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Callan Elliot has signed with Wellington Phoenix, fresh off helping the OlyWhites create history by qualifying for the quarterfinals of the Tokyo Olympics.
The OlyWhites have made it to the quarterfinals at the Tokyo Olympics and will face hosts Japan in Kashima on Saturday night for a place in the final four.
NZ Herald
The Oly Whites have made New Zealand football history, progressing to the knockout stages for the first time at the Olympics.
OlyWhites goalkeeper Michael Woud’s resilience was on full display as he helped his side draw 0-0 with Romania and advance to the quarterfinals at the Tokyo Olympics, where they will play hosts Japan on Saturday [kickoff 9pm NZ time].
The OlyWhites may have stumbled late against Honduras on Sunday, but they still have a golden opportunity to advance to the quarterfinals of the men’s football tournament at the Tokyo Olympics.
Tom Sermanni’s tenure as coach of New Zealand’s women’s football team is over after the Football Ferns were eliminated from the Tokyo Olympics.
Niche Cache
The funkiest thing about that 1-0 win over South Korea is that the OlyWhites didn’t even play that well.
Liberato Cacace sent his family watching back home from the TV in Wellington into delirium when the rising star of New Zealand football lit up the Tokyo Olympics with a wonder-goal against Honduras.
The Wellington Phoenix have started pre-season training despite head coach Ufuk Talay and some players still stuck in Australia after the New Zealand Government’s closure of the trans-Tasman travel bubble.
The OlyWhites are set to be without captain Winston Reid for the rest of the Tokyo Olympics, but are still in control of their own destiny in group B of the men’s football tournament.
OlyWhites coach Danny Hay has called on his team to rally around goalkeeper Michael Woud ahead of their decisive clash with Romania at the Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday.
Oh captain my captain.
A late goal for debutant forward Gabi Rennie wasn’t enough to hide the fact that the Football Ferns were outclassed by Australia in their Tokyo Olympics opener on Wednesday night.
One News
The men's football team enter the tournament having yet to win a game at an Olympics after two previous campaigns in 2008 and 2012.
New Zealand men's football coach Danny Hay is not giving up hope of senior defender Michael Boxall featuring at the Tokyo Olympics, despite an untimely injury delaying his arrival and ruling him out of the opening game.
Newsroom
In the final countdown to the Tokyo Games, our Olympic Bonds series talks to the Football Ferns No.1 goalkeeper, Erin Nayler, who's indebted to her dad for teaching her how to dive.
Newshub
Five months after being diagnosed with cancer, one of the country's top footballers has made an emotional return to the pitch this week.
Chris Wood may be among the top earning New Zealand athletes at the Olympics, but he wasn't about to enjoy a well-earned holiday after Burnley's hectic Premier League campaign.
When Football Fern Liv Chance suffered a serious knee injury in England, she wondered how she'd ever return to international football.
FIFA
Though yet to enjoy his twenty-first birthday, Liberato Cacace has been long been making a splash.
We are, currently, one week away from the beginning of the Tokyo 2020 (2021 Redux) Olympic Games and all that event entails.
However, with two well-travelled and well-respected stars in their midst for this campaign, coach Danny Hay told 1 NEWS he and his team believe that can change.
For one of our top cops, it turns out that escape is football.
It's been a long time since Winston Reid and Chris Wood last started together in a competitive international football match for New Zealand.
The OlyWhites have tasted defeat in their final tune-up before the Tokyo Olympics.
Between Two Beers
Jason Pine is widely regarded as one of the nicest blokes in New Zealand media, and one of the best.
ODT
Getting to the Chatham Cup quarterfinals was a dream for Otago University coach Darren Hart.
Now we’re talking.
The OlyWhites football team in Tokyo may be full of professionals, but back in 2008 it was a very different story.
OlyWhites coach Danny Hay believes his team have been given “a real shot of confidence” by beating Australia’s Olyroos 2-0 in a friendly ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.
When the OlyWhites take the field against Australia in a football friendly in Ichihara on Monday night [kickoff 9pm NZ time], it will have been more than 600 days since the last international featuring a New Zealand men’s team.
Football Ferns coach Tom Sermanni believes a pair of American clubs have shown a “complete lack of respect” for his team and senior players Ali Riley and Abby Erceg by releasing them ahead of the Tokyo Olympics a week after they released a pair of their Brazilian team-mates.
Wellington Phoenix could be forced to field a severely depleted team for their FFA Cup round of 32 game against either Newcastle Jets or Western United due a potential clash with the Tokyo Olympics.
There would have already been a SheNix team last season if it weren’t for some poorly timed shenanigans.
Michael Boxall’s club coach has cast significant doubt on his involvement with the OlyWhites at the Tokyo Olympics and NZ Football has confirmed it would not be able to replace him.
