Imagine if you had to take time off from your day job to travel to the United States and face off with Harry Kane and Bayern Munich in the FIFA Club World Cup. For Auckland City FC, an amateur team from New Zealand, that is their reality as their players balance unique circumstances to be the only amateur side to participate this summer.

They're no strangers to this competition, having dominated Oceania, winning the OFC Men's Champions League 13 times to be the most successful team in the region, but the expansion of the CWC ahead of this year's tournament in the United States will give them a chance to make something special happen. This doesn't happen without having a well-drilled list of players who play for each other, but like their sporting director Gordon Watson said, this is a fam

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