The Gama Football Association in Markham District, Morobe is taking a new view to operate soccer in the area by registering with a soccer governing body. 

The Association has been running for decades with some players being exposed to national level but has not been formally registered with soccer governing body, the Papua New Guinea Football Association (PNGFA), for many years. 

This time, the new executives, through the leadership of Sasu Gideon, have gained confidence from communities, new member clubs and officials, to climb the new heights. 

Sasu was a former player for the Association who later went on to play for Markham Football Club at the National Soccer League stage. 

His executives, formed to drive the code at the local level, have already gained interests from Markham District Development Authority (MDDA) and Manus Admiralty Football Club. 

Sasu said the new executives under his leadership don't want to repeat the old approaches where past executives had failed to register their local Association with the PNGFA. 

"We highly commend our District Development Authority through the chairmanship of Member for Parliament (MP) Koni Iguan to intervene and support us," 

Sasu said with the support from MDDA, the Association hosted Manus Admiralty Football Club for friendly matches. 

He added that with the MDDA support, the Association successfully staged its preseason this year and will now look at running proper season in the second week of July. 

While running the proper season, they will look at approaching Lae Football Association to become their affiliate to the PNGFA.

Teams who participated in the preseason matches were from Umi and Artzera Local Level Government (LLG) council areas with few players from the Onga Wafa LLG area, who came on and played with other clubs.