NEW COACH

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32145, 14 November 1969, Page 11

NEW COACH

The New Zealand soccer representative, K. France, has been appointed to replace the former Scottish amateur international, J. S. Chalmers, as coach to the Technical club, I winner of last season’s southern. league championship. The appointment was confirmed at the annual meeting of the club this week when Chalmers officially resigned the position he has held since his arrival in Christchurch five years ago. Chalmers, who will remain as a committee member of the club and its representative on the combined national league side, Christchurch United, led Technical as player-coach to the national Chatham Cup final in 1968 and as non-playing coach to the southern league title] this year. A teacher at Christchurch] Boys’ High School, he will! now concentrate on schools’] soccer. France transferred toj Technical from New Brighton, with whom he bad been I player-coach, at the start of the 1968 season. It was a fate-] ful change. In his first match] for his new club he broke an ankle and was out of the!

FRANCE

. side for most of the season. He was vice-captain of the New Zealand team which . played in the South Vietnam i tournament and has led Can--11 terbury for the last two years. ■ He was Canterbury’s “Player of the Year” in 1967. i ] Also at the Technical club's I ] annual meeting, the former ’(secretary and present assistant secretary, Mr A. L. Gray, ■ .was made a life member. Mr • iGray has been a committee II member since 1950, was sec- ’ retary for 10 years, has been • a referee for 19 years, and is 11 a present member of the Can--11 terbury F.A. management : i committee.