Soccer N.Z. STANDARD OF PLAY
View Of Coach Of Chinese Team (New Zealand Press Association) GISBORNE. June 26. If the New Zealanders were' to improve their forward play and g<=t properly ’ physically fit. no touring Chinese team would enjoy the successes that this one had enjoyed, said Mr L. J. Channing, coach of the visiting Hong Kong Chinese Soccer team. Mr Channing said this was his own and the players’ opinion. “All of us feel that if your players were properly fit and had a little coaching they would be too good for us,” he continued. ‘‘They had the advantage in heightweight, and stamina; The potential is definitely here to make you strong enough to win regional competitions if you continue to improve,” he said.
AUSTRIANS’ TOUR
Game Against South Island (New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON, June 26. The New Zealand Football Association last night decided that the Austrian Soccer team which will tour New Zealand next month would play the South Island, at Christchurch, in its only match in the South Island, instead of an exhibition match.
Letters were read from the Otago and Canterbury Football Associations suggesting that this course be taken in the interests of the public.
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Press, Volume XCV, Issue 28314, 27 June 1957, Page 7
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