#SaveTheNix
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- Eli travels to New Zealand to learn about the Wellington Phoenix, the only professional team in the confederation which the FFA is threatening to kick out of the A-League. Subscribe to Copa90: bit.ly/Copa90Subscribe
Thanks to Wellington Phoenix for having us and for their help.
Thanks to Fox Sports for the additional footage and to Sky Sports for allowing us to film the match at the Westpac Stadium.
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As a New Zealander it means a lot that Copa 90 made this video, thanks for the support everyone
Thank you😂
Best wishes from India pal.
Same here 🇳🇿
@Leo Abrahams Pretty much some clever politics by the Australian Federation. Oceania traditionally plays-off for a place in the World Cup with tough opposition (e.g. a Central or South American team), so the Aussies worked out the path is easier via Asia and managed to get moved. Meanwhile the All Whites cruise through qualifying against average opposition since Australia left, then hit the brick wall of a tough, seasoned team (e.g. Mexico, Peru, Uruguay) that they can't quite match up to.
This was Copa90's first trip to New Zealand - its because of your suggestions in the comments that we visited, so let us where you think we should go next and what stories we should be covering.
Could you do a video about West Ham leaving their stadium and the history of the stadium
Go to Belgium and meet Gent. Has started to buy some exciting talents last year.
Meet Bromley,London
i say that you go to Northampton town they're in a such a bad situation and it isn't been reported properly
Chorley fc they have good stories
6 years laters the nix still going strong
All of Australia is behind the club. Thanks Copa for covering this topic. Copa fam love from Australia
thx man
+parksy101 Thanks :)
+MariNate “Nate Smith” too easy man cheers for the sub
parksy101 Cheers mate, good vids.
#SaveTheNix
Copa 90 have become huge... interviews with captains managers and CEO's. Props to you guys 👏👏☺
Yeah it's wicked innit
Tom Mallion Hell yea 😏
To be fair it is about the Wellington Phoenix, not real madrid
arsenalfutballclub Also with the FFA head and there are many other videos of them talking to bigger personalities from bigger clubs if youve been watching copa90 over the years
Thomas gotta start somewhere
They did it!!!! They got a 10year extension this morning!!! Woop woop!!!!
Yes and they have been useless and done nothing for Football. Joke of a club
JarvisFM third in the league rn
James Jarvis still got the youngsters coming through though like Rojas in this video. Singh to Bayern, and soon enough Cacace will be off with a dozen clubs probably after him.
James Jarvis. they’re not a useless football club they’ve brung life into New Zealand football without it sarpreet Singh wouldn’t be at Bayern, Libby cacace would still be stuck in his local Sunday league team...
VinBin coyn
When I heard about A-League I saw the team of Wellington and then I started to follow them. They play in league of another continent and I think it is quite and unusual in football.They have to stay in this professional league. Cheers from Hungary #SaveTheNix
+Spartan How do you follow them, is the A league on tv over there?
Now unfourtunately not but about a year ago I saw few Phoenix matches on TV.
+Spartan put $10 on a bet365 account, they should have all the A League games.
Not just another country, another confederation Oceania. The Asian Football Confederation hate it, and eventually take it out on Australian football for having them. 😬
Comment #savethenix and where you're watching from below
We'll send a Wellington Phoenix scarf to one of you guys at random.
#savethenix
#savethenix
From New Zealand
#savethenix, they are great club. Respect for them from CSKA Sofia and Liverpool fan!
#savethenix, sending my support to you fans, love from Barnet
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Only joking, hope the 'nix' (what a fucking dumb name) die. Shit fans, shit club
#savethenix from Mexico
As a Kiwi, this really moved me seeing Copa90 cover this story. Without the Nix, football would be dead in our Rugby driven country. Hopefully, with the exposure this story is getting, football in New Zealand can finally be on the up, as we try to be recognised as more than just a Rugby nation. Thanks Copa90 and #savethenix
+Samual Moot thanks for watching Samual - the FFA have got to keep them in the league!
Ikr. without this team football would die in this country and as a kiwi and a big football fan I know that new zealands football would be gone for at least 4 world cups
More fans then Man City. #SaveTheNix.
That joke is less original than Arseanal bottling the title year after year....after year.
+yatesy117
you forgot ... after year
Thank god they don't have more bitches then arsenal because they'd be fucked.
+James M (JamesTAC) than*
We have a average of 58,000 fans a game. M8 your team plays in a library. So quiet lol
As a new zealander living in Norway, I am really happy that you made this great video! Thanks Copa90! #SaveTheNix
+herr h-fyr thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
+herr h-fyr Hey man shit.
I met my current partner in Norway and lived there for half a year! Might be moving back to Kristiansand in the future.
Are there many Kiwis over there that you know of?
+Luka Magnotta what the fuck is with your name
Luka Magnotta obviously.
Luka Magnotta sick fuck
I had the privilege to live in New Zealand for a few years as a teenager, and as a Brit going to watch the Phoenix was a great way to get your football fix. They're my second team and I still wear my Nix shirt with pride when I'm out and about. That 2010 season holds fond memories for me and the Marco Rojas game mentioned against the Victory is still clear as day in my mind. The Phoenix along with the World Cup squad that year really helped the game in the country, and if New Zealand lose their only professional team it would be disastrous for the sport.
So great to see Copa90 cover this story! #SavetheNix from rainy Essex!
they're the only pro team in the whole country!??! imagine losing that. come on FFA sort it out
+The Hippodrome Circus Great Yarmouth #SaveTheNix from Copa90
+The Hippodrome Circus Great Yarmouth HEEEEEY BIG UP GREAT YARMOUTH!!! #ncfc #otbc
Auckland City
lets not big up yarmouth
the people living there could hardly get any bigger
The Hippodrome Circus Great Yarmouth Shot bro, (from a nix fan)
It will be great to expand A-Leagues further.
Making it 16 teams in the A-Leagues, Mens and Womens
Then 2nd division etc
*2024/25- Canberra United and Auckland joining the A-Leagues as 13th and 14th clubs.
*2025/26- 15th and 16th A-Leagues Clubs to be announced soon.
I'm only a youngster from Auckland, New Zealand but I've lived for this club since it's existence so am very proud to say SAVETHENIX to give me a thriving future in football. That's Copa90 for covering this topic, very much appreciated.
Do you plan on sticking with the Phoenix or migrating to the brand new Auckland team coming next season?
From a Perth Glory fan, #SaveTheNix !!
+Lham96 same goes Come On You Glory Boys! and #SaveTheNix
+Lham96 Save the distance derby
shot brother ⚽💙⚽
Lham96 #gloryisours
It's worked. Back in February, the FFA granted Wellington a maximum 10-year extension.
Basically, it starts as a 4-year extension, but then has two conditional extensions after that to total 10 years.
theprocrastinaut Aaaaand we're already back in strife.
The one thing I have always wanted this channel to do is a derby days @ the boca vs river game
+Damon Shipley It's at the top of our bucket list man! we will get there soon
+Copa90 Also Genoa vs Sampdoria, It's always been a great derby with a great atmosphere
+Copa90 April 24th. Come together 🎶?
+Pie Falco I'm a genoa fan myself
I was there at the game when Eli was reporting. We went up and had a talk to him and asked him what he was doing. It's so good to see a major football show backing our local team. #SaveTheNix
Football is my life, without it, theres no point in living for me, and if Wellington Phoenix do leave the A-League, football will not grow in this country. I moved from Liverpool to Christchurch and i can tell u right now that its really hard to be a football fan because of rugby, but there is so many people in my school who love football and watch the Phoenix and Australia would be doing football a great disservice if they get rid of New Zealand's only professional football team. The FFA know full well that the Phoenix dont get big crowds because there is only 4.5 million people in New Zealand with most of them being rugby fans, so it would be a real shame if they were to fold. I honestly think football could take over as the #1 sport in New Zealand because they could have more teams to go into the A-League from all around the country, besides New Zealand's own semi-pro league, they could have a team in Christchurch, Dunedin, Blenheim, Hamilton, Napier, Auckland and have North Island vs South Island derbies and things like that. It will generate money for the clubs to keep running and generate money for A-League contribution, as well as TV viewing, good enough stadiums, and facilities around the stadiums. They would have to make sure theres a lot of sponsors for the teams to generate even more money to make profit and be stable. Hopefully this will happen, the sooner it does the better for all parties and the better for New Zealand football.
+Ryan Navickas Why the hell would you leave Liverpool?
+panzer9248 parents, mate... parents
+panzer9248 basically my dad is a joiner, got a job here in Christchurch, no more good football
As a die hard Liverpool supporter if I lived in Liverpool I would never leave Lol.
As a die hard Everton fan, i cant wait to go home and go the match
Thank you so much for covering this story Eli and Copa90; football is fairly underground here, and we only just got the national league on tv for the first time in ages. The Phoenix are so huge for the football community here so to loose them would be a massive calamity on the sport here. Thank you #savethenix
+Joel Wilson I know! I saw for myself! Just keep supporting NZ football and hopefully one day football will really take off like it has on our side of the ditch!
There still around now!
Best of luck, we're behind you in Ireland! Lets hope everything turns out ok, as a League of Ireland fan I understand the struggles of football and how much it can mean to the clubs community! Lets hope you succeed! #SaveTheNix
+Conor O'Brien good man, why did you go from English Football?
+Conor O'Brien finally another drogheda fan
+Ivan_00_ hon the lads, always great to see other loi fans!
Good man, great to see!
Galway Utd fan
It's so cool to see such a big channel come and do a piece on my club, the Wellington Phoenix! Nz isn't very well known for it's football history as it isn't our number one sport but this club at the moment is the biggest chance to help Nz grow as a footballing nation, with it being the only professional team we need the Nix to stay around to help develop our young players, the more help we can get the better it'll be overall #COYN #savethenix
Problem with Wellington is that their stadium is way too big for them. Even though they've got good fanbase (NZ standards) it always looks empty. They need a rectangular football stadium that holds around 30k. It would be perfect for them #SaveTheNix from Sydney.
+Trollzy Westpac holds about 30k, I agree the stadium is too big, I'd say a 20k rectangular stadium
Where is that rectangular stadium that Wellington plays in occasionally, Is it Dunnedin? that stadium is perfect.
+Trollzy they mainly play in Auckland if outside of Wellington. Dunedin has the under cover stadium, but it's not perfect because the city of Dunedin is tiny, it's hundreds of kilometres and a body of water away from Wellington.
We usually only get an attendance of around 8k
What was the stadium they used during the CWC?
this is what I love about football it isn't the number of trophies your team has, but how it makes people come together to make a community..... #savethenix
Thank you so much for doing this video copa90, I didn't actually think you'd listen to my request (and others I'm sure), it means a lot!!!
Really cool seeing Copa 90 with 1 mil subs, remember them popping up on suggested channels in 2013 with about 10k. Well done chaps.
Thanks so much copa90 for doing a story on the nix!!
I watched this video about 4 times and just can't think of what Wellington would be without the Nix.
Since you asked the ffa about the license I think they many of had to think more about the subject and may give the nix more of a chance of getting a 10 year license.
Thanks,
#savethenix
+Mike Neale Hey Mike! Thanks for the kind words! Keep supporting the nix and NZ football and there should be many more years of WPX!
Don't know how we aren't contributing to Aussie football when we got Nathan Burns called back up to the squad...
*Socceroos
+Melchior Beta Exactly! He won the Asian Cup with the Socceroos
+Melchior Beta If New Zealand tried to join Asian football this wouldn't even be a problem.
+panzer9248 I wish we would. There's not even much justification for having the OFC exist tbh. we get f all international fixtures (3 last year) and they're against the bottom feeders of FIFA
Melchior Beta As Australian I would love to see New Zealand face Australia in the Asian cup. And another thing if Wellington ever finish in the top 2, they won't be able to play in the AFC champions league. Which is a big blow considering how big the tournament is and the prize money is pretty good as well.
Eu como brasileiro que ama o futebol australiano, estou muito feliz que em 2022 o Wellington Phoenix continua como uma grande equipe de seus país #GOPHOENIX
Great video Copa fam, glad that you read your comments and produce great videos that your viewers want
Coming from nz I'm so glad you guys made this video
As an Australian football fan and a follower of Australian football I think that the A-League needs to be not only improved in standard but also in size. For those who don't know, the A-League consists of only ten clubs and half make the finals. I think to encourage the sport in both Australia and New Zealand the A-League needs at least 2 or 4 clubs and I would certainly welcome a second (or maybe third) club from NZ. As you can see in the video the support for the Phoenix is almost unanimous among all A-League fans. This is a massive step backwards for football, not only in NZ and the A-League, but also worldwide. #savethenix
th a league is set to expand to 12 teams for the 19/20 season but the majority and favourite bids are for sydney and melbourne to get a 3rd team each, the only bids not from sydney and canberra, wollongong, a second brisbane team and ipswich (essentally another brisbane team as well)
Thanks copa90 for making this video this kind of support is huge for a team like the Phoenix #savethenix
Even the rugby fans in New Zealand like myself are behind the Phoenix. Really warms the heart guys #SAVETHENIX
bro thats me and my mate in the background. Im in the blue and yellow pumping my fist in the air 3:27
Aww such a cutie back then
NZ football and this story often gets overlooked amongst the never ending feed of amazing football stories around the world! So a massive shout out to you guys leaving comments and insisting we head out there! Was an absolute pleasure meeting the mighty Yellow Fever and the Nix players & management and a massive thankyou to everyone for helping us tell the story! This video means Copa90 and I have ticked off our first ever proper Oceania story, which ticks off the last of our confederations to cover! But it will be by no means the last! Tatiyana the winner of our In Search Of competition will be bringing another story from this continent very soon so if theres a football story you know about, anywhere from Solomon Islands to Fiji LET US KNOW and Copa90 and Tatiyana will be heading out there! #SAVETHENIX
A story on Roy Krishna could be quite good. Fiji player playing for the Phoenix and how NZ football has helped his game develop along with being able to play for the only professional club in Oceania
+Clarke Boswell Very interesting man, I'll pass it onto Copa90 and Tatiyana, if you've got anymore let me know!
+Eli Mengem I think it's a little unfair the Oceania club champions always have to playoff against the hosts in the world club cup, even after Auckland's heroic run to the semis in 2014. A feature on them and the OFC champions league would be interesting.
+Eli Mengem Thanks for the support bro.
Im so glad you guys did this thank you guys so much from all football lovers in new zealand
#SaveTheNix From up here in Auckland! Thank you guys for making a video on this, really appreciate it! Football is growing in NZ, we can't stop now. COYN.
1MILLLLLION SUBS CONGRATS GUYS
+Enis Simsik thanks Enis
I’m a New Zealander and football is my life #savethenix
As a NZ watching Copa 90 since 90k i'm SOOO HAPPY YOU DID THIS EP
Thank you Copa90, any sort of coverage is good for the Phoenix. I love this team.
just turned on my ps3 started fifa and entered manager mode, i got this
Copa90: Wellignton Phoneix is New Zealand's Only Proferssional Club
Auckland City FC, who were fourth place in the 2014 FIFA Club World Cup and is also professional: Am I a joke to you
Couldnt even win the chatham cup last year lol
Auckland City aren't considered a professional club
thank-you so much coppa 90 I love this club. so it was great to see you do this for us
Great video. Eli your life must be great, going to all these places to report on Football. Brilliant.
Fun fact:Auckland city came third in the 2014 FIFA club World Cup
#SaveTheNix Wellington, Great video guys.
I'm from New Zealand and I've been waiting for this for a long time! It was worth waiting
man what a great job !!! great futbol channel.....regards from GUAYAQUIL ..ECUADOR
From a Los Angeles Galaxy fan, #SaveTheNix
#SaveTheNix From England
From a West Ham supporter
Wellington as a city is beautiful I love it there. good to see the Nix are till around. Congrats from a Roar Supporter.
this makes me so happy as I am a nix fan who watches each game every week with my father we would both be truly devastated if we were not in the a league next year. Thankyou Copa 90 #SAVETHENIX
People always say that rugby dominates in New Zealand, but in my school there are 20 odd football teams but only 7 rugby teams
Wellington has gotten a reputation as being the best away trip in the A-league. You get treated like guests rather than adversaries. Have made life long friends from 2 trips over there!
The problem is that the FFA are always shunting their matches to the 5pm Australian time timeslot on a Sunday. This is 7pm on a Sunday in NZ, hardly a decent time for people to drink hard & get into the football when they have to get up for work the next morning.
The FFA are saying that the Nix don't have enough club members to be sustainable. They need to understand that the NZ sporting culture is totally different to Australia. Buying memberships is simply not done in rugby. Even now the Nix have a larger membership base than the Wellington Hurricanes rugby team who just won the Super Rugby competition.
Playing at the cavernous Cake Tin is hardly ideal, but until the Nix can get their own stadium like Hutt Rec up & running, it will have to do.
the membership model is a southern AFL thing which the league states only really started pushing in the 2000's
Congrats on 1 MILLION SUBS!
#savethenix really great piece really shows how this club has become an integral part of some of our lives. I've missed 2 hone games since day one and expect to see many more in the future. #savethenix
Great that they stayed!
According to "The Guardian" (UK newspapers) the nix got their 10 year contract. The Nix have been saved!
We're now far from saved, thanks to Football Federation Australia. We got the 10 years, but a review of the "metrics" mentioned in the video will happen after the 4 years (after the 2019-20 season), then 3 years and 3 years.
With poor performances and the biased Australian media, they still use those metrics against us. And despite us being last, we're far from the biggest embarrassment.
The FFA (and David Gallop in the video) is the biggest embarrassment of the league, metrics for ALL clubs are declining thanks to him and his cronies, but we're being used as the scapegoats to end up making them look better by kicking us out.
Alpaca Jones it’s embarrassment. Let’s play Wellington at 7pm NZ times on a Sunday night & complain that the crowd is poor and the ratings back in Australia are low! How can they get ratings when most of their supporters are watching Sky TV NZ in another country?! 🙄
There is always the argument about why Australia should help a rival nation develop its football. NZ are in another confederation these days so they are hardly a rival. Having a professional football club in NZ means we are helping the game as a whole right. When NZ were at the World Cup in 2010 I found myself very attached to them because they were basically players from my league, the A-League!
Is it a bad thing for wanting New Zealanders to discover football like I did as an Australian?
You boys did it they gave us 10 more years
Thankyou
I live in NZ and am a huge Arsenal fan I have to get up and watch them at 3 in the morning. The Phoienix is a great team. A couple of years ago they beat west ham. Without them NZ football would get even worse.
+Harry Peterson Exactly! So make sure you love the nix the way you love Arsenal! Local football is everything!
Do you live in NZ?
+Harry Peterson He is Australian (think born in Brisbane). Not sure where he is actually based now but he wouldn't be there very often because of Copa90!
+AusSpurs No I mean Eli
Harry Peterson Yes I know, thats who I was talking about.
It's ok now we have signed for 10 more years ☺
AJdizzle No it's not, we're back to square one.
Bloody awesome to see you guys head down to New Zealand! Nix still alive and seem to be developing quite a few All Whites! Cheers guys.
As a proud wellingtonian im stoked that you made a vid on this!! #savethenix !!!
Millwall supporter here, gotta support good ol' Paul Ifill, #SaveTheNix
Ifill is the clubs biggest legend
+catandfishfc He was great for us
Its always the same problem, businessmen not understanding the concern and need of the fans - hope they get it sorted!
Thanks for making this to let people know my football struggles
as a person fromnew zealand who supports the pheonix, i'm very happy that you guys have put this video out
+Mitchell Wall thanks Mitchell #SavetheNix
Yes #savethenix
well they are still here and it is 2020
Love seeing stuff about the A-League of course, really awesome to see our league broadcasted to a channel with over a million subs #savethenix #itoldyouso
Cheers to Eli and +Copa90 for the coverage - really humbling to get your support. I grew up in Wellington and live in Auckland these days, but still fly down for most of the games.
I think the Nix are the core of the conflict between money and the good of the game. From the FFA viewpoint, we don't bring in the biggest crowds (though we aren't the smallest), we develop Australian players but not as many as the aussie based teams, and we aren't a huge TV audience. But what we do have is a financial stable club (something pretty unique in the A league), a passionate supporters base, and the footballing dreams of a country.
So yes, you can take away the club, but it's simply not in the spirit of the game.
#savethenix from Auckland NZ
Here after Phoenix were granted a lifetime membership in the A-league!
The Phoenix are better run than numerous Australian A League clubs. They get good crowds for a very small city, but the people in power don't care. They're happy to destroy the Phoenix, and NZ football. Wellington average 8,700 per game (official figures) and the city has a population of 200,000. Compare that to Perth, who also average 8,700 fans per game, and the city has a population of 1.8 million.
fox loves playing on the xenophobia of australians if fox had there way all the teams would be in sydney and melbourne cause derbies the most reecent expansion makes that clear
thank you Copa90 for making this video hopefully The club will still be there in a few years
OMG, copa90 I love your content! I could watch it for hours!
6:26 that my teacher holy shit 😂😂😂😂😂
From an ATL UTD fan #savethenix
Best channel on TH-cam great stories on our beautiful game!
Thanks Copa 90 I'm a huge phoenix fan and I go to every game
guys do the Edinburgh derby
That would be amazing, the hearts tickets are sold out though so they'd have to sit in the hibs end which means wearing a gas mask.
#SaveTheNix from New York
As a New Zealander and a very big football fan, I would like to thank you so much for spreading awareness and trying to save our club #SaveTheNix
Thnx for doing this video Copa90 I'm from NZ
#SaveTheNix from the USA! New Zealand deserves football!
#SaveTheNix from Wales!
#savethenix from Auckland, New Zealand. Great video, thanks copa90!
#savethenix from Enfield. we know what's it like to have a football community.
I'm Aussie but I like the nix #savethenix
thank you copa! with this video you have really given me a chance at becoming a professional footballer! #savethenix
YES I'm from New Zealand an it's huge for some of us, thanks so much
#SAVETHENITS, from Syria.
#savethenix
Toby Adams #fuckthenix , cant wait till their gone
Banana Bitw saltyy prickkkkkkkkk😂🖕
Thanks for this video because my dad is from New Zealand and I live in America. It taught me a lot more about New Zealand
Finally thanks for this video!
SAVETHENIX from Auckland, New Zealand 😭
Credit to David gallop for talking to Copa 90 and justify his decision