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Monday, April 23, 2007

Sari Intercontinental League

Latest in the league table, leading goal scorers and match reports from Gil Berkowich.


       
Pos Team PLD W D L GF GA Points

1 Poland 12 11 0 1 45 13 33
2 Polish Eagles 12 9 0 3 46 25 27
3 Romania 11 8 2 1 51 15 26
4 South Africa 11 8 1 2 37 19 25
5 Poland Naas 12 6 2 4 36 29 20
6 Brazil 11 6 1 4 46 27 19
7 Mosney Utd 10 6 1 3 35 29 19
8 SADC United 13 6 0 7 40 57 18
9 Somalia 13 5 2 6 28 30 17
10 Polska 9 5 0 4 47 32 15
11 Italy 12 4 3 5 23 26 15
12 D.R. Congo 13 5 0 8 31 38 15
13 Slovakia 12 3 4 5 30 34 13
14 Zimbabwe 11 3 1 7 30 47 10
15 Ireland 11 3 0 8 19 46 9
16 Polonia 14 2 1 11 33 58 7
17 Hong Kong 11 0 0 11 16 68 0



Goal Scorers

Tomasz Mikolajczyk Polska 23
Luciano Ferreira Brazil 20
Daniel Niedzielski Polish Eagles 19
Max Herciu Romania 14
Randell Stevens South Africa 13
Ishmael Asiyambi SADC United 12

The weekend was definitely the weekend of the underdog's teams.
For the first time this season it would have been very hard even from the
brokers from Ladbrokes to predict The weekend results of our league.

In the Saturday match:

In the only match that was played on Saturday the team of D.R. Congo met the
team of Hong Kong from the bottom of the league.
Despite the fact that Hong Kong has only had...9 players against the 11
mighty Congolese worriers, The team from the Far East has made the Congolese
wear their socks out, before the referee blowing the final whistle on a
spectacular no defense goal fest that ended in the result of 8:7 for the
Congolese.


In the Sunday matches:

The Boys in Green are no longer a Mickey Mouse team. (Apologies to Mickey
Mouse :-)

1) In the upset of the day it was the Ireland team who dig out from the
abyss of their bench the legendary and Unstoppable Gil Berkovich and sworn
to fight until their last gasp. It was a battle of hearts of determination from
the Boys in Green against the Current League Champions the mighty Polish
Eagles.
The Poles drew their first blood scoring first goal from a from a
penalty. The Irish came back strongly in the Second half equalizing from a
well deserve team effort goal.
The second goal for Ireland was work of art by the Valentine
Viera-like to put the Irish 2.1 up. The Irish Goal keeper Dermot who was
fantastic during the match had a bad goal kick which fall straight to Piotrowski, who netted straight away. When it looks like the 2 teams might settle for a draw which wouldn't be good for the champions from Poland the Polish Eagles were granted a second penalty.
To the delight of the Irish their magnificent Goal keeper Dermot - the man
of the match save the day. Suddenly the Boys in Green felt that they could win the
match and send their lads upfront. 5 minutes from the end, their Lithuanian midfielder Peter lob the great Polish keeper to score the Irish third goal in what seem to be the winning goal, 3:2 for Ireland in
the end.


The Somalian winning 2 matches back to back first time this season.

2) In another upset of the league the SADC team were looking to continue
with their great recent form, and it didn't look that the skinny and small
Somalians will be able to the big guns from the SADC team. After another
stalemate it was the Somalian team who has manage to put a the take the wind
out the SADC sails by beating them in the result of 3:2. The win has taking
Somalia 3 places up in the tables from 12 to 9th place. Well done Somalia !


The battle of the Poles for fame and Glory.

3) In a Polish Derby between the leaders of the league and the best
defensive team Poland to the team with the best goal scoring record Polska, it was a battle between defense and offence. It didn't look match that way when the Poland team has managed to crash the hapless Polska team, in the result of 4:0. The Poland team did very well in their last general performance before their stalemate with the Italy team next week in Dalymount Park at 18:00.


The Shoo Shine football from South Africa is back!

4) In a match between the finalist from last year South Africa to the
rising Poland Naas team, it seem like the past meeting the future when the
South African coming back in the last couple of weeks from the hole they dig out for
themselves, and showing the critics that it's still too soon to burry them.
The Poland Naas have tried use their tactics against the South Africans. However the South Africans dominate the match and won 2:0, to retain their 4th position on the league.


The Samba football is back for good.

5) The team of Brazil was hoping to continue their recent form after
beating Italy last week, when they should have met the team of D.R. Congo.
The Congolese probably must have been too scared to show up since 11
warriors Could barely managed to beat the 9 small Hong Kong guys the day
before. Brazil were happy to take the easy 3 points without playing their
match.


The Romanian are playing for 90 minutes (and a little bit longer :-)

6) In another match that looked very easy on paper between the Romania
team, position in the third place, to the Polonia team which were third from
the bottom of the league. The tables didn't look much when the Polonia team
opened the score and play very strong to lead 2:1 at the half time.
The Poles scored another Goal in the second half and a smell of
sensation was in the air. However the best comeback team in the League
(Romania), has managed another one of their amazing come backs from the deficit
of 1:3 to win the match 4:3.


The Return of the Katanacho

7) In their Final preparation of the Italy team before their Big match
against the Poland team this coming Sunday At the Dalymont Park, the Italian
were hoping to stop their loosing streak by beating the Slovakia from the bottom of the tables. To the dismay of the Italians the Slovakia team didn't just show up
to enjoy the weather, and have managed to thrash the depleted Italians in the result of 4:1.

The Italians are due to meet the Poland team this Sunday in what seem to be
a very steep mountain to climb. It is more than likely that the 3rd defeat in a
roll for the small Italians will force them to be back to the Katanacho
football style.


Next week the league will play only half its matches, and the league will
stop it breath when the current league leaders and the number 1 contenders
Poland will meet the Katanacho of the team of Italy. the league will keep
its fingers cross for the Katanacho people to hold their defense a little
bit stronger,so that the Polish celebrations will not start too soon.


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