Reid Confirmed For All Whites

I actually meant Glading. My bad.

What is your issue with Glading? Seems to me he's doing a good job.

Top news!!!

I love how he says "Well I am a Maori!"

Well done to all involved in getting him in. Bring on Aussie!

Some of the comments on the All Whites facebook page are very interesting.

"Why can't we get a striker or Mid feild player who plays high level european football :( " - Chris Wood? Craig Henderson?

"Herbert needs to stay loyal to those that have been there for him throughout the campaign. Any player who may have to step aside for Reid will have every right to be dissapointed." - I'd much rather a proven performer at a high level than David Mulligan!!

"f**k that, loyal will keep players like Barron in centre half."

"Daniel has actually played for Brazil so we will never see him in an All Whites jersey."Luis Garcia2010-03-11 22:38:19

Best news to come home from work to hear!  Very happy!

Whats the story with this? the brazil part i mean. i read somewhere (may have been wikipedia) saying he made one appearance for Brazil vs. Honduras in a 4-0 victory???

Stoked on Reid. Kind of shocked aswell... i thought it was done and dusted.

Not true.  Wikipedia was wrong.

That's bullsh*t, he never played for brazil.

This is bloody brilliant.  I think that's everyone on the wish list keen for the AWs now.  Great to be bringing these guys in when we have so many games scheduled, and training camps and the like.  Even with new players they'll have a good chance to get together as a team and play like one.

Daniel hasn't and never will be good enough to play for Brazil.

If Daniel had played for Brazil, we would have heard about it WELL before now. The club would have most likely jumped on the chance to announce (in 2007)  that we'd signed a former Brazilian national team member. 

Great news! Just another quality player in the squad.

He's eligeble, so if he takes some elses place, so be it.. he's better.

Also shows how far NZ football has come recently.

Daniel made age group but never represented the senior team.  That's right about age group isn't it?

was trying to find some highlights, but found this - Winston doing some cleaning...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwBpshcr5qY&feature=player_embedded
hockeycam2010-03-11 23:45:41

Facebook groups are full of idiots.

I dont know, it was supposedly in 1996 (was actually a 5-0 win over Honduras), he wouldve only have been 17 anyway so if it was  true he would be OK under FIFA for NZ regardless. I cant find the 'source' though (i cant even remember where it was - it was a good couple of years ago i read it).

This is great!! Thank you Winston. We love you and this World Cup Campaign is getting better by the moment. Thanks Gourdie, you are a legend. We forgive you for having your honeymoon away from one of the Phoenix games.    

Big Pete 652010-03-12 01:16:44

nice job pete

after about half an hour of searching I found a few of his goals, thanks to this site http://www.soccerway.com/teams/denmark/fc-midtjylland/ which seems to be the only archive of goalscorers for the Danish league.

second goal is him in this vid (FC Midtjylland vs AaB 24/03/09)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ChQllr76ko

Cant find a vid for his others. for reference
Uefa Europa League FC Midtjylland vs Bangor 18/07/08
Danish superliga FC Midtjylland vs Horsens 06/04/09
Apparently he has one more goal for FC Midtjylland but I have wasted to much time on this as it is :p

You know with him appearing in the line ups for all games except for one entire game and not once being subbed off at all, is good news for a defender. With him not being hardly anywhere when the opponents are scoring but in the correct team position shows what a gem of an asset we now have.

What i find so interesting is why did it take Ricki so long to give him a call. Or did it just look that way on the TV3 clip?

Just finished Skyping my brother in law...he lives in Europe and has a Danish girlfriend who is hot on football.

Wish we knew which English and Italian clubs were interested.

He has been linked with Everton in the past.

Cheers for the info Zinidane. He sounds perfect, will plug the giant hole on our right flank nicely. Am feeling much better about our chances in sa now.

Killen seemed bloody anonymous to me against both Bahrain and Mexico. Why not Fallon to start? And "I don't like him" is not a good reason.

Killen was outstanding vs Bahrain, pretty close to best on pitch for me. He just worked and worked and worked. First time I have ever really had a good look at him. Just immense bopman2010-03-12 12:57:44

Ferk yes!!!!

Yeah I'm a fan of Killen (and fallon, and Smeltz and Wood.  I think the attack is the least of our worries).  If our strikers are anonymous it will be because the ball is up the other end of the park.  if Reid can link our defence at the back to the mid/wings by getting good ball to the likes of leo and brown consistently then we've got a much better chance of getting useable ball delivered to our strikers.  Then we win corners and shots on target and such.

Actually, Smith is currently playing with Brentford, who are occupying a place in the bottom half of League 1.

Would Smith have been loaned to Brentford had he not been going to the WC or was the loan made with that thought in mind?

Don't know, but News may do.

Guess he would have been keen on a loan move though, since he'd lost his place in the Ipswich team following an injury.

Agreed, Killen was the best of the front 3 on the park in the Nov 14 game.

Is that fairly much everyone in now?

NZ Football need to make sure we get some good games and get entry to some good competitions after the World Cup...We've got a side with some truly handy players in it now.

Reid.  Still haven't seen/heard any other media pick this story up...