loyola Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Men's U-15 Team Saturday, December 02, 2006 U15 USA tops Canada Ottawa, Ontario – The Canadian Men’s U15 National Team dropped a 4-0 decision on Saturday to the United States in their first ever international friendly at the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Florida. The Canadians began the match well against a very talented and experienced side, competing for balls and matching their opponent’s skill level. As the game wore on, the experience of the Americans began to show and they were able to gain more of the possession. Reward came for the U.S. 10 minutes into the match when a low, hard cross found Ryan Finley alone in front of the Canadian goal. The big striker made no mistake in giving the Americans a 1-0 lead. Jose Altimorano doubled the American lead in the 29th minute on a similar play when a cross from Abdus Ibrahim picked him out making the match 2-0. The Canadians were dealt another blow just after halftime when central defender, Domenico Grasso, was sent off for hauling down Finley on a breakaway. The out-manned Canadians were unable to keep their American counterparts off the score sheet as substitute Dersu Abolfathi made it 3-0 in the 67th minute before Altimorano scored his second in the 80th minute to complete a 4-0 victory for the United States. “Today we played against some of the better players in CONCACAF and their class showed from the opening whistle,” explained Head Coach, Sean Fleming. “The boys competed hard, but the result shows that we have a lot of work to do at this age group.” Match Info Saturday, December 2, 2006 – International Friendly IMG Academy – Bradenton, Florida U15 CANADA - 0 (0) U15 USA – 2 (4) Goals: USA – Finley (10), Altimorano (29, 80), Abolfathi (67) Cautions: Canada – Roberts (35) Expulsions: Canada – Grasso (50) CANADA: 1-Latendresse-Levesque, Julien; 2-Halliday, Jeremy (12-Capone, Francesco 67); 3-Roberts, Dominic; 4-Thompson, Roger (13-Dinkota, Serge 45); 5-Grasso, Domenico; 6-Hart, Sean; 8-Merette, Damiem ©; 9-Sandhu, Sahil (16-Sylla, Abdoulaye 62); 11-Morgan, Ashtone (7-Ilcu, Mircea 62); 14-Velastegui, David (15-Cobby, Kevin 45); 17-Stamopoulos, James (10-Josan, Gagandeep 77) Head Coach: Sean Fleming Subs not used: 22-Humphries, Jarrett USA: 18-MacMath, Zach; 2-Millington, Nick; 3-Sarkodie, Kofi; 4-Okugo, Amobi; 6-Perry, Aubrey; 8-Altimorano, Jose; 9-Garza, Greg; 10-Dominguez, Bryan; 11-Ibrahim, Abdus; 12-Caldwell, Scott (5-Valentin, Zarek 62); 13-Finley, Ryan (Abolfathi, Dersu 62) Head Coach: John Hackworth Subs not used: 24-Meves, David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccerpro Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Even with all the resources the Americans have, thats a poor result for such a young age group. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 We always seem to get our ass handed to us by the Americans in youth games, up until U20. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 quote:Originally posted by Soccerpro Even with all the resources the Americans have, thats a poor result for such a young age group. Common, those guys are 14 and 15 yrs old and have trained a grand total of 6 days together while their US counterparts have already played a lot of games together. Those youth games are not about results, they're about getting experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soccerpro Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 Are these U.S 15's in the residency program in Flordia or does that only apply to u17's? yes we usually lose to American youth teams, but by closer margins. Theres always going to be a lot of different kids getting looks at this level for other countries as well, so previous Intl games dont always account for familiarity between teammates and coaches with national teams aside from a small core. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 In the end, I really don't care how our U-15 and U-17 does, I reead an article in french about the 2001 U17 french team who won the U17 WC. Only 2 of their players are playing in Ligue 1 and they are subs... They important thing for those kids is to gain experience and I couldn't care less about the 4-0 scoreline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bettermirror Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 exactly loyola, exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
An Observer Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 We did get someone sent off after halftime although it does seem we were already overwhelmed by that point. I have to love this paragraph... "The Canadians began the match well against a very talented and experienced side, competing for balls and matching their opponent’s skill level. As the game wore on, the experience of the Americans began to show and they were able to gain more of the possession. Reward came for the U.S. 10 minutes into the match when a low, hard cross found Ryan Finley alone in front of the Canadian goal. The big striker made no mistake in giving the Americans a 1-0 lead." What does that mean? We competed evenly with them for 5 minutes of a 90 minute match before the Americans got into their rhythm and then took it to us to score in the 10th minute. Its one think to say the match was even for the first 30 minutes or first half...its another to say the first 5 or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest speedmonk42 Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 An Observer. It is formula writing. They just crank this stuff out without any thought. As long as it 'sounds' that way the job is done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel Posted December 4, 2006 Share Posted December 4, 2006 quote:Originally posted by An Observer We did get someone sent off after halftime although it does seem we were already overwhelmed by that point. I have to love this paragraph... "The Canadians began the match well against a very talented and experienced side, competing for balls and matching their opponent’s skill level. As the game wore on, the experience of the Americans began to show and they were able to gain more of the possession. Reward came for the U.S. 10 minutes into the match when a low, hard cross found Ryan Finley alone in front of the Canadian goal. The big striker made no mistake in giving the Americans a 1-0 lead." What does that mean? We competed evenly with them for 5 minutes of a 90 minute match before the Americans got into their rhythm and then took it to us to score in the 10th minute. Its one think to say the match was even for the first 30 minutes or first half...its another to say the first 5 or so. Some writers at Quebec Soccer have complained that the new CSA media guy embellishes all game reports and therefore doesn't write summaries reflecting the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loyola Posted December 4, 2006 Author Share Posted December 4, 2006 I,m not sure the media guy is seeing a lot of game, he must be writing the stories after talking to the coaches. But it surely looks like they're embellishing some reports of the youth teams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crazy_Yank Posted December 5, 2006 Share Posted December 5, 2006 Josmer Altidor is already playing 1st team football for the redbulls. He didn't get into the team until the end of the season, but scored 4 goals in 8 games. He scored a key playoff goal to send the DC-NY seris to over time. great Adu, this kid is the real deal. He's only 16 and already huge. I'm 29 6'3" 190lbs and I think this kid might be bigger than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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