Interview with an All White!!

On Friday afternoon the phone rang. Dash answered the phone and who was calling? Ivan Vicelich, the All White, that's who.


Dash was offered the chance to Interview an All White footballer through Kiwi Mummy Blogs and the Persil "Dirt is Good" campaign. Persil are now sponsors of the Small Whites, encouraging kids soccer here in New Zealand.


So we were all ready for our interview when the phone rang, with questions that Dash had come up with by himself (with just a few suggestions from his mummy).

We had hoped to be able to interview Ivan on Skype, but the old fashioned telephone had to do... so while Dash was talking to Ivan, Mummy googled pictures of him so Dash would know who he was talking to.


Of course dash already actually knew, because he is such a football fan. He already knew plenty about Ivan. But we still had to ask the questions...

THE INTERVIEW


DASH: How long have you been playing soccer?
IVAN: I started when I was around 6 or 7 years old for Massey AFC.


MUMMY: *whispers* But how long is that? We don't know how old he is...


IVAN: I'm 21! Hahahahaha... No really I'm 34 so I've been playing for a long long time.

DASH: How many goals have you scored for the All Whites?
IVAN: 6 or 7 goals for New Zealand, the last one was against Fiji in the World Cup qualifier.


DASH: How did you get to be an All White?
IVAN: I started playing football when I was young, I was always practising and playing with my brother and cousins> I was always kicking the ball, always juggling - you know, keep-ups - working hard and having a dream to play for the All Whites.

DASH: Yeah but how did you get picked?
IVAN: I kept on playing as I grew up, kept doing well, working hard. I started getting recognised and picked for teams. Eventually I got picked for New Zealand when I was 17 and got to play against Uruguay for 25 minutes and really enjoyed it.


DASH: What city Club do you play for?
IVAN: I started out at Massey AFC, then played for Waitakere City, then Central United, then Kingz FC (which is now the Phoenix). Then I went and played in Holland for 8 years, then returned to Auckland City FC. I recently spent five months in China playing for Shenzhen Ruby, but now I have returned to Auckland FC again.

DASH: Wow. Lots of clubs.What's the best thing about being an All White?
IVAN: Knowing that you're playing for your country. It's a great honour for me to play for my country and knowing that when I put the shirt on, I have all of New Zealand supporting us. It's a special feeling which is really unique.


DASH: What do kids have to do if they want to be an All White?
IVAN: It starts with what you're doing now. Play hard, listen to your parents, listen to your coaches. Enjoy football and also put a lot of work in, and sacrifice along the way. But always enjoy football. And keep progressing and working hard cos its a long and difficult road, but a very enjoyable road and if you make it to be a professional footballer or an All White.

DASH: What position do you play?
IVAN: I'm a central defender, central midfield, a utility player. I can play on the right or left.
One day I want to move up and be a striker.


DASH: What's your best advice about football?
IVAN: Work hard and always have a dream and work towards that dream. And always believe in yourself. You can reach your goals, there's no reason why you can't be an all white or play professionally. It's hard work but it's worth it.


DASH: Cool. Well I think that's the end of my questions. Do you want to talk to my mum now?

IVAN: Sure. But first I have a question for you. What position do you play?


DASH: I started off as attacking midfield, but now I play striker. 


IVAN: Cool. So you're already where I want to be! Do you score lots of goals?


DASH: We've just started training for this season but in all the other games I have scored heaps of goals.

MUMMY: Yeah, Dash is a great goal scorer. In his first season he scored 35 goals.


IVAN: Wow, that's impressive! Do you get dirty when you play? 


DASH: When I played for my school I did. It was really muddy and rainy.


IVAN: Well, Dash, it's been nice talking to you. I have to go now but get in touch with me if there's anything I can help you with OK?


DASH: OK. Bye.

MUMMY: *whispering* Say thanks to Ivan...


DASH: Oh, yeah, um, thanks Ivan for letting me interview you!


IVAN: no worries :)

.....


Before he hung up the phone Ivan told mummy, he wouldn't have been able to get where he has in football without the support of his parents. he said his mum was always sitting in the car with a book or her knitting, waiting for him to finish training.


"Support from the parents is so important," he said.


Don't worry Dash, your mum and dad will be supporting our future All White all the way. We believe in you, boyo!
♥

My Cat Called Dave

On Friday I saw a cat.
Me and Jono wanted to keep it and when Abby came back she saw the cat and she wanted to keep it too.
That night I was sad because my parents wouldn't let us, and it was raining.
the cat wanted to come in but it couldn't.

So I let it come in for a little while but I wasn't allowed to keep it in cos it might of had some germs or fleas.
After that I made a bed out of a box with a towel and a Bob the Builder toy.
And then I made it milk and some tuna.

On Monday my mum got it some cat food biscuits.
they are green and brownish and we have adopted it and it has adopted us.

He is black and grey stripes.
We have called him Dave, which is short for "Dave Shaun Allan", my favourite name.

(Dave off Alvin and the Chipmunks, Allen off my Uncle Allan and Shaun off a random name)

The end

My Favourite Movies

I can't wait to see Rango. It looks so funny. Here is the movie trailer.

I just found out there is going to be a kungfu panda 2. I think i would like to see that too.




Also Yogi Bear! I think that would be funny.



Some movies I liked lately are...

Despicable Me.
It's so funny I want to marry it.

And I loved Megamind.
It's really funny when the fish pretended he was megamind but then he was faking that he died and he was being a drama queen.
Megamind trained this guy to be a good guy but then he turned into a bad guy and megamind had to be the hero and save everyone so he wasn't a bad guy anymore.
When megamind was training the guy he pretended to be a old granpa joe so he wouldn't know it was really megamind who was traning him!

But my favourite of all is Revenge of the Sith.
I have seen it once at my friends house but then my mum and dad wouldn't let me watch it again cos it is a (M).

But I really want to have it. then I would have the whole collection of star wars dvds.

I love the battle in the lava but my mum thinks it is too scary for me.
But it's not even scary!

I like when anakin turned to the dark side and then he killed everyone. Obi wan and yoda were broken hearted.
Did you know revenge of the sith is the last movie?

Here is the trailer...

My Special Toys

these are my toys I like my toys becuase they meen alot to me.

   
this is jazzy my lion

here is bazzl his a dog he is my speichlets cuase i had him when i was a baby.

here is rex his a dino 

some of my silli banz

here is my puffle and my sstar ship.

and heres my books.

from Dash

School is Back Again in 2011

School has started today.

My teacher is Miss Martin she is a nice teacher.

I enjoyed school today and I have four friends, ed kyle cameron and cairo.

I want to join flippa ball as well as football this year.

You play flippa ball in the water. It looks fun.

But I have to ask my dad first!

Merry Christmas from Dash

This is at Motat Lights. The man made these yummy lolliops. I Wish the man could make me one every day.

I learned to walk backwards and forward on the stilts.

The man was funny.

We had a tug-o-war too. We beated the man. He lost balance. It was fun.

Here is my last day at School. This is my teacher Mr Dyer. He was a funny teacher.

Here is the present I gave him. My mum made some rocky road.

We went on the train to see santa in town. I don't like this photo but my mum is making me put it on.

Here's is me sitting on santa's knee.

Here is a Christmas Elf Dance of my family for you to watch (it's really funny)

And here's one of me and my freinds...

enjoy!!!

My Star Wars Party

This is my cool Star Wars party, because I just turned Eight. I love Star Wars so this was a fun birthday party for me.

My mum made these decorations

• I liked the flags she found on google. She printed them out and now I have them in my room.

The Food...

• We had my favourite - Hot dogs !
• my mum made cupcakes with star wars rings on top. There was a darth vader one and storm trooper one. When you licked off the icing there was a ring you could wear.
• My mum made Force Juice to drink. It tasted like lemonade

My dad was darth Vader and my Mum was princess Leia

It was funny to see my mum being Princess leia. I thought she looked like the real one. She had a wig. Some of my friends dressed up. I was Qi Gon off Phantom menace. He was a jedi master who trained Obi Wan and he got killed by darth maul.



We first went to Megazone Ponsonby to play laser strike. There were three teams. I was allowed 8 friends to come because I am turning 8.
Then we went home and played some games like light saber battles against my dad

we decorated star cookies and had a competition to see who could make the best one. My freind Louis won the prize it was some stickers.

After our dinner we did the pinata. it ws a darth vader one that my mum made. I thought it was ok but it didn't look to much like him but it was fun because we had to wear a blindfold and try to hit it with our light sabers.


Then we watched return of the Jedi and my friends went home. I got lots of presents like lego and gogo crazy bones. I like gogos.
My friends liked the party and they had fun and I did too. it was cool.