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Result of the Friday July 23rd, 2004 CPSL game between Toronto Croatia and Durham Storm played at Memorial Park in Streetsville at 8:00pm.
Toronto Croatia (blue socks, white shorts and numbers, red shirts)
.........................1 George Azcurra
...........14 Joseph Cosentino...8 Hugo Alstitud...21 Nicholas Klassen
3 Halburto Harris...2 Ante Pavlovic...16 Edin Kalic...17 Wojceich Cwik...15 Joseph Lewe
.................10 Leo Laurito...9 Zvyezdan Kresic
Subs:...4 Rudy Spajic (mid)...18 Orlin Chalmers (mid)...19 Peyman Charkhzaryn (fwd)...20 Jure Bodrozic (fwd)
team officials:...manager Theo Krajacic...head coach Aldo Krajcar...officials Jodep Cvitanovic and Ivan Cuvalo
Durham Storm (all green, white numbers and shoulders and sleeves)
......................22 Devon Spiers
2 Hassan Abdulameer...12 Eric Worsley...19 Drew Allan...5 Matt Gennaro
23 Bryon Brown...8 Mark Wagenaar...14 Michael Knox...16 Sabba Bassari
.................18 Kris Kemanczy...9 Markus Marshall
Subs:...1 Brian Rapier...3 Luigi Catenaccio...7 Jahmo Welch...10 Ryan Dummett...17 Anthony Jean Paul
team officials:...manager John O'Neill...physio Alicia Hagedon...coach Derrick Bean
Game officials:...referee Vito Curalli...referee's assistants Amato DeLuca and Yakov Keimakh...fourth official Afshinkor Korian...(all black uniforms)
1st Half:...game starts 8:04pm...all times are converted from my wristwatch...TC defend south end on this bumpy field.
2 min...DS Marshall 30 yard roller picked up by goalie.
4 min...TC Klassen 30 yard freekick from right is batted down by goalie on right post.
5 min...TC player's 7 yard turn kick on right is wide left.
6 min...DS defender runs back to head cross from right over own end line.
8 min...Toronto Croatia Edin Kalic GOAL...Kalic heads in 5 yarder to left side of net after 10 yard shot by TC player is blocked on goal line. The ball bounced through the webbing of the net.
12 min...TC Cwik snakes 30 yard shot through middle bends to goalie.
15 min...TC Kresic 25 yard cross from left is through charging players on right.
16 min...DS Brown 20 yard shot from right is caught on right by goalie.
19 min...DS Wagenaar 40 yard shot through middle is well over net.
21 min...TC goalie beats DS Kemenczy to through ball crossed from left.
22 min...TC Lewe cross from left, TC Laurito header from 10 yards on right is caught by goalie in crowd.
25 min...DS Allan 30 yard freekick from right is blasted high over net.
27 min...DS Gennaro 45 yard freekick from left is well wide right.
33 min...DS YELLOW card...Abdulameer for tugging shirt of TC Kalic just outside DS box.
33 min...TC Kresic 22 yard freekick from left is well wide high right.
34 min...TC sub...Charkhzaryn replaces Pavlovic.
36 min...Toronto Croatia Wojceich Cwik GOAL...Cwik 12 yard roller through crowd of players in box into left corner of net after low pass is crossed from left.
42 min...TC Cwik 40 yard blast bounces just wide left.
45 min...TC Harris pass received in middle and 30 yard shot is over net.
46 min...game ends 8:50pm.
2nd Half:...starts 9:07pm.
halftime sub...DS Dummett replaces Abdulameer.
48 min...TC goalie races out to edge of box to ball but flubs it. Ball tapped to DS Kemenczy but his shot is blocked.
49 min...DS goalie leaps to punch out cross into box from left.
52 min...TC Klassen 30 yard shot on left through crowd of player in box wide right.
55 min...TC goalie has freekick awarded against him on the 'six second' rule for taking too long to kick away ball.
56 min...DS player's 20 yard freekick tapped over and charging TC player in wall blocks kick.
57 min...DS goalie punches up ball on cornerkick from left.
58 min...TC Kalic kicks 10 yarder over net when he one touches shot.
59 min...TC Kalic 22 yard shot caught by goalie.
60 min...TC Kresic 20 yard from right is over crowd of players in box wide left.
61 min...DS YELLOW card...Dummett for slapping TC Lewe even though DS had just won freekick.
62 min...DS Dummett 30 yard shot is over net.
63 min...DS Kemenczy through ball on left and 25 yard shot is pushed wide right by flying goalie, DS Marshall 10 yard rebound on right is blasted wide left.
65 min...TC player's 25 yard shot from left is well high and wide right.
67 min...TC player's cornerkick from left is short and worked out for TC Cwik to blast 25 yarder from left is well wide right.
68 min...TC Lewe checks away ball and fast through pass to center for TC Kalic who rushes into DS box but can't get away shot.
70 min...DS Dummett 22 yard freekick from left has DS Wagenaar flick header from 3 yards right of post , wide right.
72 min...DS sub...Catenaccio replaces Bassari.
............DS sub...Welch replaces Kemenczy.
73 min...TC Harris cross from right is through box.
73 min...TC Laurito is tapped pass as he charges in and he blasts 12 yarder well wide right.
75 min...TC Lewe injured on edge of DS box.
80 min...DS Brown cross from left is cleared from box.
80 min...DS sub...Paul replaces Gennaro.
81 min...DS Allan leaping header on freekick from right 7 yards is wide right.
82 min...TC sub...Spajic replaces Cwik.
83 min...Toronto Croatia Peyman Charkhzaryn GOAL...TC Rudy Spajic on left crosses from 12 yards and Charkhzaryn knocks ball in from 7 yards.
84 min...TC YELLOW card...Laurito for pulling down DS player.
84 min...DS Welch 25 yard freekick over wall and lobbed to goalie.
86 min...TC Alstitud does great job heading down DS shot and dribbling away to safety.
87 min...Toronto Croatia Zvyezdan Kresic GOAL...TC Edin Kalic back heels pass in box but Storm player gets control of ball. Kresic checks him on edge of box and his 15 yard shot gets through goalie Devon Spiers legs.
89 min...TC Lewe hurt near center line with knee injury.
91 min...DS player's cornerkick from right is short and worked around. DS player finally crosses ball into box but ball cleared. DS Allan blasts partial clearance well over net.
92 min...DS Dummett ends DS pressure with 22 yard blast well over net.
93 min...game ends 9:55pm.
Final Score:............Toronto Croatia..........4............Durham Storm............0.....
Attendance was about 100 on this rather cool evening compared to the recent weather. The field was pretty chewed up because of the wet weather in the last week. Low passes and shots would sometimes hit a bump or rut and not get through.
The Storm's regular season record falls to 0-10-0 and they haven't scored a goal in CPSL league nor Open Canada Cup action for the entire month of July. They did tighten up their defense from their last three games of two 6-0 losses and one 7-0 result. The team did have enough chances to score but couldn't put the ball away. One good chance was when referee Vito Curalli awarded the Storm a freekick on the edge of the Toronto Croatia box because goalie George Azcurra didn't punt away a ball he'd picked up within six seconds. I'd heard about this new FIFA rule but never seen it actually enforced. A charging TC player in the wall was able to block a tapped freekick on the edge of the box. Azcurra had a few tough saves to make to earn the shutout. Storm goalie Devon Spiers wasn't particularly strong.
Toronto Croatia wingers Halburto Harris and Joseph Lewe provided good runs up the flanks and got some good crosses in to forwards Kresic and Leo Laurito. The Storm would often break up a play and Harris and Lewe would often check that player to regain that possession. During the second half until the last ten minutes, Toronto Croatia let the Storm back into the game and the teams played pretty even.
There was a worry that the officials would run out of game balls because Memorial Park is surrounded by a forest on the south and west, a raised embankment fenced off on the east and a baseball outfield over a short north fence. After the three balls there were some others but complaints that these warm up balls weren't fully inflated. Anybody remember that soccer poster with two teams playing on an island cliff edge surrounding the four sides of the field and the players crowded to one side as the ball has gone over the side on a 500 foot drop? That could have been a problem.
Rocket Robin
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