One of Wellington’s largest junior football clubs is looking to the future with a recent purchase of 20 Junior Football Packagoals from Packaworld International.

North Wellington Junior Football Club President Andrew Vines says the club plans to use the portable, inflatable goals to inspire players taking part in its ‘First Kicks’ and 'Fun Football' programmes, designed for the youngest age groups of 4-8 -year olds.

The junior programme involves teams of five, with no goalkeeper. The two metre by one metre Junior Football Packagoals meet New Zealand Football Junior Framework standards for First Kicks and Fun Football, making them “absolutely ideal” for the format, Mr Vines says.

A social football programme helping Aucklanders get their kicks has added portable, inflatable goals to its arsenal for the summer.

FootballFix provides five-a-side and seven-a-side football leagues across 11 sites in Auckland, with thousands of players competing each week. It also operates an after-school coaching programme and junior tournaments at a purpose-built academy in Albany.

Ten Junior Football Packagoals from Packaworld International will feature in the academy’s junior coaching and holiday programmes, and FootballFix Director Marc Prenty says he is really putting the new goals through their paces.

New Zealand sports equipment provider Packaworld International provided Junior Football Packagoals for a community education programme and junior football tournament held for the children of south Auckland at Mangere East Primary School. 
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The Youth Forum included special training from former All White David Mulligan and New Zealand Football’s Fit4Football programme. It was held as was part of the New Zealand Communities Football Cup – an annual competition that aims to connect diverse communities through sport. 

​Developed by New Zealand Federation of Multicultural Councils in conjunction with New Zealand Police, this year’s event saw 16 11-a-side men’s teams, 10 women’s five-a-side teams and 10 youth five-a-side teams compete in three separate competitions.

Sports enthusiasts in several Asian countries will now be able to buy a range of unique sports equipment from New Zealand company Packaworld International, thanks to an agreement with one of China’s leading sports equipment suppliers, AirGoal Sports.

Following several years of collaboration, Packaworld and AirGoal Sports have entered a distribution agreement, which extends Packaworld’s distribution network to east Asian countries, including China.

Packaworld CEO Peter Roberts said the agreement was a significant milestone in Packaworld’s history and a huge step towards achieving the company’s vision of bringing the joy of sport to more people around the world.

Packaworld sent portable football goals to the Fijian village of Namara to help bring the joy of sport to children at a school being rebuilt after Cyclone Winston.

Fulton Primary School has more than 100 students, and is located two hours’ drive from the town of Rakiraki in Fiji’s Ra province. Following the destruction of the school’s classrooms by the powerful February 2016 cyclone, tents were deployed as temporary classrooms, and the school sports field was affected by the need to store materials for construction.

Football Packagoals were transported to the school by the Gracegate Centre’s ‘Move to Fiji’ school rebuild initiative.

One of New Zealand’s newest junior football clubs has been given a leg up thanks to Junior Football Packagoals from Kiwi company Packaworld International.

The high quality 2x1 metre inflatable goals arrived with the Waihi AFC Juniors earlier this month and played a starring role on Sunday (25 July) during a special training session with 2016 McDonald’s Junior Coach of the Year Nic Millichip.

More than 50 young footballers and parents attended Sunday’s session, which was arranged by Waihi AFC Juniors programme organisers Richard James and Rudy Sas to give local children the chance to learn from one of the country’s top coaches.

Young street footballers in Panama City now have a way to turn their parks and urban spaces into football pitches thanks to Packaworld International.

On a trip to Panama to support the 2017 Latin American Special Olympics Games, Packaworld International CEO Peter Roberts encountered a group of young street footballers.

Once Football Packagoals were inflated, a classic game of street football kicked off, turning a Panama City park into an improvised football stadium where the joy of the game brought in more players and spectators.

​The goals were given to the players afterwards so they could take the game with them and play for real wherever and whenever they wanted to.

Every week, around 400 children in Wellington, New Zealand, take to the field to play nursery football as part of an innovative programme using Football Packagoals.

Known as Little Dribblers Football Club, the programme inspires children aged up to seven years old to play football and develop the basic social skills required for the sport.

The programme recently purchased inflatable Junior Football Packagoals to replace the steel goals that were previously used, and they have now been rolled out in Wellington and at other Little Dribblers franchises around New Zealand.

Junior Football Packagoals supplied by Packaworld International helped children diagnosed with cancer to enjoy themselves in Camp Quality events held around New Zealand earlier this month.

Packaworld’s support also included a special offer to contribute NZD $40 per Junior Football Packagoal sold, in addition to a 20 per cent discount on a range of goals.

Children at this year’s Camp Quality enjoyed playing football using the portable junior football Packagoals. Other activities at the camps included stage performances, jet boating, water slides, theme park rides, farm visits and other sporting activities.

New Zealand signage and visual solutions company OneSource has been announced as a distributor for Packasign in New Zealand.

Produced by Packaworld, Packasign is an innovative signage solution which can double as a field surround. It protects sportspeople from injury, providing a soft surface that springs back into shape. It has featured at events such as the launch of Blind Football New Zealand.

OneSource Director Bernard Riley said Packasign provides a new, cost-effective advertising solution for events ranging from high-performance sport to school sports days and community events.

Friday's launch of New Zealand Blind Football in Auckland was the first event of its kind internationally to use inflatable advertising hoardings and goals.

These rigid inflatable products, Packasign and Packagoal, are produced by New Zealand sporting products supplier Packaworld as safe, portable alternatives to conventional goals and advertising hoardings composed from wood and steel.

Blind football is played in an enclosed arena, with a ball that emits an audible noise so blindfolded low-vision footballers can locate it. 

An inflatable blocking mannequin called ‘Packaman’ sold by Packaworld International Limited has the potential to take the pain out of training and save on damage to sportsgrounds around the world.

Packaworld CEO Peter Roberts says football teams have long used blocking dummies during training to protect players in ‘the wall’, a formation used to block free kicks, but the majority of traditional football dummies are cumbersome and use spikes to secure themselves to the ground.

This is not an option on modern artificial pitches, so the solution lies in the portable, inflatable technology used to produce Packaman, Mr Roberts says.

A schoolboy-inspired donation of Kiwi sports equipment to the remote Koroinasau District School near Sigatoka in Fiji will open up a world of sporting opportunities for local children.

The gift included balls for various sports, in addition to inflatable football goals and rugby posts from innovative Wellington-based sporting goods supplier Packaworld International.

Koroinasau District School Head Teacher Loata Finau said the equipment was received with festivity and song by the children and teachers of the school.

A gift of two inflatable nursery football goals has helped volunteers in the Cambodian village of Prasat overcome language barriers and delight children and teachers, according to early childhood teacher Maeve O’Neill.
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Ms O’Neill has recently returned from a charitable joint venture between Kindercare Learning Centres and Adventist Development Relief Agency (ADRA), where she was part of a team chosen to provide English lessons and support to the teachers and wider village.

​The goals were donated to Prasat Kindergarten in the province of Kompong Thom by Packaworld International Limited.

A Wellington businessman has single-handedly steered his innovative portable products company to international success.

Packaworld​, a provider of blow-up sporting goods, has recently secured a contract with five ships operated by P&O Cruises, which will use specially designed inflatable bocce courts on board.

Bocce is similar to lawn bowls and usually played on a sizeable court.
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The traditional bulky wooden courts had posed a significant barrier to offering the Italian sport on cruise ships or in shared spaces in the past.

Packaworld chief executive Peter Roberts said the inflatable, Packabocce courts could be used inside or outdoors, and can be set up and packed away in minutes.