U21 World League

Dionisio Fernanco
Spectators: 7554 (Terracing: 5667, Seating: 1737, VIP seats: 150) The sun was shining, the grass was green and the audience cheered when Bruno Maraman got the match started through his kick off. The crowd rose to their feet as Bruno Maraman kicked a wonderful shot that went in to the left of a diving Ove Simonsson. That made the score 1-0 in the 8 minute of play. If Apolo Ruy had kept his shot down it would have been a goal in the 12th minute. The ball went over the crossbar and out instead. A collision led to Sportivo Ben Hur getting a freekick after 14 minutes play. Raimundo Primo hit a great ball. Ove Simonsson showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Bruno Maraman in the 17th minute of the match. After taking down the ball on Sportivo Ben Hur's corner Desiderio Tancredo fired away a hard shot, but the defenders efficiently covered the most dangerous angles and Ove Simonsson quite easily take care of the ball. After 27 minutes, Elias Alén mouthed his way into the referee's book. The tension between the Monia&Ibrahim and the Sportivo Ben Hur players grew even worse after the yellow card. Elias Alén kicked well hit freekick during the 27th minute of the match. After 29 played minutes, Sportivo Ben Hur's Domingos Turi shot from a long distance, and at first it looked like the ball was going into the goal, but the goalkeeper Ove Simonsson 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 Sportivo Ben Hur reached it. In the 30th match minute, Sportivo Ben Hur was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Celso Incendio to maneuver through the defense. 35 minutes into the match, Monia&Ibrahim's goal looked a bit too open when Bruno Maraman came free, but Ove Simonsson reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. 43 minutes into the match, Bruno Maraman had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Ove Simonsson. Monia&Ibrahim's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Bruno Maraman was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 4-0. Bruno Maraman scored 5-0 in the 46th match minute with a shot that went into the goal to the right of Ove Simonsson, who was just a little too slow in reacting to the shot. Af the end of the first half the score was 5-0. The first half had gone as expected for the home team.

Ove Simonsson made a wonderful reflex save on a shot from Bruno Maraman in the 52nd minute of play. In the 57th match minute, Monia&Ibrahim was awarded a freekick, the ball was picked up by Harry Vallman to maneuver through the defense. Ove Simonsson showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Apolo Ruy, who was totally free with the ball in the 62nd minute. Ove Simonsson didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Bruno Maraman went, in the 64th minute, to the upper right corner, 8-0 was the resulting score. Ove Simonsson showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Bruno Maraman, who was totally free with the ball in the 69th minute. Ove Simonsson showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Desiderio Tancredo in the 70th minute of the match. In the 81st minute, Bruno Maraman ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Ove Simonsson was frozen by the shot and now it was 10-0. Sportivo Ben Hur's Apolo Ruy got a good chance for a goal in the 84th minute, but he totally mistimed the shot and it went over the crossbar. Bruno Maraman received a nice pass in the box and took a hard shot in the 85th minute. Ove Simonsson tensed up and prepared to dive, but the shot went over the goal with him having to interfere. An unexpectedly hard shot by Bruno Maraman in the 91st minute of play forced Monia&Ibrahim's goalkeeper Ove Simonsson to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. 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. Sportivo Ben Hur fully deserved thier win.