U18 World League

Juan Román Riquelme
Spectators: 7700 (Terracing: 5776, Seating: 1771, VIP seats: 153) The mood of the audience was pleasant when Lou Winnepenninck made the kick off which started today's match. After 5 played minutes, Urko FC's Tadeo Chorache shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Maarten Soetemans came through and got his fingers on the ball before it flew over the goal line. He then quickly gripped the ball tighter before the forwards in Urko FC reached it. A collision led to Twierdza Osowiec getting a freekick after 6 minutes play. Ernest Van de Putt hit a great ball. After recieving a nice pass, Urko FC's Jorge Tabor tried to score from far away in the 7th minute, but the ball went over the crossbar. In the 8th minute, Jorg Saelens hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. In the 13th minute there was a penalty for Urko FC. Jorge Tabor stepped forward and shot the ball to the right of a diving Maarten Soetemans. 1-0. The crowd rose to their feet as Tadeo Chorache kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Maarten Soetemans. That made the score 2-0 in the 16 minute of play. Jorge Tabor's late challenge caught a Twierdza Osowiec's player on the shin and left him crawling around in pain. The referee blew his whistle and produced the yellow card. Jorge Tabor helped the player get up and apologised. Lou Winnepenninck received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 21st minute. Teodosio Vedillo tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. Maarten Soetemans showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Tadeo Chorache, who was totally free with the ball in the 27th minute. The referee was alert and spotted a serious foul by Jorg Saelens during the 27th minute. The player immediately received a yellow card. A collision led to Twierdza Osowiec getting a freekick after 28 minutes play. Jorg Saelens hit a great ball. In the 30th minute, Tadeo Chorache hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Maarten Soetemans made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Jorge Tabor in the 33rd minute of play. In the 37th minute, Jorge Tabor ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Maarten Soetemans was frozen by the shot and now it was 3-0. Maarten Soetemans made a fantastic save in the 42nd minute, when Gilberto Ciano sent off a good shot on target. Humberto Noe hit a great freekick 48 minutes into the match. The home fans were very happy to see their team leading 3-0 at half-time.

When the second half was about to start, both teams quickly lined up and Jorge Tabor made a kick off. A collision led to Twierdza Osowiec getting a freekick after 59 minutes play. Kim De Poorter hit a great ball. Maarten Soetemans didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Gilberto Ciano went, in the 61st minute, to the upper right corner, 4-0 was the resulting score. 64 minutes into the match, Gilberto Ciano notched a goal, 5-0, to the right of Twierdza Osowiec's Maarten Soetemans. Maarten Soetemans was clearly disgusted with the effort of the defense and let the defenders know about it. In the 66th minute, Rene Callewaert hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Jorg Saelens kicked well hit freekick during the 72nd minute of the match. After 82 minutes of play, Urko FC's Tadeo Chorache made it 7-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Maarten Soetemans was left in no man's land by his defense there! If Gilberto Ciano had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 88th minute. The ball went over the crossbar instead. Maarten Soetemans showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Jorge Tabor in the 90th minute of the match. After 91 minutes, Humberto Noe mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Urko FC and the Twierdza Osowiec players grew even worse after the yellow card. A collision led to Urko FC getting a freekick after 91 minutes play. Humberto Noe hit a great ball. The referee was alert and spotted a serious foul by Lou Winnepenninck during the 96th minute. The player immediately received a yellow card. Lou Winnepenninck hit a great freekick 96 minutes into the match. Urko FC's supporters were delighted with their team's performance and swarmed onto the pitch at the end of the match to celebrate the victory with the players.