World League

C.S. Comunale
Spectators: 7747 (Terracing: 5812, Seating: 1781, VIP seats: 154) Arnaldo Montrelle started the match with the kick off in front of an excited audience. In the 3rd minute, Calenzano's Arturo Di Matteo ran free of his marker and smoothly shot the ball into the goal behind Ivo Tropchev. Ivo Tropchev yelled at his defense, as they had left him out to dry. 1-0. Calenzano's attentive Achille Sciamanna managed to snatch the ball when Antonio Nerio made a throw-in in the 7th minute of the game. In the 7th match minute, Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Åke Kihlberg to maneuver through the defense. Åke Kihlberg got a throw-in 9 minutes in the game and the ball was received by Wawrzyniec Sakowicz. Calenzano's Donato Balestra played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Arnaldo Montrelle in the 10th minute of play. After a rather tough play, Calenzano's Yaniusky Pardo got a free kick in the 11th minute. An unexpectedly hard shot by Arnaldo Montrelle in the 14th minute of play forced Calenzano's goalkeeper Donato Balestra to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Antonio Nerio made in the 17th minute of the game a fairly good throw-in which was taken care of by Åke Kihlberg. Donato Balestra took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Eustacio Mino, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. Arnaldo Montrelle sent away a hard shot on goal in the 19th minute, but the ball went just over the crossbar and out. A very good chance. Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ's Ivo Tropchev played magnificently when he managed to stop the ball from hitting the goal, after a sharp shot by Arturo Di Matteo in the 24th minute of play. Yaniusky Pardo was in a good position and managed to take a shot, but he missed just to the outside of the post. In the 30th minute Arnaldo Montrelle shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Donato Balestra saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Ivo Tropchev came out of the goal in the 32nd minute to try and stop a shot by Calenzano's Arturo Di Matteo. But to his dismay, Arturo Di Matteo quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 2-0. In the 38th minute, Arnaldo Montrelle made a precise shot to the right of Donato Balestra. Calenzano's defense was at fault, and the scoreboard reflected the new score, 2-1. No-one was surprised that the home team were leading 2-1 at half-time.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Arturo Di Matteo stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. When Arturo Di Matteo came up free with the goalie in the 54th minute, the Calenzano 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 Arturo Di Matteo couldn't finish the play. With an all-out effort, Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ's Donato Balestra threw himself towards the right post 56 minutes into the match and grabbed hold of the ball from Wawrzyniec Sakowicz, which otherwise would have been placed in the net. Arturo Di Matteo fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 58th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Ivo Tropchev having to interfere. In the 62ndth minute of the game Wawrzyniec Sakowicz who was perfectly placed tried to make a shot on goal, but Calenzano's Donato Balestra was lucky and managed to grab hold of the ball. Calenzano's Pierrot Leenpoels was substituted for Arturo Di Matteo. Calenzano made a substitution. Ennio Daniele replaced Alessio Santini. Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ's attacker deliberately struck the ball against an opponent to win a corner for his team. The corner was taken by Martin Urtado in the 65th minute. A nice corner shot did that Martin Urtado got away a dangerous shot. Despite this Donato Balestra quite easily got ahold of the ball to make the save. After a rather tough play, Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ's Antonio Nerio got a free kick in the 68th minute. Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ made a substitution. Sergio Cesaro replaced Arnaldo Montrelle. In the 69th match minute, Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Antonio Nerio to maneuver through the defense. Achille Sciamanna hit a great freekick 70 minutes into the match. The crowd rose to their feet as Eustacio Mino kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Donato Balestra. That made the score 2-2 in the 76 minute of play. After 81 minutes, Sergio Cesaro made it 2-3 with a short kick to the right side. Calenzano's Donato Balestra tried to save the shot but he was too slow in reacting to the shot. After a rather tough play, Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ's Ahmet Bedri Taşcan got a free kick in the 86th minute. In the 90th minute of the match, Fulvio Terenzi got a very nice opportunity to score, but Donato Balestra was well-placed and pushed the ball away from the goal at the left post. 95 minutes into the match, Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ's Sergio Cesaro sent off a blazing shot straight on target, a shot that Donato Balestra narrowly saved just below the crossbar. The Calenzano fans had already started to leave before the final whistle blew. Ѱ Nuevo Dragón Rojo FC Ѱ were clearly better and deserved to take the win.