Fiji football legend returns home to captain first pro club

Still, the muggy morning session has the Bula FC squad sweating heavily at the club's base in Ba, a town on Fiji's main island in a northern coastal area known for its sugarcane farms. It is here that the country's greatest footballer of all time wants to pass on the lessons of an improbable career. Just getting into professional football was "very hard", the Bula FC captain says. He signed his first contract at the age of 26, transferring in 2014 to New Zealand-based side Wellington Phoenix to play in Australia's A-League.