[Moorf]

All you footie and rugby players/coachs/supporters - I've been asked if football is as popular and as well attended and coached as rugby in NZ for kids. My friends have 2 boys, neither of them want to play rugby but are keep footballers (aged 12 and 15) and would want to play at a weekend league. Do the smaller villages have football teams? Is it easy for them to get into? I have to say that if there's a game going on in the park here it's usually touch / rugby.

Cheers
Moorf

[richard]

All you footie and rugby players/coachs/supporters - I've been asked if football is as popular and as well attended and coached as rugby in NZ for kids. My friends have 2 boys, neither of them want to play rugby but are keep footballers (aged 12 and 15) and would want to play at a weekend league. Do the smaller villages have football teams? Is it easy for them to get into? I have to say that if there's a game going on in the park here it's usually touch / rugby.

Cheers
Moorf

Hi Moorf

From the window in out new bedroom we can see over one end of Burnside Park. The football goal post are this end of the park so we get to watch football matches during the weekend. There are various age groups who play and there is even a girls league too :nice1

Richard

[willsken]

That was one of the questions we asked on our trip to Waipuk. Both my boys and OH are footy mad - playing - and we were told that they wouldn't be disappointed!

So then we knew the move could go ahead! :raebanana

[Moorf]

That's good news. They're slowing chipping away at their sons excuses for not wanting to come to NZ altho the 15yr olds girlfriend is apparently doing a brilliant job of persuading him otherwise! :roll

[Cardy]

HI my son is football mad too and although its not supported or played or organised as well as in England its football. He plays for Cambridge High his school here which is in the not very good not very well coached section above and he also plays for TE Awamutu which is an adult side and is very well organised and doing very well thanks to its new coach KIM 39 from the forum but he is a brit so that probably explains why there doing so well. But most games here have no linesmen and no proper referee. My son is a bit gutted because his cousin back in england has just been signed for a 2 year contract with Doncater Rovers and also been asked by Leeds United scouts ahich he had to turn down as he had already signed for Doncaster. Cheers Cardy

[Marie P]

My 10 year old son plays for Otahuhu United ,trains once or twice a week and plays in a match every saturday [unless pitch is water logged].
His team consists of boys and a couple of girls .

Marie x