I agree with your sentiment but I think this just is not true:
"So we are having expats hired to do jobs because their resume as well as having footballing experience also has tertiary qualifications. There are very few native NZers who have tertiary qualifications as well as being football people."
Two points. Firstly, you don't need to be a "football person" so be a successful football administrator. Secondly, there are loads and loads of people in the game who are extremely well qualified. I still think that our strategy from the board down is wrong and we have had conservative and weak leadership over a long period. I still do not know what the longer term strategy for the game is in NZ, and I am not sure if we even have one
I havent articulated clearly what I meant.
There has been a concerted effort to hire people in football coaching positions and football development positions who have some form of tertiary qualification. If you look at who has been hired over the last 5-6 years we see that they will have some sort of tertiary qualification and have come from the UK. Local candidates have lacked those tertiary qualification. You will see the job adverts have these requirements now.
Typically in NZ in the past we have had football people moving in to these positions and their experience within the local game has been a major part of their cv. Now we are seeing the requirement has stepped up a notch, simply a long period of successful work within the football scene here isnt enough to beat someone to the job who has a tertiary (usually sport related) qualification as well as a football background