May 27, 2011 CSL--Serbian White Eagles vs York Region Shooters (by Rocket Robin)

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Result of the Friday May 27th, 2011 CSL game between Serbian White Eagles and York Region Shooters played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 8:00pm.

Serbian White Eagles (all white, red numbers)

........................1 Milos Djurkovic
2 Nikola Milosevic...6 Mirko Medic...5 Ricardo Mangula Perez...3 Miolos Vucinic
7 Kiri Dimitrov...10 Alex Braletic (cpt)...15 Veljko Lukovic...27 Filip Prostran
..............19 Shawn Brown...11 Milos Scepanovic

Subs:...12 Stefan Avramovic (gk)...14 Nikola Paunic (def)...16 Winston Crozier (def)...17 Luka Maric (fwd)...18 Andre Orlando (mid)
...20 Milan Janoservic (mid)...30 Ivan Stojakovic (mid)
team officials:...assistant coach Uros Stamatovic

York Region Shooters (black socks, shorts and numbers, sky blue shirts)

........................1 Camilo Benzi
4 Marcelo Capazolo...99 Ryan Dummett...8 Chris Turner...6 Fitzroy Christey
13 Aundrae Rollins...14 Dino Gardiner...77 Desmond Humphrey...10 Mario Orestano
...............9 Jason De Thomasis...11 Kadian Lecky (cpt)

Subs:...00 Adam Majer (gk)...5 Nicolas Martinez (mid)...12 Ajani Stapleton (mid)...15 Stalin Cardenas (mid)...18 Ali Hanam (fwd)
...21 Ricky Herron (def)...22 Miguel Alberto Knox (fwd)
team officials:...head coach Filipe Bento...manager John Pacione...massage therapist Eric Yuill...director Tony Di Thomasis...club official David James

Game officials:...referee Manuel Orellano...referee's assistants Gianni Facchini and Marc Henoud...fourth official Dave Ashfield...(neon yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

1st Half:...game starts 8:07pm...SWE defend south end.
3 min...SWE Scepanovic rush on left and cross near left end line is cleared by defenders.
3 min...SWE Brown hooks kick that's looped in from 15 yards to goalie on right wide of net.
5 min...SWE Scepanovic cross from 22 yards on left is cleared by defender. SWE Scepanovic crosses again from 22 yards on left that's caught by diving goalie.
6 min...YRS Humphrey cornerkick from left has defenders clear.
9 min...SWE Dimitrov rush on right and low cross from 25 yards has SWE Brown one-touch 10 yard shot well over net.
9 min...YRS Rollins 15 yard shot down middle deflects off defender SWE Vucinic over net.
10 min...YRS Orestano cornerkick from left is headed away. YRS Orestano recross from 25 yards on left has SWE Prostran flick header into box from 18 yards and goalie dives forward to catch.
11 min...SWE Vucinic rush and cross from 35 yards near sideline on left has goalie charge out to catch in front of two SWE players.
16 min...YRS Lecky trips over diving goalie who charges to left to smother ball at 10 yards. Partial clearance of loose ball is passed forward to YRS Lecky who's flagged offside.
17 min...SWE Dimitrov is tapped freekick and takes cross from 35 yards on right that has goalie have ball go through his hands held overhead but no one is nearby. SWE Scepanovic and SWE Medic can't get ball into box on a try each.
19 min...YRS Lecky has ball poked away by sliding SWE Medic at 10 yards and ball rolls for cornerkick. YRS Lecky had earlier been called on three offsides so far in the game.
20 min...YRS Humphrey cornerkick from left has defender head ball through box.
21 min...SWE Dimitrov 30 yard shot from right has goalie leap to push ball wide right of net.
21 min...SWE Scepanovic cornerkick from right is over players in box and bounces for throw-in.
24 min...SWE Vucinic 40 yard cross from left flies well wide right of net.
25 min...SWE Brown can't redirect cross from 25 yards on right on leaping header and sends ball out of box on left side.
27 min...SWE Braletic blasts 40 yard shot down middle that goalie leaps to bat down.
27 min...YRS Turner is injured at 25 yards in own end.
29 min...YRS sub...Hanam replaces Turner.
30 min...SWE Braletic scissor kick from 12 yard is wide left of net on cross from left by SWE Dimitrov from 25 yards near sideline.
31 min...YRS De Thomasis is tripped up down the middle by SWE Medic sliding in at 18 yards on 1 on 2 rush.
32 min...YRS De Thomasis 18 yard freekick down middle is just over net near right post.
35 min...SWE Scepanovic cornerkick from left has ball cleared and two SWE shots are blocked and/or saved in flurry of action.
35 min...SWE Medic is injured at YRS 35 yards.
39 min...SWE Lukovic is injured at center line.
42 min...SWE sub...Janosevic replaces still injured Lukovic.
42 min...SWE Dimitrov 30 yard freekick from right is partially cleared.
42 min...SWE Scepanovic gets two shots from 20 yards up middle, one is blocked by defender and rebound plke is blocked by diving goalie and defender clears for cornerkick on right.
44 min...SWE Dimitrov 20 yard shot from right is saved by diving goalie.
46 min...YRS Humphrey dribble up left and wins cornerkick.
46 min...YRS Humphrey cornerkick from left has leaping YRS Rollins head 6 yarder up middle just over bar wide left of net.
47 min...half ends 8:54pm.

2nd Half:...starts 9:09pm.
45 min...SWE Scepanovic rush on left and cross from 20 yards on end line is over charging SWE player and goalie catches.
47 min...SWE Scepanovic 32 yard freekick down middle is roller that goalie smothers.
48 min...SWE Scepanovic cornerkick from right has SWE Medic head 20 yarder and can't win hand ball call on YRS Rollins at 16 yards.
50 min...YRS Humphrey 45 yard freekick from left has defender pop header over end line.
51 min...YRS Humphrey cornerkick from right has YRS Capazolo roll 10 yard shot that goalie picks up on roll.
53 min...SWE YELLOW card...Medic earns it for bashing into YRS Lecky at SWE 50 yards.
54 min...YRS Lecky wins cornerkick on low 7 yard sharp angle shot near right end line that deflects off defender.
55 min...YRS Orestano cornerkick from right has YRS players roll ball back out of box up middle where YRS Humphrey blasts low shot from 28 yards down middle through crowd of players and goalie smothers.
56 min...SWE Braletic 30 yard cross from right has defender pop up header at 15 yards back to goalie.
60 min...YRS Humphrey 30 yard freekick from left is blasted into player wall. A flip pass then catches YRS Lecky offside.
61 min...YRS Humphrey gets behind defence but overruns goalie forcing him wide left and not able to get a shot.
62 min...YRS Hanam rush and cross from left end line 10 yards has goalie get ball off head of YRS Lecky at 1 yard on left post.
63 min...SWE Braletic long throw-in from right has two SWE headers center but ball is cleared.
67 min...YRS Lecky gets pass and wins cornerkick on shot deflected over line by defender on low 15 yard shot from right.
68 min...YRS Orestano cornerkick from right is short and YRS Lecky blast deflects off SWE Vucinic for cornerkick injurying him.
68 min...YRS Humphrey cornerkick from right has defender head ball out of box from 3 yards.
69 min...YRS sub...Martinez replaces Orestano.
70 min...YRS Martinez wins cornerkick on low 20 yard shot up middle after SWE player's partial clearance kick is stopped.
70 min...YRS Humphrey cornerkick from left has defender on left head ball out of box.
71 min...SWE goalie charges out to swat away long hight 60 yard skyball from YRS Turner.
72 min...YRS Lecky called for handball on deflection in SWE box.
72 min...YRS Martinez 25 yard shot on right after short pass has goalie catch.
74 min...SWE Braletic throw-in from left has SWE Scepanovic head from 15 yards with back to goal that goalie grabs.
76 min...SWE Braletic cornerkick from left has goalie miss but SWE Milosevic can't quite turn 8 yard header on right.
79 min...YRS sub...Stapleton replaces De Thomasis.
81 min...SWE Scepanovic injured in crash with YRS Capazolo at YRS 20 yards as YRS Capazolo got to ball to block.
85 min...SWE Milosevic cross from left from 20 yards along end line has goalie miss getting both hands to but drops ball and SWE Dimitrov tries midair kick but misses at 7 yards and body knocks ball into goalie injurying him and defender blasts clearance.
86 min...YRS sub...Knox replaces Lecky.
88 min...SWE Braletic cornerkick from right is tapped to SWE Scepanovic then SWE Braletic crosses. SWE Brown 15 yard shot is roller from left is into webbing of net.
89 min...SWE goalie charges out to clear through ball on right on back pass.
89 min...YRS Stapleton 15 yard roller from right is just wide left of net.
92 min...SWE Braletic low 35 yard blast down middle deflects off defender wide right of net.
92 min...SWE Scepanovic high cornerkick from right has SWE Brown head ball off a defender at 10 yards on left and SWE Dimitrov blasts 20 yard shot of partial clearance well over net after deflection falls to him.
94:12 min...game ends 9:58pm.

Final Score:.....Serbian White Eagles........0................York Region Shooters.......0......

Attendance was less than 100 on this cool night. There was a misty rain falling almost the entire game and that probably limited the number of fans.

A tie was a fair result for the evenness of play but 1-1, 2-2, 3-3 all would have been believable scores. The White Eagles dominated at the start of the game but the Shooters fought their way back into it but were continuously thwarted throughout the game by the number of offsides called against them especially against team captain Kadian Lecky. Lecky had scored three goals this season in the three games they'd played this season. White Eagles Milos Scepanovic had scored two for his team in their two games. Both these players were once again stars for their teams tonight although the goalies—Milos Djurkovic of White Eagles and Camilo Benzi of the Shooters had at times to be spectacular to each earn a shutout.

At 19 minutes YRS Kadian Lecky had a breakaway but SWE Mirko Medic got back in time to slide in behind Lecky and poke the ball away at 10 yards and only a cornerkick resulted. At 30 minutes SWE Kirie Dimitrov crossed the ball in from near the left sideline and Alex Braletic took a scissor kick from 12 yards that was wide left of the net. At 31 minutes, YRS Jason De Thomasis was on a 1 on 2 run down the middle when Medic once again caught up and made a sliding tackle from behind at 18 yards resulting in a freekick on the edge of the box which De Thomasis took and shot just over the bar. At 42 minutes, Dimitrov took a 30 yard freekick from the right that was partially cleared and Scepanovic took two shots for 15 yards—one was blocked by a defender and the rebound was poked forward but saved by the diving goalie and a defender cleared the ball for a cornerkick. In first half injury time, YRS Desmond Humphrey took a cornerkick from the left that had a leaping player in the middle (maybe Aundre Rollins) head a 6 yarder just a bit high and wide left of the net. In the second half, at 48 minutes Scepanovic took a cornerkick from the right that had Medic head a 20 yarder that hit the hand of Aundre Rollins at 16 yards but there was no penalty kick given. Television replays showed a hand ball. At 61 minutes YRS Desmond Humphrey got behind the defence but he overran the ball while going around the goalie and was forced too far left to be able to take a shot. A minute later YRS Ali Hanam rushed and crossed from about 10 yards along the left end line which the goalie jumped to get the ball before it could connect with the head of Kadian Lecky just one yard off the left post. At 76 minutes Braletic's cornerkick from the left had the YRS goalie miss but SWE Nikola Milosevic couldn't quite turn an 8 yard header on the right. At 88 minutes Braletic had a cornerkick from the right that was tapped to Scepanovic and back for Braletic to cross into the box. SWE Shawn Brown on the left took a 15 yard roller that hit the outside left webbing of the net.

Referee Manuel Orellano kept the game under control but the referee's assistants kept the offside flags flying.

Long time forward Sasa Viciknez was not in the lineup for the White Eagles as he's still injured.

This is only week four of the CSL season but this game was the first rematch of the year. White Eagles had won 1-0 on the road during the league's first weekend with a goal from Nikola Milosevic.

I noticed on the Shooters lineup a new player for them—Dino Gardiner. He had recently made the headlines as one of three players dismissed by the TFC Academy for 'not committing' to the Academy but pursuing tryouts overseas. I asked him after the game and he said he'd been to tryouts in Germany already but was back for now and there would be other tryouts later.

Serbian White Eagles must have had in the back of their mind the game on Sunday with their main rivals Toronto Croatia. Now that should bring out a crowd to Centennial Stadium (both teams used this venue for home games). Croatia will be considered the home team for this match.

This game was broadcast live on Rogers Community channel in the Toronto area and will be shown again at 8:00pm on Saturday.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

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