Man U Premier Cup (Nike Cup) - Pacific Finals

MAN UTD PREMIER CUP NORTHERN CONFERENCE FINALS SUNDAY MARCH 2:

Onehunga Sports (WYNRS) are through to the Northern Conference finals where they will play the NFF champion Waitakere and the WaiBop champion Cambridge in double round robin play this Sunday the 2nd March at Bruce Pullman Park in Papakura.

http://www.wynrs.co.nz/wynrsauckland/page22/news/

Northern Conference finals draw

25/02/2014

The past two Sundays have seen our WYNRS academy boys representing Onehunga Sports in the Manchester United Premier Cup under 15 Auckland Football Federation qualifying series.
With a record of five wins from five games the team has won the Auckland title. Results and goal scorers below:

Group Stage: WYNRS / Onehunga Sports 6 vs 0 Eastern Suburbs 

WYNRS / Onehunga Sports 8 vs 0 Papakura 

WYNRS / Onehunga Sports 3 vs 0 Ellerslie

Semi final: WYNRS / Onehunga Sports 2 - 1 Three Kings United 

Final:WYNRS / Onehunga Sports 1 - 0 Ellerslie

The next destination is the Northern Conference finals where we will play the NFF champion Waitakere and the WaiBop champion Cambridge in double round robin play this Sunday the 2nd March at Bruce Pullman Park in Papakura. The top two teams after the round robin format will progress to the National final the following weekend at a venue that is TBC.

Sunday 2nd March - Northern Conference finals draw:

9:30am, WYNRS / Onehunga Sports v Waitakere City FC 
11:00am, WYNRS / Onehunga Sports v Cambridge FC 

12:30pm, Cambridge FC v Waitakere City FC
2:00pm, Waitakere City FC v WYNRS / Onehunga Sports
3:30pm, Cambridge FC v WYNRS / Onehunga Sports
5:00pm, Waitakere City FC v Cambridge FC 

 Wynrs New Zealand - Wynton Rufer Soccer School of Excellence

Sunday March 9 National Final:

"A tight and closely fought national final has been won 1 nil by Waitakere against WYNRS / Onehunga Sports so Waitakere will now represent NZ in Australia."

PATH TO THE FINAL:

March 8

MUPC National Finals 

Group stage day 1

Results and goal scorers:

Onehunga Sports 3 Vs 0 Western Suburbs (Wellington)

Mata 14
Singh 20, 22

Onehunga Sports 1 vs 1 Waitakere

Mata 27

Onehunga Sports 5 vs 0 Cashmere Technical (Christchurch)

Bailey 1, 19
Singh 4, 12, 
Bright 10

Tomorrow sees us play Cashmere Technical in the semi final at 12 pm and then hopefully an appearance in the national final at 3.30 pm. Both games at Bruce Pullman Park in Takanini.

Yet again, it's a NZ team triumphing at the Manchester United Premier Cup Pacific finals.

Waitakere City beat Sutherland Sharks 1-0 in the Final on the weekend of the tournament hosted by Western Sydney Wanderers:

Waitakere City  won 1-0 after extra time in a tense game against Sydney, that saw Waitakere goalkeeper Michael Wood save a penalty in the first half.

Waitakere conceded no goals in the tournament but scored only eight, whilst  beaten finalist Sutherland Sharks scored 18 and conceded two)  

Waitakere City now represent Australasia at the Manchester United Premier (Nike) Cup Final in Manchester later this year

 http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/index.php?id=11&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=2933&tx_ttnews[backPid]=10&cHash=572c54bba3

Tournament details here:

https://www.facebook.com/wswanderersfc

http://www.footballaustralia.com.au/wswanderersfc/news-display/Manchester-United-Premier-Cup-this-Weekend/90397

Standings before the Final:

Western Sydney Wanderers FC

20 hours ago

Congratulations to Waitakere City FC who defeated the Sutherland Sharks 1-0 at the Manchester United Premier Cup Pacific Finals grand final in extra time this afternoon.

Will there be any transfers between now and then?

Are they allowed?

Not being mean, but I'd be happy to see us stack this side (make it a quasi u15 NZ team) and send them across. Would help result wise and maybe help one or two players to stand out and get trial opportunities etc.

Not allowed.

Sounds like a game won with some good old Kiwi backs-to-the-wall defending.

Real Madrid-style. Suck 'em in then catch 'em on the break.

I said it was mean : )

haha!

and great job Waitakere. trip of a lifetime.

So what stops us from kicking on at the older level and continue beating these Aussie teams? Or have things changed recently? [looking for more knowlegable people than I to respond]

Don't get carried away by results in a cup style competition.

About the only thing you can say with certainty is that we can compete with Australian teams at a club level on our day.

You can't extrapolate much further.

For example. The odds are that this young waitak side has a couple of lads who will at least play age group football for NZ. The Aussie club teams they played almost certainly can't say the same.

There are loads of factors.

It's not logical to say "oh we progressed through this club tourney so the all whites will beat Australia in a few years."

But that doesn't mean it isn't encouraging.

Manchester United's decline continues - finishing below Waitakere in their own youth tournament !!!!

http://manchesterunitedpremiercup.com/news/2014-08...

13th AKA STURM GRAZ AUSTRIA

14th WAITAKERE FC NEW ZEALAND

15th MANCHESTER UNITED ENGLAND

16th WESTON FC USA

17th AC ROSARIO CENTRAL ARGENTINA

18th MAMELODI SUNDOWNS SOUTH AFRICA

19th SHANDONG LUNENG FC CHINA

20th AC THONBURI THAILAND

Waitakere drew with AS Roma, Rosario Central and Malmo and lost 2-0 to Chelsea in group play.

http://manchesterunitedpremiercup.com/news/2014-08...

"New Zealand team Waitakere City took AS Roma by surprise in the first match, opening the scoring in a 1:1 draw, and picked up another point against CA Rosario Central."

http://manchesterunitedpremiercup.com/news/2014-08...

"Chelsea's dramatic 2:0 win over New Zealand's resilient Waitakere City ensured their position at the top of Group A on goal difference at the Manchester United Premier Cup World Finals."

http://manchesterunitedpremiercup.com/world-finals...

Team                   P    W   D   L  Pts

Chelsea               4     2     1    1   7

FCMalmo FF        4     2     1   1   7

AS Roma             4     1     3    0   6

Waitakere             4     0     3   1    3

Rosario                 4    0     2   2    2

In the second placement round, beat US rep Weston FC 1-0, and lost to Sturm Graz on pens after a 1-1 draw:

http://manchesterunitedpremiercup.com/world-finals...

Solid effort.

Good to see we scored a couple goals. We often only manage 0-0 all draws at these events.

Will be keen to hear if any one stood out and impressed.