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Result of the Friday July 31, 2009 CSL game between Serbian White Eagles and London City played at The Ontario Soccer Centre in Vaughan at 9:00pm.

Serbian White Eagles (white socks and numbers, blue shorts, red shirts)

...............1 Marko Petrovic
......2 Thierry Mangwa...6 Mirko Medic...5 Marc Jankovic
19 Kiril Dimitrov...14 Uros Stamatovic...22 Adrian Tismenar...10 Alex Braletic...8 Jonathan Hurtis
..........9 Sasa Viciknez (cpt)...7 Shane Lammie

Subs:...27 Marlo Juman...20 Milan Janosevic...16 Viktor Anastasov...28 Goran Vlaski...11 Dragon Radovic...18 Velko Lukovic...3 Dargorad Milicevic
team officials:...head coach Rafael Carbajal...assistant coach Paulo Pacione...manager Ken Stanojevich...trainer 'Mike'

London City (white socks and shirts, black shorts and numbers)

................31 Chris Davis
5 Jevon Vaderryden...13 Sergio Siguenza...4 Travis Gordon...16 Keith Smith
22 Brian Abidakun...27 Alex Radic...19 John Zdrunca...11 Patrick Bueno
............35 Andrew Loague (cpt)...20 Mike Vandenheuval

Subs:...8 Genti Dervishi (mid)...l2 David Ortega (mid)...17 Nick Belanger (fwd)...18 Ermin Residovic (mid)
team officials:...head coach Andrew Loague...manager Ryan Gauss

Game officials:...referee John Oliva...referee's assistants Joe Piancetti and Ken Van Dyke...fourth official Rich Oliveria...(all black, white and yellow trim)

1st Half:...game starts 9:05pm...SWE defend south end.
2 min...City Loague 25 yard shot up middle is well wide left of net.
3 min...SWE Lammie gets low cross from right stops ball at 15 yards in middle and low blast is blocked by sprawling goalie.
6 min...SWE Braletic blast is saved by goalie and follow up rebound shots are blocked by defenders.
6 min...SWE Braletic cornerkick from left is over heads of forwards and blocked by defenders.
11 min...SWE Viciknez is tied up in box but turns and fires 15 ayrd shot that's blocked by defender.
13 min...City Radic freekick from 15 yards along left sideline has defender head away from box.
14 min...SWE Viciknez can't draw penalty kick with his dive in the City box.
17 min...SWE Medic 35 yard blast is over crowd of players and just over bar up middle after SWE Braletic throw-in from left and recross cleared by defender.
18 min...SWE goalie beats City Loague to through ball wide left of net.
20 min...SWE Viciknez 25 yard blast up middle deflects off defender wide left of net.
20 min...SWE Viciknez cornerkick from left has SWE Jankovic one-touch kicks 7 yarder wide right.
22 min...SWE Viciknez freekick from 30 yards on extreme right has nearest defender head ball away.
23 min...SWE Tismenar is injured at City 25 yard line.
23 min...City sub...Dervishi replaces Vandenheuval.
24 min...SWE Viciknez 30 yard freekick from right is bent just wide right of top corner of net.
26 min...SWE player has an offside goal called back.
27 min...City Bueno 40 yard freekick from right is headed away on edge of box by defender.
28 min...City goalie while down swats ball away but wins freekick call.
30 min...City Dervishi chips 35 yarder that lands on top of the net.
32 min...City Zdrunca long run up right wing has him cross 15 yarder from end line and goalie pushes ball wide right for cornerkick.
35 min...SWE Braletic cross from 25 yard on left has flying goalie catch ball well wide left of net.
36 min...SWE Hurtis 25 yard blast up middle is just wide right of net.
36 min...SWE goalie beats City Loague to through ball on edge of box.
37 min...SWE Viciknez chips 20 yard corss from left that sliding SWE Lammie misses from 5 yards on right post.
38 min…SWE Kiril Dimitrov GOAL…Dimitrov walks ball into net when goalie Chris Davis misses ball at 10 yards on right after SWE Jonathan Hurtis on right eludes goalie after getting pass at 25 yards on right.
41 min...City Zdrunga weak 25 yard shot bounces to goalie up middle.
41 min...SWE Lammie low 25 yard shot up middle rolls to diving goalie.
42 min…SWE Mirko Medic long run give and go with SWE Jonathan Hurtis results in Medic blasting 20 yard shot that hits hand of City Sergio Siguenza. Referee John Olivera gives Siguenza a Yellow card and awards a penalty kick.
43 min…SWE Sasa Viciknez rolls his penalty kick wide right on blast as goalie dives to left.
44 min…City RED card…manager Ryan Gauss is ejected from the bench for mouthing off at the officials. I didn’t notice this incident at all.
46 min...half ends 9:51pm.

2nd Half:...starts 10:03pm.
46 min...City goalie outjumps SWE Lammie at 3 yards for popped up header.
47 min...SWE Viciknez 22 yard freekick from right is blocked in wall. SWE Tismenar blasts low partial clearance from 25 yards up middle to sprawling goalie.
48 min...City Bueno chips 30 yard shot wide right of net.
50 min...SWE Viciknez long run up right but 25 yard shot deflects off defender for cornerkick on right.
51 min…SWE Marc Jankovic GOAL…Sasa Viciknez cornerkick from right has ball deflect off defender into center of own net from 5 yards. (while at the time the officials thought it was an own goal).
53 min...SWE Viciknez cornerkick from right is over head of leaping SWE Mangwa on left post and goalkick is given by referee.
54 min...SWE Viciknez gets breakaway at 35 yards and chips goalie from 22 yards with goalie 15 yards out but ball hits bar and is then cleared.
54 min...SWE Hurtis runs in from ande left and pass to SWE Dimitrov who has shot blocked.
55 min…SWE Sasa Viciknez GOAL…Viciknez gets his second breakaway in one minute from 50 yards up middle and from 20 yards shoots low shot into right corner of net with goalie sprawling at 8 yards.
57 min...There's a pushing incident between both teams at the City 35 yard line.
........City Yellow card...Smith earns it for his part in incident.
........SWE YELLOW card...Braletic earns it for his part in incident.
60 min…SWE Jonathan Hurtis GOAL….Hurtis squeezed by two players at 15 yards on left and he steps back and his 15 yard blast is just under bar over flying goalie.
61 min...City Abidakun rush for ball on the right and his 20 yard roller is stopped by goalie.
61 min...City Abidakun 15 yard blast on extreme right is wide left.
62 min...SWE Hurtis is injured inside City net when kicked by goalie as he slid into net to try to redirect shot from right.
65 min...SWE sub...Radovic replaces injured Hurtis.
67 min...SWE Radovic wins cornerkick when trying to get around defender at 10 yards on left.
68 min...SWE Braletic cornerkick from left is over players in box.
69 min...City Bueno 35 yard freekick from right is over player wide left of net and goalkick is called.
69 min...SWE Radovic on left 1 on 1 cuts in 20 yard shot just wide left of post.
70 min...SWE Viciknez on 2 on 1 rolls pass from right that defender slides to block SWE Radovic from getting to 10 yard shot on left.
70 min...City Gordon injured clearing ball giving up cornerkick.
72 min...SWE Dimitrov 25 yard blast through crowd of players is stopped by flying goalie and pushed to left for cornerkick.
73 min...SWE sub...Milicevic replaces Tismenar.
........SWE sub...Janosevic replaces Braletic.
........SWE sub...Vlaski replaces Dimitrov.
74 min...City Loague cross from right from 20 yards is just of head of City player leaping at 10 yards and City Zdrunga blasts shot wide left from 15 yards on left.
75 min…SWE Dragan Radovic GOAL…Radovic gets pass from right and 10 yard blast from left is just inside left post.
76 min...SWE sub...Lukovic replaces Stamatovic.
.........SWE sub...Anastasov replaces Lammie.
79 min...City sub...Belanger replaces injured Smith who suffered head injury at SWE 30 yard line.
80 min...SWE Mangwa chests ball back to goalie to break up cross into SWE box.
82 min…SWE RED card…Mirko Medic is ejected for elbowing Mike Vandenheuval in the back of the head in the center circle as they jumped for a header.
83 min...City Abidakun 30 yard freekick from right has defender clear ball.
84 min…SWE Velko Lukovic GOAL…SWE Dragan Radovic rush on left and chips goalie and hits bar. Lukovic blasts in 7 yarder from right missing own player standing at 3 yards. Lukovic gets a Yellow card for pulling off his shirt although the SWE players were pleading for leniency as it was Luckovic’s first goal.
88 min...SWE Radovic taps pass to SWE Viciknez but he can't get away shot until he's surrounded and his 8 yarder is blocked by defender on end line.
92 min...SWE Lukovic rush on right and City goalie deflects 10 yard shot wide right for cornerkick.
92 min…SWE Dragan Radovic GOAL…SWE Velko Lukovic sets up play with close-in shot and Radovic bashes in low 3 yard kick that goalie saves behind line sprawled after Lukovic shot.
95 min...game ends 10:53pm.

Final Score:………..Serbian White Eagles………..7………….London City………….0………..

Attendance was about 125 on this game moved from Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke. The game started at 9:00pm on the Ontario Soccer Centre’s main field about five minutes after the last kid’s practice was over. This should be the last weekend any of the games have to be rescheduled as the City of Toronto workers ended earlier in the week. The headlines were all about the mounting garbage but parks were neither maintained nor available and swimming pools (that personally effects me the most) were not open.

White Eagles captain Sasa Viciknez could have had more than his one goal if he’d converted on the penalty kick or at 54 minutes when he had a breakaway at 35 yards and chipped the goalie from 22 yards with the goalie out at 15 yards but the ball hit the crossbar and was cleared.

London City held on for the first half and always seemed to have that last defender back to prevent 2 on 0 breakaways. They didn’t get many chances to score on White Eagles goalie Marko Petrovic who earned the shutout (usual first stringer Dan Pelc was not listed as a sub). When the fourth official informed both teams of four minutes of extra time in the second half (a few injuries and picking balls out of the net), a player on the City bench said “Can you make it two minutes?”. There have been a lot of player chances since I last saw City play back on May 24th but it’s hard to believe that their only point of the season was their home game of June 26th against White Eagles when they earned a 1-1 tie. I’m sure the White Eagles have been waiting the whole month for the rematch. Dropped points hurt them in their run at undefeated Toronto Croatia in the tough International Division.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca


White Eagles starters


City starters


White Eagles Marc Jankovic takes a freekick.


City players rush


White Eagles player heads downward.


Action in White Eagles end.

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