E26 | Priscilla Duncan
Episode summary | Priscilla Duncan
From 1999 to 2003 Priscilla Duncan seemed destined to be New Zealand Football’s next big thing in women’s football. She debuted for the Football Ferns in 2003 and attended the Women’s World Cup in 2007 in New Zealand’s return to the big stage.
And then it was over.
She went on to marry the player that took her position in the national team and have a career working for the Oceania Football Confederation and FIFA in Zurich, including seven world cups.
Show notes | Priscilla Duncan
1.40 How Seamus knows Cilla. Steve goes back into his messenger archives from 2005 and Cilla goes all Joe Edwards on Steve
6.17 Did Cilla stay up until 4am for the women’s world cup announcement or did she get any inside running on the announcement from any of her former colleagues?
9.45 Her relationship with Katie Hoyle and the realities of competing with your girlfriend for a starting position in the Football Ferns at a women’s world cup
17.34 Missing out on the Olympic Games in 2008, retiring from international football at 25 and being role models for the LGBQT community
25.05 Cilla on fighting back into the mix after being dropped from the Football Ferns at the beginning of the John Herdman era
29.39 A start in journalism before a chance meeting with Michele Cox leads to an opportunity at the under 17 women’s world cup in New Zealand
33.39 Reflections on a media career at OFC: Slow internet in Papua New Guinea, an emotional documentary on American Samoa and workplace burnout
40.40 That time Cilla was on the fourth official’s bench when Winston Reid scored for the All Whites against Slovakia at the world cup in South Africa
42.24 Leaving OFC and ending up at The Home of Football in Zurich via the Olympic Games in Coventry!?
50.23 Highlights of a media career at FIFA: Working at world cups, tweeting about Luiz Suarez, goal line technology, VAR, and the transition from Blatter to Infantino
1.01.47 Shifting from the football world to the corporate world and eventual parenthood
1.07.09 Cilla on being in the first wave of kiwi women’s footballers to have a US college experience
1.15.23 Conservative attitudes and fake accents at South West Baptist University
1.21.57 Did Cilla fulfil her football potential and what were her strengths as a player?
1.27.34 Seamus jumps in and uncharacteristically talks money in women’s football which leads to Cilla’s current involvement on and off the pitch
1.35.00 Football punditry and commentating for OFC
1.38.24 A short Andreas Heraf interlude
1.40.38 Where did the love of football come from and who did Cilla look up to as a young player?
1.46.54 Cilla on winning the Kate Sheppard Cup three times and both her and Katie having their names on the Maia Jackman Trophy
1.48.10 That time Cilla stormed out of a bar at Albany when Katie got sent off playing for the under 20 women
1.51.00 Last words from Seamus, Steve and Cilla.
