Friendly League

Rubens Alves Barraca
Spectators: 36 (Terracing: 28, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Roger Björk got the match started through his kick off. After some careless play in the BRASIL.Sp defense, Roger Björk kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Caio Penha. The BRASIL.Sp fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Caio Penha should have stopped the shot. After 7 minutes, Lon Lanteigne mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the BRASIL.Sp and the Cohaerentia F.C. players grew even worse after the yellow card. Cohaerentia F.C.'s Holger Edström was substituted for Edvard Qvarnström. Durval Meireles sent away a hard shot on goal in the 12th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. In the 15th minute, Roger Björk made a precise shot to the right of Caio Penha. BRASIL.Sp's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 0-2. Durval Meireles sent away a hard shot on goal in the 17th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Cohaerentia F.C.'s Birger Lundqvist played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Durval Meireles in the 22nd minute of play. Birger Lundqvist made an important save on a dangerous shot by Durval Meireles in the 26th minute. Durval Meireles sent away a hard shot on goal in the 28th minute, but the ball hit the crossbar and went out. A very good chance for a goal. During the 29th minute of the match Lon Lanteigne completely mistimed his tackle and brought down his opponent. The referee gave Lon Lanteigne a yellow card, his second in the match, which meant he could no longer take part in the game. A throw-in in the 31st minute of the game was made by Olov Eklund with Joakim Abrahamsson as target, who quickly passed the ball forward. After a rather tough play, Cohaerentia F.C.'s Edwin Dahlbom got a free kick in the 31st minute. If Durval Meireles had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 38th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. In the 39th match minute, Cohaerentia F.C. was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Joakim Abrahamsson to maneuver through the defense. After some careless play in the Cohaerentia F.C. defense, Durval Meireles kicked a shot that curved into the net to the right of Birger Lundqvist. The Cohaerentia F.C. fans voiced their displeasure as they felt that Birger Lundqvist should have stopped the shot. When the match clock showed 43 minutes, the score became 2-2 when Durval Meireles sped through Cohaerentia F.C.'s defense and sent away a curving shot that went into the net to the right of Birger Lundqvist. Durval Meireles recieved an excellent pass in front of the goal in the 46th minute. Unfortunately, he received the ball on his off foot and could only manage a weak shot that went over the goal. The fans had the chance to grab some refreshments as the whistle went for half-time. The score stood at 2-2 after a close first half.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Durval Meireles stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. After 51 minutes of play, BRASIL.Sp's Durval Meireles made it 3-2 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Birger Lundqvist was left in no man's land by his defense there! An unexpectedly hard shot by Durval Meireles in the 54th minute of play forced Cohaerentia F.C.'s goalkeeper Birger Lundqvist to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. BRASIL.Sp's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Mame Picka in the 55th minute. BRASIL.Sp made a substitution. Mailson Dal Bello replaced Paulo Renato Pombal. Mailson Dal Bello hit a great freekick 60 minutes into the match. Kléber Ferreira kicked well hit freekick during the 68th minute of the match. After a defensive mix-up in BRASIL.Sp's zone, Roger Björk stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Caio Penha came out of the goal and Roger Björk tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. After 79 played minutes Cohaerentia F.C. got a freekick which was hit by Rune Gregersson. The audience was convinced that Mailson Dal Bello's extremely hard shot when he got free in front of the goal was going in, but Birger Lundqvist was relentless in the 80th minute of the game. After a defensive mix-up in Cohaerentia F.C.'s zone, Durval Meireles stole the ball and had only the goalie to beat. Birger Lundqvist came out of the goal and Durval Meireles tried to chip the ball over his head. To his dismay, the ball went over the crossbar and out of play. Birger Lundqvist made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Mailson Dal Bello in the 88th minute of play. BRASIL.Sp's Mailson Dal Bello got a good chance for a goal in the 89th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Caio Penha made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Georg Holmstedt in the 94th minute of play.