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Wales edge NZ Football Ferns

5 June 2019
Wales edge NZ Football Ferns

The Football Ferns have gone down 1-0 to Wales this morning (NZT) at the Cardiff International Stadium in their final warm-up game for the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France. The Tom Sermanni-coached team, who were looking to back up their impressive 1-0 win over England on the weekend, were frustrated by a well-organised Welsh…

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FIFA Women's World Cup 2019
5 June 2019
FIJI Women’s team set for Tri-Nations series

The Vodafone Fiji national women’s team is ready to take on Vanuatu and Singapore  at the upcoming FIFA Tri-Nations International Friendly series hosted by Vanuatu. Coach Marika Rodu said they were using the tour as a build up for the South Pacific Games next month. “We have prepared well for this tour because we will…

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FIFA International Friendly
3 June 2019
Shoot-out heartbreak for NZ U-20

The New Zealand U-20s have bowed out of the FIFA U-20 World Cup but not without their heads held high after eventually losing a thrilling Round of 16 clash against Colombia in the cruellest possible manner this morning (NZT). Des Buckingham’s side more than played their part in an end-to-end encounter and could well have…

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Colombia
2 June 2019
NZ scores historic win over England

The Football Ferns have received a huge confidence boost ahead of the FIFA Women’s World Cup in France with their first-ever win over World No 3 England tonight (NZT) in Brighton. The World No 19 Ferns, who survived a nervous start in front of a record crowd of 20, 076 fans at The Amex Stadium,…

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England
31 May 2019
NZ will face Colombia after defeat

The New Zealand U-20 men will meet Colombia in the Round of 16 at the FIFA U-20 World Cup after signing off on pool play with a 2-0 defeat to Uruguay in Poland this morning (NZT). Going into the final Group C clash, history was beckoning for New Zealand as no team from these shores…

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FIFA U-20 Men's World Cup 2019 Poland
30 May 2019
FIFA sanctions Tai Nicholas

The FIFA Ethics Committee  has banned former Oceania Football Confederation general secretary and former FIFA standing committee member Tai Nicholas from the game for eight years for financial misconduct. The investigation into Mr Nicholas concerned the misappropriation of FIFA funds allocated to the OFC between 2014 and 2017 in relation to the OFC Home of Football,…

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FIFA
30 May 2019
Tahiti bow out of U-20 World Cup

Tahiti have ended their FIFA U-20 Men’s World Cup 2019 campaign with a 6-0 defeat to Colombia at Poland’s Lublin Stadium. Colombia’s Juan Hernandez netted a hat-trick to propel his side to the victory which  secured Los Cafeteros‘ spot in the knockout stage of the tournament. Luis Sinisterra opened the scoring in the eighth minute,…

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Colombia
28 May 2019
NZ advance with back-to-back wins

The New Zealand U-20 men have secured a passage into the knockout stages of the FIFA U-20 World Cup in stunning style, midfielder Gianni Stensness netting one of the best goals ever scored by a Kiwi on the global stage to help his side to a 2-0 win over Norway. The Oceania champions enjoyed the…

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FIFA U-20 Men's World Cup 2019 Poland
27 May 2019
Pragnell announced as New Zealand Football CEO

New Zealand Football has announced Andrew Pragnell as the Chief Executive Officer of the organisation. Mr Pragnell, who has been the Interim CEO of New Zealand Football since 30 July last year, has impressed in the role in the past 10 months with his high level of stakeholder engagement and leadership of the organisation during…

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Andrew Pragnell
27 May 2019
Tahiti suffer second defeat at U-20 World Cup

Tahiti’s dream of qualifying for the knockout phase of the FIFA U-20 World Cup 2019 tournament is virtually over  following a 5-0 loss to Poland in their second Group A match. Following their 3-0 defeat to Senegal in their opener, the Tahitians were hoping to bounce back against the host nation, but with the the…

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FIFA U-20 Men's World Cup 2019 Poland