Wellington Phoenix coach Ricki Herbert has been appointed to FIFA's panel of instructors and lecturers.
Herbert, who is also the New Zealand national team coach, this week learnt he had been appointed to the panel for the sport's world governing body.
The appointment, which took effect on January 1 this year, means Herbert joins 29 other football coaches on the panel.
Herbert said he was surprised to be put into such a category and attributed the All Whites' impressive run in the group stage of last year's World Cup in South Africa, with the honour.
"Very few people in the world get an appointment like this, and I believe it is recognition for what New Zealand achieved at the World Cup finals last year," Herbert said.
"We must have been doing something right for this (appointment) to happen."
"I suppose it is also a reward for the work I have put in over the last 20 years or so," he said.
"It has been a long, tough battle but one I have thoroughly enjoyed."
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