More Training For Soccer XI

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31116, 20 July 1966, Page 14

More Training For Soccer XI

The Canterbury senior soccer team will have more intensive training for its future representative matches. The sole selector (Mr V. R. Smith) will consult the provincial eoaeh (Mr R. C. Carter) to hold mid-week and Sunday practice sessions. The need for more intensive training for the team was stressed by Mr M. Pahi at last evening’s meeting of the Canterbury Football Association management committee. Mr Pahi said that the recent defeats of f Canterbury

iinder-23 and under-18 sides by Otago teams had convinced him that Canterbury’s representative players were a yard slower than their opponents. "I feel that we should now be concentrating on becoming a yard faster, before we play Auckland in the E.F.A. trophy challenge match next month,” - he said. s Mr Smith was given permist sion to add a thirteenth player i- —a reserve goal-keeper—to a the 12 players originally named for the senior repret sentative match against Otago y at Dunedin on Saturday. „

Tickets for the match between Canterbury and the Hong Kong club side. Sing Tao, to be played at English Park on Tuesday, August 9, will be on sale at the Canterbury Sports Depot Their prices will be 12s 6d to the stands, 5s on the embankment and 2s for children. Preferential books will be taken at the Canterbury Sports Depot for season ticket holders and members of the supporters' club on July 27 and for dubs on July 28. Tickets will be on sale to the public on July 29.

A letter was received from the Waimairi County Council complaining of damage suffered by trees from bicycles being rested against them at Bumside Park. Clubs and schools will be circularised asking players to be more careful in future.

The Canterbury senior team will play Western, the Chatham Cup qualifier, at Rangiora on Sunday. August 14, in aid of St. John Ambulance. Rangiora. The provincial under-20 team will play South Canterbury at Timaru on I August 2L