Challenge accepted

Recently formed Raging Aliens dared to challenge Golden to a friendly match, taking place this week. The Team is once again on a trip to Uruguay, where they enjoyed themselves plenty of times, though this time there will be a winter setup.

"Winter is not really tough down there, I mean...not as tough as in The Netherlands", young uruguayan, Juan Stipanicic, declared. He expressed it will be good to be back in his homeland for a few days. Opportunity will also be suitable to visit our friends from White Samurais, hopefully assisting to the match at Area 51.

Preparations are on its way in order to reach the match on our best from and condition. Hope the Raging Aliens will be at their best to receive us as well.

Good results felt like a smooth breeze after stressed start of series

Golden had prooved well on matches against the weaklings of the league, however the series have just started and this is only the beginning.

A 5-1 home win agains Blood Sweat and Tears and a 5-0 ('lottery') delivered at mario en sonic's stadium served well to regain confidence on our supporters. Those 4 members leaving the club a week ago came back apologizing for doing so and were spared only by the price of paying the beer round for the all the other guys at the canteen (Welcome back!).
Friendly matches had been good practice for the 'B Team', who managed to achieve a 1-1 tie and 3-4 win during extra time, both against romanian teams.

Upcoming matches will be very hard as well, as we put ourselves against the best teams of our series, Power-cats and Sealandia, whom are scratching the top of the roster. Sure we'll give them some hard bone to gnaw.

Until  next week!

Staff Changes

I'd like to announce that due to discrepancies on management strategies the Management Team had decided to cease the continuity of the Directors, including the Chairman and proposed me the position, and I accepted it. Due to this drastic change I will not be able to perform my duties as Coach, however we still have Tommi to put his mark on the team towards strategy and training.
Every ship needs a Captain and this one is certainly led by the winds of victory, honesty and dark magic. Wild seas awaits us ahead, and we shall tighten the ropes, and harden our skulls in order to get past this.

Ahoy!

Youth team secured short league trophy

The Golden Mascaritas had won the International short-league tournament with one match in advance. Consistency, discipline and the presence of key young stars, such as Gerry Beishuizen (fw), Dorus Verberne (df) and Reint van der Werff (wg) had brought happy moments for the youngsters whom improve day by day.
We're sure will help on the First Team's recovery once they reach promotion.

A big 'thanks' to the scouts who managed to spot these young players in different regions and introduced them to the team.

Keep up the good work everyone!

Injuries time

Serious injury made Golden's romanian pac-man-mid-field-monster, Ionel Bâlea, to stay out of the pitches for 4 weeks.
In addition, Golden's veteran forward, Kjetil Fosse, is still recovering from an injury suffered 2 weeks ago and is expected back in training next week.
Italian skillful mid-fielder, Ennio Mangano, is recovered from an injury that kept him out of trainings for the past week. He called his doctor whom arrived from Italy 3 days ago, as Golden's doctor was fired nearly a month ago due to expenses reduction.
Clodoveo González Cuenia is fit and ready to take his place back in the team, after a nasty injury that prevented him from playing the past 2 weeks.

We wish the best for the injured players and hope they're back on their feet in no time.

Climbing the Everest

The worse start of season in Golden's history made a few supporters leave the club, also first time it happens since the new Management Team and coach assumed the position accepting the great challenge it was.
The club now decayed into its first 'crisis', it hit the wall of the VIII series due to tough teams on the series. Furthermore, Golden's financial plan is starting to crack like an antartic iceberg slowly affected by global warming. The investment in a few mid-fielders turned out to be not very succesful. Crowded training sessions may have affected the mood and the overall performance of the team, and transferlisted players didn't bring too many coins, nor goals. The coach may also not be with the best motivation, and certainly is not transmitting the same to the players. Lots of factors are found to explain the bad performance of the team in the past 3 matches, however it's time to show improvement once again.

Hang in there guys, climbing starts now.