World Cup opening ceremony

Pacific children take part in World Cup opening ceremony

Kids from American Samoa, the Cook Islands, Fiji, New Caledonia, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tahiti, Tonga and Vanuatu are in Russia this week as part of the sixth annual Football For Friendship programme, which aims to promote essential values embodied by football with the younger generation.

Semisi Semisi from Samoa was selected to attend as a young journalist and said he's had the chance to meet other young people from the likes of China and South Africa.