Kiwi women’s soccer team head coach Tony Readings has released 23-women’s list who will be taking part in Canada football world cup starting from 6 June, 2015. The announced New Zealand side is an experienced team as in declared 23 players list, 15 are those who featured in 2011 FIFA world cup at Germany.

Coach Tony Readings said, “Raising the experience of the players has been a massive part of our planning. It’s all been about increasing the number of caps, increasing the amount of FIFA tournament experience and also increasing the quality of the caps as well.”

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“Almost all of the squad have been to youth World Cups as well so we’ve got that experience to fall back on. It also shows the pathway we’ve been putting the players through during this time is seeing some benefits and rewards. We’ve had a goal ever since we started this programme about being a team capable of winning the World Cup.”

Let’s have a look at the New Zealand roster for FIFA Women’s world cup 2015.

New Zealand Women’s Squad

Goalkeepers	Defenders	Midfielders	Forwards
Cushla Lichtwark	Catherine Bott	Katie Bowen	Sarah Gregorius
Rebecca Rolls	Abby Erceg	Annalie Longo	Amber Hearn
Erin Nayler	Rebekah Stott	Daisy Cleverley	Rosie White
	Meikayla Moore	Kirsty Yallop	Emma Kete
	Ali Riley	Betsy Hassett	Hannah Wilkinson
	Anna Green	Evie Millynn	Jasmine Pereira
	Ria Percival	Katie Duncan

New Zealand is placed in the Group A of world cup along with hosts Canada, China PR and Netherlands. Kiwi women’s will be up against Netherlands in their first match of tournament on 6th June, 2015 at Commonwealth Stadium.