COMPETITIONS: Pan Pacific Championship Still On for 2009

So says Sunil Gulati's Australian counterpart, Ben Buckley, Chief Executive of Football Federation Australia. Buckley is heading to a meeting of football top bosses at Stanford Bridge which US officials are not surprisingly absent from.

Here is an excerpt from the story:

"Buckley, meanwhile, has hosed down suggestions the Hawaii-based Pan-Pacific Championship - which involved Sydney FC early this year - has been scrapped after just one tournament.