Pacific island nation will qualify for first World Cup if they win two playoffs and manager Spencer Prior is not wasting a minute
wo games of football – that is what it will take for Papua New Guinea to make history. As they take the field in New Zealand this week for the World Cup intercontinental playoffs, two wins would see the Pacific island nation reach its first World Cup.
“We’re trying to do in four months what other teams have spent four years preparing for,” he says. “It’s been a real whirlwind trying to get them fit, trying to get them some tactical understanding of what we want to do … I don’t think we’ve wasted a single minute.” “The players are keen to learn. It’s been hard work and we’ve really pushed them. The most exciting thing is that I don’t think the team understands the potential that they have. We took them to the Sydney Football Stadium where they will play their first game [against France] if they qualify. That got some excitement going in terms of what can happen if they win these next two games.”
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