The world’s most expensive goalkeeper was substituted at half-time in Italy’s FIFA World Cup opener against Paraguay due to the problem, with Federico Marchetti taking his place.Marchetti now looks set…
Wood was aged just 18 years 187 days when he took the field against Slovakia as a second-half substitute. Rufer was nearly a year older at 19 years 168 days…
The squad was selected from a wider group of 41 and the final line-up is expected to be announced in August.FFA technical director Saiyad Ali says players not included at…
The All Whites defied the odds to claim their first FIFA World Cup point thanks to Winston Reid’s stoppage time equaliser against the highly-rated Slovakians on Tuesday.Nelsen says New Zealand…
Young defender Winston Reid scored a dramatic last-minute equaliser to earn a 1-1 draw against Slovakia and fans reacted as if their team had won.Most watched the game – which…
The Denmark-based defender found the net from a perfectly-flighted Shane Smeltz cross in the 93rd minute to give the Kiwis an improbable 1-1 draw against a dominant Slovakia side in…
But at 1.25pm in Rustenburg, as the New Zealand national anthem reverberated around the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, Ryan Nelsen was fighting – and fighting hard – to hold back tears….
Messages have been flooding in to the team via letters, email, Facebook and Twitter and skipper Nelsen says the backing since the team assembled in mid-May has been overwhelming. “It’s…
The imposing marksman has already played two of his West Bromwich Albion team mates – Slovenia’s Robert Koren and Chile’s Gonzalo Jara – during the build-up to South Africa and…
Oceania Football Confederation men’s player of the year and the squad’s most capped player Ivan Vicelich (66 caps) will partner Simon Elliott – who is only three caps behind the…