{"id":604218,"date":"2026-09-18T11:16:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604218\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T11:16:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T11:16:17","slug":"all-whites-liberato-cacace-banned-from-driving-after-speeding-offences-in-wrexham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/604218\/","title":{"rendered":"All Whites: Liberato Cacace banned from driving after speeding offences in Wrexham"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cacace didn\u2019t attend court, but his solicitor said that \u201che accepted full responsibility for all matters\u201d and wished to plead guilty.<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old is in his second season with second division-side Wrexham AFC, although he\u2019s been limited to just 13 first team appearances due to multiple injuries.<\/p>\n

Cacace was fit for the All Whites\u2019 recent World Cup campaign and played in every game of Wrexham\u2019s US pre-season tour before suffering another fitness setback, and he\u2019s yet to play this season.<\/p>\n

Wrexham manager Phil Parkinson admitted recently that Cacace has been very unlucky with injuries.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s a great lad; he\u2019s just been really, really unlucky and sometimes pushed himself too quickly after an injury,\u201d Parkinson said. \u201cHe\u2019s getting there, but we\u2019ve just got to be patient.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes you can overanalyse injuries, but of course we have looked into the reasons for it. Libby came with no injury record at all; that\u2019s the frustrating thing. The intensity level is greater than Serie A in a lot of the games.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bottom line is he has had a few muscle injuries, so we need to now give him plenty of time. Make sure he\u2019s got the right amount of time training to give him the best chance of being a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 25-year-old joined Wrexham last July for a club-record transfer fee of around $8.9m, which at the time was double their previous record fee.<\/p>\n

Cacace wasn\u2019t included in Darren Bazeley\u2019s upcoming All Whites squad<\/a> for matches against Palestine, China, Panama, and one of Ecuador or Japan over September and October.<\/p>\n

New Zealand Football has been approached for comment, while the Herald has attempted to approach his agent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cacace didn\u2019t attend court, but his solicitor said that \u201che accepted full responsibility for all matters\u201d and wished…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,5263,26977,1558,135156,26848,4189,71,78,135155,3234,2510,111,139,69,30083,25260,213,1491,5264,58152],"class_list":["post-604218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-all","tag-banned","tag-been","tag-cacace","tag-defender","tag-driving","tag-from","tag-in","tag-liberato","tag-months","tag-multiple","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-offences","tag-speeding","tag-sports","tag-wales","tag-whites","tag-wrexham"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604218","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=604218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}