Awkward ground for N.Z.
(N.Z.P.A. Staff Correspondent) TSINAN (China). The New Zealand soccer team has struck a hard clay ground with only a couple of small patches of grass for the second match of its China tour in Tsinan tonight. “It’s like playing on concrete,” the Mount Wellington full-back, Tony Sibley, said after- a two-hour training session yesterday. “The Chinese are very good at ball control, and you can understand Why.” The Christchurch United full-back, lan Park, said: “It’s 'difficult to chip a ball. You | can’t get your foot underneath.” The ground will give the Shantung provincial side an advantage if its ball control is as good as the Peking players, but it should not prove too hard for the New Zealanders if the ground is watered and rolled. “One good thing is that it’s a true surface,” the coach, Barrie Truman, commented. The ground holds only 10,000, but thousands more will be watching on television.
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Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33981, 23 October 1975, Page 30
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