CSL 2012--Week 8

[Juby]

Highlights, match reports and an interview with Ryan Sciacccitano from the Toronto FC Academy vs Mississauga Eagles game last night:

[Rocket Robin]

Result of the Friday June 22, 2012 CSL game between
Serbian White Eagles and Montreal Impact Academy
played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 9:00pm.

25 min...SWE YELLOW card...Boris Milicic earns it for
tripping MIA Yacine Ait Simane inside right side of
SWE box. Referee Yusri Rudolph orders a Penalty kick.

26 min...MIA Stefan Vukovic Penalty kick blast is
low to the middle and goalie Milos Durkovic crumples
to make save. Referee orders a retake (Vukovic
said after the game it was because SWE defender
Goran Vlaski had come into the box before shot
was taken).

27 min...MIA Stefan Vukovic GOAL...Vukovic blasts
Penalty kick low to left side of net as goalie dives
to right.

50 min...SWE RED card...Boris Milicic earns his
second Yellow card for pulling down MIA Stefan Vukovic
on run up right at SWE 25 yard line.

73 min...SWE Zoran Rajovic GOAL...SWE Viktor Anastasov
rush on left on break and pass is centered from
12 yards near left end line for sliding Rajovic to
elude defender and direct ball in from 5 yards to
center of net as goalie Jason Beaulieu was guarding
left post.

81 min...MIA Kai Morton GOAL...MIA Amine Meftouh
45 yard freekick from left has MIA Stefan Vukovic
head a 10 yarder from the right across the box
that Morton heads a 6 yarder down the middle that's
into left side of net.

Final Score:.....Serbian White Eagles.....1....
Montreal Impact Academy........2.....

Attendance was about 250 people on this hot night.
The crowd was really upset by offside calls that
SWE kept getting caught on even being sarcastic
yelling 'offside' for every pass play by both
teams. This mood started at 9 minutes when
SWE Zoran Rajovic for a 10 yard tap-in that was
called back. SWE got better at beating traps near
the end of the game and it was wide open rushes for
both teams.

Best non-scoring chances were at 20 minutes when
MIA Amine Meftouh took a cornerkick from the left
that was knocked around in the box which included
the SWE goalie flying over and catching a 3 yard
header on the left post. 71 minutes Zoran Rajovic
got to a through ball and chipped the goalie
from 25 yards from the left but the ball bounced
wide left of the net (two minutes later he
did score). 82 minutes had the MIA goalie punch
away a cross on the left post to prevent an
SWE player from heading it in.

The SWE defensive strain in the second half was
more pronounced (they'd only allowed two goals
all season until tonight) when after substituting
defender Sebastian Novais with forward Viktor
Anastasov at halftime, they had defender Boris
Milicic red carded.

SWE club official Dragon Bakoc told me during
the game that SWE 22 year old goalie Milos
Durkovic has an opportunity to sign with an
Austrian Division 2 team within the next few
days.

The league website pointed out the link between
Stefan Vukovic and SWE assistant coach Sasa
Vukovic as son and father. Stefan started his
career with the SWE youth team then crossed
over to TFC Academy for more full time training.
After leading the CSL in scoring last season,
TFCA released him as he'd passed (at the time)
their self-imposed age limit. He was picked up
by MIA who have an older limit on their Academy
roster.

This was a match-up of two of the last three
undefeated CSL teams...SWE with a 4-0-2 record
and 8-2 in goals for/against and MIA at 3-0-3
and 13-4 goals for/against.

Montreal's tough weekend continues when they
play the league's other undefeated team, Toronto
Croatia here at Centennial Stadium at 8:00pm.
(Croatia usually plays Sunday nights but MIA
as they do every year wants to play two games
in two nights to cut costs.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

[Soccerpro]

Highlights, match reports and an interview with Ryan Sciacccitano from the Toronto FC Academy vs Mississauga Eagles game last night:

Looks like Camargo is playing extremely well. Hopefully TFC can plan a good development pathway for him to the 1st team. ie better than what they did with Oscar Cordon.

[Soccerpro]

Result of the Friday June 22, 2012 CSL game between
Serbian White Eagles and Montreal Impact Academy
played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 9:00pm.

25 min...SWE YELLOW card...Boris Milicic earns it for
tripping MIA Yacine Ait Simane inside right side of
SWE box. Referee Yusri Rudolph orders a Penalty kick.

26 min...MIA Stefan Vukovic Penalty kick blast is
low to the middle and goalie Milos Durkovic crumples
to make save. Referee orders a retake (Vukovic
said after the game it was because SWE defender
Goran Vlaski had come into the box before shot
was taken).

27 min...MIA Stefan Vukovic GOAL...Vukovic blasts
Penalty kick low to left side of net as goalie dives
to right.

50 min...SWE RED card...Boris Milicic earns his
second Yellow card for pulling down MIA Stefan Vukovic
on run up right at SWE 25 yard line.

73 min...SWE Zoran Rajovic GOAL...SWE Viktor Anastasov
rush on left on break and pass is centered from
12 yards near left end line for sliding Rajovic to
elude defender and direct ball in from 5 yards to
center of net as goalie Jason Beaulieu was guarding
left post.

81 min...MIA Kai Morton GOAL...MIA Amine Meftouh
45 yard freekick from left has MIA Stefan Vukovic
head a 10 yarder from the right across the box
that Morton heads a 6 yarder down the middle that's
into left side of net.

Final Score:.....Serbian White Eagles.....1....
Montreal Impact Academy........2.....

Attendance was about 250 people on this hot night.
The crowd was really upset by offside calls that
SWE kept getting caught on even being sarcastic
yelling 'offside' for every pass play by both
teams. This mood started at 9 minutes when
SWE Zoran Rajovic for a 10 yard tap-in that was
called back. SWE got better at beating traps near
the end of the game and it was wide open rushes for
both teams.

Best non-scoring chances were at 20 minutes when
MIA Amine Meftouh took a cornerkick from the left
that was knocked around in the box which included
the SWE goalie flying over and catching a 3 yard
header on the left post. 71 minutes Zoran Rajovic
got to a through ball and chipped the goalie
from 25 yards from the left but the ball bounced
wide left of the net (two minutes later he
did score). 82 minutes had the MIA goalie punch
away a cross on the left post to prevent an
SWE player from heading it in.

The SWE defensive strain in the second half was
more pronounced (they'd only allowed two goals
all season until tonight) when after substituting
defender Sebastian Novais with forward Viktor
Anastasov at halftime, they had defender Boris
Milicic red carded.

SWE club official Dragon Bakoc told me during
the game that SWE 22 year old goalie Milos
Durkovic has an opportunity to sign with an
Austrian Division 2 team within the next few
days.

The league website pointed out the link between
Stefan Vukovic and SWE assistant coach Sasa
Vukovic as son and father. Stefan started his
career with the SWE youth team then crossed
over to TFC Academy for more full time training.
After leading the CSL in scoring last season,
TFCA released him as he'd passed (at the time)
their self-imposed age limit. He was picked up
by MIA who have an older limit on their Academy
roster.

This was a match-up of two of the last three
undefeated CSL teams...SWE with a 4-0-2 record
and 8-2 in goals for/against and MIA at 3-0-3
and 13-4 goals for/against.

Montreal's tough weekend continues when they
play the league's other undefeated team, Toronto
Croatia here at Centennial Stadium at 8:00pm.
(Croatia usually plays Sunday nights but MIA
as they do every year wants to play two games
in two nights to cut costs.

Rocket Robin
robing@eol.ca

Robin, how did Stefan Vukovic play?

[deschamp86]

Don't know if anyone else caught it, but according to the lineup in that video, Adam Street is now with TFC Academy

[maccaliam]

I noticed that as well and was wondering if it was the same Adam Street as was at West Ham. Hard to believe it could be another, but how old would he now be? I was thinking he may be too old for the Academy side but don't know for sure.

[jpg75]

Adam Street would be 21 years old, or turning 21 this year. It's likely him as the Academy has loosened the rules on eligibility - they've called back some former, over-aged players from NCAA for the summer.

[livesareavailable]

People seem confused by the difference between TFC stating that they prefer to use u19s (in their justification for not retaining Vukovic, for example) with what the CSL permits them to do (which is, play anyone they want to). Yes, they have several returning university players, and have also brought in several older players from CIS and other CSL teams (Uni players under new coach Capotosto, for example)...does anyone know who's playing for their overage team, playing the exhibition series against OSL senior teams? I wonder if Street is playing in that? He hasn't actually played for the academy team, I believe... just turned out to back up Cavalluzzo(?)