The only amateur side in new expansion FIFA Club World Cup, Auckland City Strange people will appear in the tournament. But as goalkeeper Connor Tracy Told ESPN, the club is serving a very large objective: representing most footballers around the world.
One thing that needs to be installed early – and a barrier that has already faced several times by the players and employees of Auckland City – this is that they are No Auckland FC,
New Zealand is unable to support its fully professional league, which means Wellington Phoenix And Auckland FC play in Australian-based A-League manTo confuse cases even more, because New Zealand is related to Oceania Football Confederation and Australia is in Asian Football Confederation, Phoenix and Auckland FC – US billionaire businessman bill is owned by Fole – Place one foot in both camps, and so it is stopped from participating in contental club competitions.
It has left the door for Auckland City to become the face of Oceania on the global stage. Establishing itself as New Zealand’s prevalent non-professional power in the last two decades, winning 13 Oceanian Champions League title. They have become regular in the club World Cup, competing in 10 tournaments. He finished third under the old format in 2014, beating Mexico Cruise azul On punishment.
And while his last five trips for the tournament have ended after a single game, with this year’s expanded repetition, the Kiwi side will guarantee at least three matches in a group. Bayern Munich, Benfika And Boca Juniors,
“Everyone [previous] The club World Cup includes just one game preparation, “Tracy told ESPN.” It is unique in itself, and it is very good. But to guarantee three of those vast sports, and, you can definitely say against big clubs, it is fantastic.
“We all went to the club rooms to see the draw live as a team, and was ridiculous to see us directly pulling Munich. My brother laughed towards me and said, ‘Haha! Harry Kane 10 is going to score the past! ,
Out of Tennessee for the tournament – Tracy confirmed that, as Kiwi, he definitely likes local barbecue – will open his campaign against the city Bundesliga Champions at TWL Stadium in Cincinnati on Sunday. This is actually a battle of David vs. Golith. Bavarian is Germany’s most successful club and six -time champions in Europe; Auckland City is an amateur side that plys its business in the Men’s National League of New Zealand.
“This club is a unique piece of this entire puzzle of the World Cup,” said Treads. “We are – not in an arrogant way – to represent 99.9% footballers, 0.1% football players are professional, but we are left – and it’s not an easy gig.”
Indeed, according to FIFA data, there are only 128,876 professional players worldwide – a small ratio of an estimated 250 million that play in some capacity. And while the club is focused on a lot of conversation around the World Cup. Uncertain demands are being placed on the aristocracy of the gameAuckland’s amateur casuals also face their challenges.
Playing in the second of the three major tournaments, he will enter with his domestic league and cup duties this year – the Club is joining the World Cup OFC Champions League and FIFA Intercontinental Cup -Most of the squads are made up of players who balance their football commitments with full -time jobs, with some of them who still live at home or complete university studies, who do part -time employment juggling.
Outside football, Tracy works in a supervisory role in a veterinary supply warehouse, which oversees pharmaceuticals, nutrition and distribution of controlled drugs to veterinarians in New Zealand. Before he left for the United States, he took additional responsibilities and added overtime, felt the effects of burning candles at both ends.
“Holiday is always an issue, it is never easy,” Treads said. “When I joined this company, I told them,” If you want to sign me, I would like to live here, but the problem is that I am already committed to football. “
“We have found people in the club, all of the same mentality that we believe in exactly what we do. For all the players doing full -time, full -time playing and training is really difficult. It is really difficult, really difficult. We are shouting it.
“We don’t see sunlight, in fact, because we work all day, go and train, and then we come back [home] 9 pm, 9:30 pm … It is very difficult for some people who have families. ,
On the field, while the Auckland City is able to determine the conditions at home, they are well aware that this will not happen when going to the field against European and South American veterans in the coming weeks. Kiwi side has not seen very deeply in individual star power, which can be deployed against them, but instead, how they will work as a collective unit, both in both and (mostly) occupation. 2024 Falls for 1-0 defeat against Asian Champion Al ain In his last warm-up stability, that narrow necklace came in less than a year 6-2 The defeat was against the Emerati side in the 2024 FIFA Intercontinental Cup.
Tracy said, “We are training exactly.” “We know how we do it for other teams, now it is going to be full flip; that is what we are expecting anyway.
“Now we are working on our size, formation, strategy, all conform to what we are expecting. This is Beerne Munich. It’s benfika. It is Boka Juniors. They are the best team in the world. Whatever we have done so far, everything is everything, I think how will it happen in a realistic way of sports.
“All the hard yards we have done in Oceania and New Zealand, I think we have already been successful in that way. We have worked so hard to reach where we are, and we are already proud of what we have done. Just going to this tournament is a success in ourselves.”
