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Subject: [U21] friendly season
New Zealand (74.) - Swerige (44.)
After our nasty defeat last week against Estonia - a match with a desastrous tactics from me - we now have another northeuropean team: Sweden. The team of coach Spanb doesn't seem to be as strong as the Estonians but it will be hard enough for us to hold up. Again we play with our U20 squad and that means that our last victory against Wales two weeks ago was the last match of the U21 team. Next friday the players will have birthday and so we will play again with our current U20 squad. Hopefully the owners of the U21 players are not to disappointed because of this. As I said in the beginning of the season my aim was to play many U20 matches to push the team that will play the qualification round next season. Nevertheless I want to thank you. Players like Cowan, Mitchell and Witt were the basis of our best matches. Thank you very much! Certainly Bodger didn't get his 30st NT-match. ;)
We actually don't have a complete U20-team. We have to use some strong U19-players but that's not unusual. Certainly our Doug Donoso is injured so our most unerring scorer will be absent against Sweden. Hopefully he will be fit for the upcoming season.
Enjoy!
Date: friday, 2013-08-09
Kick-off: 7.30 pm
Match: TV-Studio
(edited)
After our nasty defeat last week against Estonia - a match with a desastrous tactics from me - we now have another northeuropean team: Sweden. The team of coach Spanb doesn't seem to be as strong as the Estonians but it will be hard enough for us to hold up. Again we play with our U20 squad and that means that our last victory against Wales two weeks ago was the last match of the U21 team. Next friday the players will have birthday and so we will play again with our current U20 squad. Hopefully the owners of the U21 players are not to disappointed because of this. As I said in the beginning of the season my aim was to play many U20 matches to push the team that will play the qualification round next season. Nevertheless I want to thank you. Players like Cowan, Mitchell and Witt were the basis of our best matches. Thank you very much! Certainly Bodger didn't get his 30st NT-match. ;)
We actually don't have a complete U20-team. We have to use some strong U19-players but that's not unusual. Certainly our Doug Donoso is injured so our most unerring scorer will be absent against Sweden. Hopefully he will be fit for the upcoming season.
Enjoy!
Date: friday, 2013-08-09
Kick-off: 7.30 pm
Match: TV-Studio
(edited)
Certainly no good performance of our boys. Sweden wasn't that good. But we were worse. The two red cards... well. But it was really fast 0-3 so the red cards are not the reason. Tactics? Probably. To much offside, to high defense. It's up to you to decide if Collunder should get another chance to coach the NZ U21. But the players remain the same.
Cheers!
Cheers!
I hope for you that the NZ community vote you in the next elections for the work you have done and the commitment. I think that NZ U21 requires some seasons to try to win the qualifications of WC. Good luck for the elections! ;)
Slovenia (54.) - New Zealand (74.)
Today is the first match ouf our current U21-team. We have some problems with our defense after the last weeks defeat against Sweden. We lost two important players (Hagan and Armstrong) by red cards and it's not that easy to replace these two.
Slovenia has a strong team. Their keeper Stojan Adam is a really good one for this age. It will be hard to beat him with our strikers, but we will of course try. Maybe we have to kick him out of the match. Their second keeper has form tragic. ;-)
Our hope is again on the midfield. With Zoricich, Byers and Woodward we have competitive players. Hopefully they can create enough chances for our striker(s).
I'm on holiday up from tuesday next week for about 16 days. So here's the schedule for the next two weeks:
Friday august 23 we play against Hungary U21 - a match we only can win. Hungary is actually the number 17 of the world. Puh, a tough one.
Friday august 30 we play against England U21 - in case Qstraw remains as Englands coach. England is the current number 32 of the world, so it will also be not that easy.
I prepare these two matches of course. A friend of mine will put everything in because I won't have access to the internet.
The plan for the upcoming season is to play a good WC-qualification and to play a couple of matches against teams of the lower half of the ranking. It's easier to climb a bit in the ranking then.
Thanks in advance for all who already have voted for me. I'll do my best not to dissappoint you.
Date: saturday, 2013-08-17
Kick-off: 5.29 am
Match: TV-Studio
Today is the first match ouf our current U21-team. We have some problems with our defense after the last weeks defeat against Sweden. We lost two important players (Hagan and Armstrong) by red cards and it's not that easy to replace these two.
Slovenia has a strong team. Their keeper Stojan Adam is a really good one for this age. It will be hard to beat him with our strikers, but we will of course try. Maybe we have to kick him out of the match. Their second keeper has form tragic. ;-)
Our hope is again on the midfield. With Zoricich, Byers and Woodward we have competitive players. Hopefully they can create enough chances for our striker(s).
I'm on holiday up from tuesday next week for about 16 days. So here's the schedule for the next two weeks:
Friday august 23 we play against Hungary U21 - a match we only can win. Hungary is actually the number 17 of the world. Puh, a tough one.
Friday august 30 we play against England U21 - in case Qstraw remains as Englands coach. England is the current number 32 of the world, so it will also be not that easy.
I prepare these two matches of course. A friend of mine will put everything in because I won't have access to the internet.
The plan for the upcoming season is to play a good WC-qualification and to play a couple of matches against teams of the lower half of the ranking. It's easier to climb a bit in the ranking then.
Thanks in advance for all who already have voted for me. I'll do my best not to dissappoint you.
Date: saturday, 2013-08-17
Kick-off: 5.29 am
Match: TV-Studio
correction:
In the first week will be the first qualification-match. And in the second the second. That means that we will play against England in week three.
In the first week will be the first qualification-match. And in the second the second. That means that we will play against England in week three.
What a silly match again! We had the better team, the more ball possession, the more shots on target.
A kingdom for a striker. The tactics was okay. I'm sure it was not because of the tactics that we lost today.
I'm just sad.
A kingdom for a striker. The tactics was okay. I'm sure it was not because of the tactics that we lost today.
I'm just sad.
decent result against a much stronger team...
good luck in the next season, in case you will be re-elected :)
good luck in the next season, in case you will be re-elected :)
Sorry mates, but we were cheated by the English.
It was scheduled as a U20 match but they fielded 11 21yo players.
Nevertheless it was a strong match of our squad. I'm sure we would not have lost this match (that high) with an english U20 team.
It was scheduled as a U20 match but they fielded 11 21yo players.
Nevertheless it was a strong match of our squad. I'm sure we would not have lost this match (that high) with an english U20 team.
I would like to publicly apologize for this... I left the squad setup for the last day to get updates and today I had some personal problems and could not get around a computer to change the squad. Without trying to find reasons or excuses I would like to say that I fell very sorry for this and would like to tell you that my problems involved my house in the countryside being invaded by waters...There is a problem with that at the moment and I had to go and see what can be rescued... sorry again!!!
England 0 - 5 New Zeeland - I would like to arrange another friendly and not line up a squad to pay you back.
Qstarw!
England 0 - 5 New Zeeland - I would like to arrange another friendly and not line up a squad to pay you back.
Qstarw!
Next friday we're gonna play against O‘zbekiston. It will be an U19 match.
Does anybody wants to be host of this match? Please sk-mail or posting here.
Does anybody wants to be host of this match? Please sk-mail or posting here.
Next friday we're gonna play against O‘zbekiston. It will be an U19 match.
Does anybody wants to be host of this match? Please sk-mail or posting here.
Here! In case you don't fear my record of wins = zero when hosting a NT match...
Maybe that's the chance to finally get rid of that curse though ;)
Does anybody wants to be host of this match? Please sk-mail or posting here.
Here! In case you don't fear my record of wins = zero when hosting a NT match...
Maybe that's the chance to finally get rid of that curse though ;)
Still wins = zero but I'm glad. Normally we lose these matches by 0-1.
We had the better team, the tactics was the old from the match against Saudi Arabia which worked so far. The strongest player of Osbekistan was the keeper. We had some really fresh players on the pitch. Berry, Fisher (17yo!)...
We had the better team, the tactics was the old from the match against Saudi Arabia which worked so far. The strongest player of Osbekistan was the keeper. We had some really fresh players on the pitch. Berry, Fisher (17yo!)...