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CPSL game of Sunday July 19, 1998.

Here are the results of the CPSL game between North York Astros and Toronto Croatia played at Esther Shiner Stadium in North York at 7:30pm. This was considered a League game.

North York Astros (blue socks, shorts, and numbers, yellow shirts)

..................................1 Alejandro Protti
16 Alexi Nardi...15 Michael Marshall...3 Rene Martin...6 Kerwin Skeete
13 Audley Taffe...2 Andrew Czalij...8 Alejandro Martinez...4 Boris Lopes
.......................17 Ivan Jurisic...11 Gary DeLeon

Subs:...Leslie Szasa (gk)...5 Sebastian Busto (mid)...7 Gad Espinosa (mid)...9 Adrian Moura (fwd)...10 Jorge Aviles (mid).
Team Officials:...head coach Jorge Armua, assistant coach Thomas Bolkojvac and Bruno Ierullo, trainer David Dedonato, masseur Ruben Delembert, equipment manager Juan Jose Zamora.

Toronto Croatia (all blue, white numbers and left sleeve)

.......................................12 Peter Ferreira
3 Daniel Pilas...5 Stephen Wallen...8 Czeslaw Zajac...9 Meho Osmanovic
..............4 AJ Lee...18 Danny Vugrucic...10 Tom Granic
.............21 Norman Woodrow...22 James Jackson...17 Sead Kalic

Subs:...?? Blair Corsell
Team Officials: not listed

Game Officials:...Referee Andrew Jasinski, referee's assistants Alfredo Baladan and Silviu Petrescu, 4th official Peter Mingos.

1st Half:...start 7:37pm...Astros defend east end...rainy night
2 min...TC goalie catches corner from left side.
3 min...Astros Martinez heads cross off bar from 7 yards.
3 min...TC goalie slides out to grab through ball.
5:27 min...Astros GOAL...Jurisic taps in 7 yarder after goalie drops cross from right side.
7 min...NY goalie slides out to clear through ball.
A very hard rain starts worse than the steady rain up to now.
9 min...Astros DeLeon lobs shot from 30 yards on right drifts wide left.
13 min...TC Woodrow 20 yard chip shot on rush from left side bounces wide right of net.
16.41 min...Astros GOAL...DeLeon cross from right side along line from 20 yards, TC goalie catches it facing the net and pushes it into own net as it slips from his hands.
18 min...TC blast from 25 yards well over bar.
24 min...TC Woodrow corner kick from left side headed over net from 10 yards by Kalic leaping higher than defender.
26 min...Astros Martinez 30 yard shot rolls to goalie who traps ball.
27 min...TC YELLOW card...Woodrow for disputing offside call against him.
32 min...Astros YELLOW card...Czalij for argueing call with referee just after TC Granic was injured.
35 min...TC goalie slides out to make save.
36 min...TC Zajac 30 yard shot hits cross bar.
40 min...Astros Czalij and TC defender run into net in pursuit of ball, another TC defender clears ball on line but momentum of the two crashing into back of net pushes net half over but it rocks back into position when it knocks into the football goalpost.
45 min...TC player gets 35 yard freekick through five man wall but shot rolls to goalie.

2nd Half:...rain has stopped, field is slippery.
47 min...TC goalie makes sliding save from 5 yards on Astros Jurisic.
49 min...Astros GOAL...Jurisic header from 7 yards to center of net as Astros DeLeon gives perfect head-high cross from left side about 15 yards away.
50 min...TC GOAL...Granic on 20 yard shot from left of goal as ball sails over goalie to right corner of net. Astro goalie had started to come out for ball.
52 min...NY YELLOW card...Skeete for pushing match with TC Pilas.
55 min...TC Granic 25 yard shot rolls wide right of post.
56 min...TC goalie tips ball wide left as Astros DeLeon given through ball from 20 yards out.
60 min...Astros Jurisic 25 yard shot blocked by goalie.
64 min...TC Jackson 30 yard shot over bar.
66 min...Astros Martinez blasts 25 yard freekick wide from extreme left.
66 min...Astros sub...Aviles replaces Lopes.
69 min...Astros GOAL...Martin from 10 yards kicks into left corner of net completing 3 on 1 break. He received ball 15 yards out.
71 min...Astros Skeete injured near left sideline in TC end.
74 min...TC GOAL...Vugrucic 20 yard shot from left side into right corner of net.
75 min...Astros sub...Espinosa replaces the still injured Skeete.
76 min...Pass to Astros Aviles who blasts shot wide left from 20 yards.
77 min...the weather:...it starts to rain hard again.
79 min...Astros GOAL...DeLeon from 5 yards booted into left of net after similar kick stopped point blank by goalie after corner from right.
82 min...TC Wallen injured in TC box.
84 min...Astros sub...Moura replaces Jurisic.
85 min...TC player gets 20 yard shot from left side well wide left.
86 min...Astros GOAL...Taffe steps through from 15 yards and scores himself not risking an offside pass.
89 min...TC YELLOW card...Granic for argueing call although TC's were awarded freekick in own end.
90 min...game ends, there is no extra time although about five minutes could have been added for injuries.
After the game there was a brief shoving match in the hallway on the way to the dressing rooms.

Final Score:.........North York Astros...........6.........Toronto Croatia........2.......

Attendance was about 40 people as it was easy to see that there'd be rain at the game but noone expected the heavy showers that we got during the game. Toronto Croatia had no bench strength so I expected they would tire in the second half. I don't know if the team is cutting back. Giving up two weak goals in the first 17 minutes really made the situation worse for them. I noticed that Peter Ferreira is usually a defender but tonight he had to play goal.

Rocket Robin
robing@clo.com

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