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Posted February 10, 2011 04:25 · last edited March 18, 2021 07:46

zonknz wrote:
We are an anomaly playing in a different federations competition, like it or not, and there remains the real possibility that to continue the Phoenix might be forced to adopt the same player eligibility rules which would mean NZers are counted as foreigners.

I fully expect Bin Hammam to run for the FIFA top job this time around, and probably win- and he hates us.


I don't think personal feeling has anything to do with it. It is all politics, when it is in his political interest in the AFC to be against us he will be, if later he is FIFA president and it is in his interest to keep Oceania happy he will be our biggest fan.

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zonknz wrote:
We are an anomaly playing in a different federations competition, like it or not, and there remains the real possibility that to continue the Phoenix might be forced to adopt the same player eligibility rules which would mean NZers are counted as foreigners.

I fully expect Bin Hammam to run for the FIFA top job this time around, and probably win- and he hates us.


I don't think personal feeling has anything to do with it. It is all politics, when it is in his political interest in the AFC to be against us he will be, if later he is FIFA president and it is in his interest to keep Oceania happy he will be our biggest fan.