New Zealand football legends are joining the global community with their tributes to Brazilian star Pelé, considered by many to be the greatest footballer of all time. Pelé has died in Sao Paolo, from cancer, at the age of 82. … Read More
Former All Whites player and coach Ricki Herbert says the entertainment value of games at the FIFA World Cup has been outstanding. In a 7-minute interview with NewstalkZB’s D’Arcy Waldegrave, Herbert named France and Brazil as teams that had impressed … Read More
New Zealand will play Germany, Nigeria and Chile in their group at October’s FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup tournament in India. This follows the draw made for the tournament at FIFA’s Zurich headquarters by All Whites legend Ricki Herbert and … Read More
Former All Whites coach and player Ricki Herbert continues to develop his career skills and is heading to Switzerland to participate in a FIFA programme for former international players. Herbert is taking part in FIFA’s The Next 90 programme, designed … Read More
In his sixth World Cup briefing for Friends of Football, All Whites legend Ricki Herbert anticipates what lies ahead for the national side now they have won the Oceania qualifying series … By Ricki Herbert One’s game over and already … Read More
In his fifth World Cup briefing for Friends of Football, All Whites legend Ricki Herbert analyses New Zealand’s 1-0 semi-final win against Tahiti. By Ricki Herbert I guess we shouldn’t have been surprised at the highly physical and uncompromising approach … Read More
In his fourth World Cup briefing for Friends of Football, All Whites legend Ricki Herbert analyses New Zealand’s 7-1 win against New Caledonia. By Ricki Herbert One day, head coach Danny Hay may well look back and be thankful for … Read More
In his third World Cup briefing for Friends of Football, All Whites legend Ricki Herbert analyses New Zealand’s 4-0 win against Fiji. By Ricki Herbert Head coach Danny Hay must be delighted at the way the group games are panning … Read More
In his second World Cup briefing for Friends of Football, All Whites legend Ricki Herbert analyses New Zealand’s 1-0 win against Papua New Guinea. By Ricki Herbert They hit the crossbar, they hit the post, they had headers cleared off … Read More
No one is better placed than All Whites legend Ricki Herbert to understand what it takes to reach the FIFA World Cup finals. He did it as a player in 1982 and as the coach of the New Zealand team … Read More