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Kōrero: Football

Mini football world cup, 2011

A young boy of about 6 years old playing a game in a yellow football uniform reaches for a ball with his foot while using his hand to ward off a smaller boy in a maroon uniform. Families watch on the sideline.

From the 1970s there was a striking increase in player numbers for football, especially among women and children. By 2011 there were more young football players than young rugby players. Here 684 children aged five to eight take part in a mini world cup tournament at the Oval in Dunedin. The 1982 All Whites star Wynton Rufer attended and demonstrated his skills.

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Otago Daily Times

Reference: 29 August 2011, p. 24

by Jane Dawber

Permission of the Otago Daily Times must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Neill Atkinson, Steve Watters rāua ko Alida Shanks, Football – Football in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/40913/mini-football-world-cup-2011 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Neill Atkinson, Steve Watters rāua ko Alida Shanks, i tāngia i te 27 February 2013, reviewed and revised 7 June 2023 me te āwhina o Alida Shanks.