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Kiwi star at  Streatham and Mitcham

26/6/2020

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On This Day 27 June 1986 the New Zealand Rugby international George Nepia died

Nepia captained the New Zealand Maori team—known as the All Whites for their white uniforms—on its tour of Australia in 1935. After that he played professional rugby league in England for Streatham and Mitcham, which used Nepia’s name to attract 20,000 spectators to its first match against OldhamC

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Ewen
5/3/2021 05:17:05 am

These days, the All Whites is the "nickname" of the New Zealand Football (Soccer) team. They last qualified for the FIFA World Cup Finals in South Africa in 2010. Their claim to fame in that tournament is that they were the only team of the 32 competing to remain undefeated. Not bad for a team of underdogs representing Oceania, the smallest of FIFA's regions.

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