Ouzo F.C

SOCCER CITY – ETOBICOKE:  Ouzo and the Serbian White Eagles squared off in a home and home series at Soccer City over the last 2 weeks.  New to the division, the White Eagles started the season off 2-0 before facing Ouzo FC in their 3^rd game.

In the first game, Ouzo were experiencing some injury problems and missing some key players.  The game was a close affair and Ouzo was up 4-3 with less than 5 minutes left in the contest.  Fitness seemed to play a key role in the final minutes as the young guns scores 3 straight goals to win 6-4. Emotions were high as there was an unidentified man on the White Eagles bench that was verbally abusing the referee.  When the referee asked him to leave, he denied the request stating he would not be going anywhere.  With no control over the situation, the referee continued the game.  As the game ended, the Grumped fat man from the White Eagles began insult several Ouzo players.  That was the wrong thing to do as there would be another game the following week.

The second game of the series welcomed back Ouzo veteran’s PK, “Final Flores” and Anderson.  However, their big offensive weapons were still out, so management was forced to bring in a few players off the Sunday team.  Ouzo’s co-founder “Polymeros” and “Number 9” were called into action and provided a much needed spark.

In what was categorized as a “must win” heading into the bye week, Ouzo came out strong and was up 2-0 at half.  A fantastic defensive effort in the second half, along with another steady performance by Mike Pesic in goal, Ouzo not only won the game, but came away with a convincing 3-0 win. 

Ouzo has a much needed bye week coming up, which should be more than enough time to get a few of their stars back and healthy.

Winter 2004 League Championship Roster:

1. Andrew Spencer
2. Phil Kennedy
3. Stu Fletcher
4. Rob Fran
5. Steve Delaney
6. Rob Rusnov
7. Steve Sacchitiello
8. Rob Anderson
9. Mladen Dikic
10. Daniel Pinto
11. Gus Polymeros
12. Jesse Geisel

Winter 2003 League Championship Roster:

1. Andrew Spencer
2. Phil Kennedy
3. Graham Fletcher
4. Shawn Archer
5. Steve Delaney
6. Vic Santos
7. Steve Sacchitiello
8. Rob Anderson
9. Ramsey Shaheen
10. Rob Caresma
11. Gus Polymeros
12. Jesse Geisel
13. Rob Rusnov (one game trial)
14. Lanny Whelan (one game trial)

Fall 2008 Championship Roster:

1. Andrew Spencer
2. Phil Kennedy
3. Stu Fletcher
4. Behn Wurthman
5. Steve Delaney
6. Rob Rusnov
7. Steve Sacchitiello
8. Rob Anderson
9. Jesse Geisel
10. Mike Michaelides
11. Gus Polymeros
12. Matt Geary
13. Johnny Krilis

Undefeated Regular season

	Team:	GP	W	L	T	PTS	GF	GA	PCT	SO
	Ouzo F.C	12	8	1	3	19	57	25	0.667	2

Ouzo F.C Record

	Teams:	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	SO
	vs Raging Bulls	3	0	1	2	6	8	0
	vs ICON Shooters	2	1	0	1	6	4	0
	vs Team Korea	3	3	0	0	25	6	1
	vs Greens United	2	2	0	0	11	4	0
	vs SCL	2	2	0	0	9	3	1

SOCCER CITY - ETOBICOKE:  Ouzo FC had a mixed bag of results up until today’s game knowing that anything other than a win would seriously dent their chances of a league win and a ‘golden shower…erm Banquet”.

Last time out we played to a 6-6 draw so defense would be at a premium to change that last effort. Anderson was running the bench for a second straight game due to a mystery injury called ‘Canada’s playing on the big screen in the bar’ and started the game with a light bench although Mesopatamia played with no subs. Advantage Ouzo.

The game started with a predictable slow pace with both teams marking tightly. It must have been the Late arrival of the our Greek and English flag bearers coming over the boards that burst Ouzo into life and with some sustained pressure in the offensive end for ‘Mike of the ladies’ to pop up and slam home a drive from close range. The goal settled down the team who started to posses the ball more and look for ways the press home their advantage. The big weapon of the night would be employing the use of ‘wing backs’. Something of a master-stoke for two reasons. One it allowed fast movement from defense to attack and resulted in the next 3 goals (2 by Delaney) and secondly it allowed our number 9 to walk around the pitch…which it was noted ‘was up to our usual standards’ by coach Anderson.(5-3 USA…how did we know?) Judging by the sweat coming from our defensive unit at the end of the 5-0 rout there were definitely more beers consumed the night before than anyone was letting on…So to the Bar.

The usual celebration inspired by our win involved Shirts off, Free Ouzo Shots, Lech and an unusual amount of Guiness. A couple of new recruits joined us with ‘Mrs Fletch to be’ and The Cats New Beau (a Magners Drinker!!) in the mix.

No CAA this week but photos confirm the final 4 of Anderson, Delaney, Spence and some guy called Pete Tong leaving at 330 am.

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