What a real shark show this is. Just get rid of her.
Team performances under Jitka (Barring the World Cup Opener v Norway) have taken us several steps backwards, all the while women's football around the globe is moving forwards in leaps and bounds and we've been left behind. Without knowing the details around her employment matter recently, it sounds as though she's lost the dressing room. What benefit does it do for us if she's being kept on?
I was willing to give her a chance at the beginning, despite and underwhelming background and a lack of understanding around the state of the women's game in this country - Nothing she has done since has bettered the game in this country and it's probably about time someone at NZF picked up their balls and show her the door...
Team performances under Jitka (Barring the World Cup Opener v Norway) have taken us several steps backwards, all the while women's football around the globe is moving forwards in leaps and bounds and we've been left behind. Without knowing the details around her employment matter recently, it sounds as though she's lost the dressing room. What benefit does it do for us if she's being kept on?
I was willing to give her a chance at the beginning, despite and underwhelming background and a lack of understanding around the state of the women's game in this country - Nothing she has done since has bettered the game in this country and it's probably about time someone at NZF picked up their balls and show her the door...
With so many talent players at her disposal, that team should have been doing a lot better. In what is an amazing time for the Ferns with lots of players progressing at various club levels, under achievement at the International level is very disappointing.
Not really most of the Ferns are in middling leagues.
Exceptions.
Leat a reserve keeper in the WSL. Bott at Leicester.
Fraser & Clegg (yet to play) now in the NWSL.
Probably Bowen In Italy
But the rest are just all in average sort of leagues, so a myth to say there are loads of talented players. On a world scale there isn't
As Niche Cache always says the Ferns mostly lose to the teams higher ranked than them, and mostly beat those lower than them.
Rarities beating Norway and then losing to the Philippines.
As a team they are sort of treading water, and that's not great when so many other bigger football countries are now getting serious about the women's game. The hope lies in the Nix ALW (and soon Auckland ALW) sides bringing through increased numbers of talented young girls.
To be fair to Klimkova (or any coach) with the Ferns they can only do so much, with the talent they have. Team did little of note under Sermanni either.
But yeah getting spanked by Portugal pre the WWC after a cringeworthy Riley/Klimkova double act press conference was a low point to me. Got worse against Argentina the next game.