Holland goes down 3 - 2 to USA. and Austria go down 6 - 3 to South Africa.

Holland vs USA

What an entertaining night of finals, both teams expected to win go down to the opposition. Firstly Holland fall short of making the final in a nail biter game. 1 all in the first half and the USA came back early in the second half to edge ahead 3 - 1. Holland then came back with around 7 minutes to go to make an interesting and full on attack from Holland, but ...

NZ beats Israel 7 - 3 as the team finally show some form. Israel looking to keep the kiwis out but with NZ holding posession most of the game Israel was not going to get many chances. NZ started with Rob Vazey starting on the bench still getting over his injury Russell Clarke started Rohan Singh in his place. The team still looking to fire, started a little slow but slowly gathered in momentum. The score was 2 - 2 at half time and looked to be a hard task getting through as Israel kept a good...

Day 6 first day of round 2

NZ played India and won with a convincing 13 - 4 with John Bardo the captian standing down with injury and Rob Vazey out also the team made a convincing win over the young Indian team. Every player that took the floor scored, the team are playing Israel tomorrow in the next game. It was a good opportunity for the coach to start the game with the young new players in the team. Unfortunately there were some moments...

Australia go down 4 - 2 to Uruguay

Australia went down against Uruguay after a hard match, with Glen Cox still unable to play due to injury the team are still playing well. The team will meet USA tomorrow at 7pm and this will be a knock out match to make the semi finals. USA have finished top of section B and look strong just beating Macau 12 - 3, although with the way Australia have been playing they could role the states and put them int...

NZ Beat Isreal 7-6

After Israel scored in the first 9 seconds from a long shot with a deflection from captian John Bardo into the top right corner. Then NZ kept composure and went on to level the score with Tony Deller scoring a great individual goal. Rob Vaze...

Well we are half way through the first round with many teams showing incredible skill and determination. The Stadium is full every night and this great for the teams playing as the drums beat and the crowd chant its really great to see. The stand out team at present is Austria as they have only one goal against and they have beaten the Nederlands 3-0 as this team was the team to beat. Other stand out teams are USA, Nederlands, Macau, South Africa and Uruguay. Australia are also looking to mak...

NZ vs Australia

Wow what a game after Australia losing to Austria 10 - 0 they were looking to improve there standard and came out firing. NZ though with two loses needed to finaly step up to the mark. NZ started the scoring with Alley Langridge scoring from a long shot with Rob Vazey not long after scoring a top hand corner penalty shot, then the team made it 3 -0 in the first 15 min with Aussy not scoring before half time.

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Started at morning withlight breakfast, then went and watched Australia play Israel 9am. Australia played very well and looked sharp beating Israel 9-2. Then the team went for a swim at the hotel pool and then had lunch. After a rest we headed to the stadium around 4pm to get ready for our game vs Uruguay.

NZ goes down 8-1 to Austria in the opening game.

After the opening ceremony of nearly 2 hours NZ started off strong with the first 13 minutes 0-0 and NZ having more chances than Austria. Then came the attack from Austria with a huge crowd behind them beating drums and screaming. The half time score ...

Today we travelled by train to Dornbirn, the train ride was very good as we got to see some of the country side. We stopped in Lindau where we were picked up by coach and taken to Dornbirn, during this ride we travelled through a 6.7 KM tunnel, now that is one serious tunnel.