WAITAKERE UNITED SIGN BRAZILIAN ACE

Waitakere United today welcomes Brazilian import Adriano Pimenta to the country after last week naming the midfielder in their O-League squad. The 25 year old Brazilian playmaker has spent time with FC Thun (Switzerland), Yokohama FC (J League) and more recently Bragantino (Brazil). In confirming the signing, Waitakere Chairman Rex Dawkins expressed delight in the…

AUCKLAND – Hosts New Zealand are champing at the bit to open the inaugural FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup with a bang against Canada at North Harbour Stadium on Tuesday night. It’s been 22 months since Paul Temple took over the reins of the Young Football Ferns – who qualified automatically in September 2006 when…

Many women footballers across Oceania dream to see the game develop, and the region compete strongly on the world stage. The desire to achieve this goal was the common theme among the delegates and course participants at the FIFA/OFC Coaching Course for Women’s Football in New Zealand, that opened today at the Millennium Institute on Auckland’s North…

ZURICH – The FIFA Referees Committee, chaired by FIFA Vice-President Ángel María Villar Llona, selected on 22 October 2008 a group of 38 referees from which the definitive list of referees for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™ will be chosen. Oceania Football Confederation (OFC) is represented on the list by New Zealand Football…

The FIFA Executive committee has suspended the Samoa Football Soccer Federation (SFSF) with immediate effect today due to the non compliance of the SFSF with the normalisation committee FIFA set up in June 2008 to stabilise the situation of the federation. As FIFA’s warnings and deadlines went unheeded, the FIFA Executive Committee had no other…

At its meeting in Zurich on 23and 24 October, the FIFA Executive Committee primarily discussed finances, competitions, the international match calendar, social responsibility and political and legal matters. On the subject of finances, a detailed analysis of the potential impact of the ongoing international financial crisis was presented, first to the Finance Committee and then…

Visiting FIFA Ambassador Carolina Morace spent Thursday and Friday helping both young and old students of the game of football. Morace – a former Italian women’s international and the first woman to coach a professional male side – is in New Zealand as a FIFA Ambassador along with former New Zealand international Michelle Cox and…

Young Football Ferns Captain Bri Fisher is set to make her live television debut on Tuesday night at North Harbour Stadium – broadcast to 150 countries worldwide. But Fisher insists that the worldwide attention and hype surrounding the opening match of the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup will not affect her or her teammate’s performances….

The end product of two years of diligent preparations will be seen in Auckland’s North Harbour Stadium on Tuesday when hosts New Zealand take on Canada in the opening match of the first-ever FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. Today, four of the curtain-raiser’s main protagonists – New Zealand’s coach and captain, Paul Temple and Bri…

She wears the No 10 shirt made famous by Brazilian great Pele but at just 14 Beatriz Zaneratto Joao has plenty of catching up to do. No better place to catch the eye than on the Fifa stage. Simply "Beatriz" to her teammates, the youngest player in Brazil’s squad for the Under-17 Women’s World Cup…