New Zealand Football to withdraw from
International Competition
New Zealand
Football (NZF) today announced that it would be withdrawing from International
competition until further notice.
An official
said “After the situation in Papua New Guinea we have been reviewing eligibility
of players from the pen pics in our match programmes. During this process we
have discovered a player called Ollie White who isn’t registered with us.”
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The official
went on to explain that matters were exasperated by the fact that many of the
player we know by other names such as, Chris Wood, Marco Rojas, Jeremy Brockie,
Costa Barbarouses, Ivan Vicelich & Bill Tuiloma among others all claim to
be Ollie White.
“It was decided
that until we can work out who Ollie White is that we shall be withdrawing from
all forms of International football and we have advised the OFC of this
decision by fax.”
It is believed
that the Oceania Football Confederation has indeed received the fax and in turn
they have sent a fax to FIFA informing them that New Caledonia will be
withdrawing from international competition until further notice.
When asked if
NZF had a backup plan in case they couldn’t work out who Ollie White was, the
official replied that they will continue to assist National Coach, Anthony
Hudson, in his search for players. "In fact he has just sealed the deal on a
Kombi van and he will be spending the next few months driving around Europe tracing the classic Kiwi OE in the hope of finding some youngsters with Kiwi
parents who can kick a ball".
NZF denied that
they were trying to lure Jack Charlton as a special adviser, saying “despite
Jack’s skill for getting anyone who drank a pint of Guinness or went to a U2
concert to be able to play for Ireland, the rules have apparently changed since
those days so he wouldn’t be of much help to us”
Meanwhile the
Federated States of Micronesia have issued an invite to NZF for a series of
games. The FSM manager said they were confident of a win as even if the on
field score is 30-0 to New Zealand, we should be able to get it reversed to a 3-0 win to us”
Ends
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