The Sun reported that several players in the Auckland City team failed to take out annual leave to participate in the Club World Cup. The Sun said Oakland City player Connor Terry is a forklift worker, Mario Ilic is a soda salesman, and someone is a real estate agent and warehouse manager.
Auckland City interim coach Paul Posa said: "All players have other jobs besides football. Nevertheless, they have extraordinary investment in football at other times. Players have to take annual leave, and some people can't even take time to participate in the Oceania Champions League and the Club World Cup."
Speaking of the group's death group, Posa said: "This is probably the hardest group we can draw. Bayern and Benfica are traditional European strong teams, and Boca youths have the ability to go all the way. It's great to dream that we can have such competitiveness, but we need to look at the challenges realistically."
