Soccer In Toronto 08.21.09

By Rocket Robin Soccer In Toronto

CSL Result
Friday August 21st, 2009

Final Score
Serbian White Eagles 1, Brampton Lions 3

Venue
Centennial Park, Etobicoke

Kickoff
8:00 pm

Highlights
20 min … Lions Daniel Nascimento GOAL
Lions Agustin Demedina rushes down right wing and crosses over to find Nascimento on left and he holds ball and takes 20 yard blast from left into top right corner of net beyond flying goalie Jason Ferreirinha.

31 min … White Eagles Sasa Viciknez GOAL
Viciknez takes 35 yard freekick from right that bounces into left side of net untouched by goalie Kevin Doyle and SWE player’s leaping header attempt.

46 min … Lions David Guzman GOAL
Guzman blasts shot up middle from 25 yards has goalie slip and ball goes into low left corner of net.

58 min … Lions Agustin Demedina GOAL
Lions David Guzman cornerkick from right has ball eventually partially cleared and Demedina takes low 25 yard shot through players in box and into left side of net.

Notes
Attendance was about 200 on this warm night. Some White Eagles fans lit flares in the second half but it didn’t have the same meaning when the team was losing.

Steve DePiero was the referee and didn’t have too much to call as it wasn’t really a close checking game.

This was the Lions third win in a row with victories of 5-3, 3-0 and now 3-1. I’m not sure why the team has scored so much recently. They were the catchable 8th place team just a few weeks ago but every game they move up a position in the standings. David Guzman, Daniel Nascimento and Andrew Silva had the best chances tonight.

Sasa Viciknez wore #99 tonight with White Eagles retiring the #9 shirt usually worn before by Viciknez two weeks ago in a special ceremony to honour great Mike Stojanovic. Earlier message board reports had said he’d be wearing #29 from now on.

White Eagles missed their chance to pass Toronto Croatia for first place in the standings as Croatia are idle until Sunday night.

Different reasons have been given as to why speedy forward Shane Lammie was not in the White Eagles lineup. He was suspended for one game for mouthing off to the coach OR he’s been fired for that incident. We’ll have to wait until the next game to see what the answer is.

City staff offered the rather lame excuse their schedule showed the game would start at 9:00 pm so the press box was locked so no announcements, folk music, national anthem, nor working scoreboard were available until well into the first half.

Confirmed with some officials from Italia Shooters is that St Joan of Arc Catholic High School where Shooters and the CSL Reserve League plays was unharmed by the tornados that touched down in Vaughan the night before and destroyed many homes and a different school.