New Zealand vs Slovakia Fifa World Cup Live Streams and TV Channels

 New Zealand vs Slovakia Live Stream

Date : 15-06-2010

Game Start Time : 13:30

FIFA World Cup 2010

Venue: Rustenburg

World Cup 2010: New Zealand will play against Slovakia on 15/06 13:30 in Rustenburg

World Cup 2010 New Zealand vs. Slovakia. Slovakia’s profile. This is the first aappearance of the team in a major international competition. Slovakia is trying to relive its glorious years when they were still the former Czechoslovakia.

Even if their team is yet to be a household name, Slovakia can rely on collective and well-organized qualities. And their sustained progress gives them a reason to be optimistic on their way to South Africa.

Fourth in their section in qualifying for the 1998 FIFA World Cup™ France, third on the road to Korea/Japan 2002 and runners-up ahead of Germany 2006, Slovakia continued their rise by sealing top spot in Group 3. The team of Vladimir Weiss wrote their historic record on 14 October 2009, winning a number of games and stopping predictions about their struggle to make it pass the difficult pool.

 

Their win was quite hard but they were able to mount their bid, losing only to Slovenia. Their rivals were a real thorn, downing them 2-1 in their second outing and won 2-0 in Bratislva in the last round, yet their desire to make it to the FIFA World Cup finals prevailed in the end with a last game win 1-0 in Poland.

Liverpool’s Martin Skrtel is a solid at the back for Premier League heavyweights. He is a central figure for his country. Nopoli’s Marek Hamsik, midfielder is known for scoring goals. He will surely be noticed in South Africa. Same is true with Slovakia’s Stanislav Sestak who was able to finish with top scorer with six strikes in the qualifying round.

Their coach Vladimir Weiss is a former Slovakian international who was appointed in June 2008. He was the successor of Jan Kocian who failed to win in the UEFA EURO 2008. With his strong personality, Weiss started coaching at Artmedia Bratislava, where he led the Slovakian team to the UEFA Champions League group phase in 2005/06. The next season, he boosted his credentials in Russia with Saturn Moscow Oblast. And return to Artmedia with the Slovakian league title after a year. With his previous successes, this team can go a long way.

Historical FIFA World Cups. While this is Slovakia’s first time to play on the global match, the country has a rich foot ball past that is tied with the former Czechoslovakia, who overall has participated in eight finals. Czechoslovakia even got to the final in 1934 that had a heat breaking loss to Italy in overtime 2-1 and a 3-1 defeat to Brazil in 1962. They also got to the last eight in 1990. This World Cup 2010 New Zealand vs. Slovakia match up is a great game to watch.