Golden flew to Turkey to face SS Rapido at their home stadium, the SS Rapido park, and definetely one of the warmest and sunny places the team has ever been. The locals had showed a friendly attitude from the beginning, and welcomed the team with arms wide open. However, in the field there's no room for friends, and the match contrasted shockingly with the previous experience.
SS Rapido prooved well the name they embrace by scoring the first goal of the match on 9'. Then the match went into harsh paths, with fouls cutting the play every 2-3 mins. On 30' Jan Willem Polman was leaving his mark behind to face the G.K. 1-1, but the defender slid from behind interrupting the action with a foul. Red card was more than expected and SS Rapido's defender didn't even wait for it to be showed to leave the pitch.
Locals faced deception once again, on 41', when previously warned Georg Assman received the second yellow card and leave his team with 9 players.
Golden couldn't take advantage of their numbers, and the few opportunities ended in the hands of SS Rapido's G.K..
Second half was certainly aiming for something better, as Golden was tuned and focused to reach the goal. However, all our efforts vanished over and over again with an unbeatable G.K. on rivals' side.
The match reached the point of boredom, and Golden had to wait until the very last minute in order to make it even. Jan Willem Polman pull out a moment of greatness and fired in the hole to put the 1-1. Time was running out, and a childish Bogdan Lupescu got his second yellow card by simulating a foul inside the box.
Final blow and a sour taste for Golden, whom couldn't manage to break rivals' defence and were expecting another result due to the numerical advantage.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Monday, March 22, 2010
Series Overview -- 2 games 'til the end
A very exciting end of season and a lot in play in the last 2 games, certainly the toughest games for afc danswijk who will face Golden first, and Jaïr United in the last game.
Afc has the highest goal difference, and a hold of 30 points. United holds the same ammount of points but a lower goal difference. Golden fell into an unfortunate 3rd position, only 2 points behind of previous mentioned teams.
4th place finds AAS with 17 points, 11 behind Golden, and 5th Power-Cats with 14 points. A leaderless The Mutans is placed in 6th place with 10 points, and in 7th we find jaxa struggling to remain in the division only 1 point behind Mutans. Relegated Ricardo's is last, facing one of the worse crisis of the club, with only 3 points.
Next match will defintely put some shape to the roster towards the end of the season and set the candidate to achieve promotion.
Golden aims to win against AFCD to come back to the top position, while United watches carefully and waits to face AFCD in the last match. It'll be time for AAS to try to sneak a win, or a tie, against United although is unlikely possible. Power-Cats face Ricardo's for a win to take over 4th position again. Jaxa must win if they want to remain in the series and send Mutans deep back to IX series.
Afc has the highest goal difference, and a hold of 30 points. United holds the same ammount of points but a lower goal difference. Golden fell into an unfortunate 3rd position, only 2 points behind of previous mentioned teams.
4th place finds AAS with 17 points, 11 behind Golden, and 5th Power-Cats with 14 points. A leaderless The Mutans is placed in 6th place with 10 points, and in 7th we find jaxa struggling to remain in the division only 1 point behind Mutans. Relegated Ricardo's is last, facing one of the worse crisis of the club, with only 3 points.
Next match will defintely put some shape to the roster towards the end of the season and set the candidate to achieve promotion.
Golden aims to win against AFCD to come back to the top position, while United watches carefully and waits to face AFCD in the last match. It'll be time for AAS to try to sneak a win, or a tie, against United although is unlikely possible. Power-Cats face Ricardo's for a win to take over 4th position again. Jaxa must win if they want to remain in the series and send Mutans deep back to IX series.
Hope of championship is still alive
Golden emerged victorious this Sunday, and struggled for the result, as AAS showed a remarkable resistance, overwhelmed only 10' before the final blow.
A cloudy and electric sky contributed to raise the tension in the atmosphere, while 12000 supporters were filling every place of El Dorado Arena to witness the match of their favorite team once again, and an important match to keep alive the chances in this league.
Match started with the loudly chants of the excited supporters, Golden pushing the play towards the center and AAS going for the opposite tactic, play towards the wings. 19' were necessary to pull out the first Golden's chance towards the rivals' goal. A rough play and an evenly matched mid-field cut goal chances on both ends. However, Golden showed tenacity and toughness and was able to create a couple of chances that didn't finish in the back of the net due to pure luck on rivals' side. Although that didn't last for too long when veteran defender, Olaf Meutstege, stomped his way to AAS' box and capitalized a smart move of the ball by the mid-fielders, dodging a couple of defenders and placing the ball on the opposite side of the goal, totally unreachable to the G.K.. A demonstration of experience and guts.
1st Half ended with not much excitement, and with Golden controlling the ball, and with that the play.
2nd Half looked more promising after a few moves from the center, however we had to wait until 56' for some action in the box. Bad definitions and good positioning on away team's defenders and G.K. prevented Golden from increasing the lead in most of the 2nd Half. It was only on 86' when Paolo Serra Ruda took a loose ball, after a foul that had earned him a yellow card, and sprinted through a desolated mid-field to reach the box and 1-1 with the G.K.. He faked the shot two times, creating the opening he wanted to smash the ball into the goal and claim the 2-0. AAS' players were not able to reach their side on time to prevent their goal from falling again, and were devastated morally, seeing how all their efforts went straight to the garbage bin because of a silly mistake after a free kick.
With little time to play, and with AAS showing no will to shorten Golden's lead, came 3rd goal of the night when Markus Maria Ueberschär shot from mid-range, after dodging his personal mark, putting the ball where the spiders sleep, right in the angle of the goal. Impotence and deception were perceived from the raging defenders and the sad G.K..
Golden kept possession and waited for the end of the match to come, passing the ball backwards to a bored Norbert Szilágyi, who didn't have a single intervention in the match and took the chance to show some jugling skills with the ball, ending the show-off with René Iguita's famous 'El Escorpión' move, for the rejoice of the supporters.
AAS came to El Dorado Arena with hopefull desires of shorten the points distance in the series' roster, but had to come back home empty-handed. Golden keeps the chances to reach 1st spot, only 2 points away from afc danswijk and Jaïr United, whom hold a higher goal difference.
A cloudy and electric sky contributed to raise the tension in the atmosphere, while 12000 supporters were filling every place of El Dorado Arena to witness the match of their favorite team once again, and an important match to keep alive the chances in this league.
Match started with the loudly chants of the excited supporters, Golden pushing the play towards the center and AAS going for the opposite tactic, play towards the wings. 19' were necessary to pull out the first Golden's chance towards the rivals' goal. A rough play and an evenly matched mid-field cut goal chances on both ends. However, Golden showed tenacity and toughness and was able to create a couple of chances that didn't finish in the back of the net due to pure luck on rivals' side. Although that didn't last for too long when veteran defender, Olaf Meutstege, stomped his way to AAS' box and capitalized a smart move of the ball by the mid-fielders, dodging a couple of defenders and placing the ball on the opposite side of the goal, totally unreachable to the G.K.. A demonstration of experience and guts.
1st Half ended with not much excitement, and with Golden controlling the ball, and with that the play.
2nd Half looked more promising after a few moves from the center, however we had to wait until 56' for some action in the box. Bad definitions and good positioning on away team's defenders and G.K. prevented Golden from increasing the lead in most of the 2nd Half. It was only on 86' when Paolo Serra Ruda took a loose ball, after a foul that had earned him a yellow card, and sprinted through a desolated mid-field to reach the box and 1-1 with the G.K.. He faked the shot two times, creating the opening he wanted to smash the ball into the goal and claim the 2-0. AAS' players were not able to reach their side on time to prevent their goal from falling again, and were devastated morally, seeing how all their efforts went straight to the garbage bin because of a silly mistake after a free kick.
With little time to play, and with AAS showing no will to shorten Golden's lead, came 3rd goal of the night when Markus Maria Ueberschär shot from mid-range, after dodging his personal mark, putting the ball where the spiders sleep, right in the angle of the goal. Impotence and deception were perceived from the raging defenders and the sad G.K..
Golden kept possession and waited for the end of the match to come, passing the ball backwards to a bored Norbert Szilágyi, who didn't have a single intervention in the match and took the chance to show some jugling skills with the ball, ending the show-off with René Iguita's famous 'El Escorpión' move, for the rejoice of the supporters.
AAS came to El Dorado Arena with hopefull desires of shorten the points distance in the series' roster, but had to come back home empty-handed. Golden keeps the chances to reach 1st spot, only 2 points away from afc danswijk and Jaïr United, whom hold a higher goal difference.
Sunday, March 21, 2010
Firendly match boost morale for weekend challenge
The team traveled to Finland this week in order to face rauta-jalat, currently playing in VIII series of the nordic country.
The young pups found a rough field to play on, with grass in poor conditions and a winter that stayed longer than expected, threatening the nordic lands with snow and cold winds from the pole.
It was a match of crashing shankbones, ripping shirts and jostles. A match of dirty football, with a referee that didn't put restrictions on locals flying kicks, and hidden elbows to the ribs of our young pups. The match was escalating on every jostle for posession, and young Jens-Peter Schuchardt had to leave the match on 20' with a twisted ankle, product of a violent stomp of rival forward. The match was not very well played and seemed complicated until Golden scored on 23', finding the weak point on a surprised defense that didn't mark Golden's forward, Arne Goedee.. Another 2 goals followed very quickly, on 29' and 33', by Glen van Aalst and Bogdan Lupescu respectively. Golden set the pace on the remainings of the first half, with a nice and simple play until the half-time blow.
2nd Half was promising for the locals, as they managed to score on 56' after a good combination. It didn't last long though. All hopes were vanished when Bogdan scored again, this time with an spectacular scissors-kick after a well set assistance from the wing. Golden controlled the play beautifully, nullifying the opposition's mid-field, eating the grounds like pac-mans. The diminished rauta-jalat didn't find spaces to advance with the ball, and were continuously losing posession i nthe mid-field. Golden's play turned out to be a great 'samba' when the 5th goal was celebrated, after a 34-passes-play and a run from winger Ivan Maykov, delivering a volley that entered the goal whiplashing rivals. A few more opportunities for Golden couldn't finish in the net, due to the, rather lucky, intervention of local goalkeeper.
Locals' supporters celebrated massively the 2nd goal of their team on 79', when a flash-like winger put 5th gear on a split-second to deliver a long pass to the center of Golden's box, finding forward Janne Rantakari who released all the rage within in one powerful volley to the high-center of the goal. Nothing to do for a point-blanked Huibert Reijnders.
Soon right after Raemon Hoes shushed the whole stadium when he received the ball unmarked in the rival's box and with a fancy move leaped the keeper with the ball pressed between his knees, scoring on an empty goal, and setting the final 2-6.
An entertaining match this was, despite of the injury of our german defender; certainly a good experience for the whole team.
The young pups found a rough field to play on, with grass in poor conditions and a winter that stayed longer than expected, threatening the nordic lands with snow and cold winds from the pole.
It was a match of crashing shankbones, ripping shirts and jostles. A match of dirty football, with a referee that didn't put restrictions on locals flying kicks, and hidden elbows to the ribs of our young pups. The match was escalating on every jostle for posession, and young Jens-Peter Schuchardt had to leave the match on 20' with a twisted ankle, product of a violent stomp of rival forward. The match was not very well played and seemed complicated until Golden scored on 23', finding the weak point on a surprised defense that didn't mark Golden's forward, Arne Goedee.. Another 2 goals followed very quickly, on 29' and 33', by Glen van Aalst and Bogdan Lupescu respectively. Golden set the pace on the remainings of the first half, with a nice and simple play until the half-time blow.
2nd Half was promising for the locals, as they managed to score on 56' after a good combination. It didn't last long though. All hopes were vanished when Bogdan scored again, this time with an spectacular scissors-kick after a well set assistance from the wing. Golden controlled the play beautifully, nullifying the opposition's mid-field, eating the grounds like pac-mans. The diminished rauta-jalat didn't find spaces to advance with the ball, and were continuously losing posession i nthe mid-field. Golden's play turned out to be a great 'samba' when the 5th goal was celebrated, after a 34-passes-play and a run from winger Ivan Maykov, delivering a volley that entered the goal whiplashing rivals. A few more opportunities for Golden couldn't finish in the net, due to the, rather lucky, intervention of local goalkeeper.
Locals' supporters celebrated massively the 2nd goal of their team on 79', when a flash-like winger put 5th gear on a split-second to deliver a long pass to the center of Golden's box, finding forward Janne Rantakari who released all the rage within in one powerful volley to the high-center of the goal. Nothing to do for a point-blanked Huibert Reijnders.
Soon right after Raemon Hoes shushed the whole stadium when he received the ball unmarked in the rival's box and with a fancy move leaped the keeper with the ball pressed between his knees, scoring on an empty goal, and setting the final 2-6.
An entertaining match this was, despite of the injury of our german defender; certainly a good experience for the whole team.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Staff Changes
The team's performance decreased a bit in the past few games, and it raised concern within our sponsors, whom care only about where to put the money to make profit.
Anyway, management is taking proper actions to balance the finances of the club, thus a few changes had been done in the club's staff in the past week.
As all the team is bearing an amazing health status, all the medics had been fired. We kept the physiotherapist though, we still care about massages. The goalkeeper coach was also released from his activities, as no progress had been spotted on our goalkeepers. Moreover, he was always chewing that mango bubblegum everybody hated. Rest of the staff remains the same: assistant coaches, sports psychologists, spokepersons and physiotherapists; all of them shaping the spirit and productivity of the team and the club.
Anyway, management is taking proper actions to balance the finances of the club, thus a few changes had been done in the club's staff in the past week.
As all the team is bearing an amazing health status, all the medics had been fired. We kept the physiotherapist though, we still care about massages. The goalkeeper coach was also released from his activities, as no progress had been spotted on our goalkeepers. Moreover, he was always chewing that mango bubblegum everybody hated. Rest of the staff remains the same: assistant coaches, sports psychologists, spokepersons and physiotherapists; all of them shaping the spirit and productivity of the team and the club.
Overconfidence killed chance to remain on top
Unexpected result last weekend makes us slip down to a third position in the series. Power-Cats took out they little sharpened claws, and got us in our weak points, while we couldn't set our astonishment aside to secure the lead.
We went out with our classic formation, setting our style once again, while Power-Cats improved a 3-4-3 formation (displayed on the previous match against Golden) to a 4-3-3. The locals nullified our scorers most of the time, outnumbering them, and their goalkeeper showed what he's worth for with a great performance. We didn't have majority on ball posession, however our play and control were better, letting us finish the 1st Half with a 2 goal lead. 2nd Half was a whole different story,, when Power-Cats managed to overcome a 0-2 and get the lead 3-2 on 73', when one of their forwards sent the ball inside the goal with a rather lucky scissor-kick. Fortunately, for us, we scored in the last minutes and secure at least 1 point (although in this instance of the tournament it feels we had lost 2 points instead).
We all knew the match was going to be close, but we were expecting the win to remain on top. with this result we fall 2 points behind afc danswijk and Jaïr United.
This is not the end yet, there're still 3 matches and even though Power-Cats made us stumble on our road to get the title, we are supporting them to display the same quality of play next weekend, against our direct rivals Jaïr United.
Next match will be tough for Golden as well, when a diminished AAS will probably try to surprise us in the same way Power-Cats did.
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Underdog 3' away from hopeful tie
Last Sunday the team had a very sad defeat against one of the toughest opponents of the series, whom managed to come back from a 1-0 loss, scoring the 1-2 only 3' away from the final blow.
Certainly one of the most unfair results, considering that the team controlled and had the opponent seized over the 1st half. However, Jaïr United showed great effectiveness scoring 2 out of the 2 opportunities they had. United goalkeeper showed himself on splendid level, and was key for his team's victory.
Even though Golden had most of the chances, our lack of creativity and clarity on definition were mainly the reasons why we end up with such a harsh feeling in the throat by the end of the match. Match was under control, and our prayers were not answered when rivals scored by the end of the match. It confirms that a team shall not rely on such things as prayers, and the team scoring is the one taking 3 points home.
It has been a very difficult weak for the team, as team spirit was obviously affected by the defeat. Shadowed 2-5 victory, by our 'B-Team', on our last friendly in Denmark didn't help to maintain our image within our supporters who knew we were underdogs on the match with United, but were hopeful on getting a good result after Sunday's 1st half. However, team raised great dissapointment.
Time's running out, and we'll need to put the team together to obtain a good result next Sunday. Important match to raise confidence is the one we have on Sunday, we need to show the rest of the teams we're still alive in the tournament.
If everything continues as expected, with no further surprises, the last two matches of the season will be defining the new champion and promotion for that team. It'll be a close call and without doubt the most exciting tournament this club had so far.
Fasten your seatbelts, the caterpillar is going down.
Certainly one of the most unfair results, considering that the team controlled and had the opponent seized over the 1st half. However, Jaïr United showed great effectiveness scoring 2 out of the 2 opportunities they had. United goalkeeper showed himself on splendid level, and was key for his team's victory.
Even though Golden had most of the chances, our lack of creativity and clarity on definition were mainly the reasons why we end up with such a harsh feeling in the throat by the end of the match. Match was under control, and our prayers were not answered when rivals scored by the end of the match. It confirms that a team shall not rely on such things as prayers, and the team scoring is the one taking 3 points home.
It has been a very difficult weak for the team, as team spirit was obviously affected by the defeat. Shadowed 2-5 victory, by our 'B-Team', on our last friendly in Denmark didn't help to maintain our image within our supporters who knew we were underdogs on the match with United, but were hopeful on getting a good result after Sunday's 1st half. However, team raised great dissapointment.
Time's running out, and we'll need to put the team together to obtain a good result next Sunday. Important match to raise confidence is the one we have on Sunday, we need to show the rest of the teams we're still alive in the tournament.
If everything continues as expected, with no further surprises, the last two matches of the season will be defining the new champion and promotion for that team. It'll be a close call and without doubt the most exciting tournament this club had so far.
Fasten your seatbelts, the caterpillar is going down.
Friday, March 5, 2010
Team keeps growing
In the past few weeks the Management Team has been very busy carrying on the new youth plan, leaving almost no time for blogging.
Lots of things happened since the new season started, from new players in the team to the weekly waves of fans that are willing to support us filling our stadium every weekend.
With new teams in the series comes new challenges, and this season was tough for sure. It seems we had a hot start, however all the teams are applying changes in strategy and players really quick to be able to catch up and climb as high as possible. The end of the series is going to be tough, and important clashes will be decisive and exciting, and even tough the team seems to be running out of steam we are confident we'll be able to put a good fight until the end.
The 'B Team' is showing great improvement and it was demonstrated in the past friendly matches. The last one was against one of our friend's club: White Samurais FC.
A 0-0 tie showed an amazing improvement on our rival's team, and was an amazing experience to our young players, as I'm sure so did for the Uruguayan chaps.
White Samurais are aiming to reach the top of the Uruguayan League VI, and will meet their thoughest opponent this weekend when they calsh agains 'pelusitaFC'--name that raises more laughs than respect.
Best of luck for the samurais on their league match.
The youth team keeps growing and growing, and the league changed seems to vitalize the players with a fresh feeling, despite of their loss 2-1 this week against 'Hoochies'.
Mid-field seems to have weakened with the departure of a few key players to the 'First Team', however defense is toughen up and a new addition to the team will probably set a wall in our goal, as fifteen year-old goalkeeper Johan Kraak sent Jason de Fijter direclty to the bench after showing great skills in training.
It is expected that some other key players in the youth team will be leaving by the end of this season, or as soon as they're ready for the 'First Team' cahllenge.
Future is bright for the club, Management is happy with the results and is planning a big party at the end of the month, open to public. For more information please contact the administration of the club.
Thanks for reading.
Lots of things happened since the new season started, from new players in the team to the weekly waves of fans that are willing to support us filling our stadium every weekend.
With new teams in the series comes new challenges, and this season was tough for sure. It seems we had a hot start, however all the teams are applying changes in strategy and players really quick to be able to catch up and climb as high as possible. The end of the series is going to be tough, and important clashes will be decisive and exciting, and even tough the team seems to be running out of steam we are confident we'll be able to put a good fight until the end.
The 'B Team' is showing great improvement and it was demonstrated in the past friendly matches. The last one was against one of our friend's club: White Samurais FC.
A 0-0 tie showed an amazing improvement on our rival's team, and was an amazing experience to our young players, as I'm sure so did for the Uruguayan chaps.
White Samurais are aiming to reach the top of the Uruguayan League VI, and will meet their thoughest opponent this weekend when they calsh agains 'pelusitaFC'--name that raises more laughs than respect.
Best of luck for the samurais on their league match.
The youth team keeps growing and growing, and the league changed seems to vitalize the players with a fresh feeling, despite of their loss 2-1 this week against 'Hoochies'.
Mid-field seems to have weakened with the departure of a few key players to the 'First Team', however defense is toughen up and a new addition to the team will probably set a wall in our goal, as fifteen year-old goalkeeper Johan Kraak sent Jason de Fijter direclty to the bench after showing great skills in training.
It is expected that some other key players in the youth team will be leaving by the end of this season, or as soon as they're ready for the 'First Team' cahllenge.
Future is bright for the club, Management is happy with the results and is planning a big party at the end of the month, open to public. For more information please contact the administration of the club.
Thanks for reading.
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