July 2, 2006 CSL Open Canada Cup Italia Shooters vs Oakville Blue Devils (by Rocket Robin)

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Result of the Sunday July 2, 2006 Open Canada Cup game between two CSL teams, Italia Shooters and Oakville Blue Devils played at The Soccer Centre in Vaughan at 7:00pm.

Italia Shooters (white socks and shirts, black shorts and thin numbers)

..........................00 Camilo Benzi
................4 Jorge Molina...12 Danny Sanna...6 Franco Ruschetta
13 Frank Bruno...8 Chris Turner...10 Joey Todaro...19 Desi Humphrey...11 Fitzroy Christey
.....................9 Jason DeThomasis...20 Rob Black

Subs:...01 Joshua Lemos (gk)...5 Stalin Cardenas (mid)...21 Luca Forno (fwd)...26 Joshua Jaramillo (fwd)...3 Carlo Cudini (def)...7 Kaidien Leckie (fwd)...14 Joe Rini (mid)...16 Evan Millward (fwd)...15 Alvaro Yaques (def)...18 Bill Androutsis (fwd)...23 Aundrae Rollins (fwd)
team officials:...head coach Carmine Issaco...assistant coach John Paccione...manager Elio Scarcello...club officials Ruben Toro...team trainer Hicie Quach...trainer Matt Boris...physio Mike Chievers

Oakville Blue Devils (navy socks and shirts, white shorts and numbers)

.............................1 Sabrahima Traore
.............2 Jaime Fairweather...11 Orlin Chalmers...6 Denny Velastegui
10 Matthew O'Conner...7 Miles O'Conner...4 Lovemore Ncube (cpt)...14 Zoran Calic
................9 Judah Hernandez...18 Andy Garcia...12 Sam Hazam

Subs:...00 Chris Baker (gk)...3 Nicholas Poku (def)...5 Kevin Ricketts (def)...8 Gavin Russell (fwd)...21 Sean Holmes (fwd)...16 Cecarr Milivoje (mid)...19 Tommy Vrantsis (mid)
team officials:...head coach Phil Ionadi...technical director Goran Miscevic...manager Barry D Goldlist...manager Pernell Mason

Game officials:...referee Merci Watfa...referee's assistants Vince somebody and Dave Barrie...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

1st Half:...game starts 7:32pm...IS defend south end on this hot evening, with a strong wind from the north.
There was a delay starting the game waiting around for the game officials.
1 min...OBD Hazam flips over IS player injurying himself near center circle.
7 min...OBD Hernandez run on right and 25 yard shot is low and stopped near right post by goalie.
10 min...IS DeThomasis 25 yard low shot bounces to diving goalie.
12 min...IS DeThomasis feeds rolling cross from right but two IS players in box miss connecting.
14 min...IS Black 25 yard shot deflects off OBD Chalmers and ball spins wide left for goalie to pick up.
15 min...IS goalie charges out to beat OBD Hazam to through ball.
16 min...IS goalie catches 25 yard shot from right.
17 min...IS Black gets long throw-in from left and 12 yarder is into short outside of net.
18 min...OBD Hazam midair shot charging to ball on left is shanked wide left over fence.
20 min...OBD Hazam cornerkick from right has IS defender dive to head away.
23 min...IS Black in middle chips 20 yarder over net when IS DeThomasis pops him header.
24 min...OBD Velastegui rusn from left to center and 35 yard shot through players wide right.
25 min...OBD Ncube 25 yard roller up middle is wide left.
27 min...IS Todaro 25 yard shot deflects off IS Black at 12 yards and bounces to goalie.
29 min...OBD Calic 40 yard shot from left is caught by goalie well wide right of net.
30 min...OBD goalie charges out to make sliding poke before IS DeThoamasis can play it on right.
33 min...OBD Miles O'Conner 25 yard blast up middle has goalie block but defenders partially clear big rebound.
34 min...OBD Calic 40 yard shot into box from left rolls directly to goalie.
35 min...OBD Hazam cross from left has goalie palm ball away.
38 min...OBD Calic cornerkick from left has OBD Hernandez cross over players in box.
41 min...OBD YELLOW card...Hazam for checking goalie caught out of box.
48 min...half ends 8:20pm.

2nd Half:...starts 8:38pm...the wind has stopped this half.
halftime subs:...IS Yaques replaces Ruschetta.
..................IS Rollins replaces Bruno.
47 min...OBD Matthew O'Conner replaces IS Todaro shot on sliding stab up middle.
48 min...IS player's cornerkick from right has IS Christey cross behind net from left.
49 min...OBD goalie beats charging IS Black and OBD Chalmers to grab ball on edge of box.
51 min...IS Humphrey 30 yard shot is a hard blast up middle that's wide left.
52 min...OBD Miles O'Conner pushes pass from right to IS goalie without OBD player running into box.
53 min...IS sub...Leckie replaces Black.
54 min...IS Sanna 30 yard freekick from left has OBD defender head out right side of box.
58 min...IS Todaro blast after short freekick pass has 25 yard shot deflect pop up and goalie catches ball.
59 min...OBD Miles O'Conner cross from right has goalie leap to punch away.
59 min...OBD goalie cahrges out to clear through ball from IS Leckie.
61 min...IS Todaro injured just outside center circle with head butt by OBD Ncube. He's down for 3 minutes. IS Todaro hadn't gotten call earlier. Referee's assistant saw it but no cards were given.
65 min...OBD goalie catches chip shot from left.
66 min...IS DeThomasis 7 yard blast from left is welll over net.
67 min...IS goalie races to edge of box to catch 55 yarder through players in box.
68 min...IS Christey pops up header into box and IS goalie catches.
70 min...Shooters Joshua Jaramillo GOAL...Jaramillo gets the ball on the left after a pass from the center by Shooters Jason DeThomasis. He chipped the charging, sliding OBD goalie Sabrahima Traore from 20 yards and the ball landed in the center of net just under the bar.
72 min...IS Humphrey 22 yard freekick even with left post is caught by diving goalie on left.
74 min...OBD sub...Russell replaces Hazam.
76 min...OBD YELLOW card...Ncube for tackle that flipped over IS Jaramillo in center circle.
81 min...OBD Hernandez 25 yard freekick near right sideline has leaping IS Christey head ball away.
82 min...OBD YELLOW card...Russell for tackle on IS DeThomasis near center line.
84 min...IS sub...Millward replaces DeThomasis who's still injured from last play.
86 min...OBD Matthew O'Conner cross from 25 yards on right has OBD Hernandez whistled for handball on chest down on edge of box.
87 min...Shooters Kadian Leckie is tripped up while cutting along the right end line when running toward the net by defender Miles O’Conner. Referee Merci Watfa immediately signalled for a Penalty kick.
88 min...Shooters Danny Sanna GOAL...Sanna’s penalty is blasted to the high center of net just over the goalie who crumples to the middle of the net.
89 min...OBD sub...Poku replaces Matthew O'Conner.
91 min...OBD Miles O'Conner 45 yard high freekick has goalie leap to catch on edge of box.
91 min...IS Leckie 30 yard shot is just wide right.
93:04 min...game ends 9:25pm.

Final Score:......Italia Shooters.....2.......Oakville Blue Devils.........0..........

Attendance was about 80 on this hot evening. The game was delayed by half hour because the crew had no assistant referee. Finally they got an official to have a minimum group of three. I was over at the fourth official’s bench and threw an extra ball into play when one sailed into the parking lot. Much like running the scoreboard in the second half at the Astros game when Ennio had to leave the game on short notice.

Camilo Benzi earned the shutout for the Shooters with a few important saves. The Shooters took over in the second half and the Blue Devils just didn’t threaten for the last half of the game. Traore had charged outside of the box to clear through balls a few times in the game but got burned on the goal.

Today’s two games were considered the 1st round of the Open Canada Cup. One game to decide who advances! The few team officials I talked to were not sure of how these games would go about settling these games if their was a tie after 90 minutes. Would it be Golden Goal or Silver Goal…or directly to penalty kicks if another group had rented out the stadium on their time permit. What would the referee do as I’d never seen him at a CSL game before? What if this game was settled one way and some game in Windsor was settled another way? No worries after all about that happening.

Now it can be told by someone who was at the 1st round draw and a team official of another team. The draw was partially fixed to have the Laval Dynamites play the amateur Ottawa team to save on travel expenses. Also the USL Toronto Lynx and the Serbian White Eagles was pre-agreed to by the two teams. Now two weeks to build up some publicity for this game. Well c’mon they’ve got to try something better than the 30 and 80 fans that were at tonight’s game. White Eagles and Lynx draw about 1100 each and both play at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

With the game starting late, they skipped the line-ups and national anthem so just started the game immediately. Shooters in white shirts, get to kick off.

Referee warns players after Joey Todaro is injured.

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