July 4, 2014 League 1 Ontario--Durham United FC vs Toronto FC Academy (by Rocket Robin)

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Result and details of the Friday July 4, 2014 League 1 Ontario game between Durham United FC and Toronto FC Academy played at Kinsmen Park in Pickering at 9:00pm.

Durham United FC (navy socks, red shorts, red & navy stripes on chest/navy backs, yellow numbers)

............................1 Benjamin Cowman
2 Ethan Saimovici...8 Nicholas Goddard (cpt)...21 Hameez Farrell...3 Morey Doner
10 Shaquille Agard...17 Joseph Roccasalva...14 Taylor Lord...15 Tristan Grant
.............20 Le Rohne Young...9 Jordon Hargrave

Subs:...0 Eugene Alves (gk)...4 Erick Leal...12 Emile Saimovici...16 Kyle Crichton...18 Christopher Mitchell...19 Kyle Laborde
team officials:...team head coach Tony La Ferrara...managers Connor Schmitt and Corrado Roccasalva...assistant coach Rupert Greaves and Sanford Carabin

Toronto FC Academy (all white, black numbers, red trim)

........................12 Mark Rogal
2 Marcus Godinho...5 Elias Roubos...6 Christopher Mannella (cpt)...3 Kevon Black
11 Mark Anthony Kaye...20 Luca Uccello...7 Derrick Sequeira...16 Tarik Robertson
.............9 Molham Babouli...10 Dylan Sacramento

Subs:...1 Karmen Saini (gk)...4 Mateo Restrepo...15 Jodah Daniel...17 Matt Stowell...18 Jordan Piccinin...21 Oladapo Afolayan
team officials:...team head coach Michael Stefano...manager Frank Russo and Ryan Young...assistant coach Nikita Komarov

Game officials:...referee Alexis Vaughan...referee's assistants Brian Butler and Fab Stassoli...fourth official Justin Tasev
...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

1st Half:...game starts 9:02pm...DUFC defends east end...as I was behind the scoreboard, all times are converted from my wristwatch.
2 min...TFCA Manella 25 yard freekick deflects off player wall. TFCA Babouli dribbles ball to 20 yards on far right and cross is headed away by defender.
2 min...TFCA Babouli blocks defender's clearance at 18 yards on far right, gets up from slide and shoots wide left from 12 yards on the far right.
3 min...TFCA Sacramento rolls 12 yard shot near left end line that goalie smothers.
5 min...TFCA Godinho cross from near right cornerflag is caught overhead by goalie.
7 min...DUFC Joseph Roccasalva GOAL...DUFC goalie Benjamin Cowman takes freekick from 75 yards that finds jumping DUFC DUFC Le Rohne Young at 35 yards on the right flick head forward and Raccasalva blasted a 25 yarder from the right into the left corner of the net beyond goalie Mark Rogal.
9 min...TFCA Kaye low 35 yard cross from right is into box and goalie picks up ball on bounce.
10 min...DUFC Young low cross from 20 yards right end line is behind net.
14 min...TFCA Uccello 35 yard freekick from left bounces wide right as TFCA Mannella can't rescue it on end line.
16 min...TFCA YELLOW card...Sequeira earns it for check at TFCA 40 yard line on far right.
17 min...DUFC Lord 45 yard freekick from right is low and blocked in player wall.
19 min...DUFC Grant boots centering cross over own net to prevent TFCA players getting a shot in box.
21 min...DUFC Roccasalva 30 yard freekick from right is over net.
22 min...TFCA Mannella low 30 yard freekick from right has TFCA Kaye dive at 15 yards and twist header wide left of post.
27 min...DUFC Grant 40 yard chip down middle has charging goalie catch.
29 min...DUFC Lord rolls centering pass from right too far forward for charging DUFC Goddard and goalie picks up ball.
30 min...TFCA Molham Babouli GOAL...TFCA Dylan Sacramento rolled a pass up the middle to Babouli at 25 yards who cut around goalie Benjamin Cowman and shot a tough angle 10 yarder from the far left around defender Hameez Farrell and into the high right side of the empty net.
31 min...DUFC Lord dribbles to right and shoots 25 yarder over net.
34 min...DUFC sub...Crichton replaces injured Roccasalva.
35 min...TFCA Godinho keeps ball in on right end line and TFCA Babouli cross from 20 yards on right has defender head away.
36 min...TFCA Babouli cross from 15 yards on right has DUFC Saimovici head away.
38 min...TFCA Babouli taps pass back on righht near end line and TFC Sacramento chips 18 yarder from right onto top of net.
39 min...TFCA Babouli plays give and go up middle with TFCA Uccello and sliding goalie deflects low 12 yard pushed ball wide left of post.
40 min...TFCA player's cornerkick from left has defender head ball away.
45 min...half ends 9:47pm.

2nd Half:...starts 10:03pm.
halftime sub:...DUFC Leal replaces Doner.
46 min...DUFC Goddard is injured in DUFC box.
47 min...DUFC Leal clears crossed ball into DUFC box at 5 yards.
48 min...DUFC goalie on left post bats down 22 yard shot down middle.
49 min...DUFC Lord taps pass to DUFC Hargrave who shoots low from 25 yards just wide right of post.
50 min...DUFC Agard cross from right has DUFC Hargrave pop up header.
51 min...TFCA sub...Restrepo replaces Godinho.
52 min...TFCA Sacramento cuts over and chips 22 yard shot just high and wide left of net.
53 min...TFCA Sequeira low 25 yard shot from right is smothered by goalie.
54 min...DUFC Saimovici cross from 30 yards on right has goalie catch in crowd of players.
55 min...TFCA Babouli receives 30 yard freekick from left at 8 yards on right and goalie catches quick volleyed kick.
59 min...TFC goalie dives on ball into box as DUFC Young backs over him and falls.
61 min...DUFC Leal cross from 30 yards on right has goalie swat ball forward to prevent header attempt.
63 min...DUFC goalie charges out to clear TFCA Sacramento's through ball pass before TFCA Babouli can get to it.
64 min...TFCA Manella cornerkick from left has defender clear from middle of box.
65 min...TFCA Kaye taps pass that TFCA Sacramento blasts 25 yarder down middle over net.
66 min...TFCA YELLOW card...Mannella earns it for check near center line.
66 min...DUFC Hargrave low cross from 25 yards on left rolls through box unplayed.
67 min...DUFC Leal blasts 20 yarder from right well wide right of net.
69 min...DUFC Hargrave bursts up middle to get to ball and 15 yarder from right is just over top left corner.
71 min...TFCA Sacramento rolls pass from 30 yards on left is over to TFCA Uccello who shoots 30 yarder over net.
72 min...TFCA Babouli pokes 12 yard shot after run and goalie smothers on left post.
74 min...DUFC sub...Laborde replaces Agard.
75 min...DUFC Hargrave cornerkick has defender head away near left post.
76 min...TFCA Sacramento passes from center over to TFCA Babouli rushing up left and Babouli cuts in on defender and gets away 18 yard shot that goalie catches.
77 min...TFCA Robertson rolls 20 yard cross from left end line that goalie picks up near left post.
78 min...DUFC Leal 40 yard freekick from right has goalie catch in crowd of players.
79 min...TFCA Babouli rush on left and shot off DUFC Farrell from 10 yards deflects for cornerkick.
79 min...TFCA Mannella cornerkick from left has defender clear away.
81 min...TFCA player cross from left has TFCA Babouli and Sacramento have a shot each blocked and saved in the box.
82 min...TFCA Robertson cross from 20 yards on left has goalie catch.
83 min...TFCA Kaye crashes into goalie on cross sent in from right injurying him.
84 min...DUFC Hargrave charges up left and wins cornerkick on defender's sliding tackle.
85 min...DUFC Lord 30 yard freekick from right sideline has TFCA Restrepo head away on left.
89 min...DUFC YELLOW card...Grant earns it for complaining about TFCA player lining up freekick.
89 min...TFCA Mannella 45 yard freekick from right has DUFC Goddard head behind end line.
90 min...DUFC Crichton and Goddard finds themselves on 2 on 1 but charging goalie clears away.
91 min...DUFC Young 18 yard shot from right has goalie stop at 15 yards.
91 min...TFCA Kaye shot deflects from 15 yards on left wide right for cornerkick.
92 min...TFCA Roubos cornerkick from right has TFCA Black head from 6 yards wide right of post.
93 min...game ends 10:51pm.

Final Score:......Durham United FC.....1......Toronto FC Academy.....1...

Attendance was about 125 and gradually got smaller as the game wore on. The late start of 9:00pm (most DUFC games I can see by the schedule start at a more reasonable 8:00pm) was explained by the game that just finished before this one. Ther local Pickering Power U18s lost to Montego Bay United U18s 2-1. There looked like there were at least 500 people scattered on and around the field for this fundraiser for this Jamaican team. It's too bad they couldn't padlock the gate to keep the people here to watch the League 1 Ontario game!

Joseph Roccasalva opened the scoring at 7 minutes on DUFCs first chance in the TFCA zone. Molham Babouli scored his league leading sixth goal of the season to tie the game at 30 minutes. I thought from there TFCA would take over and Babouli might score three goals like he did against Masters FA a few weeks ago but DUFC played well in the second half and either team could have got the winner. Second half injury time found DUFC Kyle Crichton and Jordon Hargrave suddenly on a 2 on 1 break from 45 yards but the ball was pushed a bit too far forward and goalie Mark Rogal charged out and cleared the ball. Just before the final whistle TFCA Christopher Mannella took a cornerkick from the left that Kevon Black headed from 6 yards just wide right of the post.

Molham Babouli and Dylan Sacramento looked most dangerous for TFCA and Jordon Hargrave and Taylor Lord were for Durham.

Referee Alexis Vaughan gave out three Yellow cards that I counted. Two were for TFCA challenges and the DUFC one was for complaining about the awarding of the freekick.

It was a good thing the game had more than the minimum four balls because despite there being ballboys plenty of balls were sent out of bounds into the surrounding forest. The south sideline was lined by a WW1 depth trench which might have trapped a lot of the balls but there was no way to see them in the pitch dark. I'd been to this park last month and realized that if it wasn't for the wind, there'd be a lot of mosquitos so on this night there were a lot of them and I kept swatting, taking notes and pictures, and swatting again.

The result moves TFCA to 3 wins, 3 ties, 0 losses for 12 points for 2nd place and DUFC record is 1 win, 3 ties, 2 losses for a share of 6th place in the 10 team league. Since there are no playoffs in the League competition, all the teams have to look out that the frontrunning Vaughan Azzurri with 13 points in only five games don't pull too far ahead.

NOTE: Rogers Community Channel was taping the game for later broadcast in the Durham Region. Much the same as last Sunday when Rogers taped the Woodbridge Striker game for those people who live in the Vaughan region, I don't expect to see this game as I'm one of the 4 million people in the City of Toronto who are shut out. The Rogers Sports Channel 368/369 which is the overflow for Ontario community sports runs about 20 hours a day of test patterns so they could easily put this on. I'd expect with the production costs of these games they could recycle this game five times in a week but don't bother.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

Durham United FC starters