June 23, 2019 League 1 Ontario--Vaughan Azzurri vs Windsor TFC game report (by Rocket Robin)

Result and details of the Sunday June 23, 2019 League 1 Ontario game between Vaughan Azzurri and Windsor TFC
played at McNaughton Turf in Maple at 3:00pm.

Vaughan Azzurri (all navy, white numbers, red trim)

......................12 Matt George
5 Raheem Rose...4 Shiquan Lowe...2 Justyn Thomas...3 Leonard Sohn
11 Massimo Ferrin...16 Edward Lay (cpt)...13 Sameer Fathazada...8 Alistair Johnston
................9 Maksym Kowal...22 Ryan Raposo

Subs:...1 Michael Argyrides (gk)...6 Duran Lee...7 Jahsua Mills...10 Jason Mills
...14 Jarek Whiteman...15 Andrew Gray...21 Federico Leal
team officials:...team head coach Patrice Gheisar...assistant coaches Francesco Vescio and Kasy Kiarash
...manager Tony De Palma...therapist Estaban Clavijo

Windsor TFC (all red, white numbers)

.....................23 Kaneen Fells
16 Theo Hirst...11 Bryce Phillips...17 Juan Jaramillo...3 Andrew Ribeiro
10 Vladimir Zoksimovski...9 Jonathan Agapito...8 Ard Dieker...14 Nameer Sto...22 Leonardo Fereirra DaSilva
.....................19 Xhoejian Cekaj

Subs:...1 Brogan Engbers (gk)...6 Connor McLeod...15 Nathaniel Clemmings...21 Lazar Radic
...xx Daniel Mendonca
team officials:...team head coach Ryan Mendonca...assistant coach James Lambourne...managers Sasha Trpcevski
and Vancho Cirovski

Game officials:...referee Hassane Rifai...referee's assistants Nick Vagenas and Armando Pereira
...fourth official Liam Tremblay...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

First Half:...game starts 3:03pm...Vaughan defends south end on this hot afternoon with a bright sun in the west
and no breeze.
2 min...VA Sameer Fathazada GOAL...VA player's low cornerkick from left has a VA player tip ball
from left end line into middle of box where Fathazada in a crowd of players raises his leg
and tips ball into net from 2 yards.
5 min...VA Raposo low blasts between players up middle from 30 yards wins cornerkick on deflection.
6 min...VA Raposo short cornerkick from left has VA Fathazada on left end line cross in 15 yarder that
goalie catches in front of VA player waiting to tap-in on right post.
9 min...W Hirst cross from near right end line has VA Thomas leap to head away. Thomas then heads away cross from left.
15 min...VA Kowal chips pass forward from 25 yards up middle too far for VA Raposo and goalie picks up.
16 min...VA Lay 30 yard low shot is through players but well wide left of net.
19 min...VA Lay high 22 yard freekick from top left has goalie drift wide right to catch in front of VA Lowe waiting for tap-in.
21 min...VA Raheem Rose is tripped up by W Nameer Sto as he runs into right side of box.
Referee Hassane Rifai calls for a VA Penalty kick.
22 min...VA Maksym Kowal GOAL...Kowal stutter steps Penalty kick to slight right as goalie
Kaneen Fells shuffles to left.
24 min...W Sto blasts 22 yarder along left end line into side webbing of net.
25 min...VA Kowal run up middle eluding defender at 30 yards then tries to elude W Phillips but ball slips away at 10 yards.
27 min...W Fereirra DaSilva 35 yard freekick from left is over head of charging W Zoksimovski at 8 yards on right.
29 min...VA Leonard Sohn GOAL...VA Alastair Johnston in middle on edge of box passes forward
and left to Sohn who shoots 12 yarder into right corner of net.
31 min...VA Ferrin is rolled freekick up right and his shot on left end line is off defender and deflects out for goalkick.
32 min...VA Lowe beats W Sto to ball on right side of VA box.
33 min...W Phillips high cross from right is over box and W Ribeiro shoots 15 yarder from far left well wide left of net.
36 min...VA Ferrin rolls 28 yarder from right that VA Raposo at 12 yards in middle can't control and goalie picks up.
38 min...W Zoksimovski cross from right end lilne is over head of W Cekaj at 6 yards in middle.
39 min...W Zoksimovski run from right sideline to center and rolls 15 yarder to goalie.
42 min...W Sto is injured at VA 40 yard line. The referee calls a water break with the trainer out treating player.
44 min...VA Fathazada charge forward to recover W defender's pass and from 22 yards and rush and 12 yarder is caught
point blank by sliding goalie.
45 min...W sub...Radic replaces injured Sto.
46 min...W Radic charges up left and cross to center where charging W Dieker blasts 22 yarder well wide right.
VA Johnston is injured on play.
47 min...VA goalie catches high cross at 15 yards in middle of box.
49 min...VA sub...Jason Mills replaces injured Johnston.
53 min...W goalie beats VA Kowal to through ball pass at 30 yards on pass sent from 55 yards.
54 min...half ends 3:51pm.

Halftime: The W players stay under the canopy at their bench. The VA players and the officials return to the dressing rooms
across the street.

Second Half:...starts 4:08pm.
46 min...VA Rose run down right to long pass and cross from end line is caught by goalie.
47 min...VA Raposo turns and blasts 18 yarder from far left that flying goalie pushes wide left of post.
47 min...VA Ferrin cornerkick from left is through all the players in the box. VA Rose eventually gets
low 30 yard shot just wide left of net.
49 min...W Fereirra DaSilva cornerkick from left is over players in box. W Dieker blasts 15 yarder from right
well over net.
52 min...VA Raposo long run down left eluding defender and low 25 yarad shot bounces to goalie on near post.
53 min...VA Lay high cornerkick from right is caught by goalie in crowd of players.
54 min...VA Messimo Ferrin GOAL...Ferrin blasts low freekick down middle from 20 yards around
player wall and into left corner of net over diving goalie.
56 min...W Cekaj raises foot as after goalie grabs ball on bouncer after turning back to pick it up. A dust up
starts between players. The referee has to break up and deal with the W head coach on the sidelines.
58 min...VA Ferrin eludes one defender and has shot along end line is deflected for cornerkick.
59 min...VA Lay low cornerkick from right has nearest defender clear.
62 min...W Fereirra DaSilva 40 yard shot up middle has goalie chest it down.
62 min...VA players 33 yard cross on left is over heads of W goalie and VA Kowal at 12 yard line who
are both injured in collision.
65 min...VA Jason Mills centers pass to VA Ferrin who blasts 30 yarder down middle well high and wide left.
65 min...W sub...McLeod replaces Zoksimovski.
66 min...VA Raposo cornerkick from wasted as it's passes around but never sent in the box and W start a fast breakout.
67 min...W Dieker cornerkick from left has VA Fathazada on near post head away.
68 min...VA Ferrin rolls centering pass from right. VA Lay blasts 25 yarder up middle between players well high wide left.
69 min...VA sub...Whiteman replaces Kowal.
72 min...W Ferirra DaSilva has 20 yard shot up middle deflects off defender for cornerkick.
73 min...W Ribeiro cornerkick from right is over players in box and VA Rose clears on left.
74 min...VA YELLOW card...Jason Mills earns it for a foul.
.........VA YELLOW card...Thomas earns it for talking away from play after whistle.
76 min...VA (W Andrew Ribeiro own goal) GOAL...VA Jarek Whiteman and Sameer Fathazada work
a give and go on the left and Fathazada sends in a low cross 15 yard cross from near the end line
that rolls past the goalie guarding the near post. Ribeiro recovers on right post but facing goal
so it looks like he was going to concede cornerkick by deflecting behind own line but clears
it off inside of right post and into net.
76 min...VA sub...Gray replaces Fathazada.
.........VA sub...Leal replaces Lay. VA Jason Mills becomes the new captain.
77 min...VA Ferrin low 15 yard shot from left has sliding goalie tip wide left.
78 min...VA sub...Jahsua Mills replaces Ferrin.
78 min...VA Leal high cornerkick from left is caught by goalie.
81 min...VA Sohn high cross from 30 yards on left is caught by leaping goalie.
83 min...W goalie swats ball up and away from VA Jahsua Mills then catches on way down at 12 yards.
84 min...VA Leal blasts 40 yarder between players from left that goalie catches on near post.
85 min...VA Leal 40 yard freekick from left is low and bounces wide left.
88 min...VA Leal 33 yard freekicik up middle is under jumping player in three man wall but rolls to goalie.
90 min...W Ferrirra DaSilva is injured. The referee plays the advantage and another W player blasts 30 yard shot from right
that goalie bats down and picks up.
91 min...game ends 4:54pm.

Final Score:...Vaughan Azzurri.......5........Windsor TFC........0.......

Attendance was about 50 on this hot and sunny day.

I thought this game would have a lot of goals and Vaughan would be scoring them. Windsor has
only scored five this season. I've been attending CPL York 9 FC games and goals have been
in short supply. Actually yesterday afternoon I saw four of last year's Vaughan L1O league
and cup champions playing for York 9 and two playing for HFX Wanderers. Vaughan's head coach
last year is an assistant coach on York 9 now. Windsor brought a short bench (only making two subs)
and I thought that would effect them late in the game but Vaughan put it away in the first half.

Matt George earned the shutout for Vaughan without having much to do as Windsor players had few
shots and most were off target. One incident at 56 minute started a dust-up when George had
to turn back towards goal to grab a bouncer and W Xhoejian Cekaj put his foot up to chest high
to jab at the ball. That got the two of them going at it and the referee had to break that up
and deal with the enraged Windsor head coach Ryan Mendonca and ignore the comments from the angry
father in the stands.

62 minutes had a collision that injured Windsor goalie Kaneen Fells and Vaughan forward Maksym Kowal
at the 12 yard line when a high cross was sent into the box.

The game wasn't too rough except that a player on each team had to be replaced in first half injury
time because of injuries in separate incidents. The first one allowed the referee to call a water
break while the trainer worked on W Nameer Sto. The incidents dragged the first half to 54 minutes
from the '2 minutes added' that was originally scheduled. Referee Hassane Rifai gave out two
Yellow cards and they were within seconds to two Vaughan players for complaining far away from
where a whistle was blown to award Windsor a freekick at 76 minutes.

The win moves Vaughan into a tie for first place with Oakville Blue Devils with identical 7 win,
1 loss, 0 ties for 21 points. Vaughan is actually listed first as they have a +22 in goals for/against
whereas OBD is +12. Vaughan is the hottest team in the league after losing their opening game
of the year against Sigma FC they've won every one since including a 4-1 win at the beginning
of the month against OBD in Oakville.

Windsor's record falls to 1 win, 6 losses, 0 ties for 3 points. They are currently fifteenth.

I never thought Windsor nor FC London were particularly close to the MLS Toronto FC team
(that's at the League 1 Ontario level) when they signed their sponsorship deals. It was the 14 year old
and under kids I expected TFC would be more interested in for coaching and their academy programs.
Today I thought I recognized the Windsor back up goalie. Yes once I had the game sheets I did
realize it was Brogan Engbers. He played for Toronto FC III (who were in this league since the
beginning but at the end of last season joined the USSDA system). I asked him after the game because
the next progression would be the USL Toronto FC II team. He said he can't play for them as changes
to the Academy system and TFC II mean he'd be on the same team as professional contracted players
and would lose his eligibility to play for his university team. (I looked it up later to remind
me it was Liberty University in Lynchburg Virginia co-founded by evangelist Jerry Falwell). He could
join amateur Windsor TFC though so to keep in game shape he has been offered to play games--but road
games. Windsor is quite a distance but the team is usually in the GTA every second week as most
of the teams are here.

We've now reached the halfway point of the season with all teams playing seven or eight games
of their fifteen game schedules. Top eight teams in the sixteen team league make the playoffs
which will be knock out rounds this year.

This is finally the last game scheduled at McNaughton Turf Field after more than a month's delay
the club's new facilities will finally be opened at North Maple Regional Park which is just
a little farther north on Keele Street than this facility. (Next home game on their schedule
is on Sunday July 14). The club will be able to consolidate their youth teams to one central
location instead of renting facilities all over the city. This season they've given up on getting
the scoreboard to run in the south end and instead use a table-top scoreboard near the
PA announcer's canopy which is on the same side of the field as the spectators and can't
be seen by them. Rumours last year were that the York 9 FC new facility would be on a packet
of land almost beside this property near Kirby but the CPL team's plan now appears to a choice
between three possible sites.

Rocket Robin
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Vaughan Azzurri starters