Sadly NZF and the selfish shortsighted A-League Women clubs (#NotReallyTogetherAsOne) have thrown Jitka and the team under the bus a bit with these fixtures. Hopefully it doesn't get too bad but we know the US will win both games by 3+ goals and it will probably earn the team a lot of uneducated slander and disdain from people who don't know womens football.
So jitka didn’t want these fixtures? Or she expected a better squad which was never realistic?
But was it unrealistic for Bunge, Stott & Bowen to be released by their ALW clubs for at least one of these USA games. All the talk of increased Trans Tasman co-operation of late.
Basically what can NZF & Jitka do. It's unlikely the high profile US Women's team will ever visit NZ to play the Ferns again, for many years if ever. US Soccer hold all the scheduling cards here. Damned if you do, damned if you don't
Was about 5 years between home games for the Ferns before the Korea games. Post the WWC that type of schedule will likely return, with Ferns in the OFC