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Daily Mail
25-06-2025
- Sport
- Daily Mail
Trainee teacher scores at the Club World Cup after taking annual leave to play at the tournament for amateur side Auckland City
A teacher scored at the Club World Cup on Tuesday - having booked annual leave so he could play at the tournament. Though the competition is seeing some of the best players and teams in the world battle it out to be crowned the best side on the planet in the first episode of the revamped competition. But some of the sides - and players - however, aren't such big names, and perhaps none more so than Auckland City of New Zealand. Auckland compete in the Northern League in their homeland, but are an amateur side, and their players all have day jobs to go alongside their football - a far cry from the hundreds of thousands that some players involved at the tournament are paid. They drew 1-1 with Boca Juniors in their final match of the competition this week, picking up just the one point from their three matches, which included a 10-0 thrashing at the hands of German champions Bayern Munich and a 6-0 loss to Benfica. They ended the tournament with a feel-good feeling, however. Christian Gray scored his side's equaliser in the game, heading a corner past Boca goalkeeper Agustin Marchesin to trigger scenes of ecstasy. Gray, 28, said after the game: 'I'm from a small town a long way from here and a lot different to this environment, so it is somewhat of a dream.' He is a trainee physical education teacher at Auckland Grammar School and Mt Roskill Intermediate School. As a footballer, he plays as a centre back and is a semi-professional. Many of the Auckland players fund their careers themselves, with delivery drivers and tradesman also among the occupations in the squad. Auckland's local paper, the New Zealand Herald, joined the critics who claimed that the club should not have been able to compete against professionals in the tournament, suggesting the team had 'damaged Auckland City FC´s proud 20-year legacy' in FIFA events. 'It´s been a trying few weeks,' the Herald reported after two defeats. 'In the past, Auckland City have been renowned for punching above their weight on the global stage, while usually having a couple of outstanding individuals. That hasn´t quite been the case here.' But Auckland left their best to last, producing an outstanding performance to the satisfaction of FIFA president Gianni Infantino, who was among the crowd at the match in Nashville. 'It´s been a tough trip, you know, we´ve had some tough results but just happy for the team,' Gray added. 'I think we deserve it. We got a little bit of respect back I hope. 'We rely on volunteers, we don´t have a lot of money so I´m just happy that they´re happy.'
RNZ News
19-06-2025
- RNZ News
Cordons lifted in central Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill after police incident
Police used distraction tactics to separate a man and woman during a family harm incident in Mt Roskill, following a standoff. They said a man has now been taken into custody and nobody was injured. An RNZ reporter at the scene of the incident on White Swan Road, said police confirmed the Eagle Helicopter circling above was used to identify an opportunity for distraction techniques to be deployed. Four loud noises were heard at 4.07pm but it's unclear if they were gunshots. Police closed off a section of White Swan Road before 1pm as officers responded to a family harm incident. Cordons were in place between Ellis Ave and Richardson Rd as officers attempted to engage with an individual in a nearby house. Photo: Marika Khabazi The reporter said earlier an officer armed with a sniper was deployed outside a house, monitoring the situation from a distance. Some residents living on the section of White Swan Road where the incident had unfolded were unable to return to their homes and had been told by police to stay away in the meantime. About a dozen White Swan Road residents, including parents with children who had just finished school, were not allowed to enter the cordons to get home. One resident said they'd been given no information on how long the road would be blocked for. The principal of Lynfield College was at the scene, trying to help students who weren't able to return home. Kath Knell said the school would be providing a safe place for students while they waited. It's understood the school, along with Marshall Laing Primary School, had not needed to lock down. WHITE SWAN RD, MOUNT ROSKILL - FINAL UPDATE - 5:00PM White Swan Rd is now OPEN in both directions. All buses have resumed their regular routes. Allow extra time for delays in the area to ease. ^ND All cordons in the area where lifted just before 5pm. After the four-hour stand-off, an Auckland man was arrested on family-harm charges. Police have since confirmed that, despite not being injured, the man was taken to hospital for observation. St John said it took one person to hospital in a moderate condition, while another was assessed at the scene and was also in a moderate condition. Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
19-06-2025
- RNZ News
Roads closed in central Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill due to police incident
Photo: RNZ / REECE BAKER Police have closed a road in the Auckland suburb of Mt Roskill, as officers respond to a family harm incident. A section of White Swan Road has been blocked off, with cordons in place between Ellis Ave and Richardson Rd. Officers are attempting to engage with an individual in a nearby residence. Police say the matter is contained and there is no risk to the wider community. This is breaking news, more to follow Sign up for Ngā Pitopito Kōrero , a daily newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.
RNZ News
14-05-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
New Zealand banks unable to catch all mistaken transfers through human error
Sit Bong (Andrew) Che Photo: Supplied Finance experts warn consumers to double-check account details when making international bank transfers after an Auckland pensioner almost lost his life savings in error. The heterogeneous nature of the international banking system prevented domestic banks from introducing effective protocols to catch errors, they say. Mt Roskill resident Sit Bong (Andrew) Che, 78, mistakenly transferred $158,643 from the UK early last year to the wrong account after missing a digit when entering payment instructions for his own Westpac account. Following the bank's own internal protocols, Westpac added a zero to the suffix, which ended up being another person's account. After the recipient refused to return the money, Che lodged complaints with the police, the banks in New Zealand and the UK as well as the banking ombudsman in both jurisdictions. Earlier this month, Barclays Bank refunded Che's money. Overjoyed at receiving the refund, Che told RNZ that New Zealand banks should unify the number of digits on their accounts and introduce payee confirmation protocols when receiving international transfers to prevent payments made in error in future. However, finance experts expressed skepticism that banks could do much to prevent this from happening. Claire Matthews, an associate professor at Massey Business School, said New Zealand bank account numbers could be traced back to the banking system's computerisation in the 1960s. The first two digits of an account number identified the bank, while the next four digits specified the branch, Matthews said. The subsequent seven digits represented a customer's unique account number, with the last two digits - the suffix - representing the type of account, she said. Decades later, banks realised that more suffixes were needed and so added a third digit, she said. However, many bank users continued to treat suffixes as two digits, she said. "[Banks] have kind of standardised on 16, but they have to allow flexibility because their systems still facilitate that and people still work on the 15 digits," Matthews said. Having the flexibility of 15 or 16 digits wasn't an issue that caused major problems, she said. "If this was the sort of thing that was happening all the time, the banks would be doing something about it," Matthews said. "The fact that they haven't done anything suggests that [the error that occurred in Che's case] is a very rare occurrence." Matthews said banks were unlikely to tighten the checks they had in place for international transfers because the process could be time-consuming and lead to delays. "It's not something that can be automated ... so it's going to have to be done manually," she said. People making bank transfers sometimes make errors when inputting names, she said, adding an extra layer of complication onto any checking process. "The complications of trying to do it as an electronic automatic system would be extremely challenging because ... the payments can be coming from any other country and all sorts of different banks," she said. "It's a huge job and ... the costs would outweigh the benefits." Janine Starks, a financial columnist, said New Zealand banks had yet to adopt a more secure system called ISO 20022 run by the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT), which was used by many other countries. The country's wholesale banking sector did use this system, but it was not available to everyday users, she said. "Nearly all of the OECD runs off this ISO 20022 system," Starks said. "In Asia Pacific, there's only New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, North Korea and Laos which have failed to invest and make the switch to instant payments. "We now lag the UK by 15 years and Australia by five to six," she said. She said New Zealand's retail banking sector had a delay on payments that hindered the efficiency of the economy. "It's also unfortunate that another side-effect is our consumer payment rail can't talk to international banks, and we can't develop cross-border confirmation of payee to protect consumers like Andrew from making errors and being told his money is lost," Starks said. Roger Beaumont, chief executive of the New Zealand Banking Association, which represents the country's banking industry, said the confirmation of payee services that had been adopted by domestic banks weren't applied to international payments. "We could only do that if other countries had a compatible service in place and if those markets chose to have a cross-border relationship with us," he said. A spokesperson from Payments NZ, which sets out rules governing how payments are made between banks and financial institutions, said it was important to check account details had been entered correctly when transferring money between accounts. "When making a bank transfer it's important to check that you're entering the right account number for the person you want to pay to," the spokesperson said. "Confirmation of payee can help with this for payments within Aotearoa, but it's still a good idea to double check with the recipient, especially if you're sending a large amount," the spokesperson said. "International transfers don't use confirmation of payee, so double-checking account details is particularly important."
