Alwin Komolong
Komolong with POMSOE FC in 2011
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Garem Alwin Komolong | ||
| Date of birth | 2 November 1994 | ||
| Place of birth | Lae, Papua New Guinea | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward, Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2009–2010 | VfR Eckernförde | ||
| 2010–2011 | POMSOE FC | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013 | USAO Drovers | 14 | (2) |
| 2014–2016 | Northern Kentucky Norse | 47 | (1) |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2011–2012 | Besta United PNG | ||
| 2012 | Waitakere City | ||
| 2013–2014 | FC Port Moresby | ||
| 2015 | Rapatona | ||
| 2015–2016 | Madang Fox | ||
| National team‡ | |||
| 2011 | Papua New Guinea U17 | 4 | (2) |
| 2011 | Papua New Guinea U20 | 2 | (1) |
| 2013– | Papua New Guinea U23 | 4 | (1) |
| 2016– | Papua New Guinea | 8 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:08, 24 January 2016 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:17, 14 November 2016 (UTC) |
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Alwin Komolong (born 2 November 1994 in Lae) is a Papua New Guinean footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for the Papua New Guinea national football team.
Komolong is of German and PNG parentage. He is the son of Birte and Miok Komolong. Some of his grandparents, cousins, and other family live in Hütten, Schleswig-Holstein. Komolong lived in Germany with his family for a year and a half beginning at age 14. He has two younger brothers, Kusunga and Felix. Felix is also a footballer and had a 3-week trial with Werder Bremen in 2014. Kusunga plays as a goalkeeper.
Komolong began playing football at age six while living in Brisbane, Australia before moving back to Papua New Guinea. At age 14, he played a year and a half for the youth sides of VfR Eckernförde of the Schleswig-Holstein Kreisliga, in his mother's home town of Eckernförde, while living with family in Germany. After returning to Papua New Guinea, he played for two years for local development team Port Moresby School of Excellence FC of the Port Moresby Soccer Association from 2010 to 2011. POMSOE FC was founded in 2010 and featured mostly players from the Papua New Guinea national under-17 team. In 2013, he was invited to participate in the FIFA Blue Stars World Youth Cup by Wynton Rufer who was working for the OFC at the time and would become head coach of the Papua New Guinea national team a year later. In addition to Komolong's team composed mainly of Oceania players, Manchester United, FC Basel, Borussia Dortmund, Torino FC, Zenit St. Petersburg, Grasshopper Club Zürich, Botafogo, and hosts FC Blue Stars competed in the tournament. This edition of the tournament was the first in which a team from Oceania had entered. Rufer heard about Komolong through people who had seen him play while in Auckland. Following his performances at the 2011 OFC U-17 Championship, he was offered a scholarship from Liston College in Auckland and finished his high school education there. Upon graduation in 2013, he secured a sports scholarship for the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in the United States. He was also offered a scholarship from Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee. His decision to attend USAO stemmed from a desire to play in Major League Soccer. He played one year of college soccer for the Drovers, making 14 appearances while tallying two goals and two assists. The team finished the season ranked 11th overall in the NAIA. In 2014, Komolong transferred to NCAA Division I school Northern Kentucky University. He cited his reasons for transferring as wanting a better atmosphere on and off the field. Over his first two seasons with the team, he made 34 appearances. NKU head coach John Basalyga rested Komolong after he captained the Papua New Guinea national U23 team in Olympic Qualifiers in 2015 and took a temporary break from his studies to represent his country. In 2014, he participated with NKU in a two-day tournament hosted by the Dayton Flyers. Following the tournament, Komolong was named to the All-Tournament Team. Over his three seasons with the Norsemen, Komolong totaled 47 appearances while scoring one goal, a game-tying tally against the IUPUI Jaguars during October of his senior year.After being recruited as a forward by NKU, he played as a defender, midfielder, and forward over his time with the team.
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