TAU expected the match between Tottenham and Auckland FC would result in 27,000 visitor nights and a $3 million boost to the regional economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cAuckland FC have done wonders for football in the city since the club came into existence two years ago,\u201d Auckland Mayor Wayne Brown said. <\/p>\n
\u201cTheir CEO Nick Becker and his team have created a loyal and passionate fan base from nothing. It\u2019s been fantastic to see so many people regularly turn up to their games at Go Media Stadium.<\/p>\n
\u201cTottenham Hotspur are known as a team that always tries to play attractive football, so hopefully it will be a great game at Eden Park.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s been 12 years since a Premier League team last visited Auckland, when West Ham United lost 2-1 to the Wellington Phoenix at Eden Park. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe haven\u2019t had a club of this size in New Zealand for over 10 years. Now clubs like Tottenham are seeing what we\u2019re doing over here, the growth of football and our passionate fanbase and wanting to get involved,\u201d Becker said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is going to be fantastic event for Auckland and a great chance for some of our squad to really test themselves against top-class players. <\/p>\n
\u201cWhatever happens to Tottenham this season they remain an incredibly high-profile team with a worldwide fans base, and we\u2019re delighted to have them here in Auckland with us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAU expected the match between Tottenham and Auckland FC would result in 27,000 visitor nights and a $3…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[23283,1975,51,24004,8142,26845,2082,53840,156509,5832,111,139,69,8143,10538,213,31120,61,156508,2951],"class_list":["post-354261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-23283","tag-at","tag-auckland","tag-coming","tag-eden","tag-fc","tag-for","tag-friendly","tag-hotspur","tag-july","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-park","tag-play","tag-sports","tag-spurs","tag-to","tag-tottenham","tag-town"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}