Petio Semaia [SEP] member of sports team
Petio Semaia
Petio Semaia (born 23 February 1979) is a Tuvaluan footballer who played for Lakena United from 2003.
International career.
Petio was capped twice with the Tuvalu national football team at the South Pacific Games in 2003, where he scored one goal, and four times, this time as captain, at the 2007 South Pacific Games, where he failed to score.
Tuvalu finished fourth out of five in Pool A.
The TNFA became an associate member association of the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) on 15 November 2006. Tuvalu participated in the 2007 Pacific Games held in Samoa, with Toakai Puapua as the coach, and Petio Semaia as the captain. Tuvalu is the first country, that as a non-FIFA-member, has taken part in an official FIFA World Cup-qualification tournament. The situation arose when the regional governing body used the 2007 South Pacific Games, as the