New Zealand's own Futsal Ferns are set to compete in their first-ever international fixture.
Ahead of the upcoming FIFA Futsal Women's World Cup, captain Hannah Kraakman joined Piney to discuss.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Fine
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The first edition of the fief of Women's Futsal World
Cup will take place next year in the Philippines. Our
Futsal Ferns will be there by virtue of winning the
first ever OFC Futsal Women's Nations Cup in Honiara a
week ago. They beat Fiji seven to one in the final.
Hannah Kruckman captained the New Zealand side, was also awarded
(00:33):
the Golden Ball as Player of the tournament and Hannah
Kruckman is with us. Congratulations on what you and the
side achieved in Honiara. Hannah thirty six goals scored, only
three conceded. With a week or so to reflect, how
do you assessed the way the team played to qualify
for the World Cup?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, no, thank you as well for having me on
this and to speak about it. I think, yeah, it's
a really exciting time for futsal in New Zealand and Yeah,
in terms of how the team played, I mean we
had a few days camp before we went across to
the son Islands before and to.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Kind of work on kind of team taxs and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We have a lot of New Zealand based players, but
also a few five or six of us kind of
overseas as well, So it was really good to come
back together and just work on kind of, you know,
the team tactics and what we're focusing on, and we
just kind of focused each game as it came and
we're working on kind of the main principles that we
kind of want to play as a team together.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Can you tell us how long this has been in
the making and how much work has gone into qualifying
for the first ever Footsaal Women's World Cup.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, no, definitely it has been a long time coming.
I think we've heard that a lot, but yeah, it's
I think twenty seventeen has when the first ever kind
of women's footstore Ferns team was established and we played
three internationals against New Caledonia. Since then, we've had another
tour against China in twenty nineteen, I think it was.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
But yeah, it's a lot of work from a lot
of different people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You know, there's people that aren't currently INSIDIF but have
put a lot of time, like people like Dave Payne,
and then you've got people like Marvin Ekins, as well,
who is currently in Thailand with the men who are
at their pre World Cup tournament. So yeah, in general,
there's been lots of work from lots of people, and
just yet grateful for everyone that's kind of come before
us to help kind of pave the way to get
(02:16):
us there as well.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yew, it seems incredible that it's taken this long for
there to be a women's footsal World Cup, but here
we are. The first one is next year. Can you
tell us when you found out that there would be
one and how motivating that was for you.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I think it was twenty twenty two. We found out,
I think towards the end of the year, and me
and a couple of my friends and football teammates had
actually moved over to the UK earlier in twenty twenty two,
so I think, and part of, like, not the only reason,
but I guess a big part of the reason was.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
To play more footsball more regularly.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You know, they've got like a full season over here
and we're playing in training every week now, so it
was kind of a big motivation. Then to hear that
a few months after kind of moving over here, which
is kind of made that move a lot more worth
it as well.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
To have that, you know, Pinnacle World event to work towards.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And as I mentioned at the start of the chat,
you were the winner of the Golden Ball for best
player at the tournament. I know you also it's a
team game, and there's a team game, but how personally
satisfying was it for you to lead from the front
and win that award for player.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Of the tournament. Yeah, obviously it's always really special and
to be recognized with the Golden Ball, Yeah, obviously a
proud moment myself. And yeah, I think I have been
working hard in the past few years. I mean, I
think I did my ACL. I can't remember how long
it was a while ago now, but we didn't have
much footal action for a while, and so I've just
been working on kind of getting back to where I
was before I did my ACL, And yeah, I think
(03:39):
in the Golden Ball maybe, Yeah, finally, Shine, I've got
back to a good place and hopefully, you know, I
kind of can lead by example and show people in
New Zealand, you know, these pathways in futsal and hopefully
kind of inspire more people to play as well. It's
really kind of what I want, and yeah, credit to
my teammates though, I mean everyone had amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Amazing games, and yeah, it's very special moment.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
We'll tell us a bit more about the squad that
you've got together, the you know, the mix in terms
of the levels of experience like yourself and maybe some
of the younger ones coming through, who you know, may
go to a number of World Cups in the future.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, no, for sure, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think we had a really good mix of kind
of experience and kind of new players coming through, which
just goes to show obviously we have kind of grown
the pathway in New Zealand a lot like this, Like
the high school competition is huge now, which is like
really exciting, and we've obviously got our national league as
well for players to move into after high school. But
in terms of our swood at the moment, I mean
there's I think there was five or six of us
from the original twenty seventeen squad. They also featured in
(04:37):
the Solomon Islands recently, so that's really cool, and I think, yeah,
it's like seven or eight years you know for us,
so that's I guess really special.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But in terms of the mixture, are the young players.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You've got kind of Jim mccaethword, Jamie Evans, Jordie Jordana
Bremner as well. Who I mean, those two players are
just unreal and they've kind of come through the pathway
that I think they're around around their twenties, so they
have I guess, a long future hopefully in futsal.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
That's what they want to do and keep doing.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
They were all amazing in the Islands and really good
for them to get kind of international experience as well.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Just the pressure, especially in the final, Like.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It's a different kind of pressure that you feel when
you were playing in a final compared to like the
group games, So I think for them to get that
experience as well. We were actually it was two one
at half time, so I'm not a school line. At
seven to one you know, shows like a decent gap,
but we were two one up at half time, so
it was very close. You know, it was very tense
out there, like the finals can go anyway, especially futsal
was in to end. You never know what's going to happen.
(05:36):
So for those three young players to get that experience
of that kind of intense game I think was really
good and really promising for the future of our team.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Do you have a background in the traditional eleven of
side game, Hanna, you know, outdoor football, And when did
you start taking futsal more seriously?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, I mean I started playing foot when I was five,
you know, like lots of people didn't do in New Zealand,
but yeah, I act started playing footsal probably around seventeen eighteen.
One of my friends down actually, Daniel Bradley, who's got
one of our goalkeepers and the team her dad start
actually kind of got a bunch of us together playing
futsal when we were.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Kind of seventeen eighteen. We all met.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
A lot of us met kind of through football at
that time as well, and so we kind of just
started playing for fun because we were all from like
different parts of like Auckland, all kind of just came
together as a friendship group and we're playing futsal.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So that's kind of how my football journey started.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And then yeah, a couple of years after that is
when we kind of maybe started taking it a bit
more seriously. So university there's kind of university competitions, and
then in twenty seventeen the World University Games in Brazil
was on. So that was probably the moment where it
was like, Okay, you know, there are opportunities. Although maybe
it's not as many opportunities as in football, at the moment,
like there was still kind of some really exciting opportunities,
and you know, I just fell in love with the game,
(06:49):
so yeah, I wanted to keep on with it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Great stuff. So you're one of the first teams to
qualify for the World Cup. In fact, I think the
first team to actually qualify. The host the Philippines of course,
will be there too, so you've got the best part
of a year or so to prepare. Ideally, how often
will you spend time together as a team in preparation
for that for the first World Cup?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I mean, obviously I want to say oh yeah,
but realistically I think it would be amazing to get
a couple of tours under our bouts before the World Cup.
There isn't actually a date set yet, so it all
has been said that it's going to be kind of
October November roughly is kind of what they're looking at,
but no kind of exact dates yet, So hopefully at
(07:33):
least kind of two tours where we can go play
a few countries beforehand would be amazing. And then for
the players based in New Zealand, I think it'd be
great to have kind of, you know, a weekend camps
leading up throughout the year essentially, and our National League
is in kind of January to Aprils when players will
be training and playing with their kind of regions, So
(07:55):
especially after that, ramping it up to you know, a
couple of sessions a month for the New Zealand based
players at least, and then the overseas based players coming
in for tours or camps where they see fit. But yeah,
see budge constraints and things like that. So yeah, we'll
just hope for the hope for the best, and yeah,
see what we can get.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, well hopef you they'll get a decent program together
for you. And you mentioned Marvin Eakins before we had
them on the show yesterday, coach of the futs All Whites,
your male counterparts there are about to embark on their
foots All World Cup for the first time in the
next couple of weeks. How pleased were you for them
to make it after a few years of trying unsuccessfully.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, and I was excatic for them, And yeah, they
probably have been maybe working towards qualifying for that even
longer than we have for our one. So yeah, I think, yeah,
Marvin would have been super proud and yeah, super excited
for the opportunity to go there and you know, be
involved in the first World Cup for the men. So yeah,
super proud of them and you're really excited to see
what they can do. Obviously got their few games in
(08:54):
Thailand as well before the World Cup and then yeah,
it's super excited.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, no, well, excited for them and excited for you, Hannah,
as you've guided the Futsal Ferns to their first Footsall
World Cup next year in the Philippines. Thanks so much
for joining us. Congratulations, hope you get plenty of plenty
of build up matches next year, and again I appreciate
you taking the time for a chat today.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Thanks Jason, Thanks Hanna.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Hannah Krukman. There the captain of the New Zealand Futsal Ferns,
off to the Futsal World Cup in the Philippines at
the back end of next year.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk sed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio,
You're listening to the Weekend Sport Podcast with Jason Fine
from News Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
The first edition of the fief of Women's Futsal World
Cup will take place next year in the Philippines. Our
Futsal Ferns will be there by virtue of winning the
first ever OFC Futsal Women's Nations Cup in Honiara a
week ago. They beat Fiji seven to one in the final.
Hannah Kruckman captained the New Zealand side, was also awarded
(00:33):
the Golden Ball as Player of the tournament and Hannah
Kruckman is with us. Congratulations on what you and the
side achieved in Honiara. Hannah thirty six goals scored, only
three conceded. With a week or so to reflect, how
do you assessed the way the team played to qualify
for the World Cup?
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Yeah, no, thank you as well for having me on
this and to speak about it. I think, yeah, it's
a really exciting time for futsal in New Zealand and Yeah,
in terms of how the team played, I mean we
had a few days camp before we went across to
the son Islands before and to.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Kind of work on kind of team taxs and things
like that.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
We have a lot of New Zealand based players, but
also a few five or six of us kind of
overseas as well, So it was really good to come
back together and just work on kind of, you know,
the team tactics and what we're focusing on, and we
just kind of focused each game as it came and
we're working on kind of the main principles that we
kind of want to play as a team together.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
Can you tell us how long this has been in
the making and how much work has gone into qualifying
for the first ever Footsaal Women's World Cup.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
Yeah, no, definitely it has been a long time coming.
I think we've heard that a lot, but yeah, it's
I think twenty seventeen has when the first ever kind
of women's footstore Ferns team was established and we played
three internationals against New Caledonia. Since then, we've had another
tour against China in twenty nineteen, I think it was.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
But yeah, it's a lot of work from a lot
of different people.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
You know, there's people that aren't currently INSIDIF but have
put a lot of time, like people like Dave Payne,
and then you've got people like Marvin Ekins, as well,
who is currently in Thailand with the men who are
at their pre World Cup tournament. So yeah, in general,
there's been lots of work from lots of people, and
just yet grateful for everyone that's kind of come before
us to help kind of pave the way to get
(02:16):
us there as well.
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Yew, it seems incredible that it's taken this long for
there to be a women's footsal World Cup, but here
we are. The first one is next year. Can you
tell us when you found out that there would be
one and how motivating that was for you.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I think it was twenty twenty two. We found out,
I think towards the end of the year, and me
and a couple of my friends and football teammates had
actually moved over to the UK earlier in twenty twenty two,
so I think, and part of, like, not the only reason,
but I guess a big part of the reason was.
Speaker 4 (02:46):
To play more footsball more regularly.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
You know, they've got like a full season over here
and we're playing in training every week now, so it
was kind of a big motivation. Then to hear that
a few months after kind of moving over here, which
is kind of made that move a lot more worth
it as well.
Speaker 4 (02:59):
To have that, you know, Pinnacle World event to work towards.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
And as I mentioned at the start of the chat,
you were the winner of the Golden Ball for best
player at the tournament. I know you also it's a
team game, and there's a team game, but how personally
satisfying was it for you to lead from the front
and win that award for player.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Of the tournament. Yeah, obviously it's always really special and
to be recognized with the Golden Ball, Yeah, obviously a
proud moment myself. And yeah, I think I have been
working hard in the past few years. I mean, I
think I did my ACL. I can't remember how long
it was a while ago now, but we didn't have
much footal action for a while, and so I've just
been working on kind of getting back to where I
was before I did my ACL, And yeah, I think
(03:39):
in the Golden Ball maybe, Yeah, finally, Shine, I've got
back to a good place and hopefully, you know, I
kind of can lead by example and show people in
New Zealand, you know, these pathways in futsal and hopefully
kind of inspire more people to play as well. It's
really kind of what I want, and yeah, credit to
my teammates though, I mean everyone had amazing.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Amazing games, and yeah, it's very special moment.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
We'll tell us a bit more about the squad that
you've got together, the you know, the mix in terms
of the levels of experience like yourself and maybe some
of the younger ones coming through, who you know, may
go to a number of World Cups in the future.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah, no, for sure, Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I think we had a really good mix of kind
of experience and kind of new players coming through, which
just goes to show obviously we have kind of grown
the pathway in New Zealand a lot like this, Like
the high school competition is huge now, which is like
really exciting, and we've obviously got our national league as
well for players to move into after high school. But
in terms of our swood at the moment, I mean
there's I think there was five or six of us
from the original twenty seventeen squad. They also featured in
(04:37):
the Solomon Islands recently, so that's really cool, and I think, yeah,
it's like seven or eight years you know for us,
so that's I guess really special.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
But in terms of the mixture, are the young players.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You've got kind of Jim mccaethword, Jamie Evans, Jordie Jordana
Bremner as well. Who I mean, those two players are
just unreal and they've kind of come through the pathway
that I think they're around around their twenties, so they
have I guess, a long future hopefully in futsal.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
That's what they want to do and keep doing.
Speaker 3 (05:06):
They were all amazing in the Islands and really good
for them to get kind of international experience as well.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Just the pressure, especially in the final, Like.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
It's a different kind of pressure that you feel when
you were playing in a final compared to like the
group games, So I think for them to get that
experience as well. We were actually it was two one
at half time, so I'm not a school line. At
seven to one you know, shows like a decent gap,
but we were two one up at half time, so
it was very close. You know, it was very tense
out there, like the finals can go anyway, especially futsal
was in to end. You never know what's going to happen.
(05:36):
So for those three young players to get that experience
of that kind of intense game I think was really
good and really promising for the future of our team.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Do you have a background in the traditional eleven of
side game, Hanna, you know, outdoor football, And when did
you start taking futsal more seriously?
Speaker 4 (05:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Yeah, I mean I started playing foot when I was five,
you know, like lots of people didn't do in New Zealand,
but yeah, I act started playing footsal probably around seventeen eighteen.
One of my friends down actually, Daniel Bradley, who's got
one of our goalkeepers and the team her dad start
actually kind of got a bunch of us together playing
futsal when we were.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Kind of seventeen eighteen. We all met.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
A lot of us met kind of through football at
that time as well, and so we kind of just
started playing for fun because we were all from like
different parts of like Auckland, all kind of just came
together as a friendship group and we're playing futsal.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
So that's kind of how my football journey started.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
And then yeah, a couple of years after that is
when we kind of maybe started taking it a bit
more seriously. So university there's kind of university competitions, and
then in twenty seventeen the World University Games in Brazil
was on. So that was probably the moment where it
was like, Okay, you know, there are opportunities. Although maybe
it's not as many opportunities as in football, at the moment,
like there was still kind of some really exciting opportunities,
and you know, I just fell in love with the game,
(06:49):
so yeah, I wanted to keep on with it.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Great stuff. So you're one of the first teams to
qualify for the World Cup. In fact, I think the
first team to actually qualify. The host the Philippines of course,
will be there too, so you've got the best part
of a year or so to prepare. Ideally, how often
will you spend time together as a team in preparation
for that for the first World Cup?
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Yeah, I mean, obviously I want to say oh yeah,
but realistically I think it would be amazing to get
a couple of tours under our bouts before the World Cup.
There isn't actually a date set yet, so it all
has been said that it's going to be kind of
October November roughly is kind of what they're looking at,
but no kind of exact dates yet, So hopefully at
(07:33):
least kind of two tours where we can go play
a few countries beforehand would be amazing. And then for
the players based in New Zealand, I think it'd be
great to have kind of, you know, a weekend camps
leading up throughout the year essentially, and our National League
is in kind of January to Aprils when players will
be training and playing with their kind of regions, So
(07:55):
especially after that, ramping it up to you know, a
couple of sessions a month for the New Zealand based
players at least, and then the overseas based players coming
in for tours or camps where they see fit. But yeah,
see budge constraints and things like that. So yeah, we'll
just hope for the hope for the best, and yeah,
see what we can get.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
Yeah, well hopef you they'll get a decent program together
for you. And you mentioned Marvin Eakins before we had
them on the show yesterday, coach of the futs All Whites,
your male counterparts there are about to embark on their
foots All World Cup for the first time in the
next couple of weeks. How pleased were you for them
to make it after a few years of trying unsuccessfully.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, and I was excatic for them, And yeah, they
probably have been maybe working towards qualifying for that even
longer than we have for our one. So yeah, I think, yeah,
Marvin would have been super proud and yeah, super excited
for the opportunity to go there and you know, be
involved in the first World Cup for the men. So yeah,
super proud of them and you're really excited to see
what they can do. Obviously got their few games in
(08:54):
Thailand as well before the World Cup and then yeah,
it's super excited.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, no, well, excited for them and excited for you, Hannah,
as you've guided the Futsal Ferns to their first Footsall
World Cup next year in the Philippines. Thanks so much
for joining us. Congratulations, hope you get plenty of plenty
of build up matches next year, and again I appreciate
you taking the time for a chat today.
Speaker 4 (09:13):
Thanks Jason, Thanks Hanna.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Hannah Krukman. There the captain of the New Zealand Futsal Ferns,
off to the Futsal World Cup in the Philippines at
the back end of next year.
Speaker 1 (09:22):
For more from Weekend Sport with Jason Fine, listen live
to News Talk sed B weekends from midday or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio,
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