SOCCER
COM BT NATT ON LACKING
N.Z. TEAAI IN AUSTRALIA
PRESS COMMENT- ON . FIRST MATCH. - L
(TI.P.A. hy Elec. Tol. Copyright) SYDNEY, May 22.
Tho newspaper comments on the. New Zealand v. New South Wales soccer match all cxcusy Neiw Zealand’s failure to make a better show, ing as due to lack of combination. Tho Herald says tho visitors showed an excellent fighting spirit, but thb wot conditions which wore expected to favor them served only to emphasise their lack of team combination. Tho New' Zealanders undoubtedly will play much fetter in future games.
Tho Daily .Telegraph says that as individualists the players on the New Zealand side, were not wanting. In their hall control at short inside movements they were noticeably good, hut as a. team of H men working for goals they wore “hopelessly out of step.” ■. The Labor Daily says Now Zealand was lucky that Ibo margin o! defeat wa,s not greater than five to nil. Tho local players showed adaptability. and as a team it was bard to find fault with (hem.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GIST19330523.2.48.5
Bibliographic details
Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11951, 23 May 1933, Page 6
Word Count
176SOCCER Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11951, 23 May 1933, Page 6
Using This Item
The Gisborne Herald Company is the copyright owner for the Gisborne Times. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Gisborne Herald Company. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.