Posts Tagged ‘homeless world cup’
Paddy to Paris
Great news that Paddy Shannahan, one of the eight players who represented New Zealand at the 2010 Homeless World Cup, will be travelling to Paris to Volunteer at the 2011 Homeless World Cup. Good on you Paddy. Paddy has worked hard to make this happen and will be fundraising for sponsorship over the next few [...]
Homeless World Cup players return from Rio
Great article by Charlie Gates from The Press down in Christchurch.
Back in Aotearoa!
The New Zealand team have returned from the Homeless World Cup, tired and bedraggled and definitely pleased to be back in Aotearoa! Although the team lost their INSP Trophy final against Slovenia, an impromptu rugby match with students in Botofogo was more successful with the tackling in particular drawing the praise of the locals. The [...]
Kiwi Victory!
This morning’s rematch against South Korea in the INSP Networking Trophy ended in New Zealand’s first victory of the trip so far and means qualification for a final game to be played against Slovenia tomorrow. The match against the Koreans had been on the cards for a couple of days and gave the Street Blacks [...]
More fun than wins
After 6 days of football, most of the players’ bodies are failing in one way or another. Ankles have been particularly troublesome with Terereao joining the invalid roster. Dr Coração (the Street Blacks’ team doctor) has been delighted to have the chance to focus on something other than the ubiquitous small dogs wearing booties being [...]
Finding our level
This morning’s match was our closest yet, a 6:3 defeat to Hungary. Fraser was back on the scoresheet again and Kevin put in a good shift in goal to keep the score down! There are rumours around the camp that now that the Urewera Terror has completely lost his voice from screaming at defenders he [...]
Team relish trip up mountain
The opening game of stage 2 was a 7:3 loss to Canada. It was a close game played yet again in blistering sunshine that favoured neither side and took it’s toll on tired legs. Kaha, Fabian and Tim got the goals- for each it was a first goal of the tournament and helped lift some [...]
Look away now
The afternoon game against Ghana didn’t go so well. If you don’t want to know the score, look away now (and don’t click here). The team are taking the result with good grace and looking forward to the draw for the second round of matches.
Brazil 7: NZ 3 : South Korea 0
After a bit of a thrashing in the morning game against Kenya- who are now firm favourites to go all the way to the final- New Zealand hit an afternoon roadblock in the shape of a South Korean team bolstered by top players from Brazil. Pre-tournament rules stipulated teams would have to travel with the [...]
So it begins…
Copacabana ground to a standstill for an hour this morning for an Opening Parade full of colourful songs and dancing. Aotearoa isn’t really known for extroverted and emotional displays- so it was a largely stony-faced Kiwi team that marched along the seafront in a sea of screaming Norwegian Vikings, Nacho Libre Mexican wrestlers, Namibian singers [...]
