Every time I visit a match I’ll take a minute long movie so readers can get a feel for the venue. In the latest in our One Minute At… series we’re at Tauranga’s ASB Arena for the NZ Futsal Road Show. In this match, the Futsal Whites played the WaiBOP National League Futsal team (June 7, 2013). The match finished 7-3 to the Futsal Whites. Here’s a match report of the game.
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I have deliberately kept my distance from Tauranga City United, despite their home ground being probably the closest NRFL venue to where I live. It’s no secret that I was centrally involved at Matamata Swifts AFC up until early this year. It’s no secret the club was forced to pull out of the NRFL due to a rapid and shocking depletion of the club’s playing stocks. And it’s probably no real secret as to what one...
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Every time I visit a match I’ll take a minute long movie so readers can get a feel for the venue. In the latest in our One Minute At… series we’re at Tauranga Old Blues’ Wharepai Domain for their Chatham Cup Round 1 match against Hukanui-Rototuna played on May 11, 2013. The game finished 5-0 to Old Blues. This clip finishes with the awarding of the penalty that led to the opening goal. Here’s a match report of the...
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The last time I watched a game of football at Wharepai Domain in Tauranga was in the mid-1990s. That day, the match was a Chatham Cup tie between two clubs who have since merged with other clubs – Tauranga City and Waikato United. So it was fitting my next visit, nearly 20 years later, to this venue was for a cup tie between a Tauranga-based side and a Hamilton-based side. Old Blues, current leaders of Waikato Bay of Plenty...
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