As the Socceroos prepare to play their final world cup qualifier against Peru, we revisit Australia’s first ever international match, 100 years ago this week
The Age’s match report was a blink and you’d miss it affair: “Wellington. In a soccer match New Zealand scored 3 goals and Australia 1.”
The New South Wales and Queensland papers gave greater coverage of the occasion, a reflection of the Australian team exclusively consisting of players from those two states. The test match was played at Dunedin in the presence of 7000 people. The ground was in good order, though heavy from rain overnight.Both sides pressed attacks in the first spell, but defences were sound till 20 minutes had gone, when Cook, as the result of fine work by Corbett, shot the first goal for New Zealand.
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