There is a U20 Football World Cup kicking off in a couple of weeks and once again there’s reason to be excited about the NZ fellas on their way to compete. There was no U20 World Cup two years ago due to the pandemic but in each of the previous three editions the New Zealand team made it out of their group and into the knockouts
The Ufuk Talay Era of Wellington Phoenix footy is almost over but before the torch is passed to assistant Giancarlo Italiano there’s one last chance to do something his Nix teams have never yet done: win a finals game.
Last week we were promised something very exciting: that Ria Percival would be named on the subs bench when Spurs hosted Brighton in a hugely important relegation six-pointer. Ready to rock after 13 months out of action recovering from an ACL/meniscus tear
Doesn’t really matter how they did it, the Wellington Phoenix had one task before them as they travelled to face Macarthur FC in the final round of the A-League Men’s regular season and they accomplished it
‘Tis the season for trophies. Not everywhere, as some leagues have only just started. But for most of the European ones in particular we’re ramping up towards the finales and for a selection of the privileged few there just so happen to be kiwi players involved
One more positive result, that’s all PEC Zwolle needed to confirm their promotion back to the top flight of Dutch football at the first time of asking
It wasn’t exactly a surprise when it was announced. The fact that the Wellington Phoenix confirmed last Friday that Ufuk Talay would be leaving at the conclusion of the season, as we’d all long anticipated/feared…
Might as well start planning ahead with these Max Mata goals, you can set your watch to them these days.
A month ago things seemed pretty swell for the Welly Nix lads. They’d just ground out close home wins against Newcastle Jets and Sydney FC (one in Wellington, one in Auckland) and were hanging about in a three-way tie for third place
Hypothetically, if the Football Ferns weren’t co-hosting this World Cup then what would your expectations be?
It’s games like this that make Matt Garbett so exciting. NAC Breda against Den Bosch... and Garbett was absolutely all over it. He scored a goal. He set one up. He could have had at least one more of each.
Back to back wooden spoons has a rotten sound to it but it doesn’t take much to see why one was not like the other. For starters there’s the improvement in the points tally which still holds up even when you consider the four extra games
Some wicked form since the turn of the year has given Leicester City a chance to dodge relegation despite losing all of their first eleven games and CJ Bott has played a huge role in that journey
The World Cup is nearing ever closer and the Football Ferns have work to do. A shocker of a series against Portugal and Argentina in February caught them off-guard and now the pressure is on with those co-hosting duties on the horizon.
Nothing quite like the sounds of a busy stadium on the opening day of the season. The pitch is in pristine condition. Fans of both teams are hopeful with the fresh start.
All we really needed from these All Whites vs China games was to see these players live in Aotearoa again and for them to score a goal or two. Ideally with a couple of wins. We didn’t get all of that at Mt Smart Stadium in Auckland on Thursday night but we did manage to tick all the boxes at Sky Stadium in Wellington three days later.
While the rest of us are wondering if we can still squeeze a weekend away into the calendar to make up for the wettest summer on record, top flight regional leagues around the country are kicking off this weekend
When this season began there was no reason to be watching the Dutch second tier. Now there are two reasons: Ryan Thomas at PEC Zwolle and Matt Garbett at NAC Breda. And on a Friday night in the Netherlands the two of them went head to head
Nothing ever stays the same for long in kiwi football but this past week in particular has been a real doozy. A-League expansion speculation has got everyone talking but more immediately relevant is that the Women’s National League has gotten a revamp
We’ve reached that frisky point in the A-League where this season and next season begin to overlap. The finals are edging ever closer with most teams only having six games left