Martin Devlin: We need to talk – Football ferns under 17 deserve "every glimmer of glory"

Aaaah fucks. The dream is over.

The New Zealand women's Under-17 team lost 2-0 to Spain in the semifinals of their world championships in Uruguay.

This is the record ever achieved by one of our teams at a FIFA event, of which we can be extremely proud and who is a real asset to the sport here, especially given the recent palava surrounding the departure of the previous coach and director of the women's national team. Andreas Heraf.

Of course, the current administration can take no credit for this success, but it will do so.

Because it's the essence of sports administration in this country

Try all that is positive and positive, snorkel and dive into the blanket when it 's all about admitting the silly and incompetent as they are often involved.

Heraf, appointed and appointed by a council that remained largely in place, was a complete disaster. One of his most infamous claims is that we (Ferns football) had no hope of competing with a country like Japan, hence the negative and destructive way he insisted that the team confronts Wellington.

This loss was the catalyst for the players' rebellion that followed, an action that ultimately led to his exit from work and the country.

How ironic that the U-17s beat Japan to qualify for this morning's semifinal.

That they now finish 3rd or 4th, this tournament was a triumph for our young women, who set a benchmark to follow for all other age groups.

And let's remember that this is what it is about, not for high-level athletes, but for people of limited age and, as such, must stay in this perspective before inevitably begins any claim unrealistic of Halberg's recognition.

And if nothing else also gives us a break from the sports fans of the saturation coverage of Shaun Johnson who is currently bombarding all the media.

Including the most pathetic demonstration of indifference on the part of the fans, a man supposed to be so full of anger that he burned his Jersey Warriors Johnson.

Really?

Was the man really so upset or in fact so desperate to be recognized by social media, he pulled it off knowing that the images would allow instant click baiting?

I do not know what is more pathetic.

What he did, the fact that those who decide on these things claim that it is news, or that people like me like it by recognizing it.

Thank you to the under 17 years.

Thank you for telling us a legitimate and authentic sports story, congratulations, you all deserve the slightest reward.