FROST ADDED TO UNITED SQUAD

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32219, 11 February 1970, Page 15

FROST ADDED TO UNITED SQUAD

(By Our Soccer Reporter)

The former Canterbury and South Island soccer representative, P. Frost, is making a come-back to senior football after being out of the game for the whole of last season.

Frost has been added to the; squad of the national league; club, Christchurch United.; and began training under the! coach, Mr G. Evans, this! week. Making his debut for Canterbury in April, 1961, soon after his arrival from England. where he played semiprofessional football, Frost represented the province 15 times, making his last appear ! ance against New Caledonia! in April. 1965. And April will figure once more on the Frost calendai should he win his place in the Christchurch United XI for the club will start its national league campaign on the week end of April 11-12, with a home match against the Auck land team. Blockhouse Bay Frost was a reserve for the New Zealand team in its match against New Caledonia at English Park in 1963 and led the Western club to its many successes in the 1960 s Frost, who has been promoted to the position of a supervisor in his firm, will

i! now have more time for soc- ‘ cer, and this has partly . ■ prompted his return to the i game. i “Perhaps I’m sticking my: neck out trying to get back . to peak fitness but I am cer i tainly going to make the . effort,” Frost said. “The na . tional league is a great chatI tenge and I should like to be i in at its start.”