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Week 5
Division B
The snow storm couldn’t happen at a worst time! Right when people plan to leave their house and attend the venue. That left both us The Ringleaders and adversaries FC Pharaohs with few players to substitute with. Most showed up before half time though, that was quite relieving.
It was a solid game which I believe both teams played well. The referee made many mistakes numerous times especially with throw inns and corner kicks. For some reason he wouldn’t whistle after the whole ball would cross over the side line and all… real confusing.
We played very well together, our transition balls between the midfield and forwards were well executed. We were also tight defensively, and Rodrigo Riffo brought much confidence to us. Some player from the other squad released a canon side volley early on in the 1st half, but Rod “punched” it nice and clean over the crossbar. That kept us in the game for real.
RFC 2 won the match 4-1.
Division C
A difficult fixture against FC Alianza who were yet to lose. But following our solid performance last week we were looking to make a push up the table.
After going down to an early goal we were making a valiant effort to get back in the game and were putting some good moves together. That was when disaster struck.
Thanassi made a surging run into the opposition half and easily rounded one of the FC Alianza players, unfortunately the player made a dangerous lunging tackle completely missing the ball and making heavy contact with Thanassi’s knee.
It was immediately evident that this was a very serious injury and Thannasi would play no further part in the game. We now know that Thanasi’s out for the rest of the season, which is a tragic blow for him and the Ringleaders, something that has put a severe dampener on the whole season.
Losing such an influential player undoubtedly had a great impact on the team and we were never able to fully focus on the game thereafter. We lost 4-0, with the only highlight being an amazing penalty save by the always outstanding Giancarlo Talarico.
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Mark Regimbal on “Brigade”. To understand this individual, please put his blog in your favorites, www.swallowmykids.com.
FC Pharaohs 1-4 RFC 2 (—)
RFC 0-4 FC Alianza (—)
Tags: Brigade, FC Alianza, FC Pharaohs, Giancarlo Talarico, Mark Regimbal, RFC 2, Rod, Rodrigo Riffo, Thanassi, The Ringleaders, www.swallowmykids.com
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Dec 13th, 2009 | by admin
