jcklein wrote:
First of all, great job! This team really needs to be on this forum.
Of course I don't agree with ALL of your choices, but I can see why you choose some names over others and that's fine. But there are some omissions I want to point out: Antoine Kombouaré, Aaron Mooy and Simeï Ihily not being at least on reserves is pretty weird for me. Those are first team choices for me.
And I really think Marama Vahirua deserves to be on the first team, probably over Damian Mori. He is literally the only international professional player from Oceania, outside Australia and New Zealand, to ever play a major FIFA tournament. The guy is a legend!
It's true that I added Kombouaré and Ihily in the New Caledonia AS due to their birthplace, and Kombouaré spent his youth career in the territory. But when it comes to contribution to Oceania and the Oceanian federation, both players spent their professional career entirely in France and seemingly never capped for New Caledonia despite the national team had already existed for a few decades at the time of Ihily. I decided to have Damian Mori in the first team because he's the top ever scorer in the Oceania Cup history. I'm aware he scored most of his goals against very weak teams, but that's still an important accomplishment from an Oceanian football standpoint. I agree though that Aaron Mooy can be in the team.