Someone fill us in on Ben Old?
He’s an 18 year old attacking midfielder, kind of in the Sarpreet Singh mould. He’s reasonably small, but always has been, so he knows well enough how to use his body. Very tidy dribbler with low centre of gravity, which is helped by his small size. He was probably the Phoenix reserves best outfield player in the past season, and was arguably better than Paulsen for them. He was a member of the NZ U17 team that went to the 2019 World Cup in Brazil, playing in two of their three matches, coming off the bench against Angola (1-2 loss) and starting against Canada (1-0 win). He’s from the North Shore, went to Westlake and played for Forrest Hill and North Shore, and first got scouted by the Phoenix when he made the Napier U19 Team of the Tournament in 2017 as a 15 year old.