The whole year has been building up towards this for FC Haka and their two kiwi compadres. We’re talking about the start of Europa Conference League qualifying, where Haka had been drawn up against Crusaders of Northern Ireland
We’re now only days away from kickoff at the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup and preparations are complete. No more friendly games, no more training camps. Just fierce anticipation for the main event.
The squad is set, training camp is over, the practice games are finished, and all the rival nations have amassed in Aotearoa and Australia for the biggest standalone female sporting event on the planet
The New Zealand U19’s Women just spent a couple of weeks in Fiji working on qualifying for next year’s U20 World Cup. The Oceania Women’s U19s Championships.
This current transfer window burst open with all sorts of anticipation for impending kiwi transfers but that shouldn’t surprise anyone because that’s quickly become the norm these days
It was a Football Ferns victory in Napier. They gave Vietnam a whallopping and while they didn’t make it as emphatic on the scoreboard as they should have... a 2-0 victory definitely counts as a hiding by Footy Ferns standards
Roughly nine months after Danny Hay’s tenure as All Whites coach ended, New Zealand Football have finally announced his replacement: former assistant and interim coach Darren Bazeley
Last Friday NZT, Callum McCowatt lined up for FC Helsingør in the first friendly game of their preseason and he scored in a 2-0 win against Lyngby. It turned out to a fitting way to say farewell…
After nine weeks of training camp, beginning with a long-list of over 40 contending players, Jitka Klimková has now unveiled her 23-strong Football Ferns squad for the World Cup
The international breaks are special for any player fortunate enough to have been called up by their country but this past one is probably not going to be one of Michael Boxall’s favourites
For a game that technically didn’t happen, for which caps won’t count and there was no completed result, this one will be remembered for quite a long time.
It’s nice when you have those weeks where everything just goes right... ask Abby Erceg and her Racing Louisville team because they just learned how that goes
For roughly ninety-percent of the game against Sweden in Stockholm, the All Whites held their own. There was some impressive football on display and they certainly didn’t look like the rank underdogs that they should have been
Another week, another kiwi champion in Denmark. Daisy Cleverley joined HB Køge almost exactly a year ago, that transfer announced right around the time that they were wrapping up a second consecutive league title.
The European club season is pretty much doneskees so with that in the rearview it’s time to squeeze in an international window. One in which the All Whites will play twice, hooray
What do ya know, last game of the season and even though Empoli did make three changes from last week’s match... Liberato Cacace was not one of them. He retained his spot against Lazio, getting another ninety minutes
It was a bit much to expect the lads to sneak past the United States of America. Getting to the knockouts was the main aim of the tournament and they achieved that, progressing to the round of sixteen for the fourth consecutive time at a Men’s U20 World Cup
Make that two trophies in two weeks because Marko Stamenic has completed a league and cup double with FC København. He’ll be departing with a couple extra winners’ medals in his luggage
Argentina’s U20s, spurred on by a raucous home crowd with no pressure whatsoever on their shoulders, unleashed vicious carnage upon the poor Aotearoa contingent… but it didn’t matter because we’re through to the knockouts anyway
It’s always hard to know what to expect at these youth tournaments. The prestige of a nation’s senior team doesn’t necessarily translate to the younger levels and there’s never an abundance of pre-tourney games from outside the confederations to let anyone know how teams compare