Twenty years after causing the biggest upset in Oceania football history by beating the All Whites in the 2004 OFC Nations Cup, Vanuatu hope to topple New Zealand again in front of their passionate home fans on Friday. The 4-2 … Read More
Former All Whites captain Ryan Nelsen has shared in a regional coaching award after a successful first season with Georgetown University’s men’s soccer programme in Washington DC. Led by Georgetown’s head coach Brian Wiese, the coaching staff of Nelsen, Connor … Read More
Former All Whites captain Ryan Nelsen was a special guest of Sky Sport’s show The Kiwi Football Fix as the show wrapped up its 2023 series. You can watch the full eight-minute interview here: More episodes Click here to watch … Read More
Three New Zealand footballers are playing at the FIFA World Cup, after all. Former All Whites Ryan Nelsen and Ivan Vicelich and former Ferns captain Maia Jackman are members of the East Tigers team, playing in the FIFA Legends Cup … Read More
New Zealand Football have appointed a new General Manager of High Performance and recruited former internationals Ryan Nelsen and Kirsty Yallop to advise them. Keir Hansen will join the national body in March, taking responsibility for overseeing the national teams … Read More
All Whites striker Chris Wood has named the best-ever player he’s played alongside — and it’s not a high profile England star such as Harry Kane or James Vardy. Instead, Wood has named New Zealand teammate Ryan Nelsen as his … Read More
All Whites legend Ryan Nelsen says the legacy of his long professional career is a knee that looks “like a horrible tree stump”. And he’s told readers of the UK’s FourFourTwo magazine that the condition of his knee was such … Read More
Former All Whites captain Ryan Nelsen is among a group of top footballers and coaches helping FIFA plan for the global future of men’s football. Nelsen (43) has joined FIFA Chief of Global Football Development Arsène Wenger for a two-day … Read More