Wellington Phoenix intersquad match this weekend:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c...
Interesting thing is Hudson will be taking charge of one of the teams. Think this shows a much better will of NZF and Phoenix to work together for the common good. The fact that Hudson and Merrick seem to have very similar football philosophies is great. Now hopefully we will have a synergy of NZ Age group sides, the All Whites and The Phoenix all playing to a similar game plan and positive playing style.
It's exactly the same sort of match we had last year with Ricki and Merrick.
And I don't think changing the name has much to do with anything other than representing what it is a little better. It isn't the NZ "A" team (I hate that description anyway) because some of the players are considered first choice. It is just an NZ selection.