Abstract
This article describes and explores the early life of Fiji national
soccer champion Henry Dyer. It covers the period 1962-1982 and gives a
fascinating insight into growing up in #multi-racial Lautoka City, in
Fiji's western region, during the tail-end of and immediately following
the era of British #colonial rule. The article also describes the
challenges which Henry Dyer faced as a mixed-race child of English and
indigenous Fijian heritage. Henry Dyer played for both Nadi and #Lautoka
in the Fiji national-league in the 1980s and represented the Fiji
national team in many games, including the 1983 South Pacific Games in
Apia, Samoa; the May 1985 friendly 3-0 win over England's Newcastle
United; and the unsuccessful June 1985 winter tour of New Zealand.Henry presently lives in Nakavu Village, Nadi Town, Fiji Islands, where
he has served as both assistant and acting village headman.My great-grandma came from the Dyer family. Her name was Helen Dyer and
she came from Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom. The family came as
sandalwood traders and they were originally based at the northern tip of
#Vanua Levu at Macuata. Her dad married into one of the chiefly families
in Macuata; that’s where she got her chiefly status.
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