U18 World League

Alejandro Perez
Spectators: 7479 (Terracing: 5611, Seating: 1719, VIP seats: 149) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Ian Sundberg started the match with the kick off. After 4 minutes, George Tomasson mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Med Gang FC and the Volvimos mejores players grew even worse after the yellow card. A collision led to Med Gang FC getting a freekick after 5 minutes play. George Tomasson hit a great ball. After some fancy dribbling in the 6th minute, Justino Quin managed to get in a good position for a shot. Volvimos mejores's supporters rose to their feet, but Justino Quin was a bit off balance and shot the ball just wide of the left post. Ture Tingelholm breathed a sigh of relief and went to take the goal kick. A collision led to Volvimos mejores getting a freekick after 6 minutes play. Bruno Cordaro hit a great ball. Alvin Berg hit a great freekick 9 minutes into the match. In the 12th minute, Eric Lundqvist got an opportunity to score, but he didn't get a solid hit on the ball and ended up kicking it wide of the goal. In the 18th minute Alvin Berg shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Atilano Lia saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. A collision led to Volvimos mejores getting a freekick after 23 minutes play. Arturo Gabirel hit a great ball. The audience was convinced that Ian Sundberg's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Atilano Lia was relentless in the 25th minute of the game. Ceferino Raymond's late challenge caught a Med Gang FC's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Ceferino Raymond helped the player get up and apologised. In the 26th minute, Ceferino Raymond hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. When Justino Quin came up free with the goalie in the 33rd minute, the Volvimos mejores fans jumped to their feet. But the shot missed the goal by a fraction of an inch, and the fans sat back down disappointed that Justino Quin couldn't finish the play. A collision led to Med Gang FC getting a freekick after 34 minutes play. Melker Boström hit a great ball. 39 minutes into the match, Eric Lundqvist notched a goal, 1-1, to the right of Volvimos mejores's Atilano Lia. Atilano Lia was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Melker Boström hit a great freekick 41 minutes into the match. Disappointed in the 1-2 score, the home team went to the dressing room to adjust tactics for the second half.

The players of the home team were most fresh-looking when they entered the field to play the second half. Feliciano Kemen was the one to do the kick off. With a little luck, Volvimos mejores's Atilano Lia got control of the ball when Melker Boström tried to sneak it across the goal line. 2-2 became the score in the 53rd minute when Arturo Gabirel elegantly shot the ball into goal just under the crossbar. A collision led to Med Gang FC getting a freekick after 57 minutes play. Jonathan Ekelund hit a great ball. After 59 minutes, Ian Sundberg mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Med Gang FC and the Volvimos mejores players grew even worse after the yellow card. After a rather tough play, Med Gang FC's Ian Sundberg got a free kick in the 59th minute. A collision led to Volvimos mejores getting a freekick after 61 minutes play. Reynaldo Basualdo hit a great ball. Ture Tingelholm showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Feliciano Kemen in the 63rd minute of the match. Ture Tingelholm took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Feliciano Kemen, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. A collision led to Med Gang FC getting a freekick after 69 minutes play. Gottfrid Sikström hit a great ball. Alvin Berg received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Atilano Lia came out and tried to block the shot, but Alvin Berg slotted it home off the left post making it 2-3 in the 74th minute. The audience was convinced that Feliciano Kemen's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Ture Tingelholm was relentless in the 83rd minute of the game. Ture Tingelholm showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Feliciano Kemen in the 88th minute of the match. In the 90th minute of the match Volvimos mejores got a corner. Med Gang FC's goalie ran out to the linesman to protest the call, but the linesman resolutely pointed his flag at the cornerflag. Abelardo Benino ran over to the corner to take the kick. The corner led Volvimos mejores's Abelardo Benino to fire away a dangerous shot which Ture Tingelholm despite some difficulties managed to get hold on the ball. In the 91st minute, Eric Lundqvist hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. 93 minutes into the match, Justino Quin had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Ture Tingelholm. Med Gang FC's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Justino Quin was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 3-3. The final whistle blew with the score still tied, and both teams left the pitch thinking about the missed chances that could have given their team the win.