June 25, 2015 PDL--Toronto FC Academy vs Michigan Bucks (by Rocket Robin)

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Results and details of the Wednesday June 25, 2015 PDL game between Toronto FC Academy and Michigan Bucks played at KIA Training Centre in Downsview at 2:30pm. Toronto FC Academy (all red, white numbers)

.................1 Darrin McLeod
23 Oliver Spring...6 Eli Roubos...3 Kevon Black (cpt)...24 Anthony Osorio
10 Martin Davis...18 Mike Maiorano...8 Dapo Afolayan...11 Daniel Jodah
...........17 Mark Gonsalez...15 Azaih Reid

Subs:...30 Phil DiBennardo (gk)...5 Alain Sargeant (def)...20 Josh Parades (mid)...7 Raheem Thorpe (fwd)
...14 Nicholas Osorio (mid)...16 Tarik Robertson (def)
team officials:...head coach Stuart Neely

Michigan Bucks (all forest green, orange numbers and trim)

..................1 Drew Shepherd
5 Nick Wysong...20 Zak Bock...4 Francis DeVries...14 David Caban
6 Tom Owens (cpt)...7 Marco Charalambous...23 Calvin Rezende...8 Russell Cicerone
.............10 Sean Sepe...9 David Goldsmith

Subs:...30 Nate Steinwascher (gk)...12 Jeff Adkins (mid)...17 Sebastian Wladyko (mid)...18 Maik Brandt (def)...21 Sean Hazen (def)
...26 Connor Rezende (mid)...24 Ethan Kutler (mid)
team officials:...head coach Gary Parsons

Game officials:...referee Fabrizio Stasola...referee's assistants Filip Dujic and Natalie Ford...fourth official Cyrus Esha
...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

1st Half:...game starts 2:33pm....TFCA defends south end on this warm overcast afternoon with a breeze from the east.
1 min...TFCA Spring cross from 22 yards on far right is caught by goalie.
2 min...TFCA Spring makes key stop on low cross from right through TFCA 6 yard box.
3 min...Bucks Calvin Rezende 22 yard shot down middle is over net.
5 min...Bucks #3 cross from 25 yards on far right is caught by goalie.
6 min...Bucks Cicerone cross from 15 yards on far left has defender head ball away.
8 min...Bucks Cicerone cross from 15 yards on left bounces through ball over net.
9 min...TFCA Jodah blasts 35 yarder down middle well high and wide right of net.
10 min...Bucks Charalambous cross from 28 yards from left forward and goalie catches behind Bucks players.
11 min...TFCA goalie palms 25 yard chip down middle over net.
12 min...Bucks Bock is injured crashing into left post on recross of Bucks partially cleared cornerkick from right.
13 min...Bucks #3 cornerkick from right is caught by goalie.
15 min...TFCA Jodah 35 yard freekick from left has goalie catch.
15 min...Bucks Calvin Rezende through ball down middle and 20 yard low shot is stopped point blank by sliding goalie at 15 yards.
15 min...Bucks Calvin Rezende bends 22 yarder from left high and wide right of net.
It starts to rain.
21 min...Bucks Calvin Rezende cross from 25 yards on right bounces out left side of box as no Bucks player is around.
22 min...Bucks Russell Cicerone GOAL...A Bucks player's low cross from 25 yards on right has Bucks David Goldsmith tap ball over about 5 yards to Ciccerone who shoots low 15 yarder under sprawling goalie Darrin McLeod.
27 min...Bucks player rush on left and pushes ball forward to Bucks Caban who shoot from 8 yards on left that goalie bats down on left post and TFCA Black clears rebound at 5 yards.
29 min...Bucks goalie charges forward to catch through ball bouncer at 15 yards.
30 min...TFCA Anthony Osorio cross from 25 yards on left has no one come into Bucks box to make play.
31 min...Bucks Calvin Rezende cross from 20 yards on right is caught by goalie.
32 min...Bucks Cicerone 50 yard run down middle is between defenders but TFCA Black pokes ball away at 15 yards.
34 min...Bucks Sean Sepe GOAL...Bucks Marco Charalambous taps pass past defenders on edge of box and Sepe shoots 15 yarder down middle low into right side of net.
37 min...TFCA Mark Gonsalez GOAL...TFCA Dapo Afolayan cross from 30 yards on left and Gonsalez in center of box gets mid-air shot from 12 yards into high right side of net with goalie Drew Shepherd stuck in center of net.
39 min...Bucks Owens blasts 25 yarder up middle between defenders and goalie bats ball down.
40 min...TFCA Anthony Osorio 25 yard freekick from right has defender in crowd of players head ball away.
41 min...Bucks player's cornerkick from right has TFCA Jodah head ball away on right side of box. Another Bucks player crosses from 22 yards and Bucks DeVries heads 8 yarder just wide left of post.
42 min...Bucks Charalambous blasts low from 22 yards has diving goalie push wide right of post.
42 min...Bucks #3 cornerkick from right is caught by goalie.
45 min...TFCA player cross from 20 yards on left across box and TFCA Davis midair shot from 10 yards on right is back across 6 yard box and cleared.
46 min...half ends 3:19pm.

2nd Half:...starts 3:36pm...It's raining even harder than before.
halftime subs:...TFCA Parades replaces Afolayan.
.............TFCA Thorpe replaces Maiorano.
.............TFCA Robertson replaces Anthony Osorio.
.............TFCA Nicholas Osorio replaces Jodah.
47 min...Bucks Owens pass from 30 yards to Bucks Goldsmith on left and 15 yard blast is stopped by sprawling goalie.
50 min...TFCA Parades cornerkick from left is low and defender clears at 5 yards.
52 min...TFCA Spring low cross from 22 yards on right has defender clear.
53 min...Bucks Rezende cornerkick from right is knocked away for another cornerkick.
53 min...Bucks Zak Bock GOAL...Bucks Calvin Rezende cornerkick from right is downfield to Bucks Tom Owens who crosses from 25 yards on right to Bok to head from 7 yards just under the middle of crossbar.
54 min...TFCA Robertson breaks through defenders but flubs 20 yard shot.
55 min...TFCA player shot 18 yarder over net.
61 min...TFCA Parades cornerkick from left is low and nearest defender clears.
62 min...TFCA YELLOW card...Robertson earns if for grabbing Bucks player breaking out at Bucks 50 yard line.
63 min...TFCA Parades 28 yard freekick from left is headed away by defender.
63 min...Bucks Caralambous ends sustained Bucks pressure when he's chicked off ball at TFCA 10 yard line.
64 min...Bucks Rezende pass from 30 yards on left is into TFCA box but no one is there to get to ball so goalie picks it up.
66 min...TFCA sub...Sargeant replaces Roubos.
68 min...Bucks Wysong charges on right and cross from 30 yard has Bucks Charalambous take midair shot from 5 yards that flies over net.
71 min...Bucks sub...Wladyko replaces Charlambous.
72 min...TFCA Davis splits defenders but another defender clears ball at 10 yards before he gets shot.
73 min...Bucks sub...Adkins replaces Sepe.
75 min...TFCA Robertson rush down left and cross from 20 yards near left end line drifts behind end line.
76 min...Bucks player makes sliding tackle to poke ball off TFCA Thorpe in Bucks box at 5 yards.
77 mnin...TFCA Nicholas Osorio cornerkick from left has leaping defender head ball away at 8 yards.
78 min...Bucks David Goldsmith GOAL...Bucks Russell Cicerone flicks ball forward on chip from 20 yards and Goldsmith at 10 yards whiffs with his right foot then kicks in with his left to low left corner of net past diving goalie.
79 min...Bucks sub...Conner Rezende replaces Cicerone.
81 min...Bucks Sebastian Wladyko GOAL...Bucks Calvin Rezende cross from 15 yards from right has charging Wladyko race up the middle and head ball downwards and in from 5 yards.
82 min...Bucks sub...Kutler replaces Calvin Rezende.
83 min...Bucks sub...Brandt replaces Caban.
It stops raining.
84 min...TFCA Parades 35 yard freekick from right is over net.
85 min...Bucks sub...Hazen replaces Wysong.
88 min...Bucks defenders prevent break-in at 15 yards with some key blocks.
91 min...Bucks Connor Rezende cuts direction and 25 yard shot from right is well wide left of net.
92 min...Bucks Connor Rezende pokes ball past defender at 12 yards on right and goalie dives out to stop.
93 min...Bucks player's cornerkick from right drops on left side of box but bounces out of play.
94 min...game ends 4:24pm.

Final Score:.....Toronto FC Academy.......1........Michigan Bucks.....5....

Attendance was about 30 on this warm and overcast afternoon with a breeze from the east. At the 20 minute mark it started to rain and get harder in the second half until stopping completely about five minutes before the game ended. I don't mind rain if I don't have to hold and pen, notebook, umbrella, and juggle a camera and pair of binoculars at the same time. I hung the pages up when I got home for them to dry out. TFC/TFC II player Jay Chapman was in the stands watching until the rain got really bad.

Referee Fabrizio Stasola only gave out one Yellow card the whole game (TFCA defender Tarik Robertson for a holding call preventing a breakout). The game had some sliding tackles on the wet turf but nothing vicious.

TFCA head coach Stuart Neely made four of his five subs at halftime and the team had a few more chances than the first half but it turned the game wide open with more chances by the Bucks as well. We didn't get to see the two Osorio brothers on this team play together because defender (for today) Anthony played the first half and Nicholas played midfield in the second half. I've seen some games where they've both played midfield which got me thinking if there'd ever be a day when they play with big brother Jonathan on MLS Toronto FC; leaving one midfield spot open for Michael Bradley!

TFCA's record falls to 1 win, 6 losses, 2 ties and in a four way tie for fourth place (or you could say all four teams tied for 'last'). They've played more games than all those teams.

Bucks' record improves to 8 wins, 0 losses, 1 tie and all alone in first place by 6 points and a game in hand on second place Forest City London. This unbeaten streak carries over from last year when they won the PDL Championship over all the other divisions and conferences in North America. The Bucks head coach wasn't here today as he was in a tournament in Indiana.

TFCA still has two home games left this season but I expect I've seen my last one. Saturday morning they play Derby City at 10:00am but I'll be at the TFC and TFC II games down at BMO Field. Tuesday July 14th at 10:00am they play K-W United but I've just received accreditation to cover the Gold Cup matches at BMO that day. I thanked the TFC staff today but I'll expect I'll see them as soon as Sunday afternoon when I watch the TFCA team in League 1 Ontario.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

game report from uslpdl.com

Summary:
MIC: Russell Cicerone (David Goldsmith) 23'
MIC: Sean Sepe (Marco Charalambous) 36'
TFC: Mark Gonsalez (Anthony Osorio) 38'
MIC: Zachary Bock (Tom Owens) 53'
MIC: David Goldsmith (Russell Cicerone) 78'
MIC: Sebastian Wladyko (Calvin Rezende) 81'

Cautions
TFC: Tarik Robertson 61'

Ejections
 None

Referees: Fabrizio Stasolla, Filip Dujic, Cyrus Eshafi, Natalie Ford

Michigan Bucks 
Pos Jer Name Min G A S F 
M 7 Charalambous, Marcos Nicosia  70  1 1  
M 22 Cicerone, Russell  79 1 1 1  
M 9 Goldsmith, David  90 1 1 1 1 
M 6 Owens, Thomas J  90  1   
M 23 Rezende, Calvin James  82  1 2 3 
M 10 Sepe, Sean  73 1  1 1 
D 20 Bock, Zachary E  90 1  1 3 
D 14 Caban, David  82   3  
D 5 Wysong, Nick  84     
D 4 de Vries, Francis  90   2 1 
GK 1 Shepherd, Andrew Morgan  90     
Substitutes 
 25 Rezende, Connor  11   1 1 
M 21 Hazen, Sean  6     
M 24 Kutler, Ethan  8    1 
M 17 Wladyko, Sebastian Jan  30 1  1  
D 18 Brandt, Maik  8     
F 12 Adkins, Jeffrey  17     
GK 30 Steinwascher, Nathan       
  
TFC Academy 
Pos Jer Name Min G A S F 
M 8 Afolayan, Oladapo  45     
M 10 Davis, Martin  90     
M 11 Jodah, Daniel A  45   2  
M 24 Osorio, Anthony  45     
D 3 Black, Kevon  90    1 
D 6 Roubos, Elias  66     
D 23 Spring, Oliver  90    1 
F 17 Gonzalez, Mark  90 1  2  
F 18 Maiorano, Michael  45     
F 15 Reid, Aziah  90    1 
GK 1 MacLeod, Darrin  90     
Substitutes 
M 14 Osorio, Nicholas  45     
D 6 Paredes-Prater, Joshua  45   1  
D 16 Robertson, Tarik  45    1 
D 5 Sargeant, Alain "Issa Omari"  24     
F 7 Thorpe, Rahim  45    2 
GK 30 Di Bennardo, Filippo       

Michigan Bucks 
Pos Jer Name GKM GA GKW GKL GKT SO Saves SHFC 
GK 1 Shepherd, Andrew Morgan  90 1 1    2 3 
  
TFC Academy 
Pos Jer Name GKM GA GKW GKL GKT SO Saves SHFC 
GK 1 MacLeod, Darrin  90 5  1   5 10 

Team Statistics

Goals          Half1 Half2   Final 
Michigan Bucks    2    3       5  
TFC Academy       1    0       1  
 
Shots          Half1 Half2   Final 

Michigan Bucks    7    5      12  
TFC Academy       3    2       5  

Saves          Half1 Half2   Final 

Michigan Bucks    1    1       2  
TFC Academy       4    1       5  
 
Fouls          Half1 Half2   Final 

Michigan Bucks   4     7      11  
TFC Academy      2     4       6  

Offsides       Half1 Half2   Final 

Michigan Bucks   0     0       0  
TFC Academy      2     0       2  
 
Corners        Half1 Half2   Final 

Michigan Bucks   4     1       5  
TFC Academy      0     4       4

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