HAPPINESS IS A FIRST POINT —
leaping Nessin, for the Whitecaps first g
Parsons first of the season. (Kent Kallberg photo)

By ANDY FRASER

If Phil ‘Parkes isn’t
named
goalkeeper this season,
then the scribes who
make the choice should
turn In their pencils for
white canes.

As the Caps warm up for
tonights opening playoff
game in Dallass, one of the

-big factors in thgir success

will be the tall, curly haired
Parkes.

For the second year in a
row Parkes has won the
goalkeepers cup for the best
goals against average in the
24 team league. And this
time he did it without the
highly vaunted defense of
last year.

all-star

According to coach Tony
Waiters, one of former
premier keepers himself,
Parkes is ‘far, far ahead of
any other goalkeeper in this
league’. No mean praise
Tee

In spite of the fact that
Caps dominated the final
match against Sounders on
Saturday night, Parkes again
came up big with some
excellent stops. from ...a,

desperate Seattle squad.
struggling “for a playoff
berth.

Qne of his saves, a hard
shot from the edge of the box
partially screened, was
deflected wide. Waiters |
called it one of the best saves
of the year.

The big, casy going keeper
doesn’t have the ‘charisma’

s

Parkes “by far the best’

of many other goalies of the
league. Nor is he the acrobat
who is constantly flying
about between the posts.

And the banging does take
a toll, Unknown to most
fans, Parkes has been
nursing a severely brused

wand painful right elbow. So

painful that following , the
‘Sounder game Parkes said
he would have the clbow

operated ‘on as’soon as the
“$eason’ends, 7

4% And according to Waiters,

the. 32-year-old keeper
should have a good number
of years ahead of him.

SOCCER COACHES
WANTED

Steve ‘Nessin shows it after a perfect play to Buzz Parsons, behind the
in their 2-1 over Sounders in the Kingdonte Saturday night. The goal was

Waiters believes that when a
player has the ability and
Class to last this long, then,
in most cases, the player
himself will be the deciding
figure of when to hang them
up.

_As for the rest of the
Whitecaps, they appear
ready for the stretch drive to
the Soccer Bowl on Sep-

tember. 8. Even with. the.

injuries, the team has shown
they have the ‘bench’ to fit in.
at any time. And the betting
stems to be that Parkes and
company will be going
farther this time around.

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