Posts Tagged ‘street football aotearoa’
Street Footy Newsletters
A big thank you to our new Network Development Coordinator, David Wells, for putting together the first two issues of the Street Football Aotearoa Newsletter. Find out about what we’re up to by clicking on the images below:
Volunteer: National Network Development Coordinator
THIS POSITION HAS BEEN FILLED – MORE INFO SOON Are you interested in community development and football? Do you enjoy organising events? Street Football Aotearoa, in conjunction with local partners, provides fitness and football training for homeless and socially excluded people in Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, and Dunedin. We have supported two teams to participate [...]
Katie Owen on Radio New Zealand
On Monday the 31st of January the wonderful Katie Owen was interviewed by Kathryn Ryan on the Nine to Noon show. Katie talked about the history and work of Street Football Aotearoa since its formation in early 2008 as well as our plans for the future. To listen to the interview in full click here or on [...]
Football Volunteer Streets Ahead
Great news that Katie Owen, a Trustee of the Street Football Aotearoa, has been awarded this month’s Wellington Community Champions Award. The award is part of an initative by local MPs and The Wellingtonian newspaper and Katie was presented with her award by the MP for Central Wellington Grant Robertson. Read Rebecca Thompson’s article by [...]
Homeless World Cup players return from Rio
Great article by Charlie Gates from The Press down in Christchurch.
Back in Aotearoa!
The New Zealand team have returned from the Homeless World Cup, tired and bedraggled and definitely pleased to be back in Aotearoa! Although the team lost their INSP Trophy final against Slovenia, an impromptu rugby match with students in Botofogo was more successful with the tackling in particular drawing the praise of the locals. The [...]
Kiwi Victory!
This morning’s rematch against South Korea in the INSP Networking Trophy ended in New Zealand’s first victory of the trip so far and means qualification for a final game to be played against Slovenia tomorrow. The match against the Koreans had been on the cards for a couple of days and gave the Street Blacks [...]
More fun than wins
After 6 days of football, most of the players’ bodies are failing in one way or another. Ankles have been particularly troublesome with Terereao joining the invalid roster. Dr Coração (the Street Blacks’ team doctor) has been delighted to have the chance to focus on something other than the ubiquitous small dogs wearing booties being [...]
Finding our level
This morning’s match was our closest yet, a 6:3 defeat to Hungary. Fraser was back on the scoresheet again and Kevin put in a good shift in goal to keep the score down! There are rumours around the camp that now that the Urewera Terror has completely lost his voice from screaming at defenders he [...]
The Crowd Goes Wild Report
Hayley Holt from the Crowd Goes Wild came and interviewed some of the guys at the OFC training camp in the build up to the trip to Rio. Hayley was very popular with players… in fact they were queuing up to speak to her. The report was on the show Thursday evening, click on the [...]
