From: thomase@extro.ucc.su.OZ.AU (Thomas Esamie)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: OZ cup games
Date: 19 Nov 92 13:25:26 GMT
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	Hi there folks, 
			I may be overestimating the level of interest in 
Australian soccer, but I thought I'd share the scores of the league cup
with you (yes I was surprised that we had one too :-) ). Three matches were
played yesterday (18/11) and whoooeee, goals everywhere.

	Melbourne CSC 2	- Preston 2

	South Melbourne 6 - Morwell Falcons 2

	Adelaide City 5 - West Adelaide 2

	
Second Leg matches are scheduled in a fortnights time. Unfortunately
all I know of the last match is that Carl Veart scored 3 for City, a
short summary of the other two matches follow.

	The Preston-Melbourne match was the first ever game of underwater
soccer played in Australia, and perhaps the world. There was a huge downpour
and the decision to go ahead was made by the referee (Ziggy Mnich) after
he was satisfied that no-one would drown. The rain had stopped, though there
were intermittent showers, for the game. Basically passing on the ground
was only viable to ones self (I believe this is called dribbling) and high
balls had an annoying habit of stopping dead. Preston decided that seven
of their regular first team line up were clean enough, and sent out a very
young team in a move which seemed to indicate that they were attempting
to make a late inclusion for the World Youth Cup. Preston surprised Melbourne
when Vasco Trechevski (sp?), a 17-year old, opened the scoring with a shot
high into the net from the edge of the box in front of goal. Melbourne
replied 6 minutes later with a goal of their own by Vaughan Coveny(sp?) who
glanced the free kick from out wide off his head inside the far post. 
Melbourne dominated proceedings and made raid after raid on Prestons goal,
naturally Preston were next to score. The second half saw Trechevski score
his second goal with a powerfully hit drive past the diving keeper. Not
wanting to be embarrassed by a team who are on a negative score in the League
competition Melbourne became panicky as the time ran out. Preston make 
this day one of historic victory? Sorry that only happens in fairy tales.
With only two minutes to go Mark Silic(pretty sure about this spelling)
scored a face-saving (clichi alert!) equaliser. Melbournes coach Ken Murphy 
went off his head after the match saying the team lacked motivation and 
allowed themselves to think they'd win without trying, hence didn't, and 
almost lost.

		
	South Melbourne and Morwell were also forced to play in wet 
conditions, which led directly to the first goal. A header from Francis
Awaritife (no problems in spelling here) towards the bottom corner of the goal
was mishandled by the Morwell keeper. 1-0. After the half-time break the
fun really started, Morwell levelled with a beatifully worked goal by
some guy whose name I forget. Anyway it was a good through ball nicely tucked
into the corner of the goal. I'm sure you've all seen this sort of thing.
Paul Wade restored South Melbournes lead with a header from a corner, another
corner soon after gave Wright an easy tap in (almost easy) for 3-1.
Then the rains came down in a major way and Justin Geary pulled the lead
back to 3-2 after an unsuccessful clearing punch by the Melbourne keeper.
The last fifteen minutes saw melbourne decide that they wanted to take
some holidays next fortnight and make sure of the match in the first leg
so that attendance at the second leg became arbitrary. Tassios banged one 
in from a fair distance, and then Awaritife ended up firly lonely in Morwells
penalty area with the ball at his feet, he'd left the goalie sprwled on the
ground after a kick forward was fumbled by said keeper. Awaritife stopped
the ball before the line, turned his back and back heeled the ball into
the net, cheeky fellow. Tassios, not sure Morwell had had enough, repeated
his dose to give the score it's final 6-2 outcome.

	I hope you enjoyed that kiddies.
 
BTW: Did anyone find my post on the upcoming Youth World Cup of use? Should
     I post subsequent information?

			Thomas the Tank Engine
			aka Algor

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