DJT Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 Toronto Croatia 1-0 Montreal Impact Academy Marin Vucemilovic-Grgic 84' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juby Posted October 27, 2012 Share Posted October 27, 2012 It was a good match, Montreal had a lot of talent advancing at points but didn't manage to get into Toronto Croatia's box enough. Toronto Croatia seemed to be getting more chances and it eventually paid off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocket Robin Posted October 28, 2012 Share Posted October 28, 2012 Result of the Saturday October 27, 2012 CSL game between Toronto Croatia and Montreal Impact Academy played at Centennial Stadium in Etobicoke at 3:00pm. This was the Final of the CSL Chamionship. 83 min...Toronto Croatia Marin Vulemilovic Grgic GOAL... TC goalie Antonio Ilic takes a wind aided goalkick that's over players at center line and defender pops up header at MIA 50 yards. TC Tihomir Maletic [edit] shoulders ball up and takes over head kick from 45 yards forward for TC Hayden Fitzwilliams charging down middle. Fitzwilliams heads ball down and to right at 25 yards for Vucemilovic Grgic who was just two steps behind but gets between defenders Karl Ouimette and Amine Meftouh and blasts 15 yard shot to top right corner of net over goalie Jason Beaulieu standing at 6 yards. Final Score:.....Toronto Croatia........1........ Montreal Impact Academy........0........ Attendance was about 200 people on this cold and rainy afternoon. It had rained all last night and this morning and was still raining hard at game time and right until after the game. The fans who did show up wore parkas and brought umbrellas or sought the shelter under the press box. The game was carried live on Rogers Community channel in at least the Toronto area and it played out to a 2 1/2 hour time slot with a pregame show including panelists Dick Howard and TFC Academy coach Danny Dichio and an after-game medals and trophy presentation. (Individual awards will be given out at a banquet in a few weeks). This game is scheduled to be rebroadcast on Sunday evening at 8:00pm. Toronto Croatia becomes a repeat champion for winning both the 2011 and 2012 season. MIA will hopefully break the pattern of the losing finalist leaving the league before the next season. Hamilton Croatia only played one season (2010) and Capital City only played one season (2011). At least MIA has been in the league longer than one year. MIA had brought some fans. There were supposedly 12 relatives of defender Karl Ouimette (who was the first graduate of the MIA Academy to make the MLS club in their first year of existance) who dropped back down to play this game. Other fans had taken a special bus even though the MLS team was playing a home game to finish their season this afternoon. Antonio Ilic earned the shutout for TC aided by his defenders (today's starters Halburto Harris, Sven Arapovic, Josip Keran, and Ainsley Deer). TC only gave up 13 goals in 25 league and playoff games. Jason Beaulieu played well for MIA. Both goalies actually fumbled some chances with the wet ball. Referee Yusri Rudolph was in charge of this game and gave out four Yellows in the first half (three to TC) and two in the second (one to each) that I counted. With weather conditions what they were, there were a lot of offsides from balls caught in the wind besides players overanxious to make runs at goal. The momentum of the game changed as the two teams changed ends at the half. It just seemed like Toronto Croatia would eventually score on at least one of them. Best non-scoring chances were at 10 minutes when MIA Maxim Tissot took a cornerkick from the right that had MIA Kai Morton head an 8 yarder off the outside of the left post. 49 minutes had TC Tihomir Maletic recover his blocked shot off Morton at 22 yards and push the ball to TC Hayden Fitzwilliams at 20 yards on the left and his shot had the flying goalie push the ball wide right of the post. 54 minutes had TC Tihomir Maletic survive a sliding tackle by Morton (all leg-no ball) on the left side of the box and roll an off-balance 12 yard shot just wide right of the post. (If he'd have fallen he would probably have drawn a Penalty kick and had Morton receive his second Yellow). 55 minutes had TC Hayden Fitzwilliams cut towards goal from 30 yards on the left and roll a 12 yarder across the box but the goalie dived forward to push the ball forward and break up Maletic waiting on the right for a shot. The same minutes TC Andelo Srzentic took a low 30 yard shot from the right that the goalie fumbled twice but held on crawling on the ground to prevent shots by Maletic then Marin Vulemilovic Grgic. 63 minutes had MIA Wandrille Lefevre take a 45 yard low blast up the middle that the goalie ducked to catch but fumbled wide left for a cornerkick. 93 minutes had Lefevre take a 45 yard freekick from the right that fell in the box where MIA Yacine Ait Slimane tried to shove Srzentic in the 6 yard box to get at the ball but Sven Arapovic made the clearance. This was the last game in the league for TC captain Tonci Pirija who will play in Asia starting next month. This was my 50th CSL game this year. That is actually less than last year because each team only had 22 league games and a reduced playoff schedule. Rocket Robin robing@eol.ca Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcalibre Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Anyone know anything about Tihomir Maletic? Two straight CSL best player awards, was he ever young enough to be considered for one of our youth teams, or did he come over from Croatia (?) too late? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreverthursday Posted November 11, 2012 Share Posted November 11, 2012 Anyone know anything about Tihomir Maletic? Two straight CSL best player awards, was he ever young enough to be considered for one of our youth teams, or did he come over from Croatia (?) too late? I am looking into whether or not he was invited to the November FC Edmonton combine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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