Bologna Competition

Hi all,
The weather is still cranking and the team are acclimatising well. It's expected to be a little cooler this weekend which will be a nice change from temperatures well into the high 30's!

Here are the results from the weekend:

Saturday:
New Zealand v Iran 8-1 WIN
New Zealand v K-Polo (Denmark) 7-2 WIN
New Zealand v Canada U21 11-0 WIN

Sunday:
This took us into the second round placed first in our pool and we played the two 2nd placed teams from the other two pools:
New Zealand v Italy 4-1 WIN
New Zealand v Canada 9-1 WIN

Germany, Australia and NZ all were now top of their pools and with out a loss, so because the draw was structured in a weird way it came down to goal difference to decipher who was to go into the semi finals as 1st 2nd and 3rd, Italy was 4th because it had lost to both NZ and Germany. The Aussie had an easier second round than Germany and NZ so was able to sit on the 1st position and convincingly beat Italy to progress to the final.

We played Germany in the semi final. Erin scored her "kiwi magic goal" where by she puts presses on the ball under the oppositions goal and then as the player progresses to make a pass she blocks the ball sending it into the goal!! Stunner. She's done two of them now! So with only a few minutes on the clock NZ was 1 goal up. The Germans came fighting back and scored to make it 1 all. The game progressed with a real tussle between to the two teams with the final score unfortunately swinging the Germans way 3-2. We were a bit disappointed with the result but we know we've got a lot more up our sleeves.

In our play off for third we came out firing and put the Italians away 6-2.

The team really enjoyed the competition and is super excited about the upcoming Worlds!

Sunday evening we headed out into the center of Bologna, near the University and had traditional Italian pizza to celebrate Liv's 24th birthday.