{"id":2257,"date":"2010-06-05T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2010-06-05T07:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/?p=2257"},"modified":"2020-10-26T12:22:19","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T12:22:19","slug":"my-kiwi-mate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/blog\/2010\/06\/05\/my-kiwi-mate\/","title":{"rendered":"My Kiwi Mate"},"content":{"rendered":"

We bump into New Zealand’s best ever footballer — 1982 World Cup legend Winton Rufer and ask him about the Spirit of Football. His response:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Winton<\/a><\/span>Winton Rufer, Frankie Fredericks and The Ball<\/small><\/div>\n

“Well, we saw a little bit of it today in Windhoek, Namibia with the game Global United against African Allstars. It’s a celebration of the world’s game. The people turn out. Lots of colour. Lots of action. Having a really good time. Lots of goals as well. It can’t be better.”<\/p>\n

\"Andrew<\/a><\/span>Andrew legitimately meets Winton after the game<\/small><\/div>\n

“How will New Zealand do at the World Cup?” asks fellow Kiwi Andrew.<\/p>\n

“New Zealand will get through, and lose the semi-final to Brazil”, replies the now grey-haired and still thick-accented Winton, with a grin.<\/p>\n

Wouldn’t that be fab, thinks Andrew as Winton generously provides him with ten autograph cards.<\/p>\n

“Here we have my personal signed signature cards for my Kiwi mate Andrew. So that when he goes to South Africa, he can give a few more away to show that we were legitimately together in Windhoek, Namibia.”<\/p>\n

Overcome by Winton’s foresight and generosity, Andrew is left speechless.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We bump into New Zealand’s best ever footballer — 1982 World Cup legend Winton Rufer and ask him about the Spirit of Football. His response: “Well, we saw a little bit of it today in Windhoek, Namibia with the game Global United against African Allstars. It’s a celebration of the world’s game. The people turn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,18,232],"tags":[187,182,183],"class_list":["post-2257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-namibia-countries","category-the-ball","category-the-journey","tag-global-fc","tag-namibia","tag-windhoek"],"geo":{"latitude":-22.558904600000001750004230416379868984222412109375,"longitude":17.08248139999999892779669607989490032196044921875,"description":"Windhoek, Namibia"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2010\/06\/nam_DSC02965.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2257"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2257\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theball.tv\/2010\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}