Fingers crossed for Boxall. All round good dude, and loyal NZ football servant.
Boxy, speaking with The Athletic: “I’ve always kind of struggled with long-term goals when, especially in team sports, so much is out of your control. I kind of planted that seed out there: the goal is to make the 2026 World Cup. I think having that there, it’s all the little things you do day-to-day that will get you there. Picking up the little habits, bouncing off nutrition and dietary things off my wife has helped as well. Nothing too crazy, it’s nothing too complicated.
Alcohol is pretty much cut out. Unfortunately, I don’t have the funds to do the LeBron ‘million dollars a year on my body’ kind of thing, but just picking up a few habits here and there, so far, seems to be working... I think the World Cup will be a month or two short of my 38th birthday, so I’ll leave no stone unturned trying to make sure that I’m there,” he said. “I don’t want to be added to the squad as, like, a kind of cheerleader or leadership role. I want to make sure that I’m competing for a starting spot and earning it, rather than having it based on goodwill or my career. It’s something I want to make sure that I’ve earned.”
More Boxy: “I still haven’t truly accepted that I’m, like, an older kind of leader, but I think I’m trying to look at it through the eyes of like how other people may see me, and try to be a bit more influential in those ways. I’ll speak up when it needs when it needs to be done, but I think just making sure my level of consistency and intensity is there every day, I want that to become infectious. I’d rather like lead with actions than have to give some kind of speech. During my 15 years or so of playing, you notice that good leaders and bad leaders, they all say the same things. They say the same words. The difference is their actions. That’s how I try and influence a group.”
Boxy, speaking with The Athletic: “I’ve always kind of struggled with long-term goals when, especially in team sports, so much is out of your control. I kind of planted that seed out there: the goal is to make the 2026 World Cup. I think having that there, it’s all the little things you do day-to-day that will get you there. Picking up the little habits, bouncing off nutrition and dietary things off my wife has helped as well. Nothing too crazy, it’s nothing too complicated.
Alcohol is pretty much cut out. Unfortunately, I don’t have the funds to do the LeBron ‘million dollars a year on my body’ kind of thing, but just picking up a few habits here and there, so far, seems to be working... I think the World Cup will be a month or two short of my 38th birthday, so I’ll leave no stone unturned trying to make sure that I’m there,” he said. “I don’t want to be added to the squad as, like, a kind of cheerleader or leadership role. I want to make sure that I’m competing for a starting spot and earning it, rather than having it based on goodwill or my career. It’s something I want to make sure that I’ve earned.”
More Boxy: “I still haven’t truly accepted that I’m, like, an older kind of leader, but I think I’m trying to look at it through the eyes of like how other people may see me, and try to be a bit more influential in those ways. I’ll speak up when it needs when it needs to be done, but I think just making sure my level of consistency and intensity is there every day, I want that to become infectious. I’d rather like lead with actions than have to give some kind of speech. During my 15 years or so of playing, you notice that good leaders and bad leaders, they all say the same things. They say the same words. The difference is their actions. That’s how I try and influence a group.”