Marquee
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1-0 down, not long to snatch something back, we'lll see if they can lift their heads
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Trialist
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P 3 L 3 GD -13
The stats don't make good reading, I wonder if any team at any level has a worse record in a finals tournament. I feel sorry for the guys they were really out of their depth.
Marquee
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herman wrote:
P 3 L 3 GD -13
The stats don't make good reading, I wonder if any team at any level has a worse record in a finals tournament. I feel sorry for the guys they were really out of their depth.
To their credit they kept their heads up in game 3, NK had more shots on target and corners, but a draw wouldn't have been hugely unjust
 
In my view we weren't outclassed tonight
Legend
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herman wrote:
P 3 L 3 GD -13
The stats don't make good reading, I wonder if any team at any level has a worse record in a finals tournament. I feel sorry for the guys they were really out of their depth.
 
Yeah, our u17s back in 97 were P 3 L 3 GD -22
Marquee
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Buffon II wrote:
herman wrote:
P 3 L 3 GD -13
The stats don't make good reading, I wonder if any team at any level has a worse record in a finals tournament. I feel sorry for the guys they were really out of their depth.
 
Yeah, our u17s back in 97 were P 3 L 3 GD -22
 
I'm only guessing but i bet some of that team went on to play for the all whites, and as Buffon points out , this crop is relatively better (on those stats) that our current 27 year olds
Phoenix Academy
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Why wouldn't there have been Spain?
NZ had to beat Australian and the top teams in Asia to get there. If they were in Asia-Oceania, they would have had to have beaten Australian and the top teams in Asia.
Same difference.
Since we have been in Oceania we have been kept out of most tournaments by Australia, and have mostly had competitive games against sides ranked in the bottom 10 percent in the world. The only way any team or even individuals get better is to play meaningful games against the top teams - and Asia has plenty of really good football teams.
I stand by what I wrote, we have gone backwards since we joined Oceania.
I would far sooner be playing in the Asian Cup, and have our club teams like the Phoenix, playing in the Asian Champions League.
But we have the O League, and Oceania Champions League.
Meaningless friiendlies at the other end of the world hardly help the game here.
WeeNix
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1997 boys deserved to be there, 2007 got the easy road, jamie cross was the keeper!

WeeNix
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he let in 13 against Spain mwahahahahahahahaha onya Jamie!
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Buffon II wrote:
herman wrote:
P 3 L 3 GD -13
The stats don't make good reading, I wonder if any team at any level has a worse record in a finals tournament. I feel sorry for the guys they were really out of their depth.
 
Yeah, our u17s back in 97 were P 3 L 3 GD -22
At least we're improving

Its sad that a bunch of communist that bow down to a statue of the guy that starves their families have a better youth system, even though they have little contact with the outside world.

We must be doing someting wrong
Trialist
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13 players from the same club side certanly helps!!!!!!!!!! Their 20s men side are Asian champions, the 17s were runners up and the womens 20s won the World Cup last year. A lot of state resources are being put into football in North Korea. Its is hard to compete with that coming from New Zealand.

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