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Auckland City make history at Club World Cup as student teacher and barber guide amateur team to rare result
Auckland City weren't even coached by their normal coach, Paul Rosa, as personal circumstances kept him from heading to the United States with the team for the initial phase of the tournament, where the Navy Blues were led by a group of Adria Casals, Ivan Vicelich, Daewook Kim, and Jonas Hoffmann.
How a bunch of amateurs at Auckland City FC pulled off the upset of Club World Cup
Most of the players are amateurs, get around 100 USD for a game (as opposed to six figure sums those in Europe earn.) Even Auckland City’s local paper, the New Zealand Herald, joined the critics, suggesting the team had “damaged Auckland City FC’s proud 20-year legacy” in Fifa events.
It might not have been the shot heard around the world but it was a goal that reverbrated 8,000 miles away when Auckland City ...
Argentine media have labelled Auckland City FC’s 1-1 draw with Boca Juniors at the Fifa Club World Cup an “embarrassment”.
The little-known football club and its roster of dentists, teachers, and mechanics are heading to the FIFA Club World Cup for ...
Christian Gray, a 28-year-old Kiwi schoolteacher, and Nathan Garrow, a 20-year-old uni student, are the toast of New Zealand ...
The team, which competes in the Australian top flight, won the league stage and narrowly missed out on lifting the A-League ...
Auckland City faced the mammoth task of taking on 33-time Bundesliga champions FC Bayern München in their curtain-raiser, going down 10-0 against the Germans in Cincinnati. The 13-time OFC Men’s ...
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