Following on from last year’s semi-final exit to eventual winners Atletico Madrid, the Phoenix again went out at the semi-final stage to eventual winners Aston Villa at this year’s Citibank Hong Kong Soccer Sevens on Sunday Hong Kong time.
A familiar face will be missing when the Wellington Phoenix players return for pre-season training next month with Spanish midfielder Albert Riera terminating the final year of his contract by mutual consent with the club.
The Wellington Phoenix will play fellow Hyundai A-League club Central Coast Mariners at Trafalgar Park in Nelson on September 24 as part of their pre-season programme.
The Wellington Phoenix squad for the Citi HKFC Soccer Sevens leaves on Wednesday and no-one is more excited than the youngest member of the team, 16-year-old Calvin Harris.
Earlier this year seventeen-year-old Logan Rogerson made a conscious decision to put his head down and work hard on the Wellington Phoenix training ground and that attitude was rewarded when he was named in the New Zealand squad to play in the OFC Nations Cup along with five other Phoenix players.