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Wednesday <strong>May</strong> 4 <strong>2022</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz SPORT 7 From grassroots to World Cup tilt It’s all or nothing for the All Whites when they face Costa Rica in June for a place in this year’s World Cup finals in Qatar, and a former young Ferrymead-<strong>Bay</strong>s player, Joe Bell, could be one of the team’s most vital players. Now based in Denmark, Bell talks to Chris Rattue of the New Zealand Herald EVERYTHING IS on the line against Costa Rica isn’t it? It’s a huge game, the World Cup is a dream of mine, and I’m sure my teammates as well. But we do face this day in and day out in the professional environment, so hopefully we are prepared as we can be for a game of this scale. When does the Costa Rica homework begin? Not so much yet, we are all balancing it with our club careers at the moment, but it will be coming. Danny Hay and his staff will spend hours and hours trolling through clips of Costa Rica, finding their finer points. The most basic stuff we always get is about an opponent’s formation, general game philosophy, are they possession based or long ball, do they go direct to their No 9, or do they look more for wingers in behind. There will be information for specific players, their tendencies, their main threats, players who pose something different. And they will try to counter us. They will know Chris Wood is very dangerous in the air will try so minimise the crosses. Did you watch the famous All Whites’ qualification games against Bahrain which got them to the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa? Absolutely, although I don’t think you quite understand what the accomplishment was when you are a 10-year-old. But it was fantastic for the country. Watching players like Winston Reid and Ryan Nelson, they quickly become your role models. Now we are the ones stepping out on the pitch. Ryan Nelsen was the driving force back then – have you met him? He visited us during the World Cup qualifiers in Qatar. I might have met him before, we are Christchurch boys, but not formally like that. He talked a lot about the feelings he misses now that he’s hung up the boots, about trying to take in that moment, and understand the responsibility. We are not just playing for ourselves and representing everyone in New Zealand, but also the players we played with and the coaches who brought us all up. He wasn’t trying to put on a sense of pressure … it’s about that feeling of fighting and playing with your best mates. What are those All Whites bonds like? There is nothing more special than coming back to play with our New Zealand team mates and friends, knowing you can look to your left and right and see someone who would die for you and your country. The bonds have grown over time. I did three years in the Wellington Phoenix academy with the likes of Sarpreet Singh and Liberato Cacace, and we had a bit of a rivalry with the Olé INTERNATIONAL CLASS: Eightcap defensive midfielder Joe Bell has developed into a vital member of the All Whites as a World Cup qualifier with Costa Rica looms. PHOTO: GETTY Academy players like Eli Just, Callum McCowatt and Nando Pijnaker. It was really good to have that competitiveness and we’re all great friends now. You were born in England . . . In Bristol – we moved to New Zealand when I was three. My parents were always planning to leave England and were a few weeks away from moving to Canada – they had done all the paperwork – when they decided to give New Zealand a go at the last minute. My mum (Caroline) is a psychiatrist and New Zealand was keen on bringing doctors over at the time. Mum and dad (Richard) came over by themselves for a few months and just loved it. About a year later we were set up in Christchurch. It’s always a bit difficult being on the other side of the world from family but their love for New Zealand outweighed the negatives. Dad is a film producer, mainly focused on advertisements and music videos, and is also a film teacher in Christchurch. Are you from a footballing family? As far as I am aware none of our Bells have played professionally. My dad played and coached a bit and is a diehard West Ham fan. I tried really hard to support them but he figured out relatively quickly I didn’t. I love Barcelona. I’m a big fan of Lionel Messi, the best player in the world. Any football heroes? David Beckham at a young age, but once I understood the game better and developed a better understanding of my position it became Sergio Busquets, who still plays for Barcelona and captains Spain. If we qualify, Spain are in our group – freaky. It will be pretty awesome, an extra motivation to give that much more against Costa Rica. I watched excessive amounts of YouTube videos of him through high school, which probably hindered my grades a bit. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to play against him. What is it about Busquets? In my opinion he is the best No 6 player in the world. He clearly has no physical attributes which help him much in football – he plays solely on an ability to process the game in his brain, the way he uses disguises, reads and understands the game, where his team mates and opposition players are, the deceptions - it’s like playing chess on the field. It’s hard to describe a genius - there’s a good quote about him which says ‘if you watch the game you won’t see Busquets, but if you watch Busquets you’ll see the whole game’. • Turn to page 8 SUNDAY MAY 8 SPOIL YOUR MUM THIS MOTHER’S DAY WITH THE PURE INDULGANCE OF HANDCRAFTED BELGIAN CHOCOLATE www.despa.co.nz FERRYMEAD: 1013 Ferry Road, Ferrymead - Ph. 03 384 5285 CITY: Guthrey Centre Shop 13, 118 Cashel St.- Ph. 03 925 8509