Challenge

Rubens Alves Barraca
Spectators: 40 (Terracing: 31, Seating: 9, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Doriva Jacinto started the match with the kick off. Doriva Jacinto blasted a shot towards the goal in the 4th minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Ilija Skugor having to make a save. Dinko Stankovic charged in rather forcefully in the 9th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Dinko Stankovic the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. With a little luck, Croatia's Ilija Skugor got control of the ball when Doriva Jacinto tried to sneak it across the goal line. After a rather tough play, Croatia's Silvije Santek got a free kick in the 12th minute. If Doriva Jacinto had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 13th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 17th minute, Doriva Jacinto fired away a shot on goal. He put a little to much spin on the ball and sent it just wide of the right post. Teo Gudelj hit a great freekick 19 minutes into the match. Ramón Neto showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Toni Mauzer, who was totally free with the ball in the 25th minute. Doriva Jacinto blasted a shot towards the goal in the 32nd minute, but the shot hit the top of the crossbar and went out without Ilija Skugor having to make a save. In the 36th minute, Dida Mesquita made a precise shot to the right of Ilija Skugor. Croatia's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 3-0. Doriva Jacinto might have been able to make a better finish in the 39th minute when he tried to place a hard shot over Ilija Skugor. Instead the ball went over the crossbar and out. Doriva Jacinto ran back to his position shaking his head. In the 40th minute, Marcinho Félix 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.

Both teams looked relatively alert before the second half when the referee blew his whistle to tell Toni Mauzer to make the kick off. Aírton Mesquita sent away a hard shot on goal in the 54th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Ilija Skugor stood for a superb save when he managed to get hold of Doriva Jacinto's shot from short distance in the 55th minute. Toni Mauzer charged in rather forcefully in the 58th minute of the match, and managed to knock his opponent down. The referee showed Toni Mauzer the yellow card, and asked the players to shake hands before continuing play. Toni Mauzer hit a great freekick 58 minutes into the match. Dida Mesquita fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 59th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Ilija Skugor having to interfere. Croatia's Ilija Skugor played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Marcinho Félix in the 61st minute of play. After 63 minutes of play, BRASIL.Sp's Zé Roberto Orange made it 4-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Ilija Skugor was left in no man's land by his defense there! In the 65th minute, Doriva Jacinto ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Ilija Skugor was frozen by the shot and now it was 5-0. When the match had gone on for 70 minutes, Marcinho Félix put it in 6-0 from a short distance just to the right of Ilija Skugor. Ilija Skugor showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Marcinho Félix, who was totally free with the ball in the 73rd minute. 75 minutes into the match, Ademar Soares notched a goal, 7-0, to the right of Croatia's Ilija Skugor. Ilija Skugor was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. Ilija Skugor didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Marcinho Félix went, in the 78th minute, to the upper right corner, 8-0 was the resulting score. After 83 minutes of play, BRASIL.Sp's Tiago Goiano made it 9-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Ilija Skugor was left in no man's land by his defense there! Thanks to some nice foot action and superb ball handling Dinei Cabral in the 86th minute a chance for a shot on goal. With an extended leg and a bit of luck Ilija Skugor prevented the ball from getting in the gole. 88 minutes into the match, Dinei Cabral had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Ilija Skugor. Croatia's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Dinei Cabral was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 10-0. 92 minutes into the match, Croatia's goal looked a bit too open when Tiago Goiano came free, but Ilija Skugor reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. Croatia's Ilija Skugor played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Zé Roberto Orange in the 94th minute of play. In the 95th minute, Tiago Goiano made a precise shot to the right of Ilija Skugor. Croatia's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 11-0. There were very few away supporters still in the ground by the end of the match. Most of them had left early, disgusted by the way their team had been torn apart. BRASIL.Sp fully deserved thier win.