Thursday, June 3, 2010

New Zealand national football team profile

The New Zealand national football team is the national association football team of New Zealand and is governed by New Zealand Football (NZF).The team played in the 1982 FIFA World Cup and on 14 November 2009 qualified for the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Because of the lack of a high-quality domestic league, most top New Zealand footballers play in the leagues of Europe, in the United States, or in the Australasian A-League.
New Zealand formerly battled Australia for top honours in the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). This is no longer the case as Australia now plays in the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), leaving New Zealand as the only seeded team in the OFC. New Zealand has won the OFC Nations Cup four times in 1973, 1998, 2002 and 2008.

Provisional squad list:

GK James BANNATYNE
GK Glen MOSS
GK Mark PASTON
GK Jacob SPOONLEY
Kosta BARBAROUSES
Andy BARRON
Leo BERTOS
Andy BOYENS
Kris BRIGHT
Jeremy BROCKIE
Tim BROWN
Jeremy CHRISTIE
Aaron CLAPHAM
Chad COOMBES
Simon ELLIOTT
Rory FALLON
Chris KILLEN
Tony LOCHHEAD
Michael McGLINCHEY
Dave MULLIGAN
Ryan NELSEN
Steven OLD
Cole PEVERLEY
Winston REID
Aaron SCOTT
Ben SIGMUND
Shane SMELTZ
Tommy SMITH
Ivan VICELICH
Chris WOOD

source by-wikipedia.org

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