Great assessment mate but it makes for grim reading...I wonder if herr coach is thinking what the shark did I get myself into!
It really is a case of herding cats for Fritz, not helped by -
MLS/USL not breaking for the FIFA windows, and having such a big Kiwi contingent stateside.
Being near end of the Euro season, any player at a club chasing promotion (N Boxall), or battling relegation (Wood, Themi), highly unlikely to be available.
Simple tyranny of distance, making it always challenging to assemble a squad, from all over the world. The Socceroos however for example, can pretty much get a strong squad together solely from the various Euro leagues together, making even games in the Middle East only a 5-7 hour flight away.
NZF being light on funds, some major international expenses coming up with Football Ferns (WC this year & Olympics next year), and Mens U23s (Olympics next year). Juggling priorities. I note the FFs have secured 7 quality friendlies pre their WC. AWs would kill for that many games, going into say a Confeds Cup campaign. Out of curiousity how much do FIFA pay the NZF for qualifying the FFs for the Women's World Cup? ie what money do NZF use for a pre tourney FFs campaign that incl 7 warm up games? Do they have to utilise funds from International Teams Fund? - which I thought was made up of funds mostly generated by the AWs (FIFA money 2010 & Mexico TV money 2013).