NEW Zealand Soccer (NZS) will apologise for Charlie Dempsey’s failure to vote in the deciding ballot for the 2006 World Cup, with a ”special” apology for South Africa. ”We will write, today, to all countries associated with FIFA, explaining New Zealand Soccer’s position because I think New Zealand Soccer’s taken too much of the brunt of this decision, only because Charlie resides here. ”It’s clearly not a New Zealand Soccer decision,”said Bill MacGowan, New Zealand Soccer chief executive. Dempsey, however, stood by his abstention in the Zurich vote and has refused to apologise.