Soccer World Cup 2010 / New Zealand

This article covers the New Zealand national soccer team at the 2010 Soccer World Cup .

qualification

The team qualified via the OFC Nations Cup 2008 for the World Cup in South Africa .

At the OFC Nations Cup, the New Zealanders who had already been assigned met the three best teams from the South Pacific Games 2007 - New Caledonia , Fiji and Vanuatu .

Under the leadership of national coach Ricki Herbert , the team achieved five wins in six qualifying games from October 2007 to November 2008 and only lost 2-0 in the last game against Fiji.

A controversy had previously arisen as the New Zealand authorities refused to issue an entry visa to the goalkeeper of the Fijian national team Simione Tamanisau . The reason for this was that Tamanisau's father-in-law is a member of the Fijian military regime and New Zealand does not allow members of the family of members of the regime entry. The game between New Zealand and Fiji was then played in Lautoka , Fiji .

As the winner of the second round, New Zealand played for a World Cup place in the relegation against Bahrain , the winner of the play-off between the two group thirds of the fourth round of the AFC qualification. After the first leg ended in a 0-0 draw, New Zealand won the second leg 1-0 just four days later in front of their home crowd.

Second round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	New Zealand	14: 5	15th
2	New Caledonia	12:10	8th
3	Fiji	8:11	7th
4th	Vanuatu	5:13	4th

October 17, 2007 : Fiji 0-2 New Zealand (0-1)

November 17, 2007 : Vanuatu - New Zealand 1: 2 (1: 0)

November 21, 2007 : New Zealand - Vanuatu 4-1 (3-0)

6 September 2008 : New Caledonia 1: 3 (0: 1) New Zealand

September 10, 2008 : New Zealand - New Caledonia 3-0 (0-0)

November 19, 2008 : New Zealand 0-2 Fiji (0-0)

Relegation

October 10, 2009 Bahrain - New Zealand 0-0 (0-0)

October 14, 2009 New Zealand - Bahrain 1-0 (1-0)

New Zealand contingent

National coach Ricki Herbert announced his final World Cup squad on May 10, 2010, one month before the registration deadline. As a result of the change of association guidelines changed by FIFA in May 2009 , New Zealand was able to recruit several players from Europe for the national team. In addition to Rory Fallon and Michael McGlinchey , who were already used in the two play-off games, the English junior international Tommy Smith and the Danish U-21 international Winston Reid decided to play for New Zealand in the future. Aside from Reid, Aaron Clapham is the only player who was called into the World Cup squad without a previous international match. Goalkeeper Glen Moss has been nominated despite being suspended for the first two World Cup group matches due to a dismissal during qualifying. The 30-player preliminary entry list also included Jacob Spoonley , Kosta Barbarouses , Andy Barron , Kris Bright , Chad Coombes , Cole Peverley and Aaron Scott .

No.	Surname	Club before the start of the World Cup	birthday	Games	Gates
goalkeeper
1	Mark Paston	Wellington Phoenix	December 13, 1976	3	0	0	0	0
12	Glen Moss	Melbourne Victory	01/19/1983	0	0	0	0	0
23	James Bannatyne	Team Wellington	06/30/1975	0	0	0	0	0
Defender
2	Ben Sigmund	Wellington Phoenix	02/03/1981	0	0	0	0	0
3	Tony Lochhead	Wellington Phoenix	01/12/1982	3	0	1	0	0
4th	Winston Reid	FC Midtjylland	07/03/1988	3	1	1	0	0
5	Ivan Vicelich	Auckland City FC	09/03/1976	3	0	0	0	0
6th	Ryan Nelsen	Blackburn Rovers	October 18, 1977	3	0	2	0	0
17th	David Mulligan	Without Club	March 24, 1982	0	0	0	0	0
18th	Andrew Boyens	New York Red Bulls	09/18/1983	0	0	0	0	0
19th	Tommy Smith	Brentford FC	March 31, 1990	3	0	1	0	0
midfield player
7th	Simon Elliott	Without Club	06/10/1974	3	0	0	0	0
8th	Tim Brown	Wellington Phoenix	03/06/1981	0	0	0	0	0
11	Leo Bertos	Wellington Phoenix	December 20, 1981	3	0	0	0	0
13	Andy Barron	Team Wellington	December 24, 1980	1	0	0	0	0
15th	Michael McGlinchey	Motherwell FC	07/01/1987	0	0	0	0	0
16	Aaron Clapham	Canterbury United	01/15/1987	0	0	0	0	0
21st	Jeremy Christie	Tampa Bay rowdies	05/22/1983	2	0	0	0	0
22nd	Jeremy Brockie	Newcastle United Jets	07.10.1987	1	0	0	0	0
striker
9	Shane Smeltz	Gold Coast United	09/29/1981	3	1	0	0	0
10	Chris Killen	Middlesbrough FC	10/08/1981	3	0	0	0	0
14th	Rory Fallon	Plymouth Argyle	03/20/1982	3	0	1	0	0
20th	Chris Wood	Barnsley FC	07/12/1991	3	0	0	0	0
Trainer
	Ricki Herbert		04/10/1961

Preliminary round

rank	country	Gates	Points
1	Paraguay	3: 1	5
2	Slovakia	4: 5	4th
3	New Zealand	2: 2	3
4th	Italy	4: 5	2

In the preliminary round of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, the New Zealand national soccer team met in Group F on the world champions Italy , Paraguay and Slovakia . Against Slovakia, the team was able to level a deficit at the last minute, against the high favorites Italy they could also save a draw after a 1-0 lead. In the last game, a goalless draw was not enough. Although the All Whites had fared significantly better than when they first participated 28 years earlier, where they had lost all games, the team was eliminated after the preliminary round.

• Tuesday June 15, 2010; 1.30 p.m. in Rustenburg New Zealand - Slovakia 1: 1 (0: 0)
  

• Sunday June 20, 2010; 4:00 p.m. in Nelspruit Italy - New Zealand 1: 1 (1: 1)
  

• Thursday June 24, 2010; 4:00 p.m. in Johannesburg Paraguay - New Zealand 0-0
  

Web links

• The games of the preliminary round of Group F of the 2010 World Cup. In: Fussballdaten.de. Retrieved August 12, 2014 . 
• All matches in the preliminary round at a glance ( memento from September 29, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) on FIFA.com
• FIFA World Cup South Africa 2010: Squad New Zealand ( Memento from June 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive )