All Whites Vs Canada | Sun 25 March | 4:00am

All Whites squad to face Canada in Spain (Club, Country) Caps, Goals;

Goalkeepers
Max Crocombe (Salford City, England) 0, 0
Michael Woud (Sunderland, England) 0, 0
Nik Tzanev (Wimbledon, England) 0, 0

Defenders
Michael Boxall (Minnesota United, United States) 31, 0
Nikko Boxall (Viborg FF, Denmark) 0, 0
Storm Roux (Central Coast Mariners, Australia) 9, 0
Adam Mitchell (Bolton Wanderers, England) 0, 0
Sam Brotherton (Sunderland, England) 9, 0
Tom Doyle (Wellington Phoenix) 8, 0
Dane Ingham (Brisbane Roar, Australia) 5, 0
Themis Tzimopoulos (PAS Giannina, Greece) 14, 1

Midfielders
Michael McGlinchey (Wellington Phoenix) 52, 5
Matt Ridenton (Wellington Phoenix) 3, 0
Ryan Thomas (PEC Zwolle, Netherlands) 18, 3
Sarpreet Singh (Wellington Phoenix) 0, 0
Tim Payne (Eastern Suburbs) 14, 2
Niko Kirwan (AC Mestre, Italy) 0, 0 
Cam Howieson (Auckland City) 9, 0 
Clayton Lewis (Scodhorpe United, England) 13, 0 
Alex Rufer (Wellington Phoenix) 4, 0

Forwards
Myer Bevan (Vancouver Whitecaps, Canada) 2, 1
Jeremy Brockie (Mamelodi Sundowns, South Africa) 50, 1
Andre De Jong (Hakoah, Australia) 0, 0
Marco Rojas (SC Heerenveen, Netherlands) 40, 5

Standby
Monty Patterson
Jesse Edge
Justin Gulley
Jai Ingham
Te Atawhai Hudson Wihongi

All Whites v Canada International Friendly

When: 24 March, 2018 kick off time 4pm (25 March, 4am NZT)
Where: Pinatar Arena, Murcia, Spain
A highlights package will be available soon after full time on www.nzfootball.co.nz

Youthful team with lots of rookies as expected. Really wish we could watch this!

Note:

Chris Wood, Stefan Marinovic, Bill Tuiloma, Kosta Barbarouses, Deklan Wynne, Kip Colvey and Tommy Smith all allowed to stay at their clubs; Winston Reid is injured.

No mention of Gleeson?

Nope

Noted it will be live streamed....park the bus squad.

Gleeson is currently starting for Portland and they have injuries to their back up keepers so Portland are reluctant to release him. Schmid has approached him and he would have been in the squad but for this.

Is big Kevin going to start moaning and giving Schmid grief about handing out caps to to many players like he did previously...

Hmmm. Fans can watch the 24 March match live via https://t.co/I2jLo9saYr kicking off at 16.00 local / 10.00 ET / 7.00 PT. https://t.co/Ivuu8zSSvF

— Andrew Voerman (@andrewvoerman) March 13, 2018

That's great news! I also thought it was not being streamed. I guess the behind closed doors thing must be venue cost related.

I like this squad.

Good to see Justin Gulley in the frame.

No captain named?

Michael Boxall is my pick. Would also explain his inclusion when other MLS players are left out.

Payne listed as a midfielder... curious to see if he slots into the CB role like he has for Suburbs... in saying that, it would leave us with a very small midfield with only Rufer the only one with a little size about him.

I wonder why Musa wasn't looked at - new club perhaps?

Inujured I think

Yeah Musa an interesting omission given had a MLS contract only few months ago. 

Michael Boxall maybe taking a risk going to Spain, given apparently under pressure to keep his starting spot at Minnesota, and will miss at least one MLS game on AWs duty.

Maybe the chance play with his younger brother, was too big an incentive to turn down. Good for him. Always seems a loyal, passionate AWs servant. Give him captains armband.

Also happy to see Adam Mitchell called up for a looksee. Hopefully a few of the Handy Prem guys pick up some overseas pro club interest, from this game. 

Musa not considered due to injury - nothing to read into it at all.

Captain will be McGlinchey

If anyone can give me a quick rundown on the playstyles of de Jong, Kirwan, Nikko Boxall or Payne, it would be much appreciated!

I thought Michael and Niko weren't related?

Payne is decent on the ball. Often very angry man. Tries to play 1-2s with players but clearly not the same level as him. Will be interesting to see how he goes with the All Whites.

De Jong is pretty slow, quite predictable, has one foot and will get found out by smart defenders. I'd expect him back from Australia any time soon.

Just checking you know he's played in the NSW PL (and been in its team of the season once) for the past two years?

Only by birth

Wonder where I heard otherwise, oh well.

On 3 news 2nite he said he wouldn't have taken much notice of fans opinions lol...maybe with a smile.

I'm calling this our B side

Best to call it that so if we lose then it won't feel so bad.

thank you! de Jong must be a pretty good finisher considering how many goals he has for suburbs though right? Or is it like Tade, where he has mediocre finishing but always finds the right positions/can dribble to get into them?

Happy to see no Dyer but is Boyd in the greater pool of players going forward? Hard for us to know from here, all we have is hearsay.

Saw an article talking to Buckingham and he said that the coach had spent some time in Europe recently and contacted a number of players. You can see the result of that with some of those guys playing in Europe being selected for the Canada game. I can only presume that Boyd was spoken to as well and whatever his response, it has not translated into him being named. So we are no closer to knowing what his thoughts are [Boyd] but can assume he has been spoken to and shared those with the coach. If he has said no - then I'm over him - lets move on and let the little cod rot in Portugal.

https://canadasoccer.com/canada-soccer-announces-s...

Considering the number of youth players getting a look in, McCowett from Auckland must consider himself unlucky.

NZF already used up their allowance on Grab a Seat 

My thoughts exactly as I read that article.

4am?

You'd think these b**ggers would have some consideration ...

How are we supposed to watch that?