Copied from another thread, as way of an A Voerman update on Iredale's current AWs eligibilty status.
I believe this has hit a dead end for now, but not for a lack of interest on either side.
Good to get an update. He only lived in NZ from being a toddler (UK born) until age 10 (moving to Aussie). But his brief time in NZ common to alot of Kiwis kids.
https://www.friendsoffootballnz.com/2023/08/22/bolton-wanderers-defender-is-on-all-whites-radar-reports-claim/His father, Paul, played schoolboy rugby for England, and his mother, Fiona, represented New Zealand in judo at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Though he was encouraged to play rugby, Iredale’s schoolmates introduced him to football.
“There were six of us at lunchtime that would just play football — everyone else had a rugby ball,” he told England’s Cambridge Independent.
“I went home one day, aged six, and said to my mum that the local team was having soccer try-outs and I wanted to go and play.
“My mum had no idea that I played, she just thought I would be useless at it really but I wanted to play football and she wasn’t going to stop that, so she took me down.
“I was half-decent, and from then on, I just stuck at it.”