History of the best scorer in the history of New Zealand, which will resist Ukraine today Football

Chris Wood reached the height of a career at 33 years. His youth was in the lower English leagues, many doubted it, but as a result, the New Zealand giant played at the world level.

In his native places, Wood is he, not Ronaldo from Messi, now the main football star.

The champion tells the leader of New Zealand – a team that will confront Ukraine at night.

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« The impact of Chris on football in New Zealand is stunning. He was born to score goals. You won’t teach it. He is our lighthouse, a neon sign that for all our children the opportunities are boundless. »

Mark Grum – the exgrade of the New Zealand national team – does not regret warm words to the former ward.

They crossed at St. Paul’s school, which in the 2000s rushed to the national elite. The gross was a coach and Chris Wood was an attacker who had basic hopes.

« So, everything came to the last match, before which I told the guys, » We have to declare ourselves loud, if we want up to the top ten strongest.  » shocked.  »

Still. New Zealand is not the place where big football talents are waiting.

So far, the most prominent of the players there was Winton Ruffer, who won the Bundesliga with the Werder in 1993.

Also left their mark Ryan Nelson in Blackburn and Winston Reed in West Hemi.

New Zealand is famous, above all, a wonderful rugby national team known as « Elle Blex ». At the same time, the football team is called « Hall Weils », and it is always behind. Perhaps Wood was born to align the chances a little.

« The Great Rufer was chosen by the best player of Oceania in the twentieth century, but it can be argued that Chris has already bypassed him, » – convinced Groom.

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There are reasons for that.

Last season, Wood struck as many as 20 goals in the APL for Nottingham Forest.

Chris scored Liverpool, Man United, Tottenham, Chelsea, and Brighton in general destroyed a hat trick.

How does he do it?

The first Wood is still in New Zealand noticed Veteran Coach Roger Wilkinson, and immediately transported to England, where he had connections to the West Brom:

« Chris was just a natural talent. It was like magic. Every time he was in a penalty area, he found a yard of space and ended the attack. »

Over 15 years have passed since then, but most importantly has not changed. Trainer Nottingham Nuna Ashpiritis Santa characterizes The New Zealand is about the same:

« Chris knows how to move. He in five seconds implies what things will happen on the field and where the ball will be. »

Experience has also added. If he was born a Woodinio Brazilian, he would be signed by Grand right away, but a other way was made from Auckland. In season-2010/11 Wood scored 8 goals for Brighton when he won the English League 1 to the third in the rank of Division.

Next were the years in the championship – complex, places of failure. « You are too slow and cumbersome, » Steve Clark told him, before Wood scored 27 goals for Lids in the 2016/17 season, bypassing the Abragam’s Sleepd Tommi in the scorers.

It was for that speech by Bernley with the APL, where Chris confirmed the level, scoring 10-14 goals in four consecutive seasons.

Nottingham also outlined 17 million euros in the summer of 2023-and this is one of the best decisions of Wangllis Marinakis management, which generally returns « foresters » to their historic place in English football.

Who did not hear about the prominent Nottingham Braf Klaf who won two European Champions Cups in 1979-80?

So-ot the main scorer of that team Harry Bertlswhich is already under 70, is a great fan of Wood:

« He has all sorts of goals in the arsenal-from outside the penalty area, from the pick, his head. He is not afraid to punch and constantly scores. This is a sign of a great player. »

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To say that the protection of the national team of Ukraine will be difficult – nothing to say.

Wood is the third best player of the last APL by conversion of moments into goals. He managed to score 20 goals at XG 15.

For ManeroYu game is such an Oldskul Tartgetman. He plays not all over the field, but before the gate. If there were a rule of three seconds in football, it would systematically violate it.

As many as 79% of the new Zealanda is one touch. Right leg, left – indifferent. The game is the highest level. Few people can do it like him.

Heat Map and Statistics of Wood Staffs by Seasons, Nytimes.com

The average impact distance of Wood only once in the last 6 seasons exceeded 11 meters. The smallest guns of the goalkeeper, the extraction is his bread.

Crown maneuver is to run to offside at the beginning of the attack and then perform s-Similar jerks around the defenders in anticipation of cross.

And Wood is very modest – Even despite the fact that last season it scored as many as 34% of all Nottingham’s heads. For a second, this is an indicator of Mohammed Salah in Liverpool:

« I would not have achieved anything without teammate. I’m not one of those players who can beat four and hit in nine. I rely on a feed and they do them. »

In general, this is true, although it is rare for Wood and such.

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For the Super Star APL, Chris’s style of work became a reversal somewhere, because for the most part they do not play so much.

False nine, false tens, false Fulbeca filled the league, and here it is a 191-centimeter giant plays exactly as they expect from a 191-centimeter giant. Young people in shock that happens. Guardiola from the grief of the head of the forehead. Artet in despair thinks to move David Paradise.

Well, but seriously, Gary Neville is on air Sky Sports He asked Wood – what, Targetmen return?

« Well, you have to try to return them, because otherwise I will stay out of work, » – laughed New Zealander.

Wood only looks threatening, and in reality sociable, loves to chat, has not received any red card for the whole career. Exfolier James Perch with nice He remembers their confrontation:

« I was a chatter on the field. I could ask the players as they had a relationship with a trainer, where they had a rest, etc.

For this, England loves him for it – because he started from the bottom, hammer at the top and at the same time remained a person.

Well, for New Zealand Wood is somewhere like Andrey Shevchenko. The whole of Masnya wants to be similar to him, and the triumph of Chris in the APL has influenced the status of football in the country. In 2023, 22.350 New Zealand students were engaged in football, and 24.930 – rugby.

In season-2024/25 Auckland reached the semi-finals of the Australian A-League, and his derby from Wellington Phoenix-the so-called « Kiwi Classic »-twice in a row, was a 26,252 and 26.253 records in the country.

New Zealand has already made its way to the 2026 World Cup. Wood has scored Fiji three times, three times Samoa, twice Vanuaua and once Taii – apparently, after the APL it was too simple.

And that is difficult – it’s to come to « OLL WITS » every month. Rufer, for example, spent only 23 matches (12 goals) for the national team, because these are really giant flights. In Wood instead already 74 matches and record 34 goals and it never reject the challenges, always finished help:

« It’s all for me. I like to play for New Zealand. It’s something else to be with » Kiwi « . Always dreamed of it. »

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He is respected too – Wood never « mowed » under the English, although his mother was born there.

In New Zealand, they hope that Chris comes home, and he does not mind himself, but so far we need to wait-nottingham signing his scorer until 2027.

« Wood at the peak of its shape, at the best moment, – He says Nuna trainer. -We are often looking for young and promising, and we do not realize that a 33-year-old player can show the best football. He has knowledge, and this is reflected in the field.  »

Here is who will resist the national team of Ukraine is not a veteran, but a leader of attacks of the 7th APL team and a living legend of New Zealand.

In fact, Wood will be the largest star in the field in the warehouses of two teams.

Do you say « got to life »?

And we will say « Bravo! » A good giant from Auckland, who is not easy to find on the map, and he managed to break through from such a distance to the world football elite.

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