Club Promotes Youth Team - Phoenix Sister Club · Yellow Fever Nga Wana Kowhai

"An Auckland based club team is set to replace their 1st Team Senior Players with an U20 or an Olympic Style Squad that can include a few overage players.

The club will have non-financial support and involment with the Wellington Phoenix a sister club with benefits to both clubs that include:

Phoenix Benefits:

Brand name exposure in Auckland via logo's on club kit.

Feeder club for the Phoenix with talented youth players from the Auckland region.

Phoenix has first options on any talent for trialling etc.

Phoenix has input on who to include in the squad, including players from the region they may be interested in.

Auckland local club and other benefits.

Develop best youth club in Auckland region.

Get more youth players playing and training at a high level.

Development of NZ soccer through the lower age groups through exposure and more opportunities for promising players.

Increased revenue for club team through increase in club membership fees due to expansion of player numbers at youth level.

There a number of more ideas and options available with benefits to both clubs, ideas are still be looked at in order to come up with the best fit."

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Fiction.

If we build it, they will come...