Marko Stamenic

... 'cause I had this discussion with my mates earlier.

I- 'cause we're, we're, we're already getting carried away now, like how many from our team would, you know, stay in a starting 11 in the Prem, and for me it was just the Guru, Tymon, Lissa maybe at center back, Eustaquio, Stamenic, and that's about it Just 'cause the jump is so big.

But then for Portnik, I honestly thought if we went up, would we just sell him, to be honest.

I think you'd, maybe you'd have Edo and Stewart as back up behind some new 20 mil striker.

Sometimes you just need to just hit it.

Uh, but didn't matter anyway.

Um, some- anyone in particular we wanna highlight performance? I think Stamenic was really good in the middle.

Yeah.

They're two teams chasing promotion to the Premiership.

So All Whites Marko Stamenic and Eli Just started for Swansea, and goalkeeper Max Crocombe was on the bench for Millwall.

The referee stopped the match in the second half just after the hour mark for seven minutes.

So racist language from the stands was given as the reason for the delay, and in post-match, Swansea's manager said it had been his player, South Korean Um Ji-sung, who had been the target of the abuse.

They won 1-0.

Marko Stamenic, the All White midfielder, was man of the match.

Brilliant.

And that win has put Swansea top of the championship after 10 games.

But it didn't feel like a team that was all about him.

I've mentioned that in the attacking sense, but it's also true because, like, kind of feel Marko Stamenic and Elijah Just are becoming the beating heart of that All Whites team, and we probably saw that at the World Cup.

I think we definitely saw that in some of these games on this tour.

Like, there's a, there's a core that goes, uh, far beyond just the one Premier League guy.

[rock music] Once again, the captain and Nakubo, lovely footwork.

Well read by Stamenic.

Still the space for Japan.

Here's the cross.

The All Whites have advanced to the final of their four-team football tournament in Japan, beating Panama 5-3 on penalties.

The game finished 1-1 in regulation, Marko Stamenic scoring New Zealand's goal in the 13th minute.

We would have loved to win in, uh, 90 minutes, but the next best thing was to win in penalties, so yeah, we're really happy.

Credit to «AP» as well.

Over a period of time, they give you an indication of where a certain team is in relation to others.

But again, New Zealand, if you zoomed in from outer space and watched the game, you wouldn't have said, "Okay, well, that's the team that's 80th in the world, and that's the team that's 40th." The two teams were very evenly matched, and New Zealand, in fact, took the lead.

Marko Stamenic finishing off a nice move involving Eli Just and Ben Waine to tuck home the opener.

Panama got their, uh, act together and equalized, and it was one-all, and I think you'd probably say Panama had the better of the opportunities after that.

They're now playing the Kirin Cup final against Japan.

Marko Stamenic, the captain of the team, talks about his goal.

Yeah, I was obviously over the moon, really happy to get the, the goal.

Um, I think it was a, it was a great team goal.

So you'd probably imagine a change to the structure.

Maybe Stamets will have someone more alongside him.

As you probably do need to show Panama a little bit more respect.

Yeah, you do.