VALENCIA, Spain - When America's Cup winner Alinghi sailed away with the Auld Mug in 2003, it was a blow to all of New Zealand. Now the Kiwis want the trophy back.
Four years after the team from landlocked Switzerland humiliated New Zealand 5-0 at its home in Auckland, the two teams will stage a rematch for the oldest trophy in international sport. Emirates Team New Zealand earned the chance by completing an identical sweep of Italy's Luna Rossa in the Louis Vuitton Cup finals on Wednesday.
"You could call it a rematch or you could just say these are the two best teams left in the cup," Brad Butterworth, the New Zealander who skippers Alinghi, said Thursday.
It …
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