By ANDY FRASER

The ‘Old Fox’ was
back in the area last
Tuesday afternoon,
prowling around the
perimeter of Kilmer
Park in North Van-
couver along with his
pack more commonly
known as the Seattle
Sounders.

Sounders, and their pew
head coach Alan Hinton
came to town for an cxhibi-
tion encounter with Peter
Scott’s North Shore Pegasus.
The encounter was not all to
Scotts liking as Sounders
downed his hard working
squad 2-l on a muddy pitch.

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return match as Pegasus had
downed the Seattlé side 2-0
about two weeks go in the

Washington City.
Hinton, who coached
Tulsa Roughnecks last

season in the NASL before
being fired for attempting to
protect his players from
ownership comments, need-
ed the game to try and give
his players as much ex-
perience together before the
start of their season the end
of the month.

Even so, not all members
were present. And for one,
Bruce Rioch, the former
Leeds United star and cap-
tain of Scotland, it was a
case of flying over from
England, and literally in-
troducing himself to some of
his new Sounder teammates
on Kilmer Park in North
Vancouver.

Hinton drops in on North Van

Sounders down Pegasus 2-1

Following the regular mat-
ch, Pegasus players agreed
to stay on for extra time, giv-
ing the Sounders more time
together in action.

That was their downfall.
As the North Shore team
found out, being part-timers
means that conditioning and
fitness will start to tell after
more than 90 minutes of
hard professional style and
speed soccer.

Putting together some
nice passing plays and some
finish by Roger Davies,
formerly of Derby County
and last year with Hinton in
Tulsa, Sounders showed that
given time they will be
strong down the middle.

Pegasus keeper Bill Grant
made a number of excelicnt
saves Off Seattle players as
they began to get used to
each other late in the game.

warned as injuries

Hinton and his assistant
Bobby Howe will be attemp-
ting to improve on Seattles
poor season in 1979.

Accompanying the team
to the North Shore was
another newcomer to the
Sounder scene, Vincent Col-
uccio, the owner and chair-
man of the board.

Coluccio, who freely ad-
mits to knowing ‘nothing
about the game’ says the
previous !l owners were
more interested in their
ownership of the Seattle Sea
Hawks than Sounders.

He also said he wants to
see the team regain the im
terest of the community, one
of the strong points of the
Sounder franchise in the
past.

With Alan Hinton at the
helm, it shouldn't be too im-
possible a task.

BREAKING
AWAY

QUICKLY ...

is Paul Woodward.
Watching the young
Pegasus defender is
Roger Davies, a
brilliant striker with
Seattle Sounders
and formerly with
Alan Hinton in
Tulsa. Davies is
from Derby County
and much is ex-
‘pected from the
smooth forward for
the coming season.
Sounders downed
Pegasus 2-1 in
regulation play but
dominated the
younger squad in ex-
tra time. (Terry
Peters photo)

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