As the New Zealanders stayed glued to their spots waving flags, a grinning Prime Minister John Key lingered in the VIP box, apparently content to drink in the glory of…
Ricki Herbert, New Zealand coachI think our entire country, which numbers four million inhabitants, came to a stop to watch our performance. It’s an incredible result for football in New…
Only a Vincenzo Iaquinta penalty prevented Marcello Lippi’s Azzurri dropping all three points as the All Whites, who took an early lead through Shane Smeltz, produced a courageous and intelligent…
Arguably just as unthinkable is the manner in which Ricki Herbert’s side set about taking a fully merited point from the all-star Italians. Faced with a team 74 places above…
The Wellington Phoenix only met up with the squad in South Africa last week following surgery on his injured shoulder. He sat out the draw against Slovakia but is keen…
Nelsen will lead an unchanged line-up against the Azzurri at Mbombela Stadium, where a win for either side would see them break free of the Group F logjam – all…
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…
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 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…
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….
