Heartland Wairarapa have an extra incentive to turn on a good show on and off the field when they confront Canterbury United in a national youth league football match at home on Saturday.
Officials from Football New Zealand will be at Memorial Park, Masterton, to see the level of organisation and crowd support, inspect facilities and watch the action and the prospects of Heartland Wairarapa successfully bidding for a place in the national premier summer league.
Beating the highly-rated, but so far disappointing, Canterbury United squad would be the icing on the cake for the Heartland Wairarapa team.
The improvement shown by the club the in opening two rounds of the youth league suggests a win is possible.
In the first round, Heartland Wairarapa competed well against Team Wellington for the first 60 minutes but ran out of steam towards the end and were beaten 4-0.