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Result of the Friday July 30th, 2010 CSL game between Hamilton Croatia and London City played at Brian Timmis Stadium in Hamilton at 9:00pm.
Hamilton Croatia (blue socks, white shorts and numbers, red shirts)
.................4 Cameron McKay
17 Peter Tereanski-Toth...5 Nikolas Jelicic...3 Alvin Hudson...9 Tom Bilic
14 Aidan O'Keefe...27 Antonijo Zupan (cpt)...11 Danny Jirta...50 Andrew Leggett
.............6 Preston Corporal...23 Jason Shannon
Subs:...20 Alfio Coco (gk)...7 Boris Vurdelja (mid)...10 Jerko Grubisic (fwd)...8 Ivan Grubisic (def)...19 Adam Leggett (def)
...12 Daniel Niksic (mid)...15 John Reilly (mid)
team officials:...head coach Ron Davidson...assistant coach Ante Culina...manager Michael Radecich
London City (all black, white numbers)
.................1 Scott Mueller (cpt)
4 Estevao Franco...3 Erik Elmauer...13 Sergio Siguenza...19 Stuart Wright
12 Karim Bensari...20 Genti Buzali...7 Anasse Brouk....21 Jagger Hassan
............26 Youna Samra...35 Andrew Loague
Subs:...33 Daryl Lotz (gk)...6 Thomas Beattie (mid)...18 Michael Marcoccia (fwd)...22 Nick Belanger (mid)...2 Carson Green (def)
...17 Justin Marques (mid)
team officials:...head coach Luka Shaqiri...manager Ryan Gauss...trainer Clint Jack
Game officials:...referee Silviu Petrescu...referee's assistants Marck Meloche and Zac Taylor...fourth official Hassane Rifai...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)
1st Half:...game starts 9:01pm...HC defend west end.
4 min...HC Andrew Leggett pushes ball upfield on left and HC Corporal rolls low cross from 20 yards that goalie dives forward to stop.
6 min...City Bensari cornerkick from right has header partially cleared and City Siguenza kicks midair shot from 25 yards down middle just over net.
7 min...City Franco 40 yard cross from right has HC Tereanski-Toth dive and head ball just wide left of post.
8 min...HC Tereanski-Toth on rush receives long cross from left and takes 25 yard blast that's wide left of goal through the box.
9 min...Hamilton Jason Shannon GOAL...HC Preston Corporal gives Shannon pass from 30 yards on right and Shannon takes 15 yard low shot from
right that's into left corner of net.
12 min...City Buzali 35 yard freekick is chipped into box but cleared when it lands.
12 min...City Buzali blasts 33 yard shot over crowd of players down middle well over net.
15 min...HC O'Keefe cornerkick from left is swatted away by goalie in crowd of players. HC O'Keefe gets ball back eventually and cross from 20 yards
on left is caught by goalie.
18 min...HC YELLOW card...Shannon earns it for complaining when a City player sat on the ball when he fell backwards and the referee call a freekick at
City 25 yards.
19 min...City Samra slides and knocks 10 yard shot over net on cross from right.
21 min...HC Shannon pops header from 12 yards and HC Jirta takes bicycle kick at 6 yards on right that's over net.
24 min...City goalie charges forward to pick up ball sent into box from 70 yards.
25 min...HC YELLOW card...Corporal earns it. HC O'Keefe on rush on right crosses low from 20 yards and goalie dives on ball and Corporal kicks him.
26 min...HC defender pokes ball away from City Loague who had eluded goalie at 8 yards but he concedes cornerkick.
28 min...HC O'Keefe taps 25 yard freekick on left to HC Shannon who snakes 22 yard shot from left just over top right corner of net.
29 min...Hamilton Preston Corporal GOAL...HC Jason Shannon chips in pass from the right and Corporal has ball drop to him and his low 25 yard
shot is through crowd of players into left side of net.
33 min...City player's cornerkick from left has defender head ball away.
33 min...Hamilton RED card...Jason Shannon takes his second card of the game for a knock down on City Erik Elmauer at City 50 yards injuring
him when Shannon was trying to get around him to get to ball. Shannon had picked up his first yellow card at 18 minutes for complaining when
City player sat on the ball falling backwards and referee Sylviu Petrescu call a City freekick at London 25 yards.
35 min...City Samra leaps and 15 yard header on right is well wide right of goal.
36 min...Hamilton Preston Corporal GOAL...HC Antonijo Zupan freekick from 45 yards is sent to right and HC Peter Tereanski-Toth crosses in from
45 yards on right to Corporal who shoots low 15 yarder to left side of net.
39 min...City sub...Beattie replaces Loague.
40 min...City Samra 30 yard blast from left is high and wide right of net. HC Zupan is injured well off play.
44 min...City Genti Buzali GOAL...Buzali gets pass at 25 yards on right and eludes HC goalie Cameron McKay and takes 15 yard shot into center
of net that's between two defenders who'd retreated to guard both goal posts.
45 min...HC sub...Vurdelsa replaces Zupan who'd been injured in the center circle. HC Bilic becomes the team captain.
47 min...half ends 9:48pm.
2nd Half:...starts 10:02pm.
45 min...HC Corporal touched back ball and one-touch 22 yard shot up middle is just wide right.
49 min...City Franco 30 yard blast in crowd down middle is just high and wide of net.
49 min...HC Corporal at 25 yards in middle takes shot that's caught by goalie in center of net.
52 min...City Brouk cross from 15 yards on left instead of taking shot is easily cleared by defender.
55 min...HC YELLOW card...Jirta earns it for sliding tackle on City Franco at center line.
56 min...City Franco rush on right and cross from 15 yards is through box wide left of net.
59 min...HC Bilic rush on left and crosses from corner flag has HC Corporal at 10 yards pop up header that goalie catches.
60 min...Hamilton Boris Vurdelsa GOAL...HC Aidan O'Keefe rush on right and cross from near right cornerflag that HC player misses at 10 yards
and Vurdelsa blasts 15 yarder down middle to right corner of net through crowd of players.
60 min...City sub...Marques replaces Brouk.
61 min...HC O'Keefe rolls 30 yard freekick down right that has HC Jirta roll cross that defenders clear.
62 min...HC sub...Adam Leggett replaces Andrew Leggett.
63 min...HC O'Keefe cornerkick from right is bent over net.
66 min...Hamilton Preston Corporal GOAL...HC Boris Vurdelja takes 22 yard freekick down middle that has goalie Scott Mueller block ball but give
up big rebound and Corporal kicks in 7 yarder down middle to left side of net.
68 min...City sub...Marcoccia replaces Buzali.
72 min...City Michael Marcoccia GOAL...City Jagger Hassan cross from 15 yards on right has charging Marcoccia head ball in from 6 yards
on left.
72 min...HC sub...Grubisic replaces Corporal.
75 min...City Marcoccia pass forward on left to City Hassan whose 10 yard shot has goalie dive and pushes wide left of net.
76 min...City Beattie cornerkick from left has defenders clear.
76 min...HC Vurdelsa 25 yard shot deflects for cornerkick.
77 min...HC O'Keefe cornerkick from right has ball go through box and HC player can't get shot on net.
78 min...HC Vurdelsa 35 yard freekick blasted from left is well over net.
79 min...HC O'Keefe 25 yard freekick from right is through box unplayed.
81 min...City sub...Lotz replaces Mueller in goal.
83 min...City YELLOW card...Elmauer earns it for argueing 60 yards away from play in HC end.
84 min...City Bensari blasts partial clearance down middle wide right from 15 yards.
84 min...HC sub...Niksic replaces Jirta.
.........City sub...Green replaces Elmauer.
85 min...HC Jerko Grubisic GOAL...Grubisic rounds goalie on right side of box and cuts 20 yard shot on tough angle just inside left corner of net.
HC Boris Vurdelsa earns an assist on pass from 40 yards in middle.
87 min...City goalie beats HC Grubisic to leap for through ball.
88 min...City Marcoccia crosses 20 yarder through box unplayed.
90 min...HC Niksic crosses from right end loine saving ball and HC O'Keefe just a step away from getting to 5 yard shot.
90 min...HC goalie beats City Marques to through ball.
93 min...City RED card...Jagger Hassan earns a straight ejection for his two footed tackle on HC Daniel Niksic at City 45 yards.
94 min...game ends 10:51pm.
Final Score:..........Hamilton Croatia.........6...........London City........2............
Attendance was about 200 on this mild night. This was the only game in the league tonight. I don't usually venture outside of the greater Toronto area but this game had a late Friday night start as usual between two teams that don't come to Toronto very often. If I want to see every team in the league play at least three times before the playoffs, I felt this was the week to visit. I'd only seen these teams up until tonight play only once this season.
Hamilton Croatia was very impressive in tonight's showing and leaped into 3rd place at least for the short term with the win. They played from the 33 minute mark with a man down. I was expecting City would close but Croatia scored only three minutes after going down a man and broke their determination. Preston Corporal scored three goals on the night. Each of the announcing of his goals was preceded by the announcer shouting "It's Show Time!" He almost had about two or three more. Referee Sylviu Petrescu who I've read from MLS game reports in the last few weeks gave out four Yellow cards and a Red to Croatia while giving City just 'stop it/cut it out' hand gestures for equally tough challenges until the last ten minutes of the game when he finally gave out a Yellow and a Red to them. This drove the fans wild but with such a wide lead, it wasn't too hostile and he got some sarcastic laughs.
London City remain in last place and have replaced their coach with Luka Shaqiri. Player/coach Andrew Loague had started the year. He started tonight's game but played only 39 minutes before being subbed by leading scorer Thomas Beattie who'd scored six of the thirteen goals the team had scored up until tonight.
I had not been to this stadium in quite a few years [August 13, 2006]. It was Toronto Lynx vs Hamilton Serbians in a Canadian Open Cup match (strange but neither of those teams were in the CSL league). I did a double take as I had not heard the south side stands had been demolished. There were enough seats on the north side aluminum stands for tonight's crowd. The washrooms were next door at the connected Ivor Wynne stadium. The game had ball boys (not past their bedtime?). They had the best program in the league (about the only one that still bothers to print them out since the first month of the season). player roster with goals scored by both teams, up to date standings, last few Hamilton Croatia results and upcoming games, a news blurb about the last few results, two Hamilton Croatia player spotlights with pictures and room for sponsor ads all crammed onto a one two-sided 8.5 by 11 glossy page.
I asked in the press booth if they've played Toronto Croatia yet and what uniforms would they wear as both wear blue socks, white shorts and numbers, and red shirts except for them having different sponsors on their chests. The answer is it depends on who is the home team.
Rocket Robin
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Hamilton Croatia starters
City starters
Croatia kickoff with Jason Shannon (23) and Preston Corporal.
Croatia freekick with Aidan O'Keefe (14) and Jason Shannon (23) deciding who will take it.
City players prepare to for the second half kickoff.
Croatia Boris Vurdelja tracks down ball.
City Jagger Hassan makes check.
Croatia freekick blast.
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