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Tanzania, Botswana, Italy friendlies

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Tanzania, Botswana, Italy friendlies
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06-10 June Fixed date for official competition matches

14-28 June FIFA Confederations Cup South Africa 2009

Thailand friendlies are not enough......

will they play 3-4 friendlies in May & June ?
halu2009-05-01 19:27:57
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http://goalzz.com/main.aspx?c=4099&stage=1&smonth=200905
29 May
Jordan - New Zealand ?
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about 17 years ago · edited over 13 years ago
also find in fifa.com
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will they re-arrange more friendlies with Middle East countries ?
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Heard Michael Glading on radio sport today. He hopes to announce three friendlies in the next 24 hours to be played in Africa before the Con Feds cup. 
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Jolly good news.
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Roughly when will Bertos and Sigmund be fit does anybody know?
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loyalgunner wrote:
Roughly when will Bertos and Sigmund be fit does anybody know?

I think from memory both will miss Confed Cup but will be fit for start of A League (and therefore WC Qualifiers).

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From the Fifa website:


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Italy? No way! It's scheduled pretty close to the first confed cup match against Spain as well if that date is correct. jamesnz2009-04-03 08:40:51
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Italy's at Confed Cup too as World Champions, so probably want an acclimatising run before the tournament starts.
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We are going to get murdered.

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I highly doubt Italy will a) have their A squad at the tournament and b) will particuarly try very hard in the game.

Yeah, they'll probably beat us quite comfortably, but don't see an embarassing scoreline there.
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I mean more generally in the Confederations Cup.

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As for Confed Cup - I expect a convincing loss to Spain B, closer loss to South Africa, and a wild card game with Iraq where all three outcomes are in play.
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June 3
New Zealand v Tanzania
International Friendly, Dar es Salaam

June 6
New Zealand v Botswana
International Friendly, Garborone

June 10
New Zealand v Italy
International Friendly, Atteridgeville, Pretoria

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Italy, now that's worth risking you life for at a traffic light in South Africa.
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Tanzania? Botswana?

Are the big wigs at NZF spinning a globe and picking a country where their finger lands?

Three for me, and two for them.

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a game vs Italy. that is a dream come true for me. my two countries playing each other. I really hope NZ beat Italy so I can return a bit of the mockery I'm exposed to everytime I mention the fact that I play football down here...!
Go the all whites!

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Buffon II wrote:
Tanzania? Botswana?

Are the big wigs at NZF spinning a globe and picking a country where their finger lands?
NZF should take what it can get.
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auskiwi wrote:
Buffon II wrote:
Tanzania? Botswana?Are the big wigs at NZF spinning a globe and picking a country where their finger lands?


NZF should take what it can get.


They're not random countries - NZF was looking for free African nations for some warm-ups. There's a WC qualifying round in early June, so finding opposition probably wasn't easy.
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This is great news.  I'm confident we can beat Botswana and Tanzania, but then look at the Thai game - we'll see.  The Italy game will be great, hopefully Nelsen performs only the second ever foul on an Italian player (Zidane having down the first).
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recent results

11.02.09
Tanzania0:0Zimbabwe13.01.09
Tanzania3:2 (1:2)Burundi11.01.09
Kenya2:1 (2:0)Tanzania
01.04.09
Lesotho0:0Botswana21.03.09
Namibia0:0Botswana11.10.08 Botswana0:1 (0:1)Mozambique



their notable results in 2008

Tanzania0:0Cameroon 14/06/2008Dar Es Salaam FIFA World Cup� Qualifier
Tanzania1:1 (1:0)Ghana 20/08/2008Dar Es Salaam Friendly
Botswana1:1 (1:0)C�te d'Ivoire 14/06/2008Gaborone FIFA World Cup� Qualifier

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I'm happy with the Tanzania and Botswana games as we should get a result out of these fixtures, allow the boys to gel and give them motivation for the confed cup.
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When i saw it on the news I was like .. we already know the day we face Spain .. Old news

But wow I was surprised. Might have to get myself to RSA


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I am pretty happy with those African teams.

The top half of CAF teams are the toughest and the most competitive of all federations because the number of teams per WC spots are the highest. So even if they did not reach the WC finals, they will be most toughest teams to play against. I really believe that the CAF is most underestimated of all the confederation. The FIFA rankings of 103 and 121 are incorrect. It should be at least 20 places higher.

I personally believe that we can lose or dig out a scrappy draw against them. I always personally found playing against Africans is tough because of their speed and high ball control skill factor. we have honestly to physically bully them off the ball to get some effect. Not the most ideal to prepare for Italy concerning strategy and tactics but getting use to the climate is going to awkward.
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AllWhitebelievr wrote:
I am pretty happy with those African teams.

The top half of CAF teams are the toughest and the most competitive of all federations because the number of teams per WC spots are the highest. So even if they did not reach the WC finals, they will be most toughest teams to play against. I really believe that the CAF is most underestimated of all the confederation. The FIFA rankings of 103 and 121 are incorrect. It should be at least 20 places higher.

I personally believe that we can lose or dig out a scrappy draw against them. I always personally found playing against Africans is tough because of their speed and high ball control skill factor. we have honestly to physically bully them off the ball to get some effect. Not the most ideal to prepare for Italy concerning strategy and tactics but getting use to the climate is going to awkward.


Couldn't agree more.
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I'd say we would go into all of those matches as underdogs, and we will be lucky to win any of them. Having said that, it's definitely not out of the question, and it's spectacular news that the team will be getting so much international football in before the qualifiers!
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evoking words from the past, John Adshead said 'there's nothing like time together and getting that feeling of winning, so you chase that feeling again.'. So well done to the NZ administrators got pulling this off.
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el grapadura wrote:
AllWhitebelievr wrote:
I am pretty happy with those African teams.

The top half of CAF teams are the toughest and the most competitive of all federations because the number of teams per WC spots are the highest. So even if they did not reach the WC finals, they will be most toughest teams to play against. I really believe that the CAF is most underestimated of all the confederation. The FIFA rankings of 103 and 121 are incorrect. It should be at least 20 places higher.

I personally believe that we can lose or dig out a scrappy draw against them. I always personally found playing against Africans is tough because of their speed and high ball control skill factor. we have honestly to physically bully them off the ball to get some effect. Not the most ideal to prepare for Italy concerning strategy and tactics but getting use to the climate is going to awkward.


Couldn't agree more.



If you want to go with rankings, then we are in trouble, as we could'nt beat Thailand. However, we need all the games we can get.

If you are old and wise you were probably young and stupid

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All Whites will not play with Jordan

will they play more friendlies before?
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Wonder what the starting line-up will look like against Tanzania.

I would like to see Chris Wood start. I am sure he will get some game time and sub on at some stage. But why not start him, he is by far the on-form striker in our squad just coming out of his season and scoring goals in the reserves, which is a higher level than any of our other strikers are playing at.

                                                   

If we build it, they will come...

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               Paston
Boyens, Sigmund, old, Lochhead
          Elliot    Brown
Bertos                      James   
          Woods   Smeltz
 
Top lineup maybe, with no injuries..
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hockeycam wrote:
               Paston
Boyens, Sigmund, old, Lochhead
          Elliot    Brown
Bertos                      James   
          Woods   Smeltz
 
Top lineup maybe, with no injuries..
 
Siggy won't play until the Italy game at the earliest. 
 
The first two games will most likely be used to give everyone a run and the top XI will play against Italy and then Spain.
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hockeycam wrote:
               Paston
Boyens, Sigmund, old, Lochhead
          Elliot    Brown
Bertos                      James   
          Woods   Smeltz
 
Top lineup maybe, with no injuries..
Spot on for me I think, but with Vicilich instead of Sigmund until he's fit, and when Siggies ready he could replace Old.
You know we belong together...

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I thought Moss was available for these games, but not the WC qualifiers??
 
If he is Moss to start, but assuming he isn't I'm picking
 
                            Paston
Mulligan      Boyens   Vicelich   Lochead
                  
                   Elliott      Brown
 
Bertos                                         James
 
                   Smeltz     Wood
 
A couple of thoughts though, if Killen is fit, he will start, if fit for his experience over wood.
 
Also I think this is pretty closse to our likely mid field set up, but personally I'd like to see James play more centrally, probaly our techinically best player in the center, excellent distributor and has a real engine so will definately get forward and back. Unfortunately due to our lack of wide players i think is going to hinder and stop this and force him wide left.
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I think you will see Aaron Scott play in at least one of these games... really rate him and not just because he used to play for Mighty Melville Utd fat controllor2009-05-29 19:54:08
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