Socceroos centenary: how the Pacific pioneered numbered football shirts - The Guardian
6/16/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 10 months ago
by Guardian staff reporter
by Guardian staff reporter
An extract from a new book details how Australia and New Zealand wore numbers 28 years before Fifa insisted on them
The New Zealand versus Australia match at Carisbrook in 1922 offered so many sporting contest firsts that its claim as an important milestone in the history of international football has been overloo… [+9164 chars]
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