It started with Matt Garbett dangling a leg and conceding a penalty in the sixth minute. Alex Paulsen did not save it. They conceded again in the twelfth min when the fellas failed to clear a free kick cross. The third was just as scrappy…
A week ago, this game wasn’t a particularly enthralling proposition. The Football Ferns were served with a brutal Olympics group and part of that parcel was facing the defending champs first up. But then the Canadians imploded.
In a group with France, USA, and Guinea... you’ve gotta be beating Guinea if you’re aiming for the second round. Of course, Guinea were thinking the exact same thing about us...
These things don’t tend to stay secret for very long, so by the time Finn Surman was unveiled as a Portland Timbers player we’d already known what was coming. Yet another Wellington Phoenix player moving to a top tier league around the world
Another Oceania tournament and another trophy for NZ Football headquarters to proudly display. This one came with a hiccup though.
It has been two months since the Wellington Phoenix men’s team ended their season with a semi-final exit against Melbourne Victory. It has been three-and-a-half months since the Wellington Phoenix women’s team wrapped up their campaign with a 2-0 win over Western Sydney Wanderers
Ben Old got to France before his Aotearoa Olympic squadmates in order to take care of a little bit of business. Just the small matter of signing a four year contract with AS Saint-Étienne... with an option for a fifth
If you’d been sitting back fretting over the past week wondering when the bloody hell they were going to announce the OlyWhites squad, then at least Wednesday morning’s unveiling helped explain the lag.
Despite rumours a few months ago that Anna Leat was on the verge of leaving Aston Villa at the end of her contract, she’s ended up re-signing after all. Contracted for the 2024-25 season with an option to extend that for a further year
One year on from co-hosting a spectacular World Cup, the Football Ferns have another major tournament to tackle. This time it’s the Paris Olympics. Not nearly as serious as the World Cup but still a big deal... although don’t get your hopes up
Three months and a few broken ribs later, Nando Pijnaker has returned to the pitch for Sligo Rovers and not a moment too soon. He’d gotten hurt in the second half of a 3-0 loss against St Patrick’s Athletic and had to miss 13 matches while he recovered
They weren’t even going to turn up originally. The All Whites had planned to use the June international window for some foreign friendlies instead but then the lure of multiplied FIFA rankings points became too much.
It has been confirmed. For the second time in a month, a New Zealand footballer has signed with an English Premier League club
It didn’t feel real until they started announcing players. In late May, a quartet of kiwi footballers were unveiled wearing Auckland FC gear and waving scarves around for the cameras. Since then there’s been a steady flow of further announcements
In her first season in Europe, Malia Steinmetz has helped FC Nordsjælland to their first ever Kvindeliga title. Last season it was Daisy Cleverley’s HB Køge that were lifting this trophy, this season a different Football Ferns midfielder got to put her fingerprints all over it.
A 2-0 win over Kolding and FCN are on the verge of lifting the Kvindeliga for the first time in the club’s history. Whether they do so or not will all come down to the final round where they face Brøndby away, the only team left that can catch them.
People get ready, for we have now entered that magical time of the year... Flying Kiwis Transfer Season. Not so long ago we used to have to take the kiwi footballer transfers as they came along but these last few years have been different
Originally, the All Whites weren’t even going to bother with the Nations Cup. They instead wanted to utilise the June international window for a pair of higher-quality friendlies... but then NZ Football remembered that you get multiplied world ranking points for confederation tournaments
Twelve months ago, Alex Paulsen had just wrapped up an A-League season in which he sat on the bench for every single game without playing a minute. One year later, he’s just wrapped up an A-League season in which he played every single game without missing a minute
These were never likely to be very memorable results and that’s exactly how it panned out. The Football Ferns went to the neutral territory of Spain to meet a very good Japanese team whereupon they lost 2-0 and 4-1.