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THE CHINA MAIL. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1960.
LET WEMBLEY BE The man without the ball is
HALL OF FAME
By DESMOND HACKETT
The clinically-severe dressing quarters at Wembley Stadium will become Soccer's Hall of Fame if the Football Association adopt a plan to honour the distinguished players who have used the athletically historic room.
The suggestion Cons from Wembley Stadlinn. They point out that the Olymple herias and heroines who won their glory ut Wembley in 1848 are remember- ed in impressive bronze tablets. But lthough Wembley is the frst Lame in football, there is nothing to reen those rarities
England Succer whose gifted | feet have nerßbbied their Itune over the lush lovellness of Wembley's tailored turf.
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SEWELL ALL SET TO MAKE HISTORY
By FRANK PENNINK
In the longest final in its history. Douglas Sewell. the Walker Cup player, hent Martin Christmas. The young Sussex goller, at the fist hole to win the English Amateur Cham- pionship at Hunstanton recently.
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This equals the longest any national championship dal In the British Isles and Ireland! ---that of the Irish close in 1952. Perhaps this, atch dkl not capture the imagination quite i su the tremendous extent of Jast
final Yaxal''s
between Wolstenholme an Bonallock, though the qually and figures wasimilar.
the main threat in Hungary's style of football
Budapest, May, 9.
The sporting maxim "keep your eye on the ball" is dangerous advice to footballers facing Hungary
in this year's Olympic Games in Rome.
"In our style of football it is the man without the ball who is the main threat," says Mr Bela Volen-
tik, trainer of the. Hungarlari Olympic team.
It is suggested that the plaques shopid, be placed in the North room, while in, li
In addition to the man with variably used by the England
the ball, he explains, at least two International Speerr 1quada,
other players will be dodging near the goal. "The regulars," as they called and weaving.
were at those who survived the merry-mouth as if the bull
one succties in Ro-rand Bangense of the Eng- their feet. It
shaking off the defenders, the and selectors, host their favourite seats.
ball will be fushed neross ta him for a chance to score, They were acquired by habit, but more often by superstition. If a player occupied a parti- cular scat and had a good game he would head for that some
-
every inatch.
The joker
Unforgettably,
CAVIL
bik Franks Swith genial giant of a goal- keeper, always took up position. near the door. He explained he had mure Toom fut his Jong legs.
But if the opposition marks overy Hungarian run- closely ning without the ball war the nro fewer penalty zone, there
offenders to tackle the man with the ball and he may get a clour shot at goal.
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Mr Volentik
cautious about Hungary's Olympic prospects. Much will depen on the luck of the draw, he declares, "but with the right oppenenta
reach we should the semi-inala."
This
tory round, anly conceding one pin is to choose the best com- international goal.
Was scored by plote learn An Czechoslovakin In а hard-de should be like a club XI, | fought match at Brno Aprilly belter."
9, which Hungary
koop Thus, players won 2-1.
their Austria, Hungary's tradional place in the team even when
off-form | rivals, were defented 10 In tesmporarily
Budapest lost your and 4-0 in Volentik believes that too many Graz on March 20,
changes in the line-up spoil the term's cohesive power.'
Baleally, the Rome-bound tests Hongary's "B" XI reinforced by two full Inter- nationals who were too young to play in the 1958 World Championships In Stockholm and are therefore, eligible to take part in the Olymple Games.
Star forward
The two
are Hungary's star 19 year old centre forward, Florin Albert, und 20-year-old Goervees, elerk In private life, who "makes" goals from his position as inside right.
have all the The 1956 'big' team Janos
But the regulars knew Big Swift ked to other players in his line of view so he could chase away of any timorous the nerves new boy with his own boɑni- Ing brand of humour.
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Billy Wright, hree of 105 caps,
walked always
attens tr 10 centre
sent on the bench though it was his exclusive pro- perty-and it nearly was that.
to
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Stanley Matthews would make that so-familiar, rolling, stoop shouldered walk furthest from the door. He too was a wonderfully appreciative andlence for the pre-match
jesters.
familiar It is above these places that the plaques would be hung. They would be sim- pie affairs which would read, "Billy Wright for example: 1946-1959, 105 caps.”
from these recordu.
icteran.
Imagine the apprehensivE i young men who in future inter- hose
aggressive nationals could grid inspiration playtes, stroke makers in the wille Sewell grand manner,
It is n tremendous and Christmas, thought nothus the Football Association the wil honor Wembley and
who found fame in the Hadiem-London Express
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vice.
Four D. Jones BY MADDOCKS
He admits that none of Hun- gary's present players can yet aspire to the football heights reached by the pre-1950 "big" team which made sporting his- tory in 1954 by beating England 6- at Wembley and becoming site to bei first foreign England at home.
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(The "big" team disintegrated after the Hungarian revolution October 3950. Stars like Puskas and Koesies, who now the play Spain, opted for West when Soviet tants crushed the rising. Grosies. Hungary's sulkeeper, is the only "big" team member still playing tor Hungary.)
Hungary's Olymple team 15 young, and still comparatively inexperienced In international rlay. Mr Volentik hopes 10 take two of the Junior team to Heme and the majority of the probable side are in their early i twenties.
Nevertheless, they won their place among the final 10 nations
three
of the games Ser-after
scheduled four-match Mainu-
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Basic tactics
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of foot-
to-
"A ni Internationni senin," he says, "should be drawn from about 25 players who have been together at least a year and are taught the same style ball. They should play at least xix international matches gether ench season.
"We have about our basic and the team practives tactics them together, particularly the play without the ball. After a lot of training, they begin to move automatically into the cor-
for position
ASY given reel situation,"
But players do not slick rigld- Albert's lightning attacks on ly to their torninated positions the goal have made him thend are taught to seize oppor- darling of Hungary's fanatical tunities, even if it means loay- football addiets lle is one of their positions. A full-back the nation's leading scOTETS. with ä clear field in front of
An #pprentice sports, him for example, may lead an Journalist with the Hungarian attack while other players all
(MT)any gaps, Agency Telegraphic Albert only left school last year. In spite of his darlag on the feld, colleagues at work des- cribe him as shy and, according to ene repart, he considers that his greatest feat was to cat 14 cream puffs of one sitting for a bet when the Iralaer's back was turned.
Mr Volentik began building team in January 1959, a year and a half before the Olymple Games, He belleves thal footballers must play and practise together for a long time before they becoine a team.
"Teamwork is the key to our style
football," he cald. "We do not necessarily choose Our the eleven best playCTS.
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Accent on attack
Likewise, the entire team is taught to switch Instantly, as one man, from attack to defence as soon as their opponents guin possession of the ball. "But the emphasis is on attack. Attack,
attack," always
Mr attack, Volmik stresses.
where International players do
Mr
OLYMPIC Focus
Dyson plans to beat speed of U.S. relay men
By Peter Connell
Britain's Olympic coach, Geoff Dyson, is preparing to challenge American speed with nihillematics in the relay races at Rome.
most of their playing. Volenik says that a major part of his job is to visit his players' clubs to co-ordinate traling He methods and treties with their trainers.
"Of course, there is net com- adnuts. piele uniformity," he "Trainers have their own ideas, But most of the Important lungarlag clubs play the same style of football.
has introduced a new scientific, approach to relay running with our men and women going away from a crouched position before taking the baton.
"If you use the normal stand- ing position it is more dileult to get the body into the right position to take the baton, L He insists that his players explilas Dyson. "Also a run- must be superbly fit to sustain net esth
diferent stort in six 90 minutes high speed play ways. As it is important to but leaves most of the physical standardise the. getaway 1 have
Fle adopted this new method." the training to
clubs. ascribes the 3-2 upset defent of! Dyson is forced to accept the fkeld the "big" Hungarian team by tac that Britain cannot West Germany 111 the 1034 four sprinters with the pace of the Americans for the men's World Championships to the forward lack of stamina in the second halt.
'Egoists'
nyl
of
With the accent on stocking feelball, Mr Velentik Is con- centrating on teaching his team
and the discipline
the ball with manoeuvring grenter nesse at ever Increas- Until recently, he ing speed. has placed discipline in the foreground.
"Hungarians are egolats- par footballers," particularly he says. "They like to hang must on to the ball. They be disciplined until they think as a single team pass the ball. This is essen- fial in our game,”
Another
ment."
sprint.
Checking
Our present crop of sprinters with Peter Radford, the Jones boys. Ron and David Harold Bromberg, are our best ever, but only slick baton passing can put them among the Rome
medal winners.
Since the New Year Dyson has had a squad ef tline- keeper checking our leading sprinters over 20 and yards. This information Vital
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In the past the placing of a
John Wrighton
our querier-milers to cmulato
relay team was mainty psycho- the Berlin Olympic victory la logical with the
fastest
man caught under the shadow of
and finishing insi, Dyson threw track teams from the U.S., Ger
factor which Mr Valentik hopes to eliminate by Mr Volentik declares that training in teamwork is the all three Hungarian inter legendary "Hungarian tempera- national teams are trained to
In the past, victory play the same kind of foot has often depended on Hungary ball, making it easy to pro-scoring quick goal for mote players from the Junior Hungarian players facing or "B" teams to the full inter-dopted defenre, have tended to national sito.
becotne dispirited and allow a This uniformity of style has lesser alde to win-China Mail even filtered down to club sides Special.
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1 forthright views on relay running have caused clashes with authority and is one of the reasons why he was mubbed by Athletic the British Amateur
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Relerited
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The Americans have perfected baton changing The belief that their superior eneed will take them to victory A1 Helsinki Andy Standfeld had the baton passed back 10 hin but his country still won. The US has triumphed in every Olympic relay, except in 102 when Britain won.
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Dyson emphasises there room for improvement in relay racing from men like John Wrighton, John Salsbury, Mike Yardley, Chris Lindsay and Ted Sampson.
Dyson promises that no coun- try, will have beller trained relay teams than Britain. We can ask no more.
Sports Diary
TO-MOILLOW athletica
at Gloucester Hotel, 830 p.m.
Presentation of prizes of HRAAA
Боссет
Land Forcon Caldbeck Cup (HK Stage) Anal at Boundary Street.
Meeting Chinese FA Meeting at CAAP
Buliding, & pm."
No doubt the Americans are getting a tile worried now as the West Indies. Germany. Kri-
THURSDAY lain and other European coun-
Soccer tries are closing the speed gap. Stanley Shirki firs round Britain are European cham- petitions at HKFC, 5.30 pm,
"Qor pions for the men's 4 x Combined
Services 400 metres, but the dream of Fanling..
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wood and wedge.
superior with
tacking in length, play a dintas kind of golf, gentler, straight, and steady.
Sowell had bid day with is putter, missing seven vi and of, but forely did his Inimitable rhythmical gol! through the green le him down.
LIKE A MACHINE
He was lonelimey outdriven, but his second shots with a wood and his wedge work were auga rite. Yet he made several errors in judging distance,
Now he has won a na- tional championship four youra runnig-the English stroke play and match play twice cach—A marvellous record.
ile is like a machine that grinds all opposition inally to dust. Only 30, he seems likely to become the first player to win the champtonship three Lärmes.
I have known Christmas's goif nee he was a gangling school- boy of 14 at Charterhouse, ulready with a natural swing with few wrinkles. I was part- ly responsible for his selection for England against Scotland in the Junior International match,
I have always admired his golf, but not until now have 1 been satisfied with his resolution in a crisis.
LITTLE COACHING
ite has had little or no in- alruction, though, of course, he uwed a fol' to father Christmas who, tou, hak played for Sussex, XIe wan on the English Gulf The's free coaching 1st inst Year. But my advice to him is: Play on as you are, for nothing netcradleaf change."
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