Friendly game of Saturday June 5th, 1999.

Here are the results of the Friendly game between Toronto Lynx and Santa Clara of Azores played at Varsity Stadium in Toronto at 5:00pm. Santa Clara of Azores is a team that earned promotion to the top league in Portugal for the first time.

Toronto Lynx (white socks and shirts, blue shorts, numbers and names, yellow & blue chevrons on shoulders)

...............................................1 Jim Larkin
............2 Marco Reda...6 Milan Kojic...5 Ricardo Munguia
26 Kevin de Serpa...8 Brian Ashton...11 Gaucho...10 Edu...13 Kevin Holness
.........................7 Nikola Vignjevic...27 Francisco Dos Santos

Subs:...29 Paulo Silva (gk)...3 Ervin Ryta (def)...15 Adrian Serioux (def)...21 Stuart Black (def)...4 Joe Mattacchione (mid)...14 Edgar Bartolomeu (mid)...17 Tony Precci (mid)...19 David Diplacido (mid)...25 Chris Pozniak (mid/fwd)...18 Carlo Arghittu (fwd)...20 Gentian Buzali (fwd)
head coach Peter Pinizzotto, assistant coach Armando Costa, goalkeeper coach Paulo Silva, equipment manager Carl Titus, medical coordinator Dr Gringmuth.

Santa Clara of Azores (red socks and shirts, white shorts and numbers, white box with blue AZORES on back shoulders)

..................................1 Fernando
........5 Vladimir...16 Barrigana...20 Claudio Abreu
2 Portela...7 Sergio Pedoro...16 Barrigana...10 Figueiredo...4 Telmo
..................17 Youssef...18 Sakjo

Subs:...12 Du...3 Rodrigues...15 Bruno Gomes...22 Sergio Gameiro...25 Prokopenko...26 Cuc...30 Tiago Fernandes...19 Eurico...27 Carlos Pinto.
coach Manuel Fernandes

game officials:...referee Manuel Orellana, referee's assistants unknown, 4th official Tony Comacho. I recognized the referee, someone knew the 4th but the officials weren't announced.

In a pregame ceremony, The Santa Clara Band of Toronto (I counted 50 members) played the national anthems of Canada, Portugal, and the Azores. Game kicks off at 5:25pm.

1st Half:...Lynx defend north goal.
2 min...SC Youssef 15 yard shot from extreme left, goalie blocks and defender clears rebound.
7 min...Lynx goalie palms out SC Youssef 5 yard shot.
8 min...SC GOAL...Lynx goalie flubs back pass from Munguia and it bounces under his foot into net. SC Telmo is credited with goal.
9 min...Lynx YELLOW card...Ashton for tripping SC Figueiredo.
12 min...Lynx Edu 30 yard shot bounces to SC goalie.
14 min...Lynx goalie catches cross from left by SC Telmo.
18 min...SC goalie draws boos when he safely boots ball out of bounds while well out of box.
19 min...Lynx goalie beats SC Pedro to through ball.
22 min...Lynx Dos Santos completely misses scissor kick in SC box.
28 min...SC Sadjo breaks in on 3 on 1 in box, SC player from too sharp an angle on left has ball directed out by Lynx Munguia.
29 min...SC Figueiredo header on corner kick pops ball over net from 7 yards.
30 min...Lynx Ashton trips SC Barrigana near left edge of box and is lucky not to get 2nd yellow card.
31 min...SC Portela shanks centered short cross from 30 yards out wide right.
32 min...SC YELLOW card...Fegueiredo for tugging on Lynx Edu.
33 min...Lynx get about three shots in a row including Lynx Ashton rebound blast from 20 yards off own forward's head.
34 min...Lynx goalie blocks point blank header after freekick chip from just outside right corner of box.
37 min...SC Sadjo sliding shot from 10 yards just over bar after short cross.
38 min...Lynx sub...Pozniak replaces de Serpa.
39 min...Lynx goalie rushes out to boot away bouncing through ball.
41 min...SC Pedro crosses ball right through box.
44 min...Lynx Ashton 25 yard batted down by goalie.
44 min...SC GOAL Youssef...Youssef receives ball after short corner from right to edge of box and short pass and 7 yard shot rolls into left corner of net.
45 min...half ends 6:10pm.

Halftime:...more entertainment from the Santa Clara band. In the press box, Alex Franco says that six Lynx players can speak Portuguese.

2nd half:...starts 6:29pm.
halftime subs:...Lynx sub almost whole team. Their line up now looks like this:
..................Larkin
Black, Serioux, Ryta
Precci, Mattacchione, Pozniak, Diplacido, Bartolomeu
...........Buzali, Arghittu
47 min...Lynx Serioux rolls 10 yard shot to goalie after crowd of players jumps for header.
55 min...SC Figueiredo on 30 yard 2 on 0 break boots ball from 15 yards just over bar.
57 min...SC Barrigana 30 yard shot high wide right of bar to end good passing rush.
59 min...SC YELLOW card...Youssef for continuous tugging on Lynx Serioux's jersey as he breaks out.
60 min...Lynx YELLOW card...Serioux for pulling down SC Telmo at center injuring him.
61 min...Lynx Mattacchione heads ball from 7 yards wide after freekick cross from Lynx players.
65 min...Lynx goalie beats SC Sadjo to ball.
66 min...Lynx sub...Goalie Paulo Silva replaces Jim Larkin.
68 min...SC subs...Du replaces Fernando in goal.
...............................Cuc replaces Youssef.
...............................Gomes replaces Pedro.
69 min...Lynx goalie punches out corner kick from right.
73 min...Lynx GOAL Mattacchione...three defenders in SC box to clear header but Lynx Mattacchione takes 15 yard blast to top right corner of goal.
76 min...Lynx goalie drifts out and bobbles high corner from right but defender blocks SC shot.
78 min...SC Figueiredo long cross from right, SC Telmo blasts rebound from 25 yards high over net.
79 min...SC sub...Gameiro replaces Figueiredo.
80 min...SC Gameiro short pass on 3 on 2, SC Gomes boots 20 yard shot over net.
81 min...Lynx goalie picks ball off Gameiro's feet as cross rolls right through box.
82 min...Lynx sub...Munguia (again) replaces the injured Bartolomeu.
..............SC sub...Rodrigues replaces Portela.
85 min...Lynx Serioux header after corner from right blown down for climbing defender's back.
86 min...SC sub...Fernandes replaces Abreu(?).
86 min...Lynx goalie catches 35 yard freekick.
87 min...SC Cuc from extreme right hits goalpost, rebound shot not taken as SC player pulled down and penalty shot awarded.
88 min...SC Cuc penalty shot blast to low right corner blocked by diving Lynx goalie, rebound from right booted over net.
game ends 7:16pm.

Final Score:.......Toronto Lynx.........1.........Santa Clara of Azores........2.....

The Lynx subbed their whole team at halftime as they had an A-League game the next evening.

Many of the Santa Clara players are known by only one name. Canadian Alex Bunbury played for Maritimo and is known as 'Alex'. The Azores Islands are even further out in the Atlantic Ocean than Maritimo on the Medeira Islands.

Attendance was estimated by Stan Adamson as 5500 but to me there looked like more people than were at the Canada--Guatemala game which had 6000 so I'd say there were 7000 here. The fans cheered good plays on both teams.

Rocket Robin
robing@clo.com

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