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Result of the Sunday August 30th, 2009 CSL game between Toronto Croatia and London City played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 8:15pm.

Toronto Croatia (blue socks, white shorts and numbers, red shirts)

..................89 Marko Culjak
16 Halberto Harris...21 Sven Arapovic...17 Nicholas Goddard...20 Ainsley Deer
23 Tonci Piriaja...5 Johnny Bustamante...14 Braeden Krampert...8 Hayden Fitzwilliams (cpt)
...........15 Niko Pesa...10 Tihomir Maletic

Subs:...1 Sandi Matika (gk)...30 Tom Granic (fwd)...9 Leo Marasovic (fwd)...24 Ryan Tawill (mid)...7 Dani Jankovic (fwd)... 18 Mario Beljo (mid)
team officials:...head coach Velimir Crljen...assistant coach Alen Vukobrad...manager Ivan Kulis...trainer/physio Rachel Leroux...team official Pino Jazbec

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

...................1 Scott Mueller
5 Jevon Vanderreyden...11 Nick Jordan...3 Erik Elmauer...4 Travis Gordon
........8 Mike Sesar...7 David Ortega...20 Mike Vandenheuval
........16 Keith Smith...3 Erik Elmauer (cpt)...22 Kuba Waszkowski

Subs:...31 Christopher Davis (gk)...6 Justin Marques (mid)...27 Nick Belanger (mid)...10 Yazan El-Shalabi (mid)
team officials:...head coach Andrew Loague...manager and team official Ryan Gauss

Game officials:...referee Gianni Facchini...referee's assistants Leif Maitland and Matthew Auduini...fourth official Lisa McNeil...(yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)

7 sec...City earn cornerkick very quickly.
30 sec...City player's cornerkick from right has goalie punch ball away.
6 min...City player's 15 yard shot has diving goalie stop and ball is cleared.
7 min...TC Krampert 40 yard cross from right is just a step in front of TC Maletic trying to head ball at 5 yards on left.
10 min...TC Harris chips 40 yarder from right that's caught by goalie.
12 min...TC Krampert chips forward from 30 yards on right. TC Piriaja cross blocked on end line for cornerkick.
..........City Smith was injured at TC 45 yards earlier on this play.
14 min…City Travis Gordon pulls down Croatia Halberto Harris just inside the City box on right side. Referee Gianni Facchini awards Croatia a Penalty kick. Harris has a back injury and is down for two minutes.
17 min…Croatia Tihomir Maletic rolls the Penalty kick wide right of the net with goalie Scott Mueller frozen in the center of the net.
18 min...TC Piriaja chips pass from20 yards from middle to left and TC Fitzwilliams blasts 8 yarder well over net.
20 min...City Waszkowski 15 yard blast from right is saved by sliding goalie.
22 min...TC Harris can't control cross to 12 yards on right and ball bounces off him for goalkick.
23 min...TC Krampert blast deflects off sliding City Elmauer at 12 yards for cornerkick on right.
23 min...TC Maletic cornerkick from right is headed on left by City Jordan out left side for throw-in.
25 min...TC goalie picks up City Vandenheuval headed cross from 15 yards.
26 min...TC Piriaja cross attempt from 12 yards on right is blocked by sliding City Elmauer. TC Piriaja gets up firs and recrosses to TC Pesa who rolls ball wide right of empty net from 3 yards!
27 min...City Sesar cornerkick from left has City Gordon fall backwards missiing shot from 12 yards. City Ortega blasts partial clearance from 20 yards well wide right of net.
28 min...TC Maletic 25 yard cross from right is wide left for goalkick.
29 min...TC Bustamante 35 yard freekick blast from right is well high and left of net.
31 min...City Ortega 18 yard blast from left has goalie bat ball down and City Loague 5 yard header is saved by defender's clearance on line.
34 min...City Waszkowski cornerkick from right has ball headed through box for cornerkick on left.
35 min...City Vanderheuval cornerkick from left has City player hook ball with foot on right but ball is cleared.
38 min...TC YELLOW card...Maletic earns it for tackle at City 25 yard line on left.
40 min...City Ortega is injured in center circle.
41 min...City Fitzwilliams freekick from 20 yards on right edge of box is cleared.
43 min...TC goalie bats away then picks up ball as City Smith had squeezed through two defenders.
45 min...City YELLOW card...Elmauer earns it for a sliding tackle.
45 min...TC Fitzwilliams 35 yard freekick is over player wall and is caught by goalie.
46 min...TC Pesa 20 yard shot from left as he's pushed over by defender bounces to goalie.
48 min...half ends 9:08pm.

2nd Half:...starts 9:26pm.
46 min...TC Maletic freeekick from right has defender head ball away.
49 min...TC Bustamante cornerkick from right has ball cleared on left and recrossed to TC Bustamante who blasts 10 yarder from right is well over net.
50 min...City Smith gets short pass from left and blasts 20 yard shot that goalie blocks at 15 yards. TC Fitzwilliams is injured on play.
52 min...City Waszkowski 30 yard blast down center is over crowd of players and hits bar.
53 min...City Loague gets pass on left and chips goalie and over bar from 20 yards.
54 min...City YELLOW card...Gordon for tackle on TC Maletic just outside right edge of box.
55 min...TC Fitzwilliams after fake freekick from 20 yards has goalie palm ball over net.
56 min…Croatia (London own goal) GOAL…Croatia Tihomir Maletic cornerkick from right has Croatia Nicholas Goddard head ball from 3 yards on the left side that deflects off defender Travis Gordon at the one yard line and into the net.
62 min...City player's long throw-in from left has defender head away to start fast break.
63 min…Croatia Tihomir Maletic GOAL…Croatia Nicholas Goddard sends pass down middle from 60 yards and Maletic shoots 20 yarder that the goalie gets a hand to and deflects ball into the left side of the net from about 8 yards.
65 min...TC Deer cross from left has TC Pesa head ball that goalie flies over to palm into right post and ball eventually conceded cornerkick from left.
66 min...City Jordan run on right and chips cross that defender pops up and another defender clear.
69 min...TC Deer chips ball from left has goalie catch ball wide left of post.
71 min...City Waszkowski lightly chips 30 yarder to goalie after throw-in awarded because of injury.
72 min...TC Maletic low cornerkick from right has City defender deflect ball into right webbing of net.
72 min...TC Maletic high cornerkick from right is cleared from box.
75 min…City RED card…Erik Elmauer earns his second Yellow card for pulling down Tihomir Maletic at the City 25 yard line on the right. (Elmauer had picked up his first at 45 minutes on a sliding tackle).
76 min...TC Pesa 25 yard low shot from left is wide left of goal.
77 min...TC sub...Marasovic replaces Bustamante.
81 min...TC Deer cross from left has TC Pesa deflect ball off him from 10 yards for goalie to catch.
82 min...TC Maletic rolls 25 yarder up middle just wide right of diving goalie for goalkick.
83 min...TC Marasovic gets through ball on right and his 7 yard shot is blocked by flying goalie and defender clears.
85 min...TC sub...Granic replaces Pesa.
85 min...City Sesar 65 yard freekick from left has goalie catch on left in crowd of players.
87 min...City sub...#12(? may have been the backup goalie coming in as an outfield player) replaces Loague.
88 min...City sub...El-Shalabi replaces Vanderreyden.
92 min...City Granic rush on left chips 35 yarder that goalie catches.
93 min...City Smith blasts 12 yarder from right that goalie pushes ball wide right for cornerkick.
93 min...City player's cornerkick from right has ball cleared.
94 min...game ends 10:15pm.

Final Score:……Toronto Croatia………2…………….London City…………0………….

Attendance was about 125 on this cool evening with the temperature falling rapidly. Wow, and the playoff system which I’ve heard will be home and away quarter-finals and semi-finals and a one game final on subsequent weekends means they will drag on for five weeks and the season may not end until near the end of October and I wonder how cold it will be by then?

Croatia could have put this game away much sooner by scoring on the Penalty kick or at 26 minutes when Croatia Tonci Piriaja had a cross attempt from 12 yards on the right blocked by the sliding Erik Elmauer. Piriiaja gets up first and recrosses to Croatia Niko Pesa who rolled the ball wide right of the empty net from 3 yards!

Marko Culjak earned the shutout for Toronto Croatia with a few key saves. Scott Mueller was just as strong to keep City in the game for so long.

City had some good second half chances in a flurry. At 50 minutes Keith Smith got a short pass from the left and blasted a 20 yard shot that goalie Marko Culjak blocked at 15 yards. Hayden Fitzwilliams was injured on the play. Two minutes later City Kuba Waszkowski took a 30 yard blast down the center over a crowd of players and hit the bar. A minute after that player coach Andrew Loague got a pass on the left and chipped the goalie from 20 yards but the shot was just over the bar.

Toronto Croatia won and pass Serbian White Eagles for first place in the league. White Eagles had won Friday night and taken over the lead for a few days. This weekend White Eagles get a chance to pass Croatia in a Saturday game against TFC Academy and then Croatia waits until Sunday when they play North York Astros.

London City stays in 10th (last) place but gets a chance to close in on 9th place with a home game this Friday against North York Astros which was actually originally to be their home opener on May 29th but a storm had the social club that owns their home field call the game so their field wouldn’t be ruined.

Before this game, the Ontario Cup semi-final was played at this stadium and Real Toronto beat Hamilton Croatia 4-1. The Real Toronto roster lists at least six players that play for the CSL Italia Shooters. Some of them I’m sure were in the Shooters CSL game I saw on Saturday afternoon play Portugal FC. Hamilton Croatia lists some players that have played for Toronto Croatia in past years.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca


Croatia starters


City starters


One of a set of blurry pictures taken after it got dark. Well the days are getting shorter.



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