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Three years earlier - on 9 May 1942 - a 28-year-old Soo played his first game for England, also against Wales, in front of 30,000 people at Cardiff's Ninian Park.
It was a historic debut. Soo became the first non-white man to play for England. He was already the first Chinese player in the English Football League. And he remains the only player of Asian descent to represent England at senior level.
In the 1930s Soo was a star. A household name who appeared on cigarette cards and featured in newspapers, he was described as a talented half-back, clever, quick with an eye for an incisive pass and able to play in any position.
England team-mate Stan Mortensen summed up Soo's style. "Everything he did was hall-marked," wrote Mortensen in his book Football is My Game. "He seemed incapable of a clumsy movement."
But Soo's fame faded in the following decades. To the vast majority of fans, his name is unknown.
