But you can't drive from Perth to New Zealand so no extreme road trips. But, to be honest, it would take Mel Gibson and the whole crew of "Road Warrior" for resupply to make such a drive in Australia anyway. But they "could" make the drive an Olympic event for the next time Australia hosts the Olympics.
Perth will stay in as it has the best timezone for getting games into Europe, being only 6 hours ahead. They will probably base one group over there and play 5 of the 6 games and the group winners round of 16 game. It's also only a 4 hour or so flight to the east coast cities of Aus. Which is pretty much nothing compared to the flying times to get to Aus/NZ in the first place.
A 9PM Perth Kickoff translates to 3PM Central European time at that time of the year. For North American Viewers a midday kickoff in New Zealand is 4PM west coast and 7PM east coast (both the day before). Midday Sydney Melbourne and Brisbane is 6PM and 9PM for those same locations. With a broad spread of time zones its possible to schedule matches to suit particular parts of the world better, but it will be impossible to give all nations a decent time frame.
^ Ah, @almango, you may need to doublecheck those time differences - I think North America adds an hour for daylight saving. And who knows, by 2023, the U.S. government might try to "get rid of clocks" or something
Looking at the U-20 WWC 2016 in PNG FIFA gave OFC a full spot alongside the host with only 16 teams. For a 32 teams tournament, they might give them 1 rather than 0.5 ?
They might do a lot of things I'd say 0.5 would be fine, PNG are a top 50 ranked team but they're not World Cup calibre.
Yes you are right. For west coast its add 7 hours but its yesterday, and for the east coast add 10 hours.
If UEFA are consequent they should support a full spot for OFC to help the developing of women`s football in the Pacific Islands.
All I can say is I hope the awarding of the World Cup helps to squelch the conspiracy to leave New Zealand off world maps.
And the men's U20 WC in New Zealand gave the OFC 1 spot. But in those respective tournaments, the qualifiers were NZ women's u20s and Fiji men's u20s, who were both good enough to get 3 points in a World Cup. If you did it in 2023, you'd just be inviting a minnow who never plays outside Oceania. If they can earn it in a playoff v an Asian team, then OK, but they won't win. (I say all this while wishing they could, but the potential isn't there.) Also, two confederations are hosting this, the hosts are taking 2 spots. So I think an AFC/OFC playoff is fairer for everyone.
I know this has, probably, been discussed to death somewhere but is this not the first time two countries frome two different FIFA confederations have co-hosted a tournament? I know the two are neighbors but they, even more than the US and England, are two countries separated by a common language. Only once in my travels to that part of the world did I feel my life was in danger (from humans) and that was when I mistook a New Zealand accent for an Australian one. (I know it was not the people there that had an accent but rather it was I) I guess it really does not matter but I kind of thought that Australia had rejected everything OFC after 2006.
It was mainly a move to help Australian soccer to grow, and it certainly has worked for the FFA - I don't blame them - though it hit the OFC quite badly. It'd be nice if there were more cooperation after this. New Zealand still plays v Australia quite often. More Oceania v AFC games generally would be good, but I dunno if it'll happen. They say this is the first co-hosting by 2 confederations, yes.
I think it will really depend on how many extras FIFA wants to give to each confederations. One extra spot per confederation at least is fair imo. Let's say that OFC team is ranked 32 among the teams, there is no guarantee that teams ranked 30,31 will fare much much better. I am biased obviously but I would expect the extra UEFA teams to perform to a good standard.
Yeah it seem like a rant from a guy who lost his money betting the wrong horse...he made a few intersting points but mostly it looks like cherry picking to enforce own theories.
They have, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_National_Women's_League_(New_Zealand) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_National_Women's_League_(New_Zealand) Although the structure that the teams are run by the regions instead of clubs do seem very odd to me as a European.
New Zealand, like Australia, is mostly very odd. I believe it comes from having to do everything upside down.
FIFA Women's World Cup @FIFAWWC 17m IT'S OFFICIAL! The #FIFAWWC Australia New Zealand 2023™ host cities are: Adelaide Auckland/Tāmaki Makaurau Brisbane Dunedin / Ōtepoti Hamilton / Kirikiriroa Melbourne Perth Sydney Wellington / Te Whanganui-a-Tara See you in 2023
Jeff Kassouf @JeffKassouf 34m The 2023 Women's World Cup venues have been revealed: 10 stadiums in nine host cities. Opening match in Auckland. Final in Sydney. Co-hosts Australia and New Zealand will EACH host one semifinal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindmarsh_Stadium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lang_Park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forsyth_Barr_Stadium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikato_Stadium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melbourne_Rectangular_Stadium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth_Oval https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Football_Stadium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington_Regional_Stadium
Interesting: I didn't know that every city in New Zealand necessarily had a name in local language, beyond the English one. It's the name the locations had before the colonization and before the towns where built, or it's names that have been given to the towns themselves afterwards?
Thanks for this...fascinating story and one in which I had no idea about: https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/t...-restore-all-of-new-zealands-mori-place-names