The NZ All Whites have bowed out of the 2010 WC with the heads held high, after finishing their pool games unbeaten, on 3 points. apart from the winning team, NZ will probably leave one of the biggest marks on the Cup for playing way above our ranking (pre WC of 78) and for also holding the current World Champs to a 1-1 draw. And heading into our last pool match against Paraguay we had a real chance of making the last 16. But as the game wore on we could tell that , although we still had ever chance, we lacking some real world class firepower up front and we just couldn't get a ball inthe back on the net. On th other hand, our defense was suberb, lead by our captain Ryan Nelsen. Who had a fantastic Cup and was obviously very disappointed in the post match interview for TV3 Campbell Live. Hopefully he'll make another WC for us.
All together I think the cup for us was a huge success . Ok, we didn't get win but our results were pretty bloody good, esp. against Italy, who dived and rolled around the pitch untill the ref. gave them a dodgy penalty to draw equal......rrrrrrr
Will the game grow in NZ, which was probably one of the goals of NZ Soccer, well in actual fact more kiwi's play soccer than rugby, but we're a rugby nation. But you never know. I hope so, b/c i'd us to be there for the next cup.
Anyway, well done guys.
