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| Hello My name's Geoff Sleight and I'm speaking to my friends in North Korea. And I say friends because I played at number seven in the World Cup game in November 1965 against Korea. I played for Australia. And I hate to remind you but you managed to beat us 6?1 on that evening. You were far too good for us. You were a wonderful team. You had all played many times for your country and that was our first game for Australia. I wish we could have played more often together and I wish we could have given you a much better game. But as I said previously you were much too good for us and I was delighted when you went on to play in England and you did so well, especially to beat Italy 1?0. Unfortunately, if you had not come up against Eusebio of Portugal, I am sure that you would have been in the semi-final of the World Cup in 1966 and you would have had to play England. I don't know whether you would have beaten England but it would have been a wonderful achievement for you to be there. Could I take the opportunity to say hello to all the players. I only remember Pak aoo lk and Han Bong Jin. I don't remember all the other players, but I've just seen pictures of you on the television and it is just as though it was last year, not thirty five years ago. I hope that one day Australia meets North Korea again, and hopefully we can show you how much we have improved. Geoff Sleight, Player, Australia Football Squad, Cambodia 1965 |
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