Meet the The Young Football Ferns, New Zealand’s national U-17 women’sfootball team! These girls are ready to kick some serious booty when they take to the field in the first ever FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup. The Current Young Football Ferns squad: Bridgette Armstrong Rebecca Brown Caitlin Campbell Claudia Crasborn Jodi Curtis Briony Fisher Anna Fullerton Leah Gallie Gabrielle Kerdemelidis Annalie Longo Elise Mamanu-Grey Lauren Mathis Danielle McFadyen Sarah McLaughlin Lauren Murray Yumi Nguyen Nadia Pearl Jessica Rollings Hannah Wall Rosie White Charlotte Wood Coach: Paul Temple
		The FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup will be held right here in the big NZ! Games will be played in: Auckland • Hamilton • Wellington • Christchurch From October 28 to November 16, 2008 All FIFA tournaments are run the same as the main FIFA World Cup – the biggest sporting event on the planet – so it’s a chance to taste that atmosphere here in New Zealand. It will be a fantastic spectacle with teams from 16 countries in attendance after a qualification process involving over 100 countries. Plus there will potentially be more than 150 media teamsbeaming the games by satellite all over the world! To follow The Young Football Ferns on their amazing journey click on www.nzfootball.co.nz.

  Meet some of the team members here...  

  
 

Upstart Magazine will feature FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup updates and profiles in each edition between now and October! Keep an eye out!