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Samoa Hockey Association

governing body of field hockey in Samoa

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 15, 2025
Entity authorityQ28224193 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Samoa Hockey Association is the governing body for field hockey in Samoa, located in Oceania. Its headquarters are in Apia, Samoa. The association is affiliated with the International Hockey Federation (IHF) and Oceania Hockey Federation (OCF).

Faamausili Taiva Ah Young is the president of Hockey Association of Samoa and Mitimiti Falesii is the general secretary.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Samoa Hockey Association” as governing body of field hockey in Samoa. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Samoa, Hockey and Association.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 56-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Samoa, Hockey and Association providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Samoa Hockey Association”, the useful work is to connect “governing body of field hockey in Samoa” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 15, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q28224193. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “Samoa Hockey Association” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.