Huawei Wellington United Phoenix Academy Football School of Excellence - WeeNix
The academy isn’t in wgtn city
Call the whole thing off. I'm sure the Chinese will be furious to find it's situated a few kms outside the city boundary limits. Best the Welnix owners just keep propping up the whole enterprise.
Oh and hope the locals are taking on the mayor's bar tabs. She seems to like a drink apparently.
This is different. They are talking about actual politics.
What you bring up is things like sexism, racism, being an actual reasonable human being, etc. For some stupid reason not being a cock is "politics".
Not sure the point I am making here, it's just fascinating that trying to not treat people like shark is a "political" stance.
Good summary of the current thinking re recruitmnent and focus on the Academy pathway. According to Gill they do look at other NZ players - Greenacre went to the OFC U23 tourney - but definitely a bias towards Weenix players who have been through the Nix system for a few years.
Sounds like up to 4 scholarship deals will be announced during, or at the end of the Weenix's NL campaign.
Good summary of the current thinking re recruitmnent and focus on the Academy pathway. According to Gill they do look at other NZ players - Greenacre went to the OFC U23 tourney - but definitely a bias towards Weenix players who have been through the Nix system for a few years.
Sounds like up to 4 scholarship deals will be announced during, or at the end of the Weenix's NL campaign.
Good summary of the current thinking re recruitmnent and focus on the Academy pathway. According to Gill they do look at other NZ players - Greenacre went to the OFC U23 tourney - but definitely a bias towards Weenix players who have been through the Nix system for a few years.
Sounds like up to 4 scholarship deals will be announced during, or at the end of the Weenix's NL campaign.
So likely no more first-team signings and the rest of the squad will be rounded off with scholarship players? I'm expecting Lorenz, Nguyen, Rudland, and Supyk.
Bring back Andy
Bring back Andy
Got a new double act now!
Fenton
Singh
Cacace
Waine
Sutton
Surman
Old
Kelly-Heald
Paulson
I think maybe that'd be the list of young kiwis the club could take full (or near full) credit for from youth level?
Elliott, Sail, McCowatt, Rojas, Boyd, Ridenton are other youngsters that made it, by my definition, I think, but I'm not sure if they were really academy or Nix developed players from youths? Maybe Boyd, McCowatt, Sail? Rufer, Payne maybe not on account of being older and/or having experience elsewhere? Would we say Rojas was here young enough and long enough to really be a Nix 'product'?
Not sure how accurate I am with the above, but in say six(?) academy/youth development years we've produced nine? Fenton getting in pre-academy. Maybe a couple more. Or some we should part count.
Any bloopers I've missed or some you'd argue we didn't develop?
Allowing we're only a few years in and it takes a bit for the pipeline to get going, maybe we're producing somewhere near the couple a year that someone suggested in the City game thread, that overseas pro team academies would produce to become regular starting level players in their league?
We've got a bumper crop of academy kids getting pro contracts this year but we'll see how many will become regular starters over the next few years? Two or three of them sound not far off getting to the right level, and maybe one or two that came into the squad in previous years?
Anyway, idle thoughts. What do you think? Maybe this has been discussed before?
Others will have a far better idea of who really made it because of Nix development, vs young NZ kids that were pretty much already formed by the time we got them.
And a decent number of NZ reps in there. I'd say the club is doing the NZ player development job Welnix intended.
And the latest signings of Finn Conchie, Isaac Hughes and Luke Supyk. 😊
🗞️| News - Academy Director Steve Coleman departs the Wellington Phoenix to pursue overseas opportunity
— Wellington Phoenix Academy (@WgtnPhoenixAcad) January 10, 2024
Coleman will finish up with the Phoenix at the start of next month
Thank you Steve 👏
📖 | Read more 👉https://t.co/EJdAhGwHBu
💛🖤 pic.twitter.com/xk6SUugWmv
Foord (GK) from Cashmere Tech
Understand the Wellington Phoenix have signed NZ U17 internationals Dylan Gardiner (17, CB) and Matt Foord (17, GK) to youth deals - two massive gets for the Nix academy.
— sam smith 🇳🇿 (@mrsmiis) January 25, 2024
Both impressed in New Zealand's U17 World Cup campaign, each playing every available minute.
Foord (GK) from Cashmere Tech
Understand the Wellington Phoenix have signed NZ U17 internationals Dylan Gardiner (17, CB) and Matt Foord (17, GK) to youth deals - two massive gets for the Nix academy.
— sam smith 🇳🇿 (@mrsmiis) January 25, 2024
Both impressed in New Zealand's U17 World Cup campaign, each playing every available minute.
Foord (GK) from Cashmere Tech
Understand the Wellington Phoenix have signed NZ U17 internationals Dylan Gardiner (17, CB) and Matt Foord (17, GK) to youth deals - two massive gets for the Nix academy.
— sam smith 🇳🇿 (@mrsmiis) January 25, 2024
Both impressed in New Zealand's U17 World Cup campaign, each playing every available minute.
Superb, thank you!
Can't wait until they cover the stats in the same level of detail for the Northern/Central/Southern Leagues. 🤲
Today's squad featured 1⃣1⃣ @WgtnPhoenixAcad graduates, with 7⃣ of those getting minutes in RD 1⃣2⃣'s 0⃣-0⃣ draw with the Mariners 👏
— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) February 6, 2024
They posed for a photo with former academy director Steve Coleman before he leaves for his new adventure in the USA 🙌
📸 - @NZPhotomac pic.twitter.com/O27SaTkMfg
Former Napier City Rovers and Havelock North Wanderers midfielder, Harry Huxford has signed for the Wellington Phoenix Reserves side. The U-17 National Team player will be looking to make the U-20 side, also coaches by Chris Greenacre, for next years World Cup pic.twitter.com/O2mT90iK0P
— exq 🇳🇿 (@exqiztv) February 7, 2024
Today's squad featured 1⃣1⃣ @WgtnPhoenixAcad graduates, with 7⃣ of those getting minutes in RD 1⃣2⃣'s 0⃣-0⃣ draw with the Mariners 👏
— Wellington Phoenix 🔥 (@WgtnPhoenixFC) February 6, 2024
They posed for a photo with former academy director Steve Coleman before he leaves for his new adventure in the USA 🙌
📸 - @NZPhotomac pic.twitter.com/O27SaTkMfg
https://www.odt.co.nz/star-news/star-sport/star-football/phoenix-reserves-sign-cashmere-tech-keeper?fbclid=IwAR1ZyzI7wpOUG_sak_8RP4NP8gglAOuec_CQwSQyx_DeWB1SwRVy-hltjSs
You sign for Wellington Phoenix.
There is an expectation by a certain age you’ll be playing reserves, but you need to earn you spot.
They are about player development. At least supposed to be.
But they also cannot afford to be relegated.
You sign for Wellington Phoenix.
There is an expectation by a certain age you’ll be playing reserves, but you need to earn you spot.
They are about player development. At least supposed to be.
But they also cannot afford to be relegated.
Well yeah just trying to point out that statements made about these players ain’t really correct
We had a special visitor at yesterday's academy youth team training sessions! 🤩
— Wellington Phoenix Academy (@WgtnPhoenixAcad) June 6, 2024
Former Phoenix academy and @WgtnPhoenixFC player Liberato Cacace paid a visit to our boys and girls youth team training sessions! 🙌
Thank you for stopping by Libby! 🐦🔥
📸 - @ImraySnaps pic.twitter.com/RK5jn7Y2ek
Brooke-Smith who sounds a potential gun, went through Ricki's RH3 Football Academy in Cambridge.
Read fellow Waikato lad Dylan Gardiner, went to RH3 Football Academy as well.
Could be a useful future relationship for the Phoenix, having Ricki up in the Waikato as they now have to compete with AFC for NZ's best talent.
How good is it having former All Whites and @WgtnPhoenixFC head coach Ricki Herbert down at Fraser Park!? 🤩
— Wellington Phoenix Academy (@WgtnPhoenixAcad) July 11, 2024
Thanks for stopping by Ricki! 🙌
💛🖤 | https://t.co/dqcAzoT1pl pic.twitter.com/QSbmMO2gV6
Well they got to go to Spain for a month, so maybe their folks will get some return on whatever they shelled out.
https://www.friendsoffootballnz.com/2024/01/18/waikato-teenagers-spending-a-month-training-with-spanish-club/
And least the nix can prove the pathway too. Will certainly help justify it.
Sounds like FIFA are involved somehow.
With U17 World Cups moving to an annual program, maybe the goal is to get most/all of the NZ's promising footballers into either the Weenix or new Auckland pro club academies by age 16. So preparing the players to better perform at these under age WCs.
https://wellingtonphoenix.com/news/wellington-phoenix-and-new-zealand-football-announce-partnership-to-support-development-of-kiwi-talent/
As part of the partnership there will be additional scholarship positions at the Wellington Phoenix academy for Kiwi talent, and steps to align the development pathway for players from the domestic game to the A-Leagues and beyond.
The partnership is agreed for an initial two-year term and comes into effect immediately.
https://wellingtonphoenix.com/news/wellington-phoenix-and-new-zealand-football-announce-partnership-to-support-development-of-kiwi-talent/
As part of the partnership there will be additional scholarship positions at the Wellington Phoenix academy for Kiwi talent, and steps to align the development pathway for players from the domestic game to the A-Leagues and beyond.
The partnership is agreed for an initial two-year term and comes into effect immediately.
Announcement on YT said this was a 'Significant 6 figure sum' - sounds very positive to me!