All Whites friendlies against Fiji
All Whites friendlies against Fiji
I was just on the fifa website looking at information about NZ
football when I saw that the All Whites apparently have two
friendlies against Fiji organised that are to be played on the 8th
and the 11th of August. I hadn't heard anything about these matches
before, and was wondering if anybody could confirm if the All
Whites really are playing these games, and if so, where are they
being played.
The link to the fifa page with this information on it is:
http://fifa.com/associations/association=nzl/fixturesresults/gender=m/index.html
The link to the fifa page with this information on it is:
http://fifa.com/associations/association=nzl/fixturesresults/gender=m/index.html
I am surprised you haven't seen all the media build-up and hype
around the game.
You must have had your eyes closed for the last 4
months.
Oops. Sorry. There has been no build-up. Does the game exist?
Can't see it mentioned too many times on the NZsoccer website. They
don't even have an obvious fixtures list on their screen and past
resutls like FIFA.
It has been on the FIFA website for about 4 months or
more.
It is scheduled to be played in Fiji as their name
appears first. So it is a home game for Fiji.
I think fiji are using it as a build up to the South Pacific
Games starting on 25th of August:
"Let the battle for the 2010 FIFA World Cup South
Africa� commence.
Oceania will get the ball rolling and kick off the qualifiers for
the most prestigious trophy in sport, with the 13th South Pacific
Games held on the island of Samoa forming a pre-qualifying
tournament for the first ever FIFA World
Cup� to be held on
African soil.
Ten countries will take part in this South Pacific mini-tournament, with the top three teams going through to meet New Zealand in a four-team, round-robin-format group to establish the Oceania qualifier."
I am not sure what sort of team we will be sending. But it is
a prep game for our World Cup qualifiers against the 3 top placed
Island teams after their tournement.
Even if we play Fiji and win I think our ranking will drop
further..haha Bl00dy Fifa ranking system.
I was hoping we would get another game in Christchurch.
Good two games we should win to move a little way up the rankings.
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not the 'All Whites'. It will be a New Zealand A team - probably
NZFC players etc like the one that toured Vietnam next year. No
more All Whites games until Oceania qualifiers
Do you know when Oceania qualifiers start?
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October some time. I think one, two at the most, games will
overlap with Phoenix matches.
Be an interesting side this... you can rule out most overseas
players, and most of the Phoenix squad as we'll have a pre-season
cup game smack in the middle of that.
Suspect it will be the U-20's plus the likes of Siggy, Flemming and co.
Suspect it will be the U-20's plus the likes of Siggy, Flemming and co.
Well I think we should still play our strongest team available and
call it an All Whites game so it is still an "A international" game
and will be included in our ranking.
To bad if players make themselves unavailable.
We need to practice against the island nations. because we
need to make sure we don't mess up the Qualifiers.
Quite funny. Still no news from NZSoccer about this game.
The Fifa website is not shown a fixture against fiji for those
dates now 8th and 11th..
But there is one game on the 10.08/07 instead.
Strange....
Looks that way huh, who knows Fiji is pretty unorganised at the mo
huh
I bet they were canned due to the political situation
disco_mart2007-07-22 00:40:48
disco_mart2007-07-22 00:40:48
well it appears that it is NZ A and not the All Whites...that would
explain the silence in the media.
It will still be interesting to see who is going to mange the A
team and the selections they make.
Will Ricki be going along? Good chance for him to test the
fringe All-white players.
The likes of Draper, Brockie, Campbell a number of U20 players
etc.
the team was named some time ago (people were talking about the
selections at the Central v Suburbs Cup match) but was only made
public yesterday i think
New Zealand Invitational 11 to play Fiji (August 10-12):
Goalkeepers: Roy Bell (Macarthur Rams, NSW), Jacob Spoonley (Wellington Phoenix).
Defenders: Sam Jasper (North Shore United), Joel Mathews (Central United), Steven Old (Wellington Phoenix), James Pritchett (Auckland City/Bay Olympic), David Samson (Melville), Craig Wylie (Lynn Avon AFC).
Midfielders: Andrew Barron (Canterbury United), Jeff Campbell (Waitakere United/North Shore United), Stuart Hogg (Birkenhead AFC), Sam Mathews (Central United), Cole Peverly (Waikato FC/Hamilton Wanderers), Aaron Scott (Waikato United/Melville).
Forwards: Jeremy Brockie (Hawke's Bay United), Daniel Ellensohn (Macarthur Rams, NSW), Craig Henderson (Dartmouth Col lege, USA), Sam Messam (Hawke's Bay United).
Goalkeepers: Roy Bell (Macarthur Rams, NSW), Jacob Spoonley (Wellington Phoenix).
Defenders: Sam Jasper (North Shore United), Joel Mathews (Central United), Steven Old (Wellington Phoenix), James Pritchett (Auckland City/Bay Olympic), David Samson (Melville), Craig Wylie (Lynn Avon AFC).
Midfielders: Andrew Barron (Canterbury United), Jeff Campbell (Waitakere United/North Shore United), Stuart Hogg (Birkenhead AFC), Sam Mathews (Central United), Cole Peverly (Waikato FC/Hamilton Wanderers), Aaron Scott (Waikato United/Melville).
Forwards: Jeremy Brockie (Hawke's Bay United), Daniel Ellensohn (Macarthur Rams, NSW), Craig Henderson (Dartmouth Col lege, USA), Sam Messam (Hawke's Bay United).