2014 Friendly Discussion - China & Thailand in Nov

So glad Ive not bought tickets , flights etc ... Jaysus what a F Up

What are the chances of this actually being cancelled?

Edit: Woops wrong thread. Unless of course NZF are planning to cancel the rest of 2014. Which wouldn't be entirely surprising tbh.

It would not surprise me that if SA did pull out, that AU and NZ do a quick home and away friendly (which would not be a bad idea)

At least it would be a quick fix win. Then we can get revenge for Grella on Leo (note that this is not serious)

Smeltz and kosta out. Musa and hicks in.

Striker and wide mid out. Defender and attacking  mid in?

Can't remember the squad we picked completely. But who is going to be striker??? With kosta, wood and smeltz out

Two words spring to mind. "Farsical" and "Typical". Please tell me DeJong had nothing to do with this. They should save the embarrassment and just call it off. Complete waste of time. More players have pulled out than Catholics using the Rythim method.

where is the outrage at Smeltz and Kosta?  where are the draft emails to their clubs?  Where are the quotes from Durrante about how he enjoys playing football for New Zealand, AND HE IS FROM AUSTRALIA FFS!

Musa ......

He...

Is Farsical some kind of description of a hybrid middle eastern language/bad thing? Why call it off? Enjoy the AWs playing a game with a few different players. And stop being so miserable

Musa very deserved call up. His defending has been absolutely brilliant in what is a better league then the NZ national league.   Really happy for him,  Im sure Eagar might've been given a go if he didn't get injured recently.  Really happy for Musa though, hope he does well.

http://www.nzfootball.co.nz/index.php?id=11&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=3022&tx_ttnews[backPid]=10&cHash=3354399acb

Uzbekistan in sept

Good stuff on the Herman Cain pic. Lol

As in ..." we'll  always have ...."

This will be really interesting to see where we stand against the top Asian sides.

Uzbekistan only marginally lost out on direct qualification to the World Cup after finishing level on points with South Korea but one inferior on goal difference in the final round group.

Uzbekistan then lost the play-off to decide fifth in Asian World Cup qualifying last year to Jordan who then progressed to the continental play-off vs. Uruguay. But they were only separated by penalties after two legs.

Uzbekistan were clearly superior to Japan in the earlier round of qualifying.

NZ's chances of qualifying for Russia 2018 depend entirely on who we get in the continental play-off - decision no doubt to be made soon.

FIFA seem to rotate Oceania's play-off opponent between Asia and CONCACAF.

A play-off against the fifth best side in Asian qualifying (Jordan last year) is not insurmountable. 

Uzbekistan in 2014 World Cup Qualifying:

Uzbekistan 5 1 0 8 1 +7 16 Japan 6 3 1 2 14 3 +11 10 North Korea 6 2 1 3 3 4 −1 7 Tajikistan 6 0 1 5 1 18 −17 1

Japan — 1–0 8–0 0–1 North Korea 1–0 — 1–0 0–1 Tajikistan 0–4 1–1 — 0–1 Uzbekistan 1–1 1–0 3–0 —

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FOURTH ROUND (TOP TWO TEAMS FROM THE TWO GROUPS QUALIFIED; THIRD-PLACED TEAMS ENTERED PLAY-OFF)

Team

• Iran	5	1	2	8	2	+6	16
  South Korea	8	4	2	2	13	7	+6	14
  Uzbekistan	8	4	2	2	11	6	+5	14
  Qatar	8	2	1	5	5	13	−8	7
  Lebanon	8	1	2	5	3	12	−9	5

Iran	—	4–0	0–0	1–0	0–1
Lebanon	1–0	—	0–1	1–1	1–1
Qatar	0–1	1–0	—	1–4	0–1
South Korea	0–1	3–0	2–1	—	1–0
Uzbekistan	0–1	1–0	5–1	2–2	—

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FIFTH ROUND PLAY-OFF:

Jordan 2–2 (9–8p)   Uzbekistan aggregate after two legs    1–1  1–1 (a.e.t.)

NZ Under 20's 0 Uzbekistan 3 (Fifa Under 20 tournament in Turkey, 24/06/2013). 

But we beat them 4 -1 (I think) in the Under-17's the year before.

yay another friendly

Sorry, I just thought this post deserved preserving for the ages.

How does this affect our A League situation? Is it duering an international break? Half a team missing? I note they are going there 5 days early for it. I can understand why but ffs, just for a friendly? Why ? 

Occurs a month before the A-League starts. I assume that because it is so hard to get the squad together and this will be the first game under the new coach, they want to have as many training sessions and as much time together as possible.

Still very applicable , esp the first two .......tho SA might have to be replaced with Uzbk  ( no idea what a full strength Uzb side would be ...)....if one was a pedant , ....

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/football/10207083/All...

"Like the All Whites, Uzbekistan emerged through their own confederation's world cup qualifiers, but failed to reach Brazil 2014 after losing an intercontinental playoff.

While the All Whites lost to Mexico, Uzbekistan were beaten by Uruguay."

Lol great reporting

According to Wikipedia this is the All Whites playing strip. Am I behind the times, or is this what they'll be wearing against Uzbekistan?

There's your problem.

Anyone who makes it to this match is automatically fan of the year

Samarkand's in Uzbkstn .....

or Sonny Shaw.

To qualify,  you have to have your photo taken with a girl who might be lucky enough to be 16 or older.

Same rules as here then...