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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Weekend Sport podcast with Jason Vine

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: Edb Doll Whites have gone down to nil to Finland

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Speaker 2: and their football international at Eden Park.

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Speaker 3: Here it comes off.

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Speaker 2: The opening gun a game go Spindan's way.

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Speaker 3: And it's your plan Pillow Who's scored it and he

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Speaker 3: was completely free to put the finish side a hat.

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Speaker 2: It's all right, still Finland. What the finn second goal

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Speaker 2: came late in the game to win at to nil.

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Speaker 2: New Zealand back up against Chile on Monday night at

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Speaker 2: the same venue. Ivan Visilich played eighty eight A internationals

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Speaker 2: for New Zealand, the joint most in our men's history

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Speaker 2: alongside Chris Wood, including starting all three matches at the

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Speaker 2: twenty ten FIFA World Cup, the last time New Zealand

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Speaker 2: we're at a senior men's World Cup. Ivan Visilich watched

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Speaker 2: on last night and joins us now. Ivan, thanks for

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Speaker 2: taking the time your overall assessments of the All Whites

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Speaker 2: performance in the defeat by Finland last night.

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Speaker 3: Thanks having funny, good to talk to you. Look, I

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Speaker 3: think it's exactly what type of game that they wanted,

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Speaker 3: you know, playing against opposition that are ranked better than

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Speaker 3: us and higher in the ranking. Chile is also high

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Speaker 3: in the ranking, so you know, the tough game is

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Speaker 3: what they wanted and that's what they got. We saw

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Speaker 3: a difficult game for the players, not easy. Mistakes were

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Speaker 3: punished and you know it just it was a good

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Speaker 3: I think run out. They have the team back together

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Speaker 3: again against the top opposition, so again it's bought into

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Speaker 3: the World Cup. It's another experience of players needed and

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Speaker 3: you know those are positives ins to take from the game.

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Speaker 2: Interesting assessment first up, because I guess people will wake

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Speaker 2: up this morning who didn't see the game and say

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Speaker 2: on he's Gon lost to Nilda Finland and they look

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Speaker 2: at the result only. But in terms of drilling deeper

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Speaker 2: into the performance and I guess the evolution of this team.

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Speaker 2: You saw definite value out there last night.

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Speaker 3: As I mentioned here, playing against high ranking opposition is

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Speaker 3: always going to be difficult. Year the scoreliner, it's not

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Speaker 3: attractive for us, but you know, watching the game and

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Speaker 3: seeing performances from the players, you know there was some

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Speaker 3: quality there. Look, I think the center backs did really well.

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Speaker 3: I think someone it should again prove that here is

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Speaker 3: a top player for us. So you know, you've got

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Speaker 3: players getting together with the group again, jelling again, you know,

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Speaker 3: on the road to the World Cup and put it

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Speaker 3: in some good performances.

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Speaker 2: It seemed like they took a little walt either of

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Speaker 2: the game, and the players we spoke to afterwards admitted

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Speaker 2: that that they were a bit disappointed with the first half.

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Speaker 2: When that happens, when you're a bit flat to start

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Speaker 2: a football game, what is usually the reason for that?

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Speaker 3: It could be multiple reasons. What does that mean? They

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Speaker 3: come together two or three days before the game, they

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Speaker 3: haven't the team since the last windows, so there's a

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Speaker 3: few factors coming to jailing and the boys orso. I mean,

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Speaker 3: you know, walking out to ed a park, there's always

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Speaker 3: has a little bit of nerve to it, you know,

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Speaker 3: playing in front of your family and your friends and

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Speaker 3: your country and the time to kick in. So you

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Speaker 3: know that that happened in the game. You know there

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Speaker 3: was there was mistakes here and there, but it's just

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Speaker 3: part of the game, part of growing and again watching

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Speaker 3: Ryan Thomas, you know, have some good touches on the board.

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Speaker 3: Ben Old, you know he's been in and out of

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Speaker 3: the game with a few injuries here and there, but

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Speaker 3: to see that little sparkle here and there. It's just

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Speaker 3: you know, it gives that little bit of confidence for

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Speaker 3: I thing going forward. I mean, you know the average again, Yeah,

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Speaker 3: just going to look at the score. But the reality

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Speaker 3: is we're playing against a country that has ranked higher

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Speaker 3: for us. I mean just because we plant home sool

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Speaker 3: doesn't mean that we have the right to want a game.

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Speaker 3: The goods to the game, and you have to on

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Speaker 3: those opportunities that you get which are going to be

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Speaker 3: less because you're planning against higher ranking team. You know,

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Speaker 3: those factors are always going to be in the game.

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Speaker 2: So as the time get together to regroup and happily

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Speaker 2: they have another opportunity together on Monday night against Chile.

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Speaker 2: What do you think the main conversation points will be

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Speaker 3: A great game to plan. It has got a different

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Speaker 3: I think they have to just focus on the positives.

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Speaker 3: You know, they are together as a team again playing

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Speaker 3: another international in New Zealand, which is great, and just

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Speaker 3: it took in the world to general and that's true,

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Speaker 3: and you know, hopefully they can do that. I mean,

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Speaker 3: we're probably going to see I would say, some changes

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Speaker 3: within the team just to give guys run seven ninety

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Speaker 3: minutes on the grass and hopefully look Randall, for example's

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Speaker 3: life that he came on and did really well, he

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Speaker 3: said an incredible so far we're talking to see and

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Speaker 3: you know that spark that he brought to the game

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Speaker 3: was really positive and you know, hopefully we can see

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Speaker 3: more of that from all the guys.

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Speaker 2: And yes, although that this current group is capable of

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Speaker 2: making the necessary improvements and the evolution of themselves as

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Speaker 2: a football team ahead of June. I mean, what are

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Speaker 2: we now, It's late March nearly April. Will there be

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Speaker 2: enough time and they and the limited opportunities they have

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Speaker 2: need to be.

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Speaker 3: It has to be not many months away. But yeah, look,

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Speaker 3: I mean if you look through the squad and you

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Speaker 3: in the ego boxes, seem to catch it. And obviously

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Speaker 3: Chris Wood to come into that sort of you know,

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Speaker 3: there is a lot of quality in that in the group,

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Speaker 3: and you know it's kind of exciting to watch to

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Speaker 3: all companies about the preparation and if we think in

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Speaker 3: the future and we we're happy and we get a

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Speaker 3: results in the first game, and when when then we

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Speaker 3: look back at these games and we so well, actually preparation.

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Speaker 3: So you know, that's football and it all goes on results.

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Speaker 3: But I think the quality is there, you know, the

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Speaker 3: players that have proven individually that they have their quality

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Speaker 3: to give us some huge amounts of joy and come.

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Speaker 2: Through and Dad and you know, these players are going

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Speaker 2: to walk apart that you did. Of course with the

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Speaker 2: all white side of twenty teen. You did a lot

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Speaker 2: in the game of Football Live and where does where

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Speaker 2: does the World Cup sit among everything else that you

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Speaker 3: It's the greatest memory that I have and a pleasure

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Speaker 3: myself to be there. Obviously a lot of hard work

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Speaker 3: to get there, just like these globes are going through now,

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Speaker 3: a lot of hard work to get there and enjoy

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Speaker 3: the moment once they're there. But on the other side

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Speaker 3: and do well, and they're going to do that. I

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Speaker 3: have no doubts that they know. They have their younger

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Speaker 3: I think it's positive going forward. You know, we would

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Speaker 3: all love to have results every every window going our way,

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Speaker 3: but you know, the important partners that empty and stop

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Speaker 3: opposition gets the experience.

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Speaker 2: Do you ever relive that shot against Paraguay? And I

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Speaker 2: do ever wake up in the middle of the night,

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Speaker 2: I think it's actually gone in rather than just.

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Speaker 3: What actually itally, so I remember vividly. Yeah, of course

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Speaker 3: a little sparking moment in the game for me to

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Speaker 3: get on the scoresheet, but ously didn't happen. For some

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Speaker 3: incredible moments, great memories, you know, part of my career

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Speaker 3: that I look back on fondly. And the game is

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Speaker 3: today was great because we're able to catch up with

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Speaker 3: some of the former plans and teammates from to ten

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Speaker 3: and also excellents that were there in the ground and

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Speaker 3: turns and came together a a bit more so that

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Speaker 3: was really positive good stuff.

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Speaker 2: Thanks Evan, appreciate you joining us, Mike giving us your expertise.

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Speaker 2: Ivan visilits there, one of our greates.

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