9 Jan 2009

Women's footballers have date with Chinese

2:09 pm on 9 January 2009

The New Zealand Football Ferns begin a two-and-a-half year journey to the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup with their Four Nations opener against China in Guangzhou on Sunday.

After confident and competitive performances against major nations in 2008, head coach John Herdman says 2009 begins the search for the right tactics and players needed to be competitive at the World Cup in Germany.