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The New Zealand national football team, nicknamed the All Whites, is the national association football team of New Zealand and is controlled by New Zealand Football.
It played in the 1982 FIFA World Cup and on 14 November 2009 qualified for the 2010 finals. Because of the lack of a high-quality domestic league, most talented New Zealand footballers play their trade in the higher-class leagues of Europe or the United States, or in the Australian A-League.
New Zealand formerly battled Australia for top honours in the Oceania Football Confederation (OFC). This is no longer the case as Australia now play in the Asian Football Confederation, leaving New Zealand as the only seeded team left in OFC. New Zealand have won the OFC Nations Cup four times, in 1973, 1998, 2002 and 2008. The white strip was originally based on the colour of England's strip and name is in contrast with the New Zealand national rugby union team, known as the All Blacks.
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