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Edition
The Wellington Phoenix Gazette
28 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent
Steady
Squad28 Sep 2026
Home is on Kazuki Nagasawa's mind
“Some mornings you wake up and you are still a long way from everything you know.” It is not the football and it never was; Wellington Phoenix are dealing with a man who wants a different country.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Rafael Durán finally belongs at Wellington Phoenix
The language has come, the shrug has gone, and he argues in training like a man who expects to be here next year. None of it shows up on a fee and all of it shows up on the pitch.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Ifeanyi Eze is training like a man with a point to make
Nobody has promised him anything and he has not asked. The coaching staff have noticed, which at this stage of a season is the only thing that matters.
In brief
- Squad Marcus Wallace back in training