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 All Whites were back in the township of Daveyton on Thursday to train as a full squad for the first time since securing an historic and dramatic draw against…
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….
Today, New Zealand will finally make their long-awaited FIFA World Cup comeback exactly 28 years to the day since a group of amateur players from the ‘Land of the Long…
The All Whites are appearing in the finals for only the second time and, having lost all three matches in Spain in 1982, are still looking for a first point…
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…
