Bulid Up Games- Mexico/Serbia/Slovenia

To be honest I think New Zealand should not be fussy in who they play in warm ups. fact is they have not had enough warm up games full stop. They need game time.

There is no real decent international window this season (The March window is midweek) so I am of the same view. Australia has not confirmed its team for the home game in May (the send off game which looks like being Croatia but nothing has been publicly released yet) but if they are worried about playing styles and all that jazz, it is starting to get to the stage where you have to say f..k it, just get a game and shut up.

You would rather have games locked in than pick and choose teams because they play a similar style to one of your group game opponents. Both Federations are taking too long now, looks silly.

http://nzfootball.co.nz/plugins/newsfeed.cgi?rm=content&plugin_data_id=29478

My only wish is for us to play Greece.. I would be the happiest man in the world if we can go up against the Greeks.

My first love was Greek Football...

Great to have Serbia and Slovenia locked in.  That's three quality friendlies locked in.  Few more and we're set. 

Still hoping for a game against Denmark or Ireland.

Serbia and Slovenia will be excellent frendlies in prep for Slovakia. I wonder if NZF have any South American opponents in the pipe line?

Slovenia will be a good game, a much better team than Slovakia.
Why is the Serbia game being played in neutral Klagenfurt instead of Belgrade where we will be playing in front of a screaming 50,000 crowd?

You answered your own question.

The All Whites have to be happy with this.

No way 50,000 would turn out to watch a friendly against NZ. More like 5,000.

how?
not that 50,000 would show up anyway as that guy said above

It's better to play at a neutral venue in preparation for the World Cup.

Good news.

Hoping for a home friendly too before we leave, and in Wgtn!

why?
so f**k all the Serbs who might acyually want to go to this game?

It would seem that way.

Altitude

thats probably fair enough then but if that was the only reason then there are much better places to play than Klagenfurt

I'm sorry I forgot that real football fans don't go to games to actually support their team, they just sit at home and watch dickwad english premier league

Yes.

Klagenfurt isn't actually that far away, it's right on the border with Slovenia. Speaking roughly, I reckon 3-hour drive from Belgrade.

What's the news on the home friendly/send off touted to be in March?

Perhaps a "Winston Reid Trial Match". He plays one half for the Danes, one half for us, then he can finally decide who he wants to play for

Originally posted by Mi-Sex

Why is the Serbia game being played in neutral Klagenfurt instead of Belgrade where we will be playing in front of a screaming 50,000 crowd?

May you mean.

For those that are heading out to LA for the Mexico game the tickets are now on sales via Ticket Master. It looks like the cheapest tickets are $25USD and the high end is a bargin of $95USD.

http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0B004434DFFE6DA7?artistid=1402937&majorcatid=10004&minorcatid=11

As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago if your heading out for the game let me know.
geoffmcpherson712@gmail.com

Cheers,

Geoff
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NZ will be Mexico preparation target,
and Mexico will play 12 international matches before World Cup
http://www.mediotiempo.com/futbol/seleccion-mexicana/noticias/2010/01/28/cuatro-potencias-en-el-camino-del-tri-a-sudafrica-2010

can NZ arrange sereval matches like them ?
halu2010-01-30 16:08:24

Hearing rumours that Bosnia may be going to play Australia in Oz at the end of May, if true maybe we could entice them to come over here too.

Ok in May, what date has a window?

Far out Mexico playing 12 warm up matches. We have 3 confirmed. any know now of others in the pipeline?

Translate. The Australia vs Bosnia source is here:

07:14|Francuzi pobjednici EP-a01:45|Vije?niku prijete smr?u 01:27|Uhi?eno 10 Amerikanaca12:04|Oplja?kana benzinska pumpa11:43|Ni�ta od imenovanja podobnih10:58|Godi�njica Igmanskog mar�a09:12|Seferovi? uskoro u repki07:54|Ko brine o otpadu07:20|Optu�be za polno nasilje07:18|Tarik Duvnjak iza re�etaka06:19|Incident ispred Je�a06:15|Kra?a nov?anika 06:11|Prona?eni ukradeni laptopi 05:56|Atomska skloni�ta u �kolama02:39|Prometni kolaps u Njema?koj
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Novosti iz Nogometnog saveza BiH: Mogu?a provjera protiv Australije
Mogu?a utakmica sa Australijom; foto: Ap
Pi�e: Zlatan Ra�idovi?
29/01/10 06:24
BiH ponu?eno odigravanje prijateljskog me?a sa Australijom krajem maja u Melbournu

Fudbalski savez Australije ponudio je nezvani?no N/FSBiH odigravanje prijateljske utakmice izme?u reprezentacija ove dvije zemlje krajem maja u Melbournu. U bh. ku?i fudbala jo� ?ekaju oficijelnu ponudu Australije.

�to se ti?e kazne od ?etiri utakmice neigranja za Sejada Salihovi?a u zvani?nim kvalifikacionim utakmicama na�e najbolje selekcije zbog crvenog kartona u revan� susretu bara�a za SP protiv Portugala i nov?ane sankcije za Bh. savez od 25.000 �vajcarskih franaka zbog nereda na tribinama u istom me?u sa Portugalom u Zenici, N/FSBiH je poslao Apelacionom komitetu FIFA najavu �albe na ove odluke Disciplinskog komiteta.

I'll translate the relevant bit - the title of the article is Possible match against Australia. Basically says that the FFA have unofficially approached the Bosnian football federation over the possibility of playing a friendly between the two countries in Melbourne at the end of May this year. No official offer has been made, and apparently the Bosnians are waiting for that.

What I've heard is that they're not too keen - too far away, and they have a glamour friendly against Germany in early June, so they'd prefer to play in Europe. Apparently Paraguay have approached them about a friendly in Europe as well around the same time, so I guess if they sort that one out, they won't be coming to Australia.

No great loss to be honest. Only a small vocal minority out western suburban Melbourne way would be revved up for this one.

Anyone based in Europe think about having a long weekend and hopping over to central Europe for these games?  Would be great if a few of us could meet up and wave the flag for the Euro Kiwi contingent.

So that I don't have to trawl through 12 pages, can anyone tell me what games are confirmed for when at the moment? Most importantly, which are HOME games and are there any details on those?

No home game confirmed yet.  Mexico in LA on March5.  Serbia and Slovakia some time in May in Europe,

Slovenia - we play Slovakia at the World Cup.