U12 2011

A fabulous match yesterday in Rio, with many educational moments.

A penalty kick: the line is considered inside the 18-yard box, therefore it's a penalty; A ball incorrectly picked up by the keeper results in a rare free kick given inside the 18-yard box. The ref. was correct in giving the indirect free kick, the keeper made a mistake in picking the ball up, subsequently all players on the wall should have been exactly on top of the line, or 10 yds away (furthest possible distance), not what happened at all, a bad referee's mistake.

Note the 2nd Sao Paulo goal: free kick from the 38-year old by Rogerio Ceni to the 39-year old Rivaldo (both WC champions).

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What way to go out! Playing hard, focused, and defeating the number 5 team and leapfrogging 3 teams in the standings.

Beautiful, fantastic!

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The boys played superbly today, losing 1x0 to the league champions. This was the last match for the other team, they finished the season with 62 goals in favor and only 7 against. Two days ago they had beaten WOS White 11x0. They beat the other Royals team 9x0, Kemptville 7x1, and so on. A great showing by our boys, only one lucky (and great, unstoppable) shot went in.

We are very proud of the boys when they play hard and focused like today. The team seemed to finally resume playing like it was playing before the players' holidays started in July.

There were many MVPs today, many players playing really hard and winning balls. A special mention has to go to Shar, outstanding.

Thursday: We have to play like today!

BTW, Kudos to OSU. They played fair and square, nicely done.

Happiness all around, every single player!

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Long after all players were gone, there were three of them still taking shots, illuminated by a car's headlights!

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Sun and rain, but nice temperatures for soccer. It was very tough missing so many players at the last minute (17 players were supposed to come, only 14 did). Having only 3 subs made it very difficult. However, it was still an improvement from our earlier match in pre-season against them (3X better actually :-)).

MVP for the 2nd half: Shar, outstanding!

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Our players did very well today, played very hard. We were also missing several players. Solan scored a stunning goal, and he gave another one for Mekuria to score.

MVP for the match: Solan

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What a day and what  a game, what an effort by the boys. That is 12 goals in the last 2 matches and zero against, and this time a shutout by Braden!

Great aggressiveness and fighting spirit trying to win balls (see video), perfect goalkeeping, speed, and as always, very fair players!

BTW, this is the same team that we played our very first match at Carleton U, losing 3x1 back in April.

Some pictures. Click to enlarge.

Early arrivals...








Sweet victory, and celebration!





Video (watch in HD and full screen if your computer is powerful enough):

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We have our regular practice this Saturday at 9AM, immediately followed by an exhibition/practice match at 11AM against a U12/U13 team. Players are asked to wear their full uniforms.

If your son will not be there please let us know ASAP.

Please bring plenty of water, and snacks for your son, and apply sunscreen if desired.

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The kids saw funnel Clouds and Tornadoes, the ref. called it off. It was going to be a good game!

By the way, rules state that a match must have been 3/4rs completed for it to count. So it will be rescheduled for some other time, starting 0-0.

Video:



And some played darts instead...

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It was a great effort on the 2nd half (score was 2-2 on that half, tieing the Hotspurs!)  :-)

Another 2 goals for the team, 2 beauties by Noah, and one left footed!

Not sure what was going on here. Ball is on left side!?

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