US late show denies Ferns upset

With New Zealand in front for most of the second half and growing more confident the longer they held the lead, Alex Morgan popped up with an 89th-minute equaliser and a winner in the fourth minute of injury time to break Kiwi hearts.Both goals had an air of contention about them. New Zealand players were…

A 6-0 demolition of YoungHeart Manawatu in Palmerston North all but rubberstamped Auckland’s minor premiership crown with only one win required from their final three games to guarantee top spot. The race for second remains a three-way affair with Canterbury and Wellington’s 1-1 draw enough for Waitakere to leapfrog the capital men into third place…

The Ferns have beaten USA just once in nine attempts – that victory came almost 25 years ago – and, while they start at long odds to get a result against a team that has never been outside the top two since FIFA started publishing rankings, Hearn says that is exactly what they are targeting.“For…

After four days of training workshops at the Millennium Institute of Sport, technical directors and development officers from 11 Pacific nations were able to put theory into practice by coordinating the festival at Rosedale’s Pinehurst School.Glenn Turner, FIFA Development Officer for Oceania, says it was a fitting way to end the successful seminar. “It’s very…

The tournament will take place at Owen Delany Park from 16-25 March with eight partipating nations including American Samoa, Fiji, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga and Vanuatu. Following the group stage, semi-finals and final, the eventual winner will go on to represent OFC at the Olympic Football Tournament in London from…

The OFC Women’s Olympic Qualifier will be held in Tonga from 1-9 March while the OFC Men’s Olympic Qualifier will be staged in New Zealand from 16-25 March. The U-17 and U-20 Women’s Championships, which both act as FIFA World Cup qualifiers, will be played conjointly during the school holidays from 9-14 April in Auckland,…