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Kōrero: Football

Peter Whiting, 1964

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A man seated for a formal portrait wearing a white New Zealand football uniform with a silver fern badge on his uniform.

Peter Whiting is shown here in an official portrait for the 1964 world tour by the New Zealand football team. He went on to become the first New Zealander to leave this country and play professional football overseas. A goalkeeper, he joined Charlton Athletic in the English second division in 1967.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

Alexander Turnbull Library, Crown Studios Collection

Reference: 1/2-194808-F

by Crown Studios

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Neill Atkinson, Steve Watters rāua ko Alida Shanks, Football – Men's professional football, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/40934/peter-whiting-1964 (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Neill Atkinson, Steve Watters rāua ko Alida Shanks, i tāngia i te 27 February 2013, reviewed and revised 7 June 2023 me te āwhina o Alida Shanks.