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Saturday, October 20, 2012
The Eastern Ontario X-Cty Championships were held today at Mooney's Bay/Terry Fox. 5 of our players participated, representing our team and their schools.
They did amazingly well. Both Francois and Peter earned race shirts for finishing in the top 20. The top 4 finished within 21 seconds of each other.
- Francois 17th (12:56)
- Peter 20th
- Gustavo 23rd
- Dylan 24th
- Hunter 38th
Great job, on a beautiful day.
The course:
The course included a trip to the top of the hill at Mooney's Bay. Gustavo was wearing a GPS, so now we now the height: 20m:
Licee Claudel won as a team (top 4 runners). Our team would have finished 2nd if we had been allowed to run as a soccer club (our 5 runners were from 5 different schools).
A little celebration followed at Gellateria Italiana in Little Italy.
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Friday, October 19, 2012
Another beauty of a goal by the kid Osvaldo last night in Brazil. Please take a look at his light beautiful touches on the 2nd goal.
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Wednesday, October 17, 2012
This week Brazil defeated Japan 4x0, and Neymar scored 2, moving into 24th place on the Brazilian national historical squad top scorers list.
The other top scorers:
1 - Pelé - 77 goals
2 - Ronaldo - 62
3 - Romário - 55
4 - Zico - 52
5 - Bebeto - 39
6 - Rivaldo - 34
7 - Jairzinho - 33
Ronaldinho Gaúcho - 33
9 - Ademir de Menezes - 32
Tostão - 32
11 - Zizinho - 30
12 - Careca - 29
Kaká - 29
14 - Luis Fabiano - 28
15 - Adriano - 27
16 - Rivelino - 26
Robinho - 26
18 - Jair da Rosa Pinto - 22
Sócrates - 22
19 - Leônidas da Silva - 20
Didi - 20*
Roberto Dinamite - 20
23 - Pepe - 17
24 - Raí - 16
Neymar - 16
(*) Didi's grandson played on my house league team 3 years ago.
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Tuesday, October 16, 2012
For a spot in WC 2014, Chile plays Argentina tonight in Santiago. The match will feature several Barcelona and Real Madrid players.
Both clubs agreed on chartering a flight from Santiago to Spain to bring their players back immediately after the match ends. The 10,000Km trip will take approximately 13 hours to Madrid, continuing on to Barcelona..
Alexis Sánchez, Lionel Messi, Javier Mascherano, Gonzalo Higuaín y Ángel Di María will be on the flight. Let's just hope they don't pick a fight on the field.
It is not the first time Barcelona and Real Madrid have shared the cost of a flight. In 2004, they did the same to bring home Ronaldo, Roberto Carlos, and Ronaldinho.
Local fans are wondering how much bullying will Alexis Sanchez have to endure, or whether he has any chance of being the king of the flight.
The private plane will arrive in Spain mid afternoon on Wednesday. Due
to this, the players will gain more than half a day. Under normal
conditions, commercial flights don't land until midday on Thursdays,
which would mean they’d only be able to take part in one training
session before Saturday's games. Real Madrid is hosting Celta (18:00)
and Barça is playing in La Coruña (22:00).
UPDATE. Final: Argentina 2 x 1 Chile. Chile deserved a better score, but what matters is balls in the net.
Chile scores (match was broadcast live on the Internet):
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Monday, October 15, 2012
Our gym season started, but we are still playing outdoors folks!
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Soccer machines
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
Goalkeepers, watch out! It's never over!
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
Great practice and game, 4x4 score today, pks again!
video:
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
More spectacular goals and saves last night in Brazil for the 29th round.
Check our Osvaldo's goal, 6 mins into the video, scissors, push forward, cuts, lifts the head to look where the gk is, and shoots in the far corner.
Check also the many saves by Rogerio Ceni in the 2nd half. See also the inverted wall at 10:20. Ball was on the left side, yet wall on the right side. Why? because the free kick taker Juninho shoots with his right foot and the inverted wall messes his mind up.
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Gustavo's great run today at the OCDSB meet: he finished 22nd, for a great pace of 4:15min/Km.
(From SportTrack)
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Tuesday, October 09, 2012
A little side trip north of here.
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Sunday, October 07, 2012
The club has asked us to forward this to all our players.
Happy Thanksgivings to all.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Day Harvest Season
How It Began
The origins of Canadian Thanksgiving are more closely connected to the traditions of Europe than of the United States. Long before Europeans settled in North America, festivals of thanks and celebrations of harvest took place in Europe in the month of October. The very first Thanksgiving celebration in North America took place in Canada when Martin Frobisher, an explorer from England, arrived in Newfoundland in 1578. He wanted to give thanks for his safe arrival to the New World. That means the first Thanksgiving in Canada was celebrated 43 years before the pilgrims landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts!
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Saturday, October 06, 2012
Some spectacular goals and plays today in Brazil.
1. Sao Paulo's match:
2:59 - A feint, without the ball (Lucas),then hard shot with left foot (he is a right winger)
4:20 goal, Luis Fabiano
6:25 Wow!
9:00 The gk takes the free kick, and rebound!
10:10 Beautiful pass, beautiful shot and goal.
2. Atletico's match:
Ronaldinho scores 3, gives assists, gets emotional, SPECTACULAR!
1. Should the wall jump or stay? You have the answer at 5 mins into the video.
2. Ronaldinho is a very experienced player? He saw the wall advancing way too close to the ball, and yet did not complain. Why?
Check out Ronaldinho's assist on the 5th goal (by the kid Bernard), 8:30 in the video. How many goals and assists did he have in this match?
1.
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Saturday, October 06, 2012
It is a long weekend; we were expecting 14 players to show up today, 22 came! It turned out to be another beautiful day. Thank you!
Beautiful fall colors:
An illustrious player showed up too!
The Nepean H.S. Track and Field coach!
The penalty shootout, after a 5-5 regulation time tie:
Perfect gk body position, body behind the ball, no way for the ball to go through.
