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Following the Wellington Phoenix’s 3-2 win over Adelaide, in which Ben Old scored twice and helped create the other goal, Nix head coach Giancarlo Italiano spoke on how the onus is on the kiwi media to build up the hype around his double goal-scorer
If you managed to stay up until 2am NZT watching the Wellington Phoenix lads draw nil-all away to Perth Glory then congratulations, you’ve unlocked the Hearty Fan badge
We knew that the Wellington Phoenix lads were going to lean heavily on their academy players this season. We knew that because they told us they would. It wasn’t a secret. It was spoken loud and proud.
The Wellington Phoenix women lost again this past weekend, repeating a pattern that’s become quite concerning. Despite taking a very early lead against Central Coast Mariners (the Main Train arriving on schedule), they ended up losing 2-1
It was roughly eleven minutes into the Wellington Phoenix’s game away against Adelaide United. The Nix were steadily knocking the ball around at the back but were gently being nudged further towards their own goal.
The Wellington Phoenix’s unbeaten start to the A-League Men’s season came thumping to a tortured end on Saturday night as they were dropped 3-0 at home by the Newcastle Jets
A point on the road. You can’t argue with it. Tim Payne said afterwards that he was buzzing with a 0-0 draw away to Western Sydney…
The squad is complete. 23 players are on board for season three with the club’s stated aim being a maiden finals appearance. Two straight wooden spoons don’t lend too much faith towards that possibility but there’s a lot to like about the Wellington Phoenix’s A-League Women’s team this year
You know how champion boxers often have rematch clauses in their fight contracts so that they can instantly avenge an upset defeat? That seems to be how the Australia Cup works too
Every Wellington Phoenix season gets underway with an Australia Cup jaunt. They’re always played on the other side of the Tasman Sea, usually against a lower-tiered NPL club, and generally very early in their preseason activities.
From the moment he was announced as the new Wellington Phoenix Men’s Manager, Giancarlo Italiano has made it clear that he backs the club’s academy system and the players coming through it
On the one hand the Welly Nix blokes have made four out of the last five finals series and only missed out by one point in the other. On the other hand the Welly Nix blokes have been one-and-done in each of those knockout appearances and remain without a finals game since 2012
In both seasons so far the WahiNix have had to settle for wooden spoons. There’s been clear progress throughout each of those campaigns but solid finishes haven’t overcome slow starts.
Ah bollocks. The wait for another Wellington Phoenix finals win will have to continue on into another year and another manager as Ufuk Talay’s tenure ended with a 2-0 defeat away to Adelaide United
The Ufuk Talay Era of Wellington Phoenix footy is almost over but before the torch is passed to assistant Giancarlo Italiano there’s one last chance to do something his Nix teams have never yet done: win a finals game.
Doesn’t really matter how they did it, the Wellington Phoenix had one task before them as they travelled to face Macarthur FC in the final round of the A-League Men’s regular season and they accomplished it
It wasn’t exactly a surprise when it was announced. The fact that the Wellington Phoenix confirmed last Friday that Ufuk Talay would be leaving at the conclusion of the season, as we’d all long anticipated/feared…
A month ago things seemed pretty swell for the Welly Nix lads. They’d just ground out close home wins against Newcastle Jets and Sydney FC (one in Wellington, one in Auckland) and were hanging about in a three-way tie for third place
Back to back wooden spoons has a rotten sound to it but it doesn’t take much to see why one was not like the other. For starters there’s the improvement in the points tally which still holds up even when you consider the four extra games
Nothing ever stays the same for long in kiwi football but this past week in particular has been a real doozy. A-League expansion speculation has got everyone talking but more immediately relevant is that the Women’s National League has gotten a revamp