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.
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