by Andy Fraser

Growing Time

THE GENERAL consensus of opinion among the
11 Scottish soccer reporters at the Canada-
Scotland game Sunday afternoon at Empire was
that Canada is a tough side who can knock the ball
around a bit, but who can’t finish.

Probably as honest a
reading as was possible for
the first ever game between
the two countnes. And while
the Scots didn't exactly
power home goals with great
abandon, they did make sure
that the two chances they
had did count in their 2-0
win.

The reporters, a
thoroughly professional lot
who cover nothing but soc-
cer year round, likened the
Canadian contingent to that
of Israel — a team that gave
Scotland litle chance to play
with the ball, a couple of

somewhat dull and wooden.
That was Gordon Strachan's
feeling during the game Sun-
day. And that’s why the
dynamic little redhead from
Aberdeen who could grace
any midfield in Europe,
reacted to the crowd with a
comical gesture when he
took a throw-in from the
wrong line, or later gave the
linesman a friendly little pat
on the head for a correct
corner kick call.

“I was trying to put some
humanness and life back in-
to the match,” said the ‘wee
man’ who claims he has en-

if you believe what Scots
manager Jock Stein says,
don’t bet the rent money on
a Canadian win.

Stein was appalled by the
artificial turf and the bounce
of the ball.

“We're a world class side
yet nobody would know that
from watching us on that
field,” he said. The big ex-
Celtic player and manager
felt that this was the game
that Canada had to make
their mark in. But in Edmon-
ton and Toronto, he says
that Scotland will be show-
ing why they are one of the
better soccer nations.

“No team should have to
play on that stuff,” he said of
the carpeted parking lot.

Frustration would have to
be the key word for Canada.
The players had played one

of the best soccer teams and
had discovered that they
could play with them. They
were frustrated that with so
many chances they came up
empty. They were also
frustrated over the fact that
they felt this would have
been the place to have pun-
ched home some goals and
keep the Sots just a little
cautious for the remainder
of the series.

The big concern that
Canada must have at this
stage is not the completion
of the Scotland series, but
the future of the national
team and in particular, of
Tony Waiters’ place in it.
Waiters has shown that he is
far too valuable a person to
have disappear from the
scene when this team moves
to Montreal or wherever.

The former Whitecap
kingpin has molded together
a mix-and-match blend of
NASL players, newcomers
from the new Canadian Pro-
fessional league.
amateurs producing a strong

and.

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workmanlike side who fool-
ed many of the ‘experts’.
Make no mistake, Waiters
is needed in the national
team program.
So too are media people

Tennis

The North Vancouver
Recreation Centre turns its
Curling Rink into Tennis
Courts for the Summer. If
you've had to wait in line for
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When these courts are not
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including six hour group in-
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who are not afraid to give
the most popular game tn the
world, and one of the fastest
growing in North America,
the coverae it and our na-
tional teams, deserve.

on ice

June 9-12 is the 2nd Anual
North Vancouver Recrea-
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nis Tournament. Drop by
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or call 986-6166.

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years ago, but who, like  joyed every game he’s ever
Canada, couldn't find the played in. fully foaded anc air
net.

Perhaps we've gone so
overboard on minor league
coaching over here that
we've taken that magic
creativeness away from the
players. Instead of bands of
kids belting up and down the

And while the game may
have lacked some of the pas-
sion that the World Game is
filled with, it was, generally
speaking, a good game for
Canada. Consider that this
team was extremely weak in
midfield and forwards, and

field all trying to score goals, with the loss of the
we have put them into temperamental Branko
uniforms, given them all Segota, a team lacking in fire
Positions to play and given power. Yet they had more
the goal scomnng oppor- chances at goal than the

tunities to one or two per
team.

We have created a
technical monster that often
is technically proficient. but

Scots.

The players feel that they
will be putang up a better
show tonight in Edmonton
and Sunday in Toronto, but

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