CNSL game of Sunday September 1, 1996.

Here are the results of the CNSL game of Sunday September 1, 1996 between Toronto Italia and St Catharines Wolves played at Rainbow Creek Park in Woodbridge at 6:00pm. This was considered a League game.

Toronto Italia (blue socks and shirts, white shorts and numbers)

....................................................1 Joe Ciaravino
2 John Annisi....5 Tom Perks....4 Richard Alexander....3 Franco Spadafina
7 Miguel Ferreira....10 Lalo Maradona....11 Marco Antonucci (cpt)....6 Jack Zomparelli
.....................................22 Michele Gioa......23 Phil Caporrella

Subs:....00 Mike Ivancescu (gk)....8 Ryan Gamble....12 Antony Zanini....16 Garvin Houston....20 Nick Maxwell

St Catharines Wolves (white socks and numbers, red shorts and shirts with three white stripes on left shoulder and right thigh--think Canada's National Team in early 1990's or Liverpool of a few years ago).

.....................................................1 Dino Perri
3 MacIver Broomes....4 Peter Sarantopoulos....2 Jerry Cipriani....5 John McNeil
6 Peyvand Mossavat....8 Ricky Titus....13 Luciero Ianiero....11 Carlo Arghitto
.....................................9 Paul Moore......20 Gary Bryant

Subs:....23 Lee Burrows (gk)....14 Anton Skerritt....10 Tom Bernardi....7 Peter Gastis....12 John Williams

Officials: Referee Tony Comacho, linesmen Steve Cahoon and Made Tomashi

1st Half: (Italia defend north goal in first half, sun in the west)
3 min....Italia GOAL....Gioa tips in centering pass from 5 yards.
14 min...Wolves Bryant gets good shot from 20 yards that goalie saves. (most of the half has been in the Italia end).
17 min...hard crash between Wolves Cipriani and Italia Ferreira as the both play ball. Ferreira is down for three minutes.
22 min...Italia sub....Houston replaces still injured Ferreira.
24 min...Wolves GOAL....Moore gets kick from 10 yards to left corner of net after centering pass.
26 min...Wolves Yellow...Cipriani for tackling Gioa from behind.
34 min...Italia goalie dives for shot along the line.
40 min...Wolves Bryant injured in front of net and is down for two minutes.
45 min...Italia Yellow...Gioa for argueing call.
49 min...Italia Yellow...Zomparelli for dissent after Wolves awarded free kick outside box.
50 min...Wolves Ianiero takes freekick about two feet over bar.
52 min...whistle blown to end half.

2nd half:
47 min...Italia Maradona gets ball and dekes two defenders one at a time but goalie dives to save and then dives again to cover rebound.
48 min...Wolves Mossavat down with injury at midfield.
49 min...Wolves goal called back as Wolves Bryant shoved Perks down to get to ball.
51 min...Wolves sub...Williams replaces Mossavat.
56 min...Wovles Ianiero gets 20 yard shot over bar.
57 min...Italia Gioa steals ball off defender, centers along line but no ones there to take shot.
60 min...Wolves Yellow...McNeil for shoulder clip block on Gioa.
61 min...Italia Maradona puts resulting freekick from 20 yards over four man wall but right into goalie's arms.
64 min...Italia's Annisi down with injury.
65 min...Italia sub...Maxwell replaces Anninsi.
..............Wolves sub...Gastis replaces Moore.
72 min...Italia GOAL...Italia's Gioa steals ball away from Sarantopoulos and centers ball to Caporrella who slides ball to left corner of net beyond sprawling goalie.
74 min...Italia Caporrella injured in crash with player.
76 min...Italia sub...Zanini replaces Houston.
77 min...goalmouth scramble injures Italia's goalie Ciaravino and Wolves Williams.
85 min...Italia Maradona gets 30 yard shot that goalie jumps and catches just under bar.
86 min...Italia Gioa injured when flattened by defender.
87 min...Wolves sub...Bernardi replaces McNeil.
91 min...Wolves Titus gets 15 yard shot that goalie tips over net.
92 min...Italia goalie saves bouncing shot that has got through to Arghitto.
95 min...Italia goalie catches 45 yard shot from Cipriani.

Final Score:.........Toronto Italia.........2.............St Catharines Wolves...........1.......

Attendance was about 500. Diego Maradona was there again with his daughters and nephews watching his brother Lalo play. He was watched by fans as he tried to watch the game. I wondered how tired the players would be if they all had to play in the Exhibition game tomorrow. The manager of St Catharines told me his team would not be supplying any players to the CNSL All-Stars (neither would Oakville Canadian Westerns) so tonight's game was all the Wolves had to concentrate on. Wolves had played a tournament over in Europe a few months ago and have a lot of games to make up. I'm waiting to hear the teams that they played and expect I'll post something about it soon.

Tonight's game was the most important League game of the year. Neither team had lost in League play this year. Italia had a 3 point lead but 2nd place Wolves had a game in hand. Tonight's game pushed Italia to a 6 point lead with three games to go and Wolves with one game in hand. The Cup competition is a bit different with Italia two points ahead but Wolves with one game in hand and the showdown of the season coming in St Catharines at the end of the month.

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