> > *U.G.C 35th Soccer Tourney* > > > > The second week of matches of the 35th edition of the United Goans Centre > rolling trophy tournament was played on October 1st 2010. The tournament > was played under the auspices of the Kuwait Indian Football Federation at > the Shuwaikh fire brigade stadium. > > The first match began at 7:15 am between Rawda Boys S.C. and Rising Stars. > The match started at a fast pace with both teams failing to capitalize on > early chances in the first ten minutes. Rising stars started to pass the > ball nicely among them and were moving the ball to all areas of the ground > creating for themselves a lot of attacking chances. Both the teams had a > freekick in the first twenty minutes with Rawda boys just placing it above > the bar and soon it would be Rising Stars chance, the goal keeper produced a > great save to keep the ball out with his fingertips. > > Rising Stars continued to add pressure and were rewarded with Fajula > scoring from a nice pass from Sahfiq. To make it 1-0. Within minutes Rising > stars were attacking again and scored a second from mohammed shafiq. Mohamed > Shafiq beat the keeper and his marker with his header to make it 3-0 at the > end of the first half. > > The second half began at 7:55 and rising stars wasted no time in attacking. > Fajula shot from inside the Dee forced the keeper to make a good save to > keep the ball out of the net. Rwada challengers created a nice chance when > their striker was one on one with the keeper but he failed to slot one in to > cut the deficit. The rising stars keeper made a crucial save to make > sure there would be no surprises to come in this match. Towards the end of > the first half No.10 Fajilu scored his second goal of the match from a nice > through ball. The rising stars were able to keep a clean sheet and win > the match with a score of 4-0. The match was refereed by KIFF > subcommittee by Edward/Nazareth/Joe. > > > > Rising Stars 4 Rwada Boys S.C 0 > > > > The second match started at 8:35 am where Goa Maroons were taking on > Curtocares. Both teams started the game with equal procession and the ball > was moved around midfield a lot and both teams found it tough to launch an > attack. The defenses of both the teams were doing a good job in dealing with > all kinds of attacks. The first goal was provide by Ian Dsouza who did a > good job to stop the attack and then provided the ball Kennedy who made no > mistake in providing the lead to make it 1-0. > > Goa Maroons steeped up the pace after the first goal and continued > attacking towards Curtocares goal. Their keeper made some good saves to deny > Maroons from scoring again. However No.9 Steven was providing some good > balls from the midfield to the strikers and he provided a good ball to > Kennedy who made no mistake to make it 2-0 in the first half. > > The second half started at 9:20am with Curtocares creating more chances for > themselves, but their lack of failing to finish failed to get them on the > scorecard. No.7 Minguel Moyro was inside the Goa Maroons half and took a > shot from an acute angle to score to make 2-1. With fifteen minutes left to > play, Curtocares were looking for their second goal and they were nearly > gifted a chance when a back pass fell to the feet of the striker of > Curtocares but he failed to find the back of the net. The match finished > with the score line 2-1 and Goa Maroons moves on to the next round to face > either K.G.A or United Goans in the quarterfinals. The match was refereed > by KIFF subcommittee by John/Edward/Rosario > > Goa Maroons 2 – Curtocares United 1 > > Next Friday October 8th, there will be three matches 6:30am Rising Stars > Vs United Friends, > 8:00 am KGA against host UGC and Rangers Vs DHL sports club at 9:30am. > > If you want to see more pictures of these matches and see some history of > UGC, UGC has launched a website -> www.unitedgoanscentre.com > > > -- > Joseph Gonsalves > Email: [email protected] > 965-94063749 >
-- Joseph Gonsalves
