Soccer SCHOOL FOR COACHING

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30233, 11 September 1963, Page 10

Soccer SCHOOL FOR COACHING

Club Defends Position

Concern at what they thought was the Canterbury Football Association's attitude to the summer coaching school to be conducted by the City club's professional, Gwynn Evans, was expressed by representatives of the club at a management committee meeting last evening. The delegates were Messrs A. Wilson. E. Millward and W. Weir.

Before the deputation spoke, the chairman of the committee. Mr J. Smith, said: "We can't slop anyone setting up as a coach, no matter who they are But we should work together and not against each other. "It is far from our intention to poke our noses into the City club."

Mr Weir said that Evans was under contract to the City club and the school was set up by the club, not Evans. Mr Weir, and later Mr Millward, both expressed their concern at remarks made by committee members.

The deputation said that the City club, with Evans as its coach, was not trying to cross paths with the C.F.A. and its coach (Mr R, C. Carter). Evans is the coach- for the City club, and the club only. Mr Weir said, but he did not want to stop lads receiving the benefit of Evans’s coaching. The deputation felt that Evans and Carter would not be able to work together but, added Mr Millward, the Junior Management Committee has between 14 and 15 hundred players and one man could not coach them all.

‘•Our plans in the future would be formulated by the association's policy with Carter," said Mr Weir.