Maya Hahn

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andrewvoerman wrote:

Nelfoos wrote:

The JourneyFan wrote:

Nelfoos wrote:

Will really come down to who wants to play and who's good enough. Unless she finds a pro contract overseas in the meantime (reasonably likely imo), you'd have to assume Hahn is in both those categories.

she's only one year in to university in the US so won't get a pro contract for another couple of years - although I think she will once she's finished there

but given what she said about the difference between NZ and Germany in playing styles I'd expect her to be looking at Europe

Fair points - I'm not convinced that NCAA Soccer will be worth returning to in the near future though, maybe even not before a Nix W-League team is up and running given how COVID is tracking over there.

One thing that's amazed me getting around the grounds over the last month is that so many players do seem to be planning on heading back come August.

true, my son is home from a basketball scholarship and he is heading back. Most colleges are carrying on as normal with the expectation they will play.

July 02, 2020 23:06

coochiee

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I presume the idea behind the Nix having a NWL team, is effectively a female replica of Weenix.

There are plans to bring girls into the Nix Academy?
If not a NWL side for younger squad players or players returning from injury, does the W League have a Reserve/youth league?

Suspect not.

Bearing in mind Nix W League team will be based in Oz, and also W League is pretty short as well.

July 03, 2020 01:38

Nelfoos

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andrewvoerman wrote:

coochiee wrote:

andrewvoerman wrote:

coochiee wrote:

Nelfoos wrote:

Feverish wrote:

Ranix wrote:

coochiee wrote:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/121956499/wellington-teen-rivals-hope-to-face-off-at-2023-world-cup-in-new-zealand

Two good candidates for the Phoenix W league team if it gets off the ground.

well no, as it would be NZF driven in prep for 2023 WC - so they would be NZ eligible players

You think NZF would force the Nix to sign 100% NZ players? Seems a little far fetched, the Nix would have to exist as their own women's team beyond 2023.

That's right. Unless NZF agrees to bankroll the considerable cost of an W League side, no way Nix should feel compelled to make it 100% Kiwis.

If anything it sounds until recently (in Andy Martin's reign) NZF were more of an obstacle getting a W League team up and going.

Side will mostly be based in Australia, and I think Dome/Morrison have said it will contain some Aussies for sure (probably with W League experience). Also they have talked about including some players from the Islands as well.

NZF have been fully behind a W-League side as long as one's ever been talked about.

David Dome was on the pod a few months back, and unless I seriously misheard him, he said no NZF had not until more recent times, been that helpful with getting a W League team up and running.

Perhaps related more so to Nix initially aiming to have a women's team in the NWL, as a first step.

Some of NZF's issues sounded like it was around perceived possible undermining of the FFDP, plus various regional federations/existing NWL teams worried that a Nix NWL team would just lead to an exodus of all their best talent to Wellington.

Anyway he did say progress was now being made, to solve these obstacles.

I repeat: NZF have been fully behind a W-League side as long as one's ever been talked about.

Since FFDP was set up post-Rio it's always been hoped a W-League team would come into the frame to cover the other half of the year (the first half being the NZ winter).

Hare-brained ideas about first putting a Nix team in the NWL (Why? Where would the players come from?) are a different matter. That NZF and the federations had no interest in that happening is completely understandable. But this has no relation to a Phoenix W-League side, other than it involves the Phoenix and women's football, and no relation to NZF's support of it.

Anyway, I get the sense a lot of change is coming in the FFDP/NWL space in the near future.

A Nix team in the NWL makes a ton of sense - where else are the academy players not making the first team going to play? Seems to me like getting a team in there before the W-League would be a solid proof of concept and a good step to take in the season or two before joining W-League instead of trying to build a pro team from scratch. Pity that NZF and the federations are so opposed to progress, but hardly surprising.

July 03, 2020 08:27

RoriM6

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Hey team love the chat but can we focus back on the player rather than the Shenix or the SheWeeNix here

July 03, 2020 10:12

andrewvoerman

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