Stuff.co.nz: After his tenure as All Whites coach ended in 2013, Ricki Herbert spent three years seizing opportunities in far-flung locations – India, Papua New Guinea, and the Maldives.
But now that he’s back coaching in New Zealand for the first time in four years, he does wonder what might have happened had he gone abroad earlier.
“I probably stayed loyal to the national team, and I probably stayed loyal to the Phoenix when I shouldn’t have, off the back of 2010,” he said.
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