Mascaritas vs Runners

It's done, both youth teams from GLM and WS will face each other in a couple of days, as we received the young uruguayans in The Golden Ring.

We expect a good football practise, for sure it will be a good experience for the young  lads.

Golden will take care of accomodation for the uruguayans and have already arranged a few tours round the city, as well as free t-shirts and flags from our team.

Golden's chance for title blastered by wild Power-Cats

With 5 matches and 15 points in play, Golden's chances for the title are remote due to the great form showed by Afc de kampioenen (1st) and Power-Cats (2nd); 9 points separates Golden (3rd) from Afc and 4 points from the wild Cats.
Golden tried to impress and put their best play in the early first half. Sófocles Garrido surprised with an amazing play, dodging opponents and scoring on 20'.After that Golden grew in confidence and they could have smack another one; a shot in the post by Paolo Serra Ruda and an unfortunate shot after an overdone play by Gerry Beishuizen. On 36' Ionel Bâlea received a nasty tackle and couldn't play at his top level, affecting Golden's chances directly. Golden's number 10 showed a lot of guts, but couldn't pull the strings of play as usual, and mid-field was overran by the goal-hungry Cats. It only took 4mins after Ionel's injury for Power-Cats to reach the equalizer.
2nd Half was all for Power-Cats, as they were the ones managing the play at will. It didn't last long the equalizer as the Cats were swarming on Golden's area, like a pack lions in a  gladiator's arena. Huibert Reijnders couldn't do much on both of the Cat's goals on 57' and 81'. Match finalized 3-1 and Golden was condemned to the mid-table positions, things must go terribly wrong for Afc or Power-Cats in order to allow Golden to move further. By the look of it, Golden's coach's (Tommi Marttala) time will be over soon, even though he catapulted Golden from the IX series it seems that the VIII are too much of a hastle for his skills and tactics.

Now Golden is focused on the next friendly match on Wednesday and going back to playmaking training until the end of the season.

Away win sets the pace

Golden achieve an important victory against Sealandia in their own stadium (het eiland) last Sunday, and climbed to the 3rd position.

The teams where evenly matched and it seemed from the very start that it was going to be a close event of football. However, recently promoted Gerry Beishuizen silenced 'the island' on 18', scoring his first goal in his professional career, certainly off to a good start. Seiland didn't cope with the situation and, supported by the whole stadium, they pushed forward until they reach the equalizer on 33'. It took Golden 5 minutes to put themselves on top as one of Golden's top scorers, Sófocles Garrido, stamped his mark with an academic  definition on 38'. 1st half finished with Golden managing the play and touching the ball with delicacy.

Instructions received, team headed for the beginning of the 2nd half, which didn't start on the best way. Sealandia pulled a well elaborated set pieces and scored surprinsingly after one of their forwards anticipated everyone at the nearest post. The rain played its part, and during briefs moments sparks were noticed on every clash for divided ball. Dirty football and guts transformed the pitch into a greco-roman coliseum, and every ball was being fought to death. A killing shot on 71' by german forward, Eckehard Rademaker, pierced into our opponent's heart when the ball entered the goal right up there in the angle, where the spiders sleep, totally unreachable for the goalkeeper. On 72' the referee blew for a penalty comitted to Ennio Mangano, who was sentenced with a yellow card earlier in the game for faking the foul in the area, however this time the foul was noticed and the penalty scored by Markus Ueberschär. 2-4 was the final score on this tough match, under heavy weather conditions.

The team is confident that good results will follow when we meet against Sealandia again next Sunday, but this time in the Golden Arena. Winning is a must in order to continue the chase towards Power-Cats and Afc De Kampioenen.

**Player of the match: Sófocles Garrido was without a doubt the player of the match, showing his heart and strenght on an overflowed pitch, leading the team to a well deserved victory. SAMBA, SAMBA!**

Jumped 3 places in 3 matches

First of all, we'd like to thank our friends from Raging Aliens and White Samurais for the great support received. Certainly our friendly match against the Aliens set up the mood for the 3-1 win against one of our direct opponents of the season: Power-Cats, and give the Aliens a very good football practice in return. Their position on their series couldn't be better, as they lead the roster with 3 points distance from the current runner-ups, nottingham prisas f.c. (Best of luck to RA on their next match, by the way. Sure they will have an easy win against San Eugenio, and hopefully pingmenoste will beat nottingham).

Going back to Golden, amazing display of football at our home stadium last weekend. Our goalkeeper training is showing good results, earlier than expected. Huibert is getting better and better, and has proved we made an excelent decision by bringing him from the youth team. Our midfielders performed graciously, with an unstoppable Tobias Haldbæk, who certainly took the banner and lead the rest of the midfielders into a ball-thirst rampage of marking and knee-snapping. Sófocles Garrido, put an incredible display over the wings, embracing the 'jogo bonito' style all brazilians have in their blood, and scoring two decisive goals to bring victory and make our supporters dance on the streets.

A big THANKS to all the fans and club members whom filled El Dorado Arena and showed a carnival of joy and happiness, for sure another big reason for the fabulous Golden's performance.

Next match is an important one, against Sealandia, another direct rival. A win on this match will let Golden climb at least one position further and keep chasing Power-Cats for the Runner-Up position.