The coming 12 months promise to be a landmark

The coming 12 months promise to be a landmark period for football in New Zealand. The FIFA U-20 World Cup will be hosted by the country next year; the biggest global football tournament yet held in the Land of the Long White Cloud. Meanwhile, the national team seem to be undergoing a revamp under new national coach Anthony Hudson, who says he is Fifa Coins rebuilding the side for the 2018 FIFA World Cup™ campaign.

The winds of change even extend to the New Zealand FA where a new chairman and technical director are in place.But, in many ways, it is a buoyant club scene that is a key indicator to the health of the game. To that end, it is Wellington Phoenix who are the main standard-bearer.

The capital club compete in Australia's ten-team A-League, and are New Zealand's  as well as Oceania's - only professional club. In that context there is a degree of added pressure and focus on the club.Under highly-respected Scottish-born Australian coach Ernie Merrick the club are setting their sights high.

Now is the time for this club to make a statement, Merrick recently told FIFA in reference to season ten of the A-League which started last weekend.Platform for successNew Zealand have enjoyed a presence in Australia's national league for 15 years, firstly through the curiously monikered Auckland-based Football Kingz and then, in the early days of Fifa 17 Coins the A-League, via the New Zealand Knights.
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