{"id":250251,"date":"2026-01-24T23:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250251\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T23:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T23:20:07","slug":"new-zealand-keeper-geo-candy-joins-australian-club-south-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/250251\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand &#8216;keeper Geo Candy joins Australian club South Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealand international goalkeeper Geo Candy has signed for Australian club South Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Candy (24) has joined the Victorian Women\u2019s Premier League side after spells with women\u2019s A-League clubs Melbourne Victory and the Wellington Phoenix.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the New Zealand squad that won bronze at the 2018 FIFA U-17 Women\u2019s World Cup in Uruguay, Candy has been selected for Football Ferns squads but has yet to make her full international debut.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from the Waikato, Candy joined the Phoenix academy in 2022, after playing for Wellington\u2019s Waterside Karori and National League side Capital Football.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing her arrival at South Melbourne, the club said in a statement: \u201cA wonderful shot-stopper who is confident with her feet, Geo adds quality, composure and leadership between the sticks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This story was first published on January 25, 2026.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.friendsoffootballnz.com\/latest-news\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">More football stories<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand international goalkeeper Geo Candy has signed for Australian club South Melbourne. Candy (24) has joined the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[145506,145507,111,43,139,69,145508],"class_list":["post-250251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-football-ferns","tag-geo-candy","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-south-melbourne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}