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Result of the Sunday May 29, 2011 CSL game between Toronto Croatia and Serbian White Eagles played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 8:00pm.
Toronto Croatia (all navy, white numbers)
....................1 Sandi Matika
7 Halburto Harris...4 Sven Arapovic...6 Thomas Skara...15 Ainsley Deer
20 Danile Niksic...14 Augustin De Medina...23 Tonci Pirija...8 Hayden Fitzwilliams
...........10 Tihomir Maletic (cpt)...22 Tomislav Ples
Subs:...12 Ivan Skoko (gk)...3 Mario Kulis (def)...9 Hugo Herrera (fwd)...16 Tomislav Leko (mid)...18 Dani Jankovic (fwd)
...19 Niko Pesa (fwd)...21 Joseph Filipic (mid)
team officials:...head coach Velimir Crljan...assistant coach Milodrag Akmadzic...manager Ivan Kulis...assistant manager Perica Arapovic
...massage therapist Rachel Leroux
Serbisn White Eagles (all white, red numbers)
....................1 Milos Djurkovic
19 Shawn Brown...6 Mirko Medic...5 Ricardo Manguia Perez...3 Milos Vucinic
27 Filip Prostran...8 Darryl Gomez...31 Nikola Milosevic...20 Milan Janosevic
............10 Alex Braletic (cpt)...11 Milos Scepanovic
Subs:...12 Stefan Avramovic (gk)...14 Zarko Tomic (mid)...16 Winston Crozier (def)...17 Luka Maric (fwd)...18 Andre Orlando (def)
...30 Ivan Stojakovic (mid)
team officials:...assistant coach Uros Stamatovic...director Dragan Bakoc...club official Predrag Milkovic
Game officials:...referee David Barrie...referee's assistants Peter Pendli and Steve Senderovich...fourth official Justin Tasev...(neon yellow shirts, black shorts and socks)
1st Half:...game starts 8:07pm...TC defend south end.
3 min...TC Maletic 25 yard roller up middle is smothered by goalie.
4 min...SWE Scepanovic rolls 15 yard shot from left that goalie smothers on near post.
10 min...TC Tomislav Ples GOAL...Ples gets pass up the middle from TC Tihomir Maletic at 25 yards and he puts 10 yard shot through goalie Milos
Djurkovic's legs into right corner of net.
13 min...TC Deer 55 yard freekick from left has defender head ball away on edge of box.
18 min...SWE YELLOW card...Perez earns it for throw-in arguement with referee's assistant. This was right after a 15 yard 'cheat' on a freekick deep
in own end.
19 min...SWE YELLOW card...Gomez earns it for tackle at SWE 50 yards.
19 min...TC player's 50 yard freekick down middle is caught by goalie.
21 min...SWE Medic 60 yard freekick from right has defender head ball away on edge of box.
23 min...TC Niksic rolls cross from 25 yards on right and goalie beats TC Ples to smother ball.
24 min...SWE Braletic wins cornerkick on 10 yard shot deflected on left.
27 min...SWE Braletic tees up 25 yard shot down middle that's stopped.
28 min...TC Fitzwilliams gets cross from right after TC Maletic misses and 25 yard shot up middle is wide right.
32 min...SWE Gomez 40 yard freekick from right has SWE Medic pop up header at 8 yards and deflection wins cornerkick.
32 min...SWE Scepanovic cornerkick from left wins another cornerkick for headed tip to right.
33 min...SWE Scepanovic cornerkick from right has SWE Vucinic cross from partial clearance on left from 25 yards is caught by goalie in crowd of players
in box.
34 min...TC Fitzwilliams rolls 15 yard shot along end line that goalie smothers.
37 min...TC Maletic 33 yard freekick down middle has TC Arapovic at 12 yards on left head ball wide left of net.
42 min...TC Harris rush on right and 25 yard cross bounces to goalie.
43 min...SWE Niksic 35 yard freekick from right bounces to goalie on short side post.
45 min...SWE Milosevic is injured at SWE 42 yards in crash with TC Pirija.
49 min...SWE Janosevic run on right and crosses from 15 yards over player waiting on left post and bounces out for throw-in.
49 min...half ends 8:56pm.
2nd Half:...scheduled to start at 9:11pm. There's lightning in the south and it's now dark.
halftime subs:...SWE Orlando replaces Milosevic.
At what would have been 47 minutes the rain has started and lightning causes a 30 minute delay.
Final Score:.....Toronto Croatia.......1.......Serbian White Eagles........0.........
Attendance was about 300 for this game started in overcast with the threat of rain. In fact, in what would have been the 47th minute of the game, rain began to fall but it was the lightning in the distance all could see from late in the first half that caused the halftime to be extended and finally the game to be called off. For the third year in a row, there was no segregation between the two groups of supporters but I'm sure the pending weather reports had limited attendance of both groups. The other Toronto Croatia home game exactly two weeks ago was played in a downpour for the entire game.
The CSL league rules are that a game only has to complete the first half for it to be official according to League Administrator Pino Jazbec who was in attendance. The game could only be restarted 30 minutes after the last bolt of lightning was visible. There was never longer than two minutes between another bolt went off. The game was also being squeezed by the City of Toronto as the stadium lights automatically shut off at 11:00pm. That is pretty generous because most games are over by 10:00pm. That factor had to be worked in counting backwards from that point. It was just before 10:00pm that the game was called off as the lightning was getting even closer. I told the PA announcer to announce that the 1-0 score would stand and that may have pacified the 50 people who were still there under shelter waiting for a resolution.
Referee David Barrie kept the game under control and kept the starters from coming back to start the second half.
Sandi Matika earned the shutout for Toronto Croatia. Both he and Milos Djurkovic for White Eagles didn't have any other tough shots (other than the goal) to deal with although both had to catch some crosses and shots over crowds of players waiting for rebounds.
Rocket Robin
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Toronto Croatia starters
White Eagles starters
TC kickoff to start the game.
high header
TC Thomas Skara with ball.
TC freekick
players flip over
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