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Posted December 05, 2024 03:16 · last edited December 05, 2024 05:45

Can see the league being really good for the Island nations.
Be great for young kids, and players there to have a local professional pathway. Academies setup around each club, all helping to raise standards. You listen to Brian Kaltak talk and realise just how tough it is for talented kids there, to get any sort of opportunity to play overseas. Sounds like in Vanuatu as an example they are excited about the prospect of taking part. That's cool for their community.

If FIFA with cash reserves of over $US4 billion, are there to underwrite the whole thing as well, and make sure it survives, even better.

NZF as a member of OFC, should definitely support it getting started. But that doesn't mean we need to be part of it, as we are very much a country levels above the rest in Oceania. That's the blunt truth. Having a team(s) in the league would really be of minimal development value, in NZF's pathways.

Any Australian (and maybe US/Hawaiian) involvement is definitely being driven from Canberra as part of a geopolitical regional focus. The FA with Aus Govt backing, has just started sending age group teams to play in the Islands as part of that.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/sports-diplomacy-a-potent-weapon-in-the-pacific-against-chinas-coercive-grasp/

https://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc-professional-league-presented-at-world-football-summit-in-riyadh/

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Unknown editor edited December 05, 2024 05:45

Can see the league being really good for the Island nations.
Be great for young kids, and players there to have a local professional pathway. Academies setup around each club, all helping to raise standards. You listen to Brian Kaltak talk and realise just how tough it is for talented kids there, to get any sort of opportunity to play overseas. Sounds like in Vanuatu as an example they are excited about the prospect of taking part. That's cool for their community.

If FIFA with cash reserves of over $US4 billion, are there to underwrite the whole thing as well, and make sure it survives, even better.

NZF as a member of OFC, should definitely support it getting started. But that doesn't mean we need to be part of it, as we are basically a country apart from the rest. That's the blunt truth. Having a team(s) in the league would really be of minimal development value, in NZF's pathways.

Any Australian (and maybe US/Hawaiian) involvement is definitely being driven from Canberra as part of a geopolitical regional focus. The FA with Aus Govt backing, has just started sending age group teams to play in the Islands as part of that.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/sports-diplomacy-a-potent-weapon-in-the-pacific-against-chinas-coercive-grasp/

https://www.oceaniafootball.com/ofc-professional-league-presented-at-world-football-summit-in-riyadh/

Unknown editor edited December 05, 2024 03:26

Can see the league being really good for the Island nations.
Be great for young kids, and players there to have a local professional pathway. Academies setup around each club, all helping to raise standards. You listen to Brian Kaltak talk and realise just how tough it is for talented kids there, to get any sort of opportunity to play overseas. Sounds like in Vanuatu as an example they are excited about the prospect of taking part. That's cool for their community.

If FIFA with cash reserves of over $US4 billion, are there to underwrite the whole thing as well, and make sure it survives, even better.

NZF as a member of OFC, should definitely support it getting started. But that doesn't mean we need to be part of it, as we are basically a country apart from the rest. That's the blunt truth. Having a team(s) in the league would really be of minimal development value, in NZF's pathways.

Any Australian (and maybe US/Hawaiian) involvement is definitely being driven from Canberra as part of a geopolitical regional focus. The FA with Aus Govt backing, has just started sending age group teams to play in the Islands as part of that.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/sports-diplomacy-a-potent-weapon-in-the-pacific-against-chinas-coercive-grasp/

Unknown editor edited December 05, 2024 03:23

Can see the league being really good for the Island nations.
Be great for young kids, and players there to have a local professional pathway. Academies setup around each club, all helping to raise standards. You listen to Brian Kaltak talk and realise just how tough it is for talented kids there, to get any sort of opportunity to play overseas. Sounds like in Vanuatu as an example they are excited about the prospect of taking part. That's cool for their community.

If FIFA with cash reserves of over $US4 billion, are there to underwrite the whole thing as well, and make sure it survives, even better.

NZF as a member of OFC, should definitely support it getting started. But that doesn't mean we need to be part of it, as we are basically a country apart from the rest. That's the blunt truth. Having a team(s) in the league would really be of minimal development value, in NZF's pathways.

Any Australian (and maybe US/Hawaiian) involvement is definitely being driven from Canberra as part of a geopoliticial regional focus. The FA with Aus Govt backing, has just started sending age group teams to play in the Islands as part of that.

https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/sports-diplomacy-a-potent-weapon-in-the-pacific-against-chinas-coercive-grasp/

Unknown editor edited December 05, 2024 03:23

Can see the league being really good for the Island nations.
Be great for young kids, and players there to have a local professional pathway. Academies setup around each club, all helping to raise standards. You listen to Brian Kaltak talk and realise just how tough it is for talented kids there, to get any sort of opportunity to play overseas. Sounds like in Vanuatu as an example they are excited about the prospect of taking part. That's cool for their community.

If FIFA with cash reserves of over $US4 billion, are there to underwrite the whole thing as well, and make sure it survives, even better.

NZF as a member of OFC, should definitely support it getting started. But that doesn't mean we need to be part of it, as we are basically a country apart from the rest. That's the blunt truth. Having a team(s) in the league would really be of minimal development value, in NZF's pathways.

Any Australian (and maybe US/Hawaiian) involvement is definitely being driven from Canberra as part of a geopoliticial regional focus. The FA with I think Aus Govt backing, has just started sending age group teams to play in the Islands as part of that.

Unknown editor edited December 05, 2024 03:17

Can see the league being really good for the Island nations.
Be great for young kids, and players there to have a local professional pathway. Academies setup around each club, all helping to raise standards. You listen to Brian Kaltak talk and realise just how tough it is for talented kids there, to get any sort of opportunity to play overseas.

If FIFA with cash reserves of over $US4 billion, are there to underwrite the whole thing as well, and make sure it survives, even better.

NZF as a member of OFC, should definitely support it getting started. But that doesn't mean we need to be part of it, as we are basically a country apart from the rest. That's the blunt truth. Having a team(s) in the league would really be of minimal development value, in NZF's pathways.

Any Australian (and maybe US/Hawaiian) involvement is definitely being driven from Canberra as part of a geopoliticial regional focus. The FA with I think Aus Govt backing, has just started sending age group teams to play in the Islands as part of that.