Soccer In Toronto 09.26.09

By Rocket Robin Soccer In Toronto

CSL Result
Saturday September 26th, 2009

Final Score
Portugal FC 0, Trois-Rivieres Attak 3

Venue
Brockton Stadium, Toronto

Kickoff
8:00 pm

Highlights
43 min … Attak James Louis-Jeune GOAL
PFC Jaroslaw Radzinski charges to edge of PFC box to make clearance but misses bouncing ball and Louis-Jeune runs into box and kicks 10 yarder into short right side of net below bar with goalie Mike Silva guarding middle of net.

54 min … PFC Joseph Philip is tripped inside Attak box. Referee Geoff Gamble signals for a Penalty kick.

54 min … PFC Gustavo Serrano blasts Penalty kick low to middle of net that goalie Andrei Bedescu stops and turns around while on his knees and smothers ball on goal line. (The ball didn’t trickle over the goal line because of the mud).

60 min … Attak Elkana Mayard GOAL
Attak player takes a cornerkick kick from right that another Attak player heads across box from right and Mayard kicks in 7 yarder into top left corner of net.

66 min … PFC RED card
Team captain Giovanni Annissi earns his second yellow card for pushing over an Attak player just to the left of the PFC box. He picked up his first at 28 minutes for tugging on an Attak player rushing down the middle.

80 min … PFC Andre Stewart earns a Yellow card for a push inside the PFC box and a Penalty kick is awarded.

81 min … Attak Felix Cardin blasts Penalty kick off the right post and the ball deflects left across box wide left of box.

84 min … Attak Shady Saleh GOAL
Attak Amine Meftouh takes freekick from left and has ball knocked around in the PFC box and Saleh take a low shot from 8 yards through a crowd of players into the net.

Notes
Attendance was about 30 on this cool night with a drizzle falling well before the game started and all during the first half then it becoming a full downpour for all of the second half. I was able to hide out under a canopy but it was placed even with the north goal line so it was hard to see details of what was going on in the south end.

This game was broadcast live on Rogers Community channel.

This was a matchup of the first (Attak) and eighth (PFC) place teams and the difference in caliber showed. I thought the rain on the natural grass would be the great equalizer but three events left PFC with no chance. Their most experienced defender Danny Amaral could only go 18 minutes before pulling up lame in the PFC end and had to be subbed; Gustavo Serrano just had to score on that Penalty chance; and PFC had no chance of making a comeback when they went a man down at 66 minutes.

Attak assistant coach Celine Quesnel said the team arrived from Trois-Rivieres at 2:00 pm Friday afternoon so they would be well rested for this game. They were returning home immediately after this game and I could see the team bus in the parking lot on my way out of the stadium.

Andrei Badescu earned the shutout for the Attak. I heard before the game that he had not played on their team before. The Attak is the team that I have seen the least this year; only my third time whereas every other team I’ve seen between five and eleven times. Actually the last time I saw them was August 14th when they played Portugal FC to a 0-0 tie at Lamport Stadium. David Lamoureux was the goaltender in that game.

The second game in this series will be in Trois-Rivieres next Saturday. Attak hold a 1-0 in the series. If Portugal somehow wins that game, a half hour mini game will start immediately following that second game.