History for coochiee

Ranix

newzealandpower

To be fair there were almost 8 years between our return from South Africa and our men's national team hiatus from playing games. The cash had been used up by then anyway, and if I'm honest I didn't see a whole lot of improvement across the board since then. The Ferns had some good moments, sone $ was invested into grassroots, pay-parity (did that actually happen? I hope so) but nothing to really carry on the momentum of a team that had left the WC unbeaten.. 

Have a listen to Ryan Nelsons between 2 beers podcast. Sounds like back in 2010 NZF were so super budget it was embarrassing. Most of that money likely just went into dragging them into the 21st century organisation wise.

From what I’ve read 2010 WC cash plus Mexico TV rights cash that followed 3 years later, have made up the International Teams Fund. Used to fund senior and under age teams men’s and women’s. Sounds like the fund is still sizeable but NZF are always mindful if AWs miss Qatar no likely cash injection again until 2026 WC.

The fact NZF tried to schedule games late last year England and Belgium at least showed some intent. They sat on their hands post 2017 Peru games until late November 2019 (attention was more on Football Ferns who played pretty regularly into 2019 Women’s WC) but since then Covid has really fudgeed things up for AWs.

A gate changer would be a future AFC/OFC Nations League will possible meaningful games against Aus, Korea, Japan etc etc