New Zealand Football (NZF) is delighted to announce the launch of a significant new partnership with ASB.

World Cup All Whites Andy Barron and James Bannatyne have confirmed plans to step aside from all football.

Canterbury United’s Aaron Clapham has been rewarded for a breakthrough season with the New Zealand Football Championship grand finalists with inclusion in a 12-day camp for New Zealand and Australian based All Whites candidates.

All Whites fans will get a chance to see some of their World Cup heroes in action before they depart for the FIFA World Cup via Australia and Austria when a New Zealand selection take on an NZFC All Star XI in Auckland on May 9.

A back-header by Waitakere striker Brent Fisher with sixty seconds to go ended Team Wellington's hopes and carried the home team into the Grand Final.