Friendly Game Canada Under 20 Team vs Ontario Soccer League Selects played Monday May 18th, 1998 at 5:30pm in Varsity Stadium.

Canada Under 20 Team (all red, white numbers, hand-me downs from the National team?)

................................................1 Brian Bowes
21 Rhian Dodds...15 Adrian Serioux...13 Chris Pozniac...3 Steve Arche
8 Kevin DeSerpa...10 Jason Alvarez...12 Chris Stewart...7 Miles O'Connor
..........................19 Rob Defaveri..........23 Aaron Benjamin

1 Brian Rowland (gk)...18 Mark Dorego (??)...9 Ian Jeffery (str)...4 Chris Williams (str)...11 Toli Dasteridis (mid)...6 Steve Flatt (def)...

Ontario Soccer League All Stars (white socks, black shorts and numbers, green shirts)

...............................................??????????
16 Norris Kitson...18 Steve Maio...4 Pat Sullivan
8 Orlando Rizzo
goalie 15 Mike Dukart...1 Mark Stevens...
def 2 Rob Sainovski...5 Christian Hoffler...
mid 23 ???????...9 Franco Santeramo...3 Drew O'Neil...
str 17 ????????...10 Marcel Flemming...
others...7 Tony Mazzoli...6 Damien Egan Wyre...14 Adjetey Learyea...11 Lorenzo Sibio...12 Nick Gagatis
unnumbered...Joe Demiglio...Jamie Scott...Dave Murphy...Dave Ashfield

Both teams had multiple substitutions so there were a few instances of players being substituted then coming back into the game later.

1st Half: (OSL defends South goal)
I missed the first 18 minutes of comments while I was getting the rosters for this game and the lineup of the Macedonian National team which had just finished playing.
19 min...OSL goalie smothers rolling freekick that eluded wall.
21 min...U20s GOAL...DeSerpa gets away 10 yard shot after freezing goalie.
25 min...U20s Benjamin gets through ball on right wing and crosses to charging U20s Defaveri but ball deflected wide left as Defaveri had to go left for it.
26 min...U20s Defaveri beats OSL Hoffler at 20 yard mark but goalie makes point blank save from 10 yards.
29 min...U20s Yellow card...Stewart for handball near midfield.
31 min...U20s Dorego shot curls wide right from 12 yards on right of goal.
33? min...U20s sub...Dasteridis replaces Alvarez
45 min...U20s Stewart gets through ball, dekes defender charging him but weak shot from 12 yards rolls to goalie.

2nd Half:
45 min.20 sec...U20s goalie must make jumping save.
47 min...U20s GOAL...O'Connor from 12 yards lofts ball into net. U20s Defaveri had gotten point blank shot at goalie 3 yards out.
54 min...OSL goalie makes sliding save on U20s Stewart.
55 min...U20s GOAL...Stewart from 7 yards slides ball between goalie's legs.
57 min...U20s Williams gets two man breakaway gets shot tipped wide.
60 min...U20s GOAL...DeSerpa takes 18 yard blast to center of net that curls around goalie's outstretched hand.
61 min...U20s sub...Jeffery replaces Defaveri.
68 min...U20s sub...Flatt replaces O'Connor.
70 min...OSL sub...Sibio replaces Maio.
72 min...OSL goalie charges and slides to get ball away from U20s Jeffery on breakaway.
73 min...OSL goalie gathers up shot that U20 freekick chips wide of wall and U20 gets kick away.
75 min...OSL goalie tips banana freekick wide right.
77 min...U20s shanks ball into left side of net from 10 yards.
86 min...U20s Dodds blast from 15 yards high up over net.
88 min...OSL goalie gathers up cornerkick put into box.
89 min...U20s GOAL...Stewart scores as ball blasted by OSL goalie and ball deflects off Stewart from 5 yards and into net!

Final Score..........Canada Under 20 Team........5......OSL All Stars.........0......

The Under 20s were coached by Paul James and the Ontario team by David Gee. The Ontario players were from teams such as Markham FC and Magic FC. They are a calibre beneath the CPSL league.

The game was started at 5:30pm to catch the crowd streaming out of the Canada-Macedonia game. Only about 150 people stayed behind to watch.

The Under 20s dominated especially in the 2nd half as it was through ball after through ball.

Once again, my track of which players were on the field especially for the OSL is sketchy.

Rocket Robin
robing@clo.com

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