If you’re heading to a sporting event in New Zealand, you’ll see poi used as a symbol of empowerment for wāhine, and a way of celebrating and showing support for athletes.
That’s right New Zealand – it’s time to get behind our amazing female athletes and teams! In just two short weeks, Aotearoa will host the largest women’s sporting event on the planet – and as co-hosts of the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023TM – we’ve got front row seats to the action.
Barbara and Michele Cox are trailblazers in Aotearoa New Zealand football. They made history by becoming the first mother and daughter in the world to play together in an international football game, including teaming up in defence for New Zealand’s only victory over the United States.
Hollywood screen creative, activist and football enthusiast Natalie Portman will join former Prime Minister Dame Jacinda Ardern, FIFA General Secretary Fatma Samoura, and Black Ferns star Ruby Tui for EQUALIZE: The State of Play, a discussion on equity for women at Auckland’s Aotea Centre on August 14. The event is the finale of a nationwide free entry EQUALIZE speaker series celebrating women in sport, business, culture and society.
This week sees the launch of The Greatest Goal, a football-focused, crowd-funding campaign asking visitors to our beautiful country, as well as those that live here, to celebrate Aotearoa New Zealand co-hosting the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™ by donating a native tree.
To mark the one-month countdown until Aotearoa New Zealand kicks off the FIFA Women’s World Cup 2023™, Tourism New Zealand has launched the most beautiful game of football the world has ever seen.
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