History for Big Pete 65

lthomas20

Ranix

morgenstern12

Ranix

So the football ferns get a rare win 1-0 against Mexico. 
But no one in NZ could watch the the game......
One year out from a home world cup where local support will be called for by NZF.

Mexico chose not to broadcast it, probably due their elimination so this match was just played out of obligation.

Yeh I get that. Thats what we've been told. But it was played in LA not Mexico. Why didn't NZF provide a stream for there fans. Opportunity lost for little effort in my view. The game was filmed. Apparently we are getting a highlights package some time.
Edit.
Frustrating thing for me is that this is not a one off. NZ Internationals not broadcast. Just recent games.
NZ men v Oman.
NZ U20 Women. 2 games v Australia. {Played in NZ)
NZ U20 women. 2 world cup warm up games. vs Costa Rica and Brazil.
and now add to that
NZ women vs Mexico.

And all of those are friendly matches. And all but 2 are just age group teams friendly matches. The entitlement to be able to watch every friendly warmup practice match is nuts. 

Also sounds like todays' match not being streamed was not NZFs fault, rather Mexico. 

It has to be realised that women's football has quite a low status in most Latin American countries, including Mexico.
Hence the lack of TV coverage of the Mexican women.
The good performance of the Mexican u-20 women at the recent World Cup was achieved against the odds really.
The Mexican men would only have to schedule a training run to get on TV.
Brazil has been the only country with a decent women's football national side in Latin America until recently (CONMEBOL and CONCACAF)
Colombia has made some progress in recent years.
Even the Brazilian women's national team players have complained of very low pay (barely enough to live on) and poor conditions over the last decade.
Sometimes we forget that women's team sports have a much higher status in Australasia, Europe and North America than most of the rest of the world.
(More room for progress in the affluent west too of course but it's all relative)
Papua New Guinea, ranked #49 and the second highest-ranked in Oceania, are ahead of all but five teams in CONCACAF in the FIFA rankings and ahead of all but four teams in CONMEBOL.
NZ at #22 are ahead of all but Brazil in CONMEBOL and ahead of all sides except USA and Canada in CONCACAF.
It has always been thus.
CONMEBOL WOMEN FIFA RANKINGS:
9 |

| Brazil | 1975.82 | 1973.86 | 1.96 |
25 |

| Colombia | 1700.4 | 1690.58 | 9.82 |
31 |

| Argentina | 1660.37 | 1641.82 | 18.55 |
39 |

| Chile | 1580.9 | 1627.13 | -46.23 |
51 |

| Paraguay | 1510.53 | 1489.74 | 20.79 |
52 |

| Venezuela | 1494.4 | 1460.63 | 33.77 |
65 |

| Ecuador | 1377.83 | 1372.8 | 5.03 |
68 |

| Uruguay
74 |

| Peru | 1334.47 | 1377.1 | -42.63 |
98 |

| Bolivia

CONCACAF WOMEN:


36 | 

| Mexico | 1628.95 | 1695.14 | -66.19 |
37 |

| Costa Rica | 1612.44 | 1629.65 | -17.21 |
42 |

| Jamaica | 1543.93 | 1477.41 | 66.52 |
56 |

| Haiti | 1445.71 | 1413.74 | 31.97 |
57 |

| Panama | 1425.65 | 1419.22 | 6.43 |
75 |

| Trinidad and Tobago | 1318.11 | 1334.53 | -16.42 |
83 |

| Guatemala | 1259.69 | 1259.69 | 0.00 |
88 |

| Guyana