Portugal FC starters
Result of the Saturday August 29th, 2009 CSL game between Portugal FC and Italia Shooters played at Lamport Stadium in Toronto at 4:00pm.
9 min…Portugal Kevin McIntosh GOAL…PFC Jarvin Skeete gives short pass up the middle to McIntosh who shoots low 10 yard shot to left corner of net.
26 min…PFC Andre Leite tackles Shooters Kadian Lecky in PFC box. Lecky falls over Leite and injures him. Referee Richard Olivera signals for a Penalty kick. The still injured Leite had to be replaced by Yonnik Thompson after the penalty shot.
28 min…Shooters Kadian Lecky GOAL…Lecky takes low shot of Penalty kick into left corner of net as goalie Mike Silva dives to right.
74 min…Portugal Jaime Carvalho GOAL…Carvalho taps in a 5 yarder into the open net as PFC Jaroslaw Radzinski rolled him a pass from 8 yards from left with goalie Dave Ragno who had to guard the left post.
78 min…Portugal RED card…Yonnik Thompson picks up his second Yellow for had handball at the center line as Shooters player flipped ball up into air. Thompson had picked up his first Yellow at 59 minutes when he stomped on fallen Fitzroy Christie at the Shooters 25 yard line.
88 min…Shooters Geron Duport GOAL…Duport bends in 25 yard freekick from left over player wall and into top right corner of the net.
Final Score:………...Portugal FC…….2………Italia Shooters……….2……….
Attendance was only about 50 on this warm, sunny afternoon. This game was taped by a Rogers crew for broadcast on their cable community channel later in the evening. The game was taking place at the same time as the MLS Toronto FC vs. Seattle game in Seattle but there isn’t really an overlap of support between the two leagues.
Closest chance that wasn’t a goal was at 67 minutes when Shooters Jordan Webb (who played the summer for the PDL Toronto Lynx) on a give and go rush up the middle had the goalie charge out and slide on the edge of the box for a partial clearance but Shooters Kadian Lecky ended up with a chance at an open net at 8 yards and shot the ball wide right. (Somewhat like TFC’s Dwayne Rosario did in the Seattle game).
This game had two similar moments to the CSL game I saw the night before. For the dumbest Red card I’ve seen, today’s card to Yonnik Thompson for a handball in the center circle was just stupid as it wouldn’t have mattered if the Shooters player had gotten by him as there was a whole line of defenders between the player and the goal. White Eagles goalie Marko Petrovic earned a direct Red last night for making a sliding tackle 30 yards out of his box near the right sideline with two defenders charging back who would have been able to block a shot or cross by Wolves Carlo Arghittu. Petrovic was a step behind kicking the ball out of bounds. For great plays it was a toss up between White Eagles Sasa Viciknez’s freekick and today’s Geron Duport’s freekick—both goals, taken from the same spot in the field and curled into the top right corner of the net.
The scoreboard at Lamport Stadium is broken. I’m not clear if it really was struck by lightning or if it’s just mechanical failure. I can’t see the City of Toronto doing anything about it as if MLSE who owns Toronto FC is going to put a bubble over this field by this winter so they can put real grass at BMO Field and still satisfy the City who correctly have the right to a year round facility in the downtown area, MLSE would easily cover the cost of a new scoreboard anyway.
Portugal FC needed the point to keep ahead of North York Astros for the last playoff spot who that evening earned a 1-1 tie on a road game against Brampton Lions.
One hour to get to the other game was not enough time I reasoned earlier in the week with access to the expressway blocked by the Canadian National Exhibition. Instead I took transit and stopped at a bar to help my friends to a 4th place finish in music trivia out of 1924 bars in North America.
Rocket Robin
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Portugal FC starters
Shooters starters
PFC goalie clears
Shooters Kadian Lecky takes his Penalty kick.
PFC Ramon Bailey on rush.
Shooters Nick Cisternino on rush.
Shooters Aundrae Rollins on rush.
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