Melville Intermediate - New Zealand Vs. Italy

This morning we have had New Zealands most significant ever Soccer/Football result with a 1-1 draw with reigning World Champions Italy.  It means New Zealand now have a chance of advancing through to the next stage if they beat Paraguay in their last pool game this week.  Because of time difference the game kicked off at 2am here in New Zealand but it was a thrilling result for the national team.  You can read a match report from a New Zealand perspective by clicking here.

Melville Intermediate - New Zealand at the Soccer World Cup

The greatest sporting even in the world is taking place in South Africa at the moment and New Zealand, for the second time in our history, is at the Soccer World Cup.  The All Whites (our national teams nicknames, owing to the 'All Blacks' being our Rugby Team and the colour of the uniforms!) play their first pool games this week.  Given that we have two goals to our names at the world cup due to goals against Scotland from 1982 we are optimistically hoping we will do well.  The BBC has a fantastic world cup website set up where you can view all the information about the games, players and the teams, you can link to the New Zealand section by clicking here.