Prized/Friendly Cup

Virginia Bolten
Spectators: 36 (Terracing: 28, Seating: 8, VIP seats: 0) Valdieri's Attilio Fortunato started the match with a crisp pass. The crowd had been anticipating this game for weeks and the excitement in the stadium was easily visible. A collision led to Valdieri getting a freekick after 11 minutes play. Edoardo Cabrini hit a great ball. Franco Sarnelli kicked well hit freekick during the 13th minute of the match. When Eusebio Veronica came up free with the goalie in the 14th minute, the Acratas Unidos 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 Eusebio Veronica couldn't finish the play. 20 minutes into the match, Valdieri's goalkeeper Aurelio Di Lullo had to clear away a ball on his right side after a cunning shot by Jonathan Handi. 24 minutes into the match, Valdieri's goal looked a bit too open when Cecilio Felipillo came free, but Aurelio Di Lullo reached the ball before it rolled over the goal line. In the 25th minute, Jonathan Handi ran past the defenders and hit a shot which went straight ahead into goal. Aurelio Di Lullo was frozen by the shot and now it was 2-0. Candido Quinteros showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Attilio Fortunato in the 31st minute of the match. In the 35th minute the ball was on its way in behind Acratas Unidos's goalkeeper Candido Quinteros, but with the help of a sacrificing defense, he could catch the ball at the crossbar. Jonathan Handi took the ball and in the 36 minute, shot a rapid shot to the right of a surprised Aurelio Di Lullo. Aurelio Di Lullo dived to the right, and did manage to get a hand on the shot, but it still went into the right corner making it 3-0. Placido Ilazki fired away a screaming shot towards the goal in the 40th minute, but the shot went just over the crossbar without Aurelio Di Lullo having to interfere. Aurelio Di Lullo showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Eusebio Veronica, who was totally free with the ball in the 46th minute. All the noise was coming from the home fans when the whistle went for half-time. The home team had fought hardest to put themselves in a deserved lead.

The players of the away team seemed most concentrated when Eusebio Veronica stepped up to make the kick off in the second half. In the 52nd minute Prudencio Roderigo shot on, it seemed, an open goal, but Aurelio Di Lullo saw the ball coming and threw himself on it before it passed the goal line. Aurelio Di Lullo took care of the ball after a well-directed shot from Prudencio Roderigo, even though the ball almost passed him on his left side. 55 minutes into the game, Eusebio Veronica cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 4-0. Aurelio Di Lullo was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. Aurelio Di Lullo came out of the goal in the 61st minute to try and stop a shot by Acratas Unidos's Placido Ilazki. But to his dismay, Placido Ilazki quickly shot the ball in between his legs and into the goal making it 5-0. After 64 minutes of play, Acratas Unidos's Placido Ilazki made it 6-0 when he simply outclassed the defender marking him and hit a curling shot into the right side of the net. Aurelio Di Lullo was left in no man's land by his defense there! 67 minutes into the game, Jonathan Handi cracked a shot to the right of the goalkeeper, 7-0. Aurelio Di Lullo was not in position, and could only watch the ball fly in. An unexpectedly hard shot by Jonathan Handi in the 70th minute of play forced Valdieri's goalkeeper Aurelio Di Lullo to throw himself to the left, to be able to save the ball. Aurelio Di Lullo showed his good apprehension of the play when he made a fantastic save on a shot from Cecilio Felipillo, who was totally free with the ball in the 72nd minute. In the 72nd minute, Edoardo Cabrini hit a crossing free kick to the open man running down the field. Aurelio Di Lullo showed brilliant goalkeeper skills when he caught the ball after a hard shot from Placido Ilazki in the 76th minute of the match. 88 minutes into the match, Jonathan Handi had an open shot that he just couldn't miss and scored to the right of Aurelio Di Lullo. Valdieri's manager could be seen yelling to the referee that Jonathan Handi was offside, but the referee ignored the protest. 9-0. Aurelio Di Lullo didn't have a chance when a screaming shot from Eusebio Veronica went, in the 93rd minute, to the upper right corner, 10-0 was the resulting score. Acratas Unidos walked away with a well-earned victory that was much celebrated by the crowd.