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Result of the Sunday September 16, 2007 CSL game between North York Astros and Windsor Border Stars played at Esther Shiner Stadium in North York at 7:00pm.
North York Astros (white socks, yellow shorts and shirts, navy numbers)
.................................12 Tomar Chenkinski
14 Kurt Ramsey...15 Gil Vainshtein...2 Frank Iaizzo...3 Sergio Morr
13 Omar Samuels...21 Julio Vazquez...4 David DiPlacido...10 Diego Maradona (cpt)
..........................11 Jose Perez...8 Alessandro Bancheri
Subs:...1 Ratko Ivanovic (gk)...9 Selvin Lammie (mid)...18 Umberto Benedito (mid)...19 Wis Felipe Boff (def)...20 Dorina Mosko (mid)
team officials:...head coach Rafael Carbajal...assistant coach Paolo Pacione...equipment manager Mark Atia
Windsor Border Stars (all black, white numbers)
...............................1 Brandan Lomax
12 Rob Malbasis...26 Milan Marsic...19 Bobby Raymond...24 Haveer Mann
21 Issac Idisho...7 Jeff Hodgson...9 Aaron Byrd...25 Ante Ivcec
...................22 Matt Levidini...10 Radek Papiez
Subs:...none
team officials:....none here.
Game officials:...referee Amato DeLuca...referee's assistants Paul Bottos and Matt Arduini...fourth official Pasquale De Luca...(blue shirts, black shorts and socks)
1st Half:...starts 7:18pm...Astros defend west end on this mild evening but the temperature is cooling fast.
2 min...Astros Maradona 25 yard shot deflects off defender to goalie.
4 min...Astros DiPlacido 30 yard shot is stopped by goalie.
6 min...Astros Morr cross from left has Astros Perez kick ball wide from 12 yards.
6 min...Astros Maradona 15 yard shot is wide right.
9 min...Astros Diego Maradona GOAL...Maradona’s low 12 yard shot from right is into low right corner of net.
14 min...Astros Diego Maradona GOAL...Astros Alessandro Bancheri threads through ball up middle to charging Maradona and he kicks 15 yarder low into center of net.
16 min...Astros Morr slides to knock away ball from WBS Hodgson before he can get shot on net.
17 min...WBS Byrd chips 22 yard shot from right that's caught by goalie.
18 min...Astros goalie charges forward to clear ball.
20 min...Astros Bancheri pass to Astros Perez and shot in box is deflected wide right from 10 yards.
22 min...Astros Diego Maradona GOAL...Astros David DiPlacido 35 yard freekick from left has defender head ball away and Maradona blast 22 yard shot to top right corner of net. Wow!
27 min...Astros Bancheri gets pass from right up middle and kicks wide right from 12 yards.
34 min...Astros Perez 20 yard shot is over net.
36 min...WBS Byrd 30 yard freekick from left is caught by goalie.
40 min...WBS Levidini rush down left and 25 yard cross from left is caught by goalie.
41 min...WBS Papiez 35 yard shot from right is caught by goalie.
44 min...Astros Morr kicks pass back to goalie who punts ball away from WBS Papiez.
45 min...half ends 8;03pm.
2nd Half:...starts 8:14pm.
49 min...WBS Byrd wins cornerkick from fancy dribbling near end line.
49 min...Astros defender blocks WBS Byrd cornerkick from left.
50 min...WBS Papiez 21 yard freekick up middle when WBS Byrd touches him ball that's he blasts well over net.
51 min...WBS goalie slides wide right to smother ball.
54 min...Astros sub...Benedito replaces Samuels.
54 min...Astros player's 25 yard freekick from left is deflected wide left of net.
55 min...Astros DiPlacido cornerkick from left has leaping defender head ball away.
59 min...WBS Idisho crashes into Astros goalie.
62 min...Astros sub...Lammie replaces Perez.
64 min...WBS Papiez 15 yard chip from right hits cross bar and defender heads ball away.
65 min...Astros Diego Maradona GOAL...Maradona slides low 22 yard shot beyond diving goalie Brandan Lomax who dived too soon and came up short.
69 min...Astros Maradona 30 yard blast up middle is well over net.
70 min...Border Stars Rob Malbasis GOAL...WBS Radek Papiez cross from right of box 20 yards has WBS Aaron Byrd shoot from left and defender partially clears but Malbasis pounds 10 yard rebound into low left of net.
72 min...Astros sub...Mosko replaces Vazquez.
72 min...WBS player’s cornerkick from right has play whistled down because of tackle in the box and referee Amato DeLuca award WBS a Penalty kick.
73 min...WBS Aaron Byrd GOAL...Byrd’s Penalty kick shot is low to right corner of net with goalie Tomar Chenkinski diving left.
now eight minutes of no shots.
82 min...WBS Malbasis cornerkick from right has pass to WBS Byrd on left and he shoots off target.
84 min...WBS Raymond can't twist header on net at Astros 15 yard line.
85 min...Astros sub...Boff replaces Bancheri.
86 min...Astros Maradona rolls 20 yard shot from left wide left of net.
87 min...WBS Byrd low 30 yard freekick from right is into short ouside webbing of net.
88 min...WBS Byrd cornerkick from left has defender clear away.
90 min...game ends 8:59pm.
Final Score:……..North York Astros………4…………..Windsor Border Stars………2……….
Attendance was about 25 on this mild evening which got very cool by the end of the game. I made it cross town in time thanks to a bit of delay in getting this game started.
Diego Maradona was given the captain’s armband tonight for the first time and scored all the goals for the Astros despite playing as a midfielder with Alessandro Bancheri and Jose Perez as the actual forwards. Maradona certainly has improved his position on the team from coming on as a sub late in games at the beginning of the year.
The Border Stars brought precisely eleven guys tonight and no coach so their bench was actually empty the whole game. There were about six guys on their team which I’d never seen before. Just seeing no substitutes (which the league will fine them for) I expected the Astros would wear down their opponents and win with fresh legs at the end. With their fast start, that made that game plan unnecessary.
I asked captain Jeff Hodgson after the game about their situation. They have an affiliation with four local teams to use players. Now that’s gotta be rough with a four hour drive back to Windsor. They are a different team when they have a full team and subs. They have only one home game left and are fighting with Astros for one of the last three playoff spots among the lower five teams in the league.
Rocket Robin
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Astros starters
Border Stars starters (well no subs so this was really everybody)
Astros Diego Maradona on a run towards goal.
players wait for a restart
After the game, four goal scorer Diego Maradona let me take his picture.
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