Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 2 April 1978 | ||
Place of birth | Vanuatu | ||
Playing position |
Midfielder Winger |
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Club information | |||
Current team
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Vanuatu (manager) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2015 | Tafea | ? | (?) |
National team | |||
1996–2008 | Vanuatu | 21 | (3) |
Teams managed | |||
2011–2013 | Vanuatu U20 | ||
2012–2016 | Tafea | ||
2015 | Vanuatu U23 | ||
2015– | Vanuatu | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Moise Poida (born 2 April 1978) is a Vanuatuan football manager and former player. He manages the Vanuatu men's national team and he has been a former manager of club side Tafea. Poida has also managed the Vanuatu men's under-20 national team and Vanuatu men's under-23 national team. As a player, Poida made 21 appearances for the national team and scored three goals as a winger and midfielder. At club level, he played for Tafea F.C. for his entire career. In 2008 Poida played for a Oceanian representative side against a team that included members of France's 1998 FIFA World Cup winning team. The game included players such as Zinedine Zidane, Christian Karembeu and Robert Pirès.
Poida made his senior football debut in 2001 for Tafea F.C. Playing primarily as a midfielder and winger, he played for the club until the 2014–15 season. He won ten league titles in his time at Tafea F.C. with the first coming in the 2001 season.
Poida's first inclusion in the national team squad was in June 2001 for the first round of OFC qualification for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He made his international football debut on 4 June 2001, playing the entire match in a 6–1 loss against Tahiti. Poida scored his first international goal for Vanuatu on 12 May 2004, in an OFC first round qualification match for the 2006 FIFA World Cup against American Samoa. Poida was substituted on for Lorry Thompsen in the 55th minute and scored immediately, making the scoreline 4-1 in a match that Vanuatu won 9-1. Poida scored his second and third goals for his country at the 2007 South Pacific Games, with the first coming in the 66th minute of a 4–0 win against Samoa and the second coming in the 19th minute of a 15–0 win against American Samoa. In total, Poida played 23 games for the national team and he scored three goals. His last international match was in 2008 where the Vanuatuan's won 2–1 against Fiji.