PSSI wants Eindhoven's best team

PSSI wants Eindhoven's best team

JAKARTA (JP): The Secretary-General of the All Indonesia Soccer Association (PSSI), Soeparjo Pontjowinoto, hopes that the Dutch First Division club PSV Eindhoven will send its best team to Indonesia.

Eindhoven is scheduled by Philips Indonesia, which will sponsor the club's trip to Indonesia, to take on some domestic teams on June 5 in Jakarta and on June 9 in Surabaya, East Java.

"We don't know whether Eindhoven will field its key players or second stringers. The sponsor still has to discuss that again with the club," Soeparjo said after meeting with the finance director of Philips Indonesia, W. Kamphuis, on Friday.

"If Eindhoven fields its best team, we should also prepare our best team so that many people are interested in seeing the match," Soeparjo said.

Eindhoven, presently ranking third in the Dutch League's First Division standings, is strengthened by World Cup goalie Hans van Breukelen and a number of other world-class booters, including Wim Kieft.

Eindhoven's upcoming visit will be its second to Indonesia. The first visit of the winner of the 1988 Champions Cup to Jakarta was in 1988. (arf)