Malcolm Dunford is a former successful New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...

 association football player who frequently represented his country in the 1980s and 90s. A centre back, New Zealand was lucky with Dunford amongst a number of fine central defenders including Bobby Almond, Ricki Herbert

Ricki Herbert

Ricki Lloyd Herbert, CNZM is a New Zealand former association football player who represented his country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain...

- stalwarts of New Zealand's successful 1982 World Cup Campaign - and Ceri Evans

Ceri Evans

Ceri Evans is a former New Zealand association football player who frequently represented his country as a central defender in the 1980s and 90s. Evans attended Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar, where he studied Experimental Psychology and played for Oxford United FC...

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Dunford was captained his nation on numerous occasions and eventually retired his captaincy and national duties in 1993.
He finished his playing career for the All Whites with 62 appearances, 41 of which were A-internationals in which he scored 5 goals.

He currently lives in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

, married with three children.

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