Challenge

Ergilio Hato Stadium
Spectators: 45 (Terracing: 35, Seating: 10, VIP seats: 0) Dark clouds were building up when the players entered the field. None of the them looked very eager to play. Kyle Davies started the match with the kick off. After 2 minutes of play, La France FC's Fulvio Vittorio made it 0-1 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Bruno Barrett was left in no man's land by his defense there! Gustavo Frasco hit a great freekick 5 minutes into the match. Bruno Barrett made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Mei Wei Xuan in the 10th minute of play. 14 minutes into the game, Fulvio Vittorio cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 0-2. Bruno Barrett was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. After 17th play minutes Fulvio Vittorio shot 0-3, a short shot which went by Bruno Barrett and just under the crossbar into goal. 19 minutes into the game, La France FC's Fulvio Vittorio nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Bruno Barrett made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 0-4. 0-5 became the score in the 23rd minute when Fulvio Vittorio elegantly shot the ball into goal just under the crossbar. After some careless play in the Curacao defense, Fulvio Vittorio kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Bruno Barrett. The Curacao fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Bruno Barrett should have stopped the shot. In the 35th minute Fulvio Vittorio shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Bruno Barrett saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. If Fulvio Vittorio had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 37th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. An unexpectedly hard shot by Fulvio Vittorio in the 37th minute of play forced Curacao's goalkeeper Bruno Barrett to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. If Fulvio Vittorio had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 41st minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. If Fulvio Vittorio had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 44th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. Bruno Barrett showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Fulvio Vittorio in the 48th minute of the match. The Curacao players were disheartened as they walked off the pitch after the first half. La France FC were winning 0-7.

In the 52nd minute, Fulvio Vittorio reached a very good position and smashed the ball with a huge effort into the net, just to the left of Bruno Barrett. The goal made the score 0-8. 56 minutes had been played when some careless play by Curacao's defense caused the ball to cross the line for a corner. Atilio De la Cuadra was slow to take the kick. During this time La France FC's players had a chance to rest. Fulvio Vittorio could have scored with his fast shot on goal in the 60th minute of the match, but Bruno Barrett made a huge save. 68 minutes into the game, La France FC's Fulvio Vittorio nearly tore a hole in the net with a booming shot. Bruno Barrett made a valiant effort, but he could not reach the ball in time, 0-10. La France FC's Edgardo Cordeal was substituted for Guillermo Cordarius. La France FC made a substitution. Omar Palma replaced Francisco Gutierrez. After 74 minutes, Ryszard Percha made it 0-11 with a short kick to the right side. Curacao's Bruno Barrett tried to save the shot but he was too slow in reacting to the shot. When Ryszard Percha came up free with the goalie in the 76th minute, the La France FC 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 Ryszard Percha couldn't finish the play. Ryszard Percha scored 0-12 in the 78th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Bruno Barrett, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. In the 83rd minute, Ryszard Percha ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Bruno Barrett was frozen by the shot and now it was 0-13. Jordan Porter's late challenge caught a La France FC's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Jordan Porter helped the player get up and apologised. After a rather tough play, Curacao's Jordan Porter got a free kick in the 91st minute. Ryszard Percha received a nice pass, split the defenders, and ran untouched towards the goal. Bruno Barrett came out and tried to block the shot, but Ryszard Percha slotted it home off the left post making it 0-14 in the 92nd minute. When the match was over La France FC could go home with a victory in their luggage, having controlled the game far better than Curacao throughout the match.