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March 27, 2023 15:38
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From Flying Kiwis. I see OJ already posted about Niedermayer signing in Austria a few months back. EU passports helping 2 young Kiwis sign in Europe. But good to see is not just the Nix ALW team as a pro football pathway.

JANA NIEDERMAYR - SKN ST. PÖLTEN (AUSTRIAN FRAUENLIGA)
Here’s one that slipped under the radar: Jana Niedermayr has joined Austrian club SKN St. Pölten. Not a typical destination for a kiwi player by any means – although Niedermayr is a relatively common name in Austria and parts of Germany so there’s probably some heritage in there. It was mentioned that she has an Austrian passport in a couple of the local write-ups about her transfer so there ya go.

This isn’t just any old Austrian club though. St Pölten have won the last seven league titles in a row and are therefore regulars in the qualifying rounds of the Champions League – in fact they made it all the way to the group stages this past term, finishing third in a group with Wolfsburg (Germany), Roma (Italy), and Slavia Prague (Czachia) thanks to a win and a draw against the latter. This season they’re in domestic cruise control with 11 wins from 11 games and a goal difference of +60. Two games ago they broke an Austrian record for the biggest ever victory when they put 16 unanswered goals past Altenmarkt.

Niedermayr, who joined the club during their winter break, hasn’t yet featured for the senior team however she is being integrated with the reserves. Already played twice for the SKN II team, both full games, even scoring a goal in one of them (as well as a few unofficial friendlies). Nieds is a central defender by trade and started alongside Kate Taylor at the U20 World Cup last year. She’s also represented Aotearoa at U17 level and has several National League seasons under her belt, having emerged from the Central Football region. Did some FFDP stuff as well. Plus she does have that goal-scoring knack having swivelled in one of the absolute goals of the season last year.

Up Next: Hang about, move on up, see if she can’t play some Champions League later in the year

Want another sneaky one? NZ U20s midfielder Emma Pijnenburg, a standout creative force for Western Springs last National League with a remarkable eye for an incisive pass, is now testing out the waters in the Netherlands having joined top flight club Feyenoord.

Like Niedermayr, Pijnenburg hasn’t been chucked straight into the first team but she has been getting games for the academy team. Settling into the new scene. Pijnenburg has a Dutch father so this is yet another case of a kiwi player exploiting a dual passport situation. We’ve always had a few of those going on in England but lately the other diaspora have been having a time too. Marko Stamenic, Marco Rojas, Emma Pijnenburg, Jana Niedermayr, Kian Donkers, to name a few. Right on.

Up Next: Progress and more progress
March 29, 2023 17:36
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March 30, 2023 12:51
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Two Football Ferns involved in the Women's FA Cup semis in England over the weekend, both on the bench:
Sadly both their sides lost - Brighton beaten by Man United 3-2 with an 89th minute winner (Rebecca Stott on the bench and not featuring):
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/65274085
and in the other, Anna Leat rode the pine as reserve keeper for Aston Villa as they also went down narrowly, 1-0 to Chelsea.
Sam Kerr, the Matildas striker getting the goal on 59 minutes.
Cool to see Football Ferns involved with clubs at the highest level of the women's game, even if only on the bench this time.
The English women's league has really taken off in recent years and is up there with the German, Spanish, French and US leagues now. 
April 18, 2023 17:56
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FYI - UEFA Women's UCL semis. Two English clubs (Chelsea & Arsenal) alongside Barcelona & Wolfsburg.

Quarters were same 2 English clubs, 1 Spanish, 1 Italian (Roma), 2 French (Lyon & PSG) & 2 German clubs (Bayern knocked out).

https://us.soccerway.com/international/europe/uefa-womens-champions-league/20222023/s21725/final-stages/
April 18, 2023 18:19
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CJ Bott has signed a new two year deal at Leicester
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CJ Bott has signed a new two year deal at Leicester

Great news  - a very good defender affected by injuries the past year.
 It'll be easier to see a lot more of the Ferns playing in England now
that all major English women's football comps will be screened by TVNZ - looking forward to that because of all the Ferns in the Super League (Spurs, Villa, Leicester, Brighton) and FA Cup (Grace Neville at London City Lionesses etc.)
Stott and Leats' sides were in the semis of the Women's FA Cup this year.
77,000 at the final at Wembley.
"Women's Football coming on TVNZ: 
English Women’s Super League, Women's FA Cup and Arnold Clark Cup (annual four nation women's international tournament in England, Feb.- March) Football." 
July 08, 2023 13:39
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NZ u-19 international Kiara Bercelli  signed for major Italian women's side U.C. Sampdoria in March when she turned 18 and it was legally possible after trialling there some time before but being too young to sign. 
 A former Canterbury player, more recently based in Oz.
Bercelli went on to appear regularly for Sampdoria u-19 and helped them win the national u-19 title 
July 14, 2023 15:00
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Forgotten Fern Jana Radosavljević has joined Fenerbahce
July 31, 2023 07:28
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Forgotten Fern Jana Radosavljević has joined Fenerbahce

Good enough to play in the Frau Bundesliga and score a goal there. Bad knee injury wasn't it? Hopefully she can resurrect her career. Klimkova bought her to NZ for those USA friendlies back in January, with a weakened Ferns but she couldn't even get a game then, so seems well out of the picture at the moment.

Turkey with 70M people another potential sleeping giant in the Women's game. Still a pretty liberal Muslim country, even with hardline Erdoğan in power all these years. Looks like it's got a fully professional women's league. Just another country that could overtake NZ if it gets it's act together.


July 31, 2023 12:33
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August 08, 2023 14:59
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Tyler Bindon's mum, ex Football Fern Jenny Bindon is an assistant coach at London Lionesses. Perhaps Neville can get in the Bindon family's ear the virtues of allegiance to NZ.

August 09, 2023 00:14
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From Flying Kiwis.

That’s right, we’ve got a fresh entry to the Flying Kiwis club with 18 year old Olivia Page joining Sheffield United after a successful trial period, having previously played for Eastern Suburbs back in Aotearoa. Usually a wide midfielder or fullback, Page was part of the U17 World Cup squad last year where she featured in all three group games plus she made 11 National League appearances for the championship Eastern Suburbs team (scoring 1 goal with 1 assist). That includes logging ninety in the grand final. She’s tall and powerful, an impressive athlete. All of which should bode well at Sheffield United.

SUFC manager Jonathan Morgan: “Olivia came onto our radar last season. She’s a young player who has played for the New Zealand youth teams and she’s showed a lot of maturity already here. We’re excited to see how she develops. She’s tall, powerful and has a good engine on her and we’re looking forward to seeing how she takes to the English game.”

That means there’s now three NZers in the English Championship for the upcoming season – all likely to be playing fullback, funnily enough. Page won’t be the first kiwi to play for Sheffield United. Heck, she won’t even be the first kiwi named Olivia to play for the Blades. Olivia Chance had a short stint there prior to joining Brisbane Roar a couple years ago.
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August 11, 2023 19:13
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Grace Jale joins Liz Anton at Perth. Transferred from Canberra.
That's interesting. Hannah Blake was there last season, scored a bunch of goals for them. Wonder if she's is staying on as well.

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Edit.
Everyone is pretty quick to fizz over Milly Clegg because she scored a few age group world cup goals. But have short memories because thats what Hannah Blake was doing just a few years earlier. She then went into the US college system, so has basically been off the radar for the last 3 or 4 years playing youth football. 
I expect she will do well at Adelaide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5BGZmudets
August 23, 2023 15:57 · Edited August 23, 2023 20:44
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Wouldn't be surprised if we see her back in the A League. Most likely for one of the Melbourne teams.
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August 26, 2023 14:45
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NPL NSW.
Kiwi's in the goals again this week.
Ava Pritchard with a goal for Uni and
Charlotte Lancaster with some good end of season form scoring a brace. One of which was a trademark left footer from the sideline. See at 1.27 and the second at 2.26 of the highlights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbqRCYqqW1M&t=6s

Earning her a spot in team of the week.
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HB Koge and some Champions League football ??
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August 29, 2023 04:41
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Daisy Cleverley plays for them, right?
August 29, 2023 09:05
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Sounds like Chance (Unattached FC) will need surgery on her knee.

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023/300958009/football-ferns-find-new-homes-after-fifa-womens-world-cup

Olivia Chance’s future is up in the air after she announced her departure from Scottish Cup winners Celtic.

The 29-year-old midfielder suffered a serious-looking knee injury in April and while she made it back for the World Cup, she has kept details of the injury close to her chests and hinted at needing surgery to full recover.

“It’s an injury that won’t get better unless you do something big about it and that’s for me now to think about,” Chance said.

“Do I want to continue playing or do I want to make the decision where I don’t think it’s good enough and I have to go through lengthy rehab? That’s not something I really want to do.”

August 29, 2023 13:13
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Well deserved. 👏👏👏 
Thought she was one of our better players at the WWC.

God damn there's a lot of Kiwi's picking up deals at the moment. 👌
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https://fcbayern.com/frauen/en/news/2023/08/fc-bayern-women-sign-erin-nayler 
August 31, 2023 20:28
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Perhaps Nayler translates to Neuer in German.
Good on her. Just surprising to see her at such a big club, given how her career has tracked of late.

See BM won last season's Frauen Bundesliga by 2 points.
https://us.soccerway.com/national/germany/frauen-bundesliga/20222023/regular-season/r69234/

https://fcbayern.com/frauen/en/news/2023/08/fc-bayern-women-sign-erin-nayler
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Wow that's a big move for Erin Nayler. Good on her.
https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/fifa-womens-world-cup-2023/300958009/football-ferns-find-new-homes-after-fifa-womens-world-cup

So thinking about what free agents are still left from world cup squad.
Katie Bowen. Investigating options in Europe apparently. Good enough for the WSL I reckon. Be interesting to see where she lands.
Annalie Longo. Needs to find a club really if she wants to go to one more Olympics with this team. Hopefully signs with the Nix. She worked so hard to get back ready for the WWC would be a real shame if she retired now.
Olivia Chance. Departed Celtic. Rumoured to go to Mel Victory. Also rumoured she might be having some kind of knee surgery on injury she got playing for FF's.
Hannah Wilkinson. Nothing announced yet. Will she do another season with Mel City. Good chance of it you would think.

Other ex Nix ALW players currently free agents. How many of these will get overseas/aussie deals
Kelli Brown.  Equal top goals scorer in NPL NSW. Surely get picked up in the A league.
Charlotte Lancsaster. Strong finish to NPL NSW. Scoring goals, making teams of the week and even plays of the week. Another you would think makes an A league squad.
Ava Pritchard. Regular starter in NPL NSW. Has got on the score sheet a few times for a team in the bottom half of the comp.
Mona Walker. Regular starter at NPL NSW level. Her team is battling for a playoff spot.
Lily Alfeld. Still battling with recovery from injury. Nix have been giving her time, but season is fast approaching.
Emma Rolston. Released by the Phoenix. After injury and suspension plagued season. ???
Saskia Vosper. Released by the Phoenix. Not playing domestically in NZ as far as I know.
Georgia Candy: ?


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Perhaps Nayler translates to Neuer in German.
Good on her. Just surprising to see her at such a big club, given how her career has tracked of late.

See BM won last season's Frauen Bundesliga by 2 points.
https://us.soccerway.com/national/germany/frauen-bundesliga/20222023/regular-season/r69234/

https://fcbayern.com/frauen/en/news/2023/08/fc-bayern-women-sign-erin-nayler
Phillip Rollo tweeted that their back up keeper did their knee last week, so I'm guessing they just grabbed an experienced option to sit on the bench. Hopefully she pushes the #1 hard for some starting minutes.
September 01, 2023 14:44
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NPL NSW.
A very unusal situation this week (Considering our current lack of goal scoring pedigree)
Two Kiwi #9's. facing off in a top NSW comp. All kiwi goals in this one also .
Kelli Brown with a brace as Rams 2. Beat Sydney Uni 1. Ava Pritchard with the goal for Uni.

But two goals by Brown wasn't quite enough for her to win the golden boot. Joint top goal scorer going into this last regular season game. She was piped by Ashlie Crofts who scored a hat trick for her club APIA Leichhardt.
Still 23 goals in the NPL NSW league for Brown is a huge achievement. 
Charlotte Lanchaster finished with 6 goals and
Ava Pritchard with 5 goals for the season.
Onto the semi finals now for Brown as Mcarthur Rams finished 2nd.
And Charlotte Lancaster's Bulls FC finished 4th to get the final semi spot for the playoffs..


September 04, 2023 10:01
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And Kelli Brown makes team of the week.
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Well.
In NPL NSW semi final action last night. Charlotte Lancaster's Bulls FC team beat table topping APIA Leichhardt 2-1 to progress through to the final.
And both Bulls goals scored by Lancaster.
She has really done well with consistent playing time at a decent level. Hope she can get an A league gig somewhere to continue her progress/development. Still a very young player with a very handy left foot.
Highlights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra3XXoUojTQ&t=4s
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Continues the cracking moves for Football Ferns post the Women's World Cup. 🙌
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