Boaz Solossa

Boaz was born in the Solossa family, a well-known family in the province of West Papua. His uncle, Jaap Solossa, was the governor of Papua before he died in 2005. Boaz was born in a footballing family as well, being the youngest of five children. Almost all of them were professionals, including his brother Ortizan and Nehemia. Boaz obtained a Bachelor of Economics at Cenderawasih University in 2013. He also works as Civil servant.

The first time he appeared was dubbed the "prodigy", when he was brought by Peter Withe and performed a stunning performance in Ho Chi Minh, when he performed with the Indonesian National Team in the 2004 Tiger Cup. Boaz's international debut was against Turkmenistan in 30 March 2004 for the 2006 World Cup qualification where Indonesia won 3–1 and Boaz made two assists for his teammate Ilham Jaya Kesuma. Boaz was considered to be a bright prospect in Indonesian football after performing brilliantly in the 2004 Tiger Cup, where Indonesia was defeated by Singapore in a home and away match, which resulted in an aggregate score of 5–2 to Singapore. In the group phase, Boaz managed to score 4 goals and along with Ilham Jayakesuma, who scored 7 goals, both led the top scorers chart.

He was injured after a tough tackle in a friendly match against Hong Kong,[4] forcing him to miss the Asian Cup 2007 and disappear from football for many months.

After another failure for the Indonesian national team to become a champion in the 2016 AFF Championship, Boaz announce his retirement from the national squad to give chance to other young players as well admitting he was "tired to see Indonesia without any trophy in the tournament". He congratulate Thailand for their fifth trophy and acknowledged that "Thai players and their performances are much better and still far from us to reach".[5] However, Boaz still disclosed his intention to retire, saying he wanted to discuss the matter with his family first while celebrating Christmas in his hometown of Sorong.[6][7]

Boaz, at the beginning of his career, was easily provoked by emotion and often made a tantrum. On 25 October 2005 he was sentenced to one year of suspension, not allowed to play football at national and international events by the PSSI because he was proven to kick referee in the Indonesia Cup match between Persipura against Persebaya on 12 September 2005 .

Boaz once acted by rejecting the PSSI's call to defend the Indonesian U-23 National Team. This made the national football authorities angry and threatened to impose severe sanctions. One of them did not allow Boaz and several other players who refused to appear with the Indonesian National Team, to appear on the official PSSI stage. But finally the sentence was not handed down, after Boaz agreed to return, on 28 March 2007 in the U-23 Indonesia National Team match against Lebanon's U-23 National Team, but suffered a 2-1 defeat to the Lebanese U-23 National Team advantage .

Despite the status of a professional soccer player, Boaz is sometimes still difficult to leave his bad habit of consuming alcohol. He even almost returned from the concentration of the Indonesian National Team training in Australia by coach Peter Withe, because he was found drunk. Along with that, his appearance began to fade which made Peter Withe cross it out.

Professional attitude seems to be difficult for him to apply in his daily life. That can be seen with the accident he experienced while chasing a chicken around his residence in Jayapura without wearing footwear. As a result, he stepped on broken glass and had to get a few stitches on his legs, which forced him to miss Persipura's club defense in a few weeks.

But in recent years he has become more responsible and able to be sporty after being given the position of captain of Persipura Jayapura and the Indonesian national team. Besides that he also did not want his bad character to be imitated by his five young daughters. He has a very high religious side as a Christian who is proven by celebrating Jesus Christ on the sky if he scores a goal or his team wins.

In the midst of his uphill career, he had experienced a serious injury that made him almost forget football for good. A broken right leg injury while appearing to defend the Indonesian National Team against the Hong Kong National Team in the international arena is indeed almost killing his soccer playing career. The match ended with a 3-0 position for the Indonesian National Team.

Many rumors say that the Indonesian national team did not finance Boaz's treatment when a severe injury occurred against Hong Kong. Reportedly the Persipura camp is willing to bear all the costs of operating Boaz. Since then, his commitment to the Indonesian national team began to be questioned.

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• Boaz Solossa at National-Football-Teams.com
• "Boaz T. Erwin Salossa at liga-Indonesia.co.id" (in Indonesian). Archived from the original on 26 November 2010. Retrieved 4 November 2016.
• Profile at Goal.com (in Indonesian)