Soccer AUCKLAND TEAM MAY TOUR

Press, Volume CI, Issue 29754, 22 February 1962, Page 5

Soccer AUCKLAND TEAM MAY TOUR

Regular Matches Suggested

An Auckland representative soccer team may be seen in Christchurch this season for the first time in many years. A meeting of the management committee of the Canterbury Football Association heard Mr R Clarke, of the Auckland Football Association, put forward suggestions for the holding of regular matches between the two provinces.

The Auckland team would be travelling to Dunedin on Queen’s Birthday week-end to play Otago, said Mr Clarke, and would welcome a match with Canterbury over the same week-end. He suggested tha* an annual match, to be played in Christchurch this season and in Auckland next season, to be held with a guarantee by each association of £l2O a match. The chairman of the Can terbury association, Mr J. Smith, said that local football was now at the stage where such an interchange of visits should be considered. Mr Clarke also told the meeting that the Auckland association would like to send a schoolboy representative side on a southern tour this season. He suggested matches in Christchurch, Timaru and on the West Coast some time in Septem ber and also asked Canterbury to consider sending such a team north. Auckland might be able to help financially, he said.

Coaching School Players accepted by the Canterbury Football Association to attend the school of the national director of coaching, K. Armstrong, tor preliminary badge at Wigram from February 26 to March 2 are: C. Hicks, D. Chapman (H 5.03. L Woods, K. Pollitt (Shamrock); R. Palmer (Boys’ High School); D. Grey H. Burson. J. Sloan. T. Ward M. Garvin (Christchurch City); D. Hart (Thistle); C. Chin (University); K. Olley, M Shardlow. E. Brownlee (Western); V Smith, R. Higham (Technical Old Boys); A. Ching (Christchurch City); A. Leach (Wigram); J. Rae, J. Barrett P. Fletcher, R. Eastgate (Shamrock).