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Speaker 1: The All Whites will be taking on New Caledonia at

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Speaker 1: seven tonight at Eden Park. It's all happening very soon.

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Speaker 1: It's the game that'll decide, finally decide whether the New

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Speaker 1: Zealand gets a spot at the twenty twenty six feet

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Speaker 1: of World Cup in North America or not. Ben Sigmund

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Speaker 1: was on the team the last time that news Dalen

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Speaker 1: made it to the World Cup, back in twenty twenty.

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Speaker 1: He's sorry back in twenty ten and he's with me now. Hello, gooda.

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Speaker 1: So we haven't made it to a World Cup since

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Speaker 1: you were in the team fifteen years ago? Do you reckon?

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Speaker 1: We'll do it? Do it this time?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Yeah, it's looking pretty positive at this stage. And yeah,

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Speaker 2: like if they play like they did Friday night against Fiji,

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Speaker 2: I think they'll be too good and too classy and

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Speaker 2: bring it home for sure.

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Speaker 1: How much of this is to do with Chris Wood?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I know we're obviously the qualifying the criteria

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Speaker 1: is a lot different this time, and some would say

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Speaker 1: a lot easier. But how much of how their playing

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Speaker 1: is to do with Chris.

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Speaker 2: He's a massive part and he's certainly inspirational around being

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Speaker 2: the leader and the captain. The whole team is pretty

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Speaker 2: well balanced. Now, Yes, you look at the starting team

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Speaker 2: from the other night, like most people are probably playing

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Speaker 2: in Europe or overseas. Tim Payne a league player, and

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Speaker 2: most of them are in decent leagues over throughout the world. Now.

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Speaker 2: So as much as chriss Wood is a massive you know,

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Speaker 2: I guess the rock solid striker that just can't stop scoring,

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Speaker 2: but you know that's a pretty well grounded team. And

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Speaker 2: you know they played Figi off the park on Friday

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Speaker 2: night and hopefully they can do the same again tonight.

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Speaker 1: What was it like when you when you made it

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Speaker 1: there to the World Cup? What was it like being

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Speaker 1: part of the buzz?

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Speaker 2: Well I was saying, and so one the other day.

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Speaker 2: We celebrated and partied for about a week afterwards, and

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Speaker 2: even my granddad at eighteen years of ages out until

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Speaker 2: five in the morning, so that probably count or something.

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Speaker 2: But there was just a hype in the build up, massive,

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Speaker 2: you know. And you know we obviously went to Bahrain

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Speaker 2: and Drew Millo over there and then came back to

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Speaker 2: New Zealand and it was all to play for We're

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Speaker 2: back in Wellington, you know, So it was a big

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Speaker 2: moment and it was probably a career highlight by a

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Speaker 2: long shot for me. You know, it was just inspirational

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Speaker 2: around what this country did and what it did for

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Speaker 2: the game, and you know, hopefully we can do it again.

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Speaker 2: I know that we keep talking about it's not as

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Speaker 2: hard getting there, and they've opened up another spot and

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Speaker 2: all those things, but for the game in New Zealand,

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Speaker 2: if the boys can go to another World Cup, it's

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Speaker 2: just it's a pinnacle of sport and you know, these

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Speaker 2: guys will be buzzing and it's a great achievement if

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Speaker 2: they can do it.

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Speaker 1: He's hoping they do, and here's hoping they party like

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Speaker 1: you did, like it's twenty ten. Ben Sigmund all White

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Speaker 1: at the twenty ten World Cup. For more from Heather

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