VISIT TO AUST. Auckland in trials

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33452, 6 February 1974, Page 24

VISIT TO AUST. Auckland in trials

CV.Z, Ptt’.s.s Association) AUCKLAND. The Australian World Cup ! soccer team will be selected after . two trial matches against Auckland in Austra-i lia next month. The Auckland team, which lis expected to contain some iof the New Zealand team I which drew twice with Australia. will fly to Australia on 'March 19 and play the Australians in Sydney on March 120. and in Newcastle two I days later. The visit has a two-fold purpose for the Auckland Football Association. While in Sydney the chairman of the A.F.A. (Mr C. J. ; Dempsey) will negotiate with the Australian body in an I effort to bring more visiting ' teams to Newmarket Park. "They have already com-

; pleted negotiations with Chelsea and Aberdeen for ivisits this season.” said Mr I Dempsey, “and we hope to •be able to arrange for them [to come over here too.” I If the visit to New South Wales is successful and the Auckland team acquits itself well, there is a chance I that the Australians will • come to Auckland for a return match. “It is not only senior football in Auckland that we are out to foster and help," said Mr Dempsey, “we have arranged a tour by an Auckland under-18 side to New • Caledonia in May." Yachting.—Solway Steamer (A.. Ballantyne. New Zealand). wasj ninth in the bixth heat of the: world soling championships off I Sydney. Placings of the New ZeaI land competitors were: Zeus tH. I Pedersen), fifteenth; Vibrant t\V. I Moves, twenty-seventh. Over-all I placings: Solway Steamer I ' eleventh. Rangatira 'R. Roberts. I [New Zealand* thirteenth; Zeus. ' ' sixteenth.