Borneo FC striker Shane Smeltz has been named in the New Zealand’s squad for the FIFA Confederations Cup this year in Russia.<\/p>\n
The 35-year-old, who currently plays in Indonesian Liga 1, is the the second-highest goalscorer in the history of All Whites with 24 goals in 52 matches.<\/p>\n
Smeltz played a key role in the New Zealand’s campaign at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where he famously scored against Italy in the group stage of tournament.<\/p>\n
The tournament is a precursor to next summer’s World Cup and involves eight countries including New Zealand, who will face Russia, Portugal and Mexico in Group A.<\/p>\n
The Confederations Cup starts on June 17 and runs until July 2. It will take place across four Russian cities – Moscow, St Petersburg, Kazan and Sochi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Borneo FC striker Shane Smeltz has been named in the New Zealand’s squad for the FIFA Confederations Cup this year in Russia. The 35-year-old, who currently plays in Indonesian Liga 1, is the the second-highest goalscorer in the history of All Whites with 24 goals in 52 matches. Smeltz played a key role in the New Zealand’s campaign at the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where he famously scored against Italy in the group stage of tournament. The tournament is a precursor to next summer’s World Cup and involves eight countries including New Zealand, who will face Russia, Portugal and Mexico in Group A. The Confederations Cup starts on June 17 … Continue reading “New Zealand call up Borneo FC striker for FIFA Confederations Cup”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":90,"featured_media":3826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,26],"tags":[841,512,640,638,639],"class_list":["post-3821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indonesia","category-southeast-asia","tag-borneo-fc","tag-liga-1","tag-new-zealand","tag-pusamania-borneo-fc","tag-shane-smeltz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/90"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/football-tribe.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}