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New women’s champions to be crowned

1 December 2011
New women’s champions to be crowned

With Northern grafting a 1-0 victory over two-time winners and defending champions Capital Football in last Saturday’s semi-final and Auckland Football – holder of six titles – falling at the conference stage, there will be a new winner of the national league for just the third time since it was first run in 2002.Last season’s…

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1 December 2011
Argentine Tade dares to dream

The 22-year-old is set to become one of six Argentine players to line up at the tournament in Japan this month. One of those men, Lionel Messi, is regarded as the best in the world. “If I stop for a moment and think I’m one of the six then it’s more than a wild dream,”…

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1 December 2011
Governance Committee chairman presented

Prof. Pieth introduced his “Governing FIFA” report, in which he analyses FIFA’s organisational structures and procedures and their abilities to deal with existing risks and challenges.The full report, as well as an executive summary, was published yesterday and can be read hereProf. Pieth will chair a multi-stakeholder group of experts with backgrounds in law, sports,…

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30 November 2011
Injury woes ease for key City pair

Coombes, who injured his cruciate ligaments in the ASB Premiership win over Waitakere United two weeks ago, was put through his paces by physiotherapist Andrew Newmarch. “The injury looks better than it did ten days ago,” Coombes said. “I worked hard at training doing shuttle work and have built up the muscle strength around the…

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30 November 2011
White Ribbon Cup to kick off this weekend

The six teams – Hawke’s Bay United, Waikato FC and YoungHeart Manawatu in the Northern Conference and Canterbury United, Otago United and Team Wellington in the Southern group – will play two games each with the two conference winners meeting in the final on April 1.The matches, two of which will be hosted in Taupo,…

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30 November 2011
Cup continues OFC’s sport for development role

This was the first time it had been hosted in New Zealand’s largest city and OFC joined forces with a number of other organisations – namely NZ Police, New Zealand Football, Auckland Football Federation, Cuesports, Auckland Council, NZ Diversity Action and Connect2sport – to stage the tournament at the Roskill Youth Zone in Mt Roskill.The…

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30 November 2011
Hekari-Koloale clash postponed

The Group B match was originally scheduled to be held on Saturday 3 December at PMRL Stadium in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, but has been delayed one week due to ground availability issues.The other Match Day 3 games due to take place this weekend will go ahead as planned, with Tefana (TAH) hosting Ba…

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29 November 2011
Men in Black retain national title

Heading into the season-closing encounter, Ba needed a victory to maintain their grasp on the trophy after a comprehensive 5-0 triumph against title rivals Labasa last Friday.And the Men in Black had no problems earning the necessary win as first-half strikes to Mavileko Nakama, Shalen Lal and Avinesh Suwamy had them three goals to the…

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29 November 2011
Auckland City touch down in Japan

Auckland veteran James Pritchett was among the bulk of the squad to arrive from New Zealand and while the fullback admitted to being a “bit jaded” following the travel, he says the Ryutsu Keizai test is already whetting the appetite.“It won’t be easy but we’re excited about the challenge,” Pritchett says.The team will go into…

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29 November 2011
Brown and Hearn net vital goals

EuropeHearn struck the opening goal – her second in as many games – for USV Jena in a 2-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen that lifts Jena out of the relegation zone in Germany’s Frauen Bundesliga. Towards the other end of the table, Rebecca Smith’s Wolfsburg leapfrogged Ria Percivals’s FFC Frankfurt into third place and closer…

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