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22/10/2019

New Zealand U16 Women's football squad named

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Coach Leon Birnie has named the players he hopes will take New Zealand to the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup and there is no shortage of potential among the 18-strong squad.
 
Birnie will lead his charges to Tahiti in December for the OFC U-16 Women’s Championship, where they will fight it out with 10 other nations for a berth at India 2020.
 
New Zealand will initially take on the Cook Islands, Fiji and Tahiti in the group stages and Birnie is looking forward to seeing how his side performs on the international stage.
 
He has already had an early chance to do so on a trip to China in July – in which New Zealand finished runners-up in a four-team friendly tournament – but this will be the players’ first taste of international action with a tangible incentive on the line.

“It’s a really exciting group, we’ve had a really robust identification process across the federations and we were also lucky enough to go across to China and get some international experience over there,” he says.
 
“That’s put us in a really good place and there were some really tough decisions in selecting this group. What I’m learning is that the ability and depth of players is improving and these decisions are becoming more challenging to make, which is a great problem to have.”
 
There are no players available to Birnie who were part of the previous U-17 cycle – in which New Zealand made history by winning bronze in Uruguay last year – but he is excited at the prospect of unearthing a new batch of gems.

“While we may lack World Cup experience, 10 out of these 18 players are already involved in the National Women’s League or are playing at a similar level overseas. And those who went to China didn’t just get the experience of facing some of the best players in the world but learning what’s required to win on the world stage. To still have 12 months before potentially attending a World Cup gives us a lot of time to build on that and hopefully we’ll be in a good space by then.”

Securing a spot in India is the main goal for Birnie but he also has one eye on the upcoming years and is relishing the responsibility of developing future stars.
 
New Zealand squad for OFC U-16 Women’s Championship
 
Goalkeepers
Rylee Godbold (WaiBOP/Claudelands Rovers/St Peter’s School)
Murphy Sheaff (Australia)

Defenders
Jana Niedermayr (Central/Palmerston North Marist/Sacred Heart Girls College)
Kate Taylor (Mainland/Cashmere Technical/Marian College)
Charlotte Lancaster (Central/Palmerston North Marist/Napier Girls High School)
Freya Lodge-Whitham (Mainland/Waimakariri United/Christchurch Girls High School)
Zoe McMeeken (Mainland/Selwyn United/Lincoln High School)

Midfielders
Serenity Thake (Australia)
Samantha Senior (Mainland/Cashmere Technical/Rangi Ruru Girls School)
Alyssa Whinham (Mainland/Halswell United/Riccarton High School)
Te Reremoana Walker (Australia)
Emma Pijnenburg (Auckland/Western Springs/Saint Kentigern College)
Nina Kondo (Capital/Wairarapa United/Solway College)

Forwards
Ava Pritchard (Northern/Forrest Hill Milford United/Westlake Girls High School)
Jemma Catherwood (Capital/Wellington United/Wellington Girls College)
Ella Russ (Auckland/Three Kings United/Diocesan School for Girls)
Lisa Evans (WaiBOP/Hamilton Wanderers/Otumoetai College)
Milly Clegg (Auckland/Ellerslie/Mt Albert Grammar School)


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