David Dome: Wellington Phoenix General Manager ahead of the clash against Wrexham AFC

The Wellington Phoenix are desperate to land a high-profile scalp when they confront Wrexham in the Capital on Saturday. 

The Nix are keen to bury last year's disappointing 11th place in the A-League. 

Crowds are expected to comfortably surpass 20 thousand. 

Phoenix General Manager David Dome told Heather du Plessis-Allan that Sydney beat them 2-1 last weekend, and he knows for a fact that their academy is better than Sydney’s. 

He says they’ll put out a very good team on the ground, and they definitely have it in them to beat the Welsh club. 

LISTEN ABOVE 

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Big weekend ahead for the capital. About twenty five thousand
fans are expected at the Caketon to watch the Hollywood
back Ricksham team take on the Phoenix. David Dome is
the Wellington Phoenix general manager.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Morning David, morning head.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Are you phizzing?

Speaker 2 (00:15):
Yeah? Pretty excited about it. We met the Rex and
guys turned up them yesterday. Had a bit of a
pulpy ndedces. Good bunch of guys. Day loving it. They're
loving it here in New Zealand and it's going to
be a great event to the city tomorrow night. Can't wait.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Do you guys have it in you to beat them?

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Yeap, of course we've Sydney played them on Tuesday night,
beat them to one. They had a very young team
on in the second half. I know for a fact
that our academy is a hundred times better than Sydney's.
We've got better players, we've got better coaches, got better
staff in our academy. I know for the fact that
we'll put out a very good team on the team
on their ground in the second half and tomorrow night

(00:52):
and who knows, who knows what we can do but
good players. We've got good players in the club.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
Are you hardened by a crowd that book?

Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah, it's good right, I mean the thing is right
of New Zealand and willing to wance events like this.
People need to turn out and it's no good for us.
People are sitting home watching it on TV. But they
have twenty five thousand at Sky Stadium on Saturday night.
It's a great result and it really does help us
trying to attract events like this for potentially next season.
So that's really good.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
I mean I feel like we've been saying this for
a very long time, but somehow it does feel like
football is coming of age in this country.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
What do you think, Well, you know, we've been doing
the hard jacker for about fifteen years now and playing
the professional game along and like I say, the amount
of money our owners to put into the academy and
now the women's program is going great guns and that's
going to be a very very strong program next year. Look,
we've been doing a lot of the hard work, but
it's now great. Auklands come on board, they've done well.

(01:47):
Football is really going somewhere. The all whites are doing well,
the fans are doing well. It's going to be the
future is very bright for the next you know, five
ten years off the back of what we've been doing.

Speaker 1 (01:57):
Yeah, brilliant. Hey listen, good luck. I hope you guys
win and I'm looking forward to watching its. David Dome,
Wellington Phoenix General Manager. Well football is football really is
coming of ages. And there's a store on Ponsonby Row
which is a cool man's store, so it's near I
live in that part of Auckland, and they've got they've
got on display in the windows the old Auckland Football Club,
you know, t shirts for the kids and stuff like that,

(02:20):
and that seems to be like people love it. People
are buying it all the time. I bought a couple
for the nephews for Christmas, very lucky. Did not expect
to have to pay that much, and I had to
wait for them to be bought in because they had
already sold out of them. So something is, something is
going on with football in this country and I quite
appreciate it. For more from the Mi Casking Breakfast, listen
live to news talks that'd be from six am weekdays,

(02:43):
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.