ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL
VISITS BY OVERSEAS TEAMS (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 20. The New Zealand Football Association’s Council is now confident that two overseas teams will come to New Zealand about the time of the Olympic Games. The council could be "pretty well assured" of a visit by a British team, said the chairman (Mr B. Connor) at last night’s meeting of the council. A team from Nationalist China was keen to visit New Zealand before or after the Games. The council took three decisions to make overseas tours a more regular feature of the New Zealand soccer scheme. It will take steps to join the Asian Federation: it will approach the representatives of Asian countries in New Zealand, and it decided on the principle of having a team leaving New Zealand and an overseas team coming here in alternate years.
The Wellington Football Association reported it would meet four Football Association challenge matches this year, and this was considered satisfactory by the council.
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Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 28001, 22 June 1956, Page 4
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