Wau Kik: Playing football the PNG hard way
23 August 2022
Wau Kik was popular sport with few rules and those who witnessed or took part related anecdotes of players who were feared and respected because of their viciousness at the prime strategy of kicking the bare legs and feet of opponents
RAYMOND SIGIMET
DAGUA - Football or soccer is a popular sport in Papua New Guinea, said by the PNG Football Association to have been introduced by German Lutheran missionaries in Morobe Province in 1884.
The first record of an organised local football competition was on the goldfields of Wau and Bulolo in that province.
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