For the next 18 weeks,
John Giles, Peter Lorimer,
Nobby Stiles. Bobby
Lenarduzzi and Mark
Nickeas will be writing
columns in the NEWS,
giving soccer tips, and
anecdotes fram a
background of many years in
the game atail levels, as they
prepare for the 1983 season
under the “dome”.

To start off this week,
Whuecaps ceach John Gites
gives readers a brief glimpse
of the background which
was to make the small
Irishman one of the best
soccer ‘brains in the world.

By JOHNNY GILES

Soccer wasn't popular
when I was growing up in
Dublin. It was, and in some
places still is, a foreign
game. Because it wasn't
THE game, there were very
little organized soccer for
the kids.

Yet it was something that
all kids did anyway. We
would get together and get a
game going without the
benefit of coaches, referees
or goal posts. A group of us
would gather and head off to
the nearest open space.

STANDINGS
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Goofy's io 3 0
Secandicraft 62 5 WW
N.S. News 841 Nn
Pegasus 63 4 16
Rive Bros. 6 43 15
scD § 5 3 8B
N.S. Chicl 47 2 100
Trev Jones 48 1 9
N.S. Darkroom 3 9 #1 7
Lymawood 09 4 4

The three top teams of the
Industrial soccer league
clearly showed = their
superiority last Sunday when
they all managed to shut out
their opponents.

It started with Goofy’s
Place hanging on to first
place with a decisive 5-0

We were always playing
when we were young. And
we didn’t have any special
positions. We'd play
anywhere on the field and if
one of us really got tired,
he’d go back in goal for
awhile to gather his strength.
Unless of course, his team
was getting a thrashing. That
was when you stayed away
from goal.

There was no _ formal
organization to our games,
but we did learn and we did
have fun because we were
always playing and we
always had a ball at our feet.

When we got older some
of us who were “hooked” on
the game ended up with the
Dublin schoolboys. Because
the game wasn’t that well

and the European Cup
Winner's Cup.

During this time I was also
playing regularly for the
Republic of Ireland. I ended
with 60 caps, although as I
said awhile back, since I was
already manager of the side,
I was able to pick myself
quite often.

My last two seasons in
England were with West
Bromwich Albion where I

Soccer was a foreign game

it. It’s a far more
professional organization
than many of the British
sides.

It’s been a wonderful life
for me, my wife and our six
children and it’s especially
enjoyable being over here in
an environment where so
Many youngsters are
becoming involved and
excited by the game, and
where it’s just starting to

played and managed. But
that didn’t work out. The

organized at any level, there interference—from—the—elub

any formal soccer
played in schools. Our team
would play against other
similar organizations which
would be run by the very few
who did want to see the
game established in the area.

From this’ excellent
background I went on to
Manchester United for four
years, then to Leeds for 11
seasons.

These were the good years
when we won the F.A. Cup,
the League championship

victory over North Shore
Darkroom. The North Shore
News, who were bumped out
of top spot by Goofy’s a few
weeks ago, weren't satisfied
until six goals squeezed by
the frustrated keeper for
Trev Jones Excavating.

Scandicraft maintained
their second place tie with
the News when they downed
the North Shore Chiefs 3-0.

Pegasus Old Boys are
having a better year. Their
three-one victory over the
still winless Lynnwood Hotel
moved them into third place.
Two goals off the penalty dot
gave Rive Brothers Land-

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In 1978 I discovered the
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