4. At start the team was called New Zealand
soccer team, but in 2007 they changed the
word soccer with football, because the word
football is more used than soccer.
They are members of the OFC (Oceania
Football Confederation).
They are a four-time OFC champions.
5.
6. The national colours.
The names of the national teams are women’s
rugby team, women’s netball team, basketball
team and football team.
7. New Zealand athletes have won a total of 103
medals at the summer olympic games.
New Zealand has also participated in most of
the winter olympics since 1952, missing only 2.
The first medal at the winter olympic games
was won by a woman named Annelise
Coberger in 1992 and it was also the first
winter olympics medal won by a Southern
Hemisphere nation.
