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June 12, 2022 League1 Ontario...Woodbridge Strikers vs Scrosoppi FC game report (by Rocket Robin)
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Results and details of the League1 Ontario Men's Premier Division game of Sunday June 12, 2022 between
Woodbridge Strikers and Scrosoppi FC played at Vaughan Grove in Vaughan at 7:00pm.
Woodbridge Strikers (all blue uniforms, white numbers)
......................1 Holger Xhameta
2 Keegan Wilson...4 Alex Meczarski...5 David Mutembezi...3 Matthew Trasente
..........10 Ibnazio Muccilli (cpt)...8 Armaan Wilson...11 Dante Pavan
...............22 Santino De Bartolo...9 Abdou Raouf Mohamed...20 Kadiebue Kadiebue
Subs:...76 Markland Simposon (gk)...6 Patrick Braun...7 Aziah Reid...16 Khubaib Mahboubullah
...18 Ronaldo Marshall...19 Tyler Miranda...21 Damion Kaye...24 Sheikh Mehboob
...25 Santiago Muniz Saavedra
team officials:...team head coach Peter Pinizzotto...assistant coach Michael Aquino...manager John Scarlato
therapists David Lisi and Muhammet Furkan Demir
Scrosoppi FC (yellow socks and shirts, black short and numbers)
..........................1 Daniel Clarke
13 Cody Green...8 Noah Bickford...3 Tajay Reid...5 Anthony Stolar
22 Matthew Laic...10 Mikolas Blaskovic (cpt)...96 Anthony Wright
...........9 Cyrus Rollocks...11 Mujtaba Ameen Ameen...16 Jevontae Layne
Subs:...33 Michael Markac (gk)...(2 or 5) Dario Jezerinac...7 Duante Walkes...12 Noel Williamson
...14 Ethan Raulino...17 Danny Medeiros...19 Jaedyn Saunders...20 Santiago Patrarroyo...27 James Arango
team officials...team head coaches Andrew Seurage and Shayne Griffin...assistant coaches Alexandre Oran
and Robert Stillo...manager Hugo Sousa...therapist Michael Wong
Game officials:...referee Melvin Christopher...referee's assistants Nick Vagenas and Austin Fromhold-Treu
...fourth official Nivan Raizada...(red socks and shirts, black shorts)
First Half:...game starts 7:04pm...Woodbridge defends south end.
1 min...W Raouf Mohamed rolls centering pass and W Muccilli 15 yard shot deflects off defender for cornerkick.
2 min...W player's cornerkick from left is cleared by defender in box.
2 min...Scro Blaskovic freekick near right end line has Scro Rollocks stop ball but he's checked off ball without getting a shot.
4 min...Scro Rollocks low cross into W box from right is picked up by goalie.
6 min...W YELLOW card...Wilson earns it for check on Scro Ameen at center line.
12 min...W Pavan chips ball forward but defender heads away before W Muccilli can get ball at 12 yards in middle.
14 min...W Muccilli shot from right edge of box is blocked by defender.
14 min...Woodbridge Abdou Raouf Mohamed GOAL...Raouf Mohamed blasts 25 yarder up middle between players
that hits bottom of bar and bounces down. Goalie Daniel Clarke turns to grab it and pushes it into own net on left
as he falls back.
15 min...W Raouf Mohamed wins cornerkick on rush.
16 min...Scro goalie catches W short cornerkick play from right when crossed into box in front of leaping W Raouf Mohamed.
17 min...Woodbridge Ignazio Muccilli GOAL...WS Armaan Wilson chips ball down middle from 25 yards
and Muccilli at 12 yards tips ball into top left of goal.
19 min...W goalie runs out to 22 yards to beat Scro Layne to ball and clear.
19 min...Scro YELLOW card...Ameen earns it for studs-up challenge on W Pavan.
23 min...Scrosoppi Jevonte Layne GOAL...Layne receives pass upfield on run down right and from tough angle
shoots from 22 yards from the 15 yard line that catches the left corner of the net beyond diving goalie Holger Xhameta.
26 min...W De Bartolo cuts around to tap pass for W Kadiebue on left near end line and 10 yard shot is pushed wide
by diving goalie on short side post.
27 min...W player's cornerkick from left is chipped arouond and eventually caught by goalie catching chip from 25 yards
behind crowd of players.
29 min...W Kadiebue 18 yard shot is blocked starting a Scro fast break upfield.
30 min...W Trasente high cross from left sideline has Scro goalie drift right to catch bumping with W Kadiebue.
33 min...W Mutembezi is injured at Scro 50 yard line on tackle.
34 min...Scro Rollocks races down right and cross from 20 yards along end line has leaping Scro Layne head 4 yarder over bar.
35 min...Scro YELLOW card...Lyne earns it for yet another trip up.
35 min...W Mutembezi is injured away from play at W 40 yard line and needs trainer. The players take a water break.
37 min...Scro Laic threads through ball up middle for Scro Rollocks who's called for offside but clips goalie as he runs by.
39 min...Scro Stolar is injured at W 45 yard line on left by W Keegan Wilson.
40 min...Scro Blaskovic cornerkick from left is cleared by defender ahead of Scro Layne's flying header attempt.
41 min...Scro Blaskovic from right has Scro Bickford head ball forward at 18 yards and goalie swats ball away and Scro Layne
knocks it wide left in 6 yard box for goalkick.
43 min...W Pavan cornerkick from right is headed away in box.
44 min...WS Abdou Raouf Mohamad just inside left side of box is pushed down by a falling Scr defender. He gets back up quickly,
steps over the fallen defender who then pulls him down again at 12 yards. Referee Melvin Christopher then awards WS
a Penalty kick.
45 min...Woodbridge Dante Pavan GOAL...Pavan blasts Penalty kick high to left side of goal as goalie dives right.
46 min...Scro goalie picks up roller on wide right to beat W Raouf Mohamed to ball.
47 min...half ends 7:51pm.
Halftime:
The PA announcer introduces the OFSAA school champions for 2022 from Holy Cross FC who are mostly with
the Woodbridge U-19s team. So these are the best high school boys in the province!
Both teams' subs warm up on the field. The Scrosoppi starters stay at their bench while Woodbridge returns to the dressing
room about 300 yards away.
Second Half:...starts 8:09pm.
halftime sub:...Scro Walkes replaces Ameen.
46 min...W Pavan receives cross from left and 15 yard header near right end line has goalie catch in front of W player.
47 min...W Pavan cornerkick from right has defender head away but ball is chipped back in and knocked for another cornerkick.
48 min...W Muccilli cornerkick from left has goalie make overhead catch at 3 yards. The goal is knocked off its moorings
as the Scro goalie pointed out at the next whistle and needs to be pushed back into place.
50 min...W Reid on breakaway from 35 yards and ogalie slides out to 20 yards to knock ball away.
51 min...Woodbridge Ignazio Muccilli GOAL...Muccilli knocks 7 yarder into open net after goalie had got a hand
to ball by making a sprawling save of a 15 yard shot.
52 min...Scro YELLOW card...Walkes earns it for complaining about the last play.
54 min...Scro Rollocks run to right end line and backheels pass for Scro player whose low 15 yard shot is saved by sprawling goalie.
56 min...Scro YELLOW card...Blaskovic earns it for body check on W Kadiebue at center line.
58 min...W De Bartolo cross from 22 yards has defender chest down and clear in 6 yard box.
59 min...W Mutembezi and Scro Layne are injured in collision at Scro 35 yard line.
60 min...W Kadiebue rush on right and 15 yard shot is blocked by sliding defender.
61 min...Scrosoppi RED card...Nikolas Blaskovic earns his second Yellow card for complaining about a call.
He had earned his first at 56 minutes.
62 min...W sub...Reid replaces Kadiebue.
63 min...W goalie picks up through ball pass on edge of box then is crunched by Scro Rollocks for W freekick call.
65 min...W sub...Kaye replaces Raouf Mohamed.
67 min...W Mutembezi is injured as play had moved upfield.
68 min...Scro sub...Medeiros replaces Green.
...........W sub...Marshall replaces Trasente.
71 min...W sub...Braun replaces Armaan Wilson.
..........W sub...Miranda replaces injured Mutembezi.
73 min...Scro Rollocks high cross from 30 yards on right is cleared.
74 min...Scrosoppi Danny Medeiros GOAL...Scro player eludes a defender on the left end line and rolls
a centering pass for Medeiros to blast a roller from 5 yards to left corner of net.
75 min...W Pavan and W Reid work out short cornerkick from right but ball is cleared.
76 min...Scro Rollocks receives short pass on right and 22 yard shot is wide left of net.
77 min...Scro Medeiros 22 yard freekick from left has goalie catch in front of Scro player charging in.
78 min...W Pavan is tapped pass after interception of defender and his 25 yard shot is wide left.
80 min...Scro sub...Patarroyo replaces Bickford.
80 min...W Pavan cornerkick from left works out short cornerkick in multi-pass play but ball is never put
into the box but W players keep the ball for 90 seconds.
82 min...Scro Wright is injured by tackle of W Kaye at Scro 30 yard line.
83 min...W Keegan Wilson rolls 15 yard shot that goalie dives to smother.
84 min...Scro Walkes rolls ball from left through 6 yard box unplayed and he is mad. W Keegan Wilson is injured
and needs trainer in W box.
85 min...Scro sub...Saunders replaces Laic.
86 min...Scro Reid shot has goalie sprawl to save. Another Scro player scores on the rebound but the offside flag was up.
The W goalie is injured and needs the trainer.
89 min...Scro Walkes cross from left is too far forward for Scro Rollocks and goalie grabs.
90 min...W YELLOW card...Reid earns it for knocking down Scro Stolar.
92 min...A multi player dustup near the Scro left cornerflag breaks out after a whistle for a Scro freekick.
94 min...Woodbridge RED card...Keegan Wilson earns it for his part in the fighting.
....................Scrosoppi RED card...Tajay Reid earns it for his part in the fighting.
.....................Woodbridge YELLOW card...A team official on the WS bench is given a card for arguing the play.
98 min...game ends 9:02pm.
Final Score:...Woodbridge Strikers.......4........Scrosoppi FC.........2..........
A fan fight breaks out in the stands soon after the final whistle. Some players got involved but other fans and team officials held them back. It looked like it was between girlfriends of the two teams. A videographer was filming the incident with a handheld cam while dismantling his cam-on-a-pole device (the L1O cam-on-a-pole was on the other side of the field). This footage would have proved useful if the police were needed but it was broken up before then. He'll probably just erase this now unless a company is still making 'Girls Gone Wild' videos. Attendance was about 175 on this warm evening after many hours of rain earlier in the day. The game once again was played on one of their field-turf fields. (the same one as earlier in the season). A team official said at that earlier game that the players like this field better. This time the scoreboard was working so we didn't have to crink out necks behind us when they used their main-field scoreboard when this one wasn't working. No residual water left on this field. Great...except the main grass field had been rented out to a men's league who were stomping it up. I'm sure these are rented out months in advance so there's not much they can do. That field has seating for about 400 people. This field-turf field had seating for only 100 so people also stood on both sides of the chainlink fence including some outside the fence in the parking lot end and the opposite side beside the players' benches. Referee Melvin Christopher gave out eleven cards that I counted. He had given players many 'no more' arm gestures before letting the cards fly so they can only blame themselves. There weren't really a lot of sliding tackles so it was just knock-downs and dissent. Huge turning point was Strikers able to score that third goal just before halftime to create some breathing room. Scrosoppi had a lot of near chances of just a poor last pass giving up possession and a few offsides. Cyrus Rollocks and Jevontae Layne were their main strike force. Strikers Abdou Raouf Mohamed did that 'knocked down/get back up quickly' move one other time during tonight's game. When he moves on someday someone will write that he's like a 'Roomba vacuum' or has that 'Kip Up' like the WWE's Drew McIntyre. As this was the last game of the weekend, the standings will hold like this until midweek. Woodbridge's record improves to 4 wins, 4 losses, 0 ties for 12 points and they now sit all alone in eleventh place. Scrosoppi's record falls to 3 wins, 5 losses, 1 tie for 10 points and they now sit all alone in seventeenth place. Wow such a huge difference with Woodbridge leaping past Scrosoppi. The cut off to survive in the top tier is twelfth (taken over this and next year's standings) when the division splits from its unruly twenty-two team premier division right now. There's a playoff bound group (top six) who are making some space between the rest of the teams and a group at the bottom who are floundering, but there's a huge clump of teams still close where every result puts them over or under that magic twelfth place. I had wanted to talk to Nikolas Blaskovic but he had been Red carded so I thought I'd lost my chance when he had to leave the field. I asked a Scrosoppi team official who pointed him out to me waiting at the gate (not the one where the fight broke out). I asked him if he was related to the Blaskovic who played for Toronto Metros Croatia. What I thought his answer was is “Yes both my grandfather and father played for Toronto Croatia”. Now the Blaskovic I was thinking of was (Mario) who had a daughter named Tina who I watched playing for Toronto Inferno of the W-League (and a few games for the Canadian National team). No he didn't know her. I expect he must be related to Filip Blaskovic who was on the Toronto Metros-Croatia from 1976 to 1978 including the team that won the NASL Soccer Bowl in 1976. I asked if Blaskovic was a common name like “John Smith” in English. “No it isn't” he said. Filip was born in Yugoslavia in 1945. Mario was born there in 1946 but a different town. When I googled Mario I found that he died just last October and it listed that he had played for Toronto Croatia. His family had season tickets in the same row as me to Toronto FC when I was in row 7 of section 108 (the last half of my SSH years after I moved from my near aisle seat in row 6). I'd see Mario or Tina or other family members or friends over the years). Ironically I'd been in that “John Smith” situation a few years ago when I noticed that a leading player in the Men's L1O and the Women's L1O had the same last name (different cities so a long shot) and the name “Kovacevic” means 'blacksmith's son' in Serbian. No those two players weren't related answered the male Kovacevic. Now that is a common name!
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Woodbridge Strikers starters
Scrosoppi FC starters
Woodbridge Abdou Raouf Mohamed (9) takes opening kickoff.
A high chip into the Scrosoppi end.
Woodbridge Santino De Bartolo (22) rush down right trying to elude Scrosoppi Anthony Stolar* (5).
(Stolar listed on the game sheets as wearing #2 but credited with the full 90 minutes (Dario Jezerinac #5 not in game).
Woodbridge Dante Pavan (11) dribbles to set up shot.
Action in the Woodbridge box.
Woodbridge Dante Pavan (11) will put this Penalty kick away.
Scrosoppi Jevontae Layne (16) takes second half kickoff.
Woodbridge Santino De Bartolo (22) waits for this high crossfield pass.
Woodbridge goalie Holger Xhameta waits for this ball to drop.
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