Not that I know of. Similar story to Pizzuto though I think Harris spent longer here but no not gonna happen, sadly.
Its gutting both slipped through the Nix.
These are the kinds of players first teams are supposed to keep, letting go of the chaff.
See: Steven Taylor coming up through the NU academy and being good enough to play Prem footie for them vs Bally being let go by City because he wasn't good enough for the senior team. We've done the reverse!
You're comparing apples to kiwi fruit.
Ball & Taylor both English boys at the time in academies for English club teams. Pizzuto and Harris both foreign boys at the academy of NZ's only pro team.
A League teams can only have 5 visa slots. Dome said once that they looked hard at offering Harris a prized visa spot, but he was still a kid at the time, who had played only a few games of senior men's football (with Weenix). Would have been a very big call at the time. He then left for a US College. I suspect now he will try throw in his lot with the US national age group system (not good enough for England, and his other national team option Hong Kong being too shark???).
Pizzuto I think was never staying long. Seems a proud Mexican lad, who was a bit of a star in one of the age group World Cups for Mexico from memory.
AWs/FFs already recruit more than their fair share of players with tenuous NZ links.
Not that I know of. Similar story to Pizzuto though I think Harris spent longer here but no not gonna happen, sadly.
Its gutting both slipped through the Nix.
These are the kinds of players first teams are supposed to keep, letting go of the chaff.
See: Steven Taylor coming up through the NU academy and being good enough to play Prem footie for them vs Bally being let go by City because he wasn't good enough for the senior team. We've done the reverse!
You're comparing apples to kiwi fruit.
Ball & Taylor both English boys at the time in academies for English club teams. Pizzuto and Harris both foreign boys at the academy of NZ's only pro team.
A League teams can only have 5 visa slots. Dome said once that they looked hard at offering Harris a prized visa spot, but he was still a kid at the time, who had played only a few games of senior men's football (with Weenix). Would have been a very big call at the time. He then left for a US College. I suspect now he will try throw in his lot with the US national age group system (not good enough for England, and his other national team option Hong Kong being too shark???).
Pizzuto I think was never staying long. Seems a proud Mexican lad, who was a bit of a star in one of the age group World Cups for Mexico from memory.
AWs/FFs already recruit more than their fair share of players with tenuous NZ links.
