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[Goughy]

Full Internationals

CW (5) - American Samoa (1)
Best player: Nathan_Hoy (Man of the Match)
Scorers: Nathan_Hoy (13,73), David_Kennett (41), Kev_Gough (72,74)
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NZ (3) vs CW (6)
Best player: Daniel_Smith (Man of the Match)
Scorers: J_Pelter (29 og), Daniel_Smith (45,51,75), Manan_Shah (46), Steven_Old (49 og)
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CW (3) vs Sri Lanka (0)
Best player: Thamba_Mamesh (Man of the Match)
Scorers: Thamba_Mamesh (49), Kev_Gough (81), G_Sriram (84)
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CW (1) vs Jamaica (1)
Best player: Daniel_Smith
Scorers: Daniel_Smith (3)
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CW (1) vs Iraq (0)
Best player: Kev_Gough (Man of the Match)
Scorers: Kev_Gough (11 pen)
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CW (1) vs Iceland (3)
Best player : Daniel_Smith
Scorers : Daniel_Smith (8)
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International Stats

Number	Name		Pos	Caps	Starts	Sub	Goals	MOMs
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1	Kyle_Wright	GK	6	6	0	-	-
2	D_Dubb-Lynch	DF	1	1	0	-	-
3	Brendon_Goff	DF	1	1	0	-	-
4	Jamee_Gray	DF	1	1	0	-	-
5	Daniel_Rai	DF	1	1	0	-	-
6	Zac_Gelman	MF	6	6	0	-	-
7	Nathan_Hoy	MF	1	1	0	2	1
8	Dave_Richards	MF	1	1	0	-	-
9	G_Roberts	MF	1	1	0	-	-
10	Kev_Gough	FW	6	6	0	4	1
11	David_Kennett	FW	1	1	0	1	-
12	Blake_Donald	GK	1	0	1	-	-
13	Nitin_Dravid	FW	1	0	1	-	-
14	Ash_Chaulk	MF	1	0	1	-	-
15	Daniel_Towns	DF	3	2	1	-	-
16	Neil_Pickup	DF	5	5	0	-	-
17	Manan_Shah	DF	2	2	0	1	-
18	Xavier_Rose	DF	4	4	0	-	-
19	Håkon_Mørk	DM	5	5	0	-	-
20	G_Sriram	MF	4	4	0	1	-
21	Kexing_Su	MF	3	3	0	-	-
22	Daniel_Smith	FW	5	5	0	5	1
23	Dave_Kearsley	DF	5	3	2	-	-
24	Greg_Thomas	MF	3	1	2	-	-
25	King_Clapham	MF	1	0	1	-	-
26	Thamba_Mamesh	FW	1	1	1	1	1
27	T_Loganathan	DF	4	3	1	-	- 
28      Jack_McNamara   DF      2       2       0       -       -
29      Mat_Mitchell    MF      1       0       1       -       -
30      David_Comley    FW      1       0       1       -       -

Youth Internationals

CW Under 20s (2) - NZ Under 20s. (0)
Best player: Dave_Kearsley (Man of the Match)
Scorers: M_Hutchinson (9), J_Pelter (86 og)
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[Goughy]

New Zealand announced the squad for their International game against CWLand.

The squad was picked from players based purely in New Zealand (with the exception of Pelter who stayed on after the U'20s game).

Despite this, the NZ squad has a massive advantage in international experience over CWLand.

 Pos Name		DOB			Caps	Goals		Club
__________________________________________________________________________________________	
 GK Jacob Spoonley 	3 March 1987 		0 	0  		Wellington Phoenix
 GK Ross Nicholson 	August 8, 1975 		14 	0  		Auckland City FC
 DF Steven Old 		17 February 1986 	17 	1  		Wellington Phoenix
 DF Jack Pelter 	30 July 1987 		0 	-  		Sunderland A.F.C 
 DF Ben Sigmund 	3 February 1981 	1 	0  		Auckland City
 DF Tony Lochhead 	12 January 1982 	13 	0  		Wellington Phoenix
 MF Jeremy Christie 	22 May 1983 		10 	0  		Wellington Phoenix  
 MF Tim Brown 		6 March 1981 		6 	0  		Wellington Phoenix  
 MF James Pritchett 	1 July 1982 		? 	?  		Auckland City 
 MF Jeff Campbell 	25 August 1979 		13 	2  		Auckland City 
 MF Andrew Barron 	24 December 1980 	8 	1 		Canterbury United 
 MF Raf de Gregorio 	20 May 1977 		28 	2  		Team Wellington 
 FW Daniel Ellensohn 	9 August 1985 		0 	0  		Team Wellington 
 FW Shane Smeltz 	29 September 1981 	16 	5  		Wellington Phoenix
 FW Jeremy Brockie 	7 October 1987 		7 	-  		Hawke's Bay United 
 FW Brent Fisher 	6 July 1983 		10	4  		Canterbury United

[Goughy]

Its been a long time since CWLands last International, against American Samoa, and Kingsley Clapham selected the following squad to represtent the nation.

Goalkeepers
Kyle Wright (Southern Dynamo)
Shan Jasotharan (Island Swell)
Defenders
Neil Pickup (Island Swell)
Manan Shah (Island Swell)
Daniel Towns (Southern Dynamo)
Xavier Rose (Northside Power)
David Kearsley (East Coast Fury)
Midfielders
Zac Gelman (Central United)
Håkon Mørk (Island Swell)
G Sriram (Central United)
Kexing Su (East Coast Fury)
Greg Thomas (Central United)
Kingsley Clapham (East Coast Fury)
Forwards
Kev Gough (Island Swell)
Daniel Smith (Central United)
Thamba Mamesh (Northside Power)

[China_Star]

it seems that i have been drafted in to play the playmaker...

[pasag]

Always an honour to be selected, can't wait to get stuck in to the Kiwis.

[bugssy]

very dissappointed to have not made the squad, guess this means i just have to work harder to try and get in.

[Goughy]

Little did the CW squad realise when they arrived in New Zealand that they would take part in a game that is sure to be replayed on TVs across the World for years to come.

In the privacy of their dressing rooms the coaches had no way of appreciating that their chosen tactics would lead to such an open game.

NZ played 3 forwards and only 3 in defence and Clapham decided on the attacking tactic for CWLand.

CW Starting Line-up

GK Kyle_Wright
DF Daniel_Towns
DF Neil_Pickup
DF Manan_Shah
DF Xavier_Rose
DM Håkon_Mørk    
MF Zac_Gelman    
MF G_Sriram      
MF Kexing_Su     
FW Kev_Gough     
FW Daniel_Smith

With Clapham starting on the bench he handed the armband to Smith. Would the on-field captaincy be too much for the captain of United and could CWLand perform at the higher level?

[China_Star]

i see that didn't go too well...

[chaminda_00]

lol at Pelter scores more goals then most Kiwi forwards, only problem is that its in the wrong net.

[Goughy]

lol at Pelter scores more goals then most Kiwi forwards, only problem is that its in the wrong net.

Thats right. I forgot he scored one in the U'20s game as well.

Im sure they are happy to have paid that business class airfare from Sunderland just for the return of 2 o.g.s in 2 games.

Congrats to Clapo for engineering that special result and congrats to Smith for doing the damage.

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Wow, stoked to be given the armband on debut. 3 goals isn't a bad way to start off either.

3 own goals in the game, shocker.

I assume Zac's injury carries over to pre-season, any details on that?

[Goughy]

Zac_Gelman (cwl) is injured for 0 weeks after shaking off a minor injury

For International Games Only

Daniel_Towns (cwl) is suspended for 1 games

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Cheers. Good news.

[pinchy81]

Good work dubbya's (y)

[Samuel_Vimes]

Horrible standard of football, par for the course in Oceania really. Not a too good game for myself, though the assist to Manan was a clever piece of footwork.