Disciplinary Committee is undergoing an investigation about the match in case. The appeal was made by Solomon Warriors and the outcome of the investigation will decide wheter the youngster Lea’i will receive the award or Tony Kaltack.

The organizational problems of S-League as league and its clubs can not put the amazing effort of Raphael Lea’i in the shadows. The 16-year-old put an amazing effort to score the amount of goals needed to take the lead of the golden boot race in his last match. Tony Kaltack also made a strong season since the starting of it, being one of the outstanding players of the title campaign of Solomon Warriors.