Vancouver International Soccer Festival
Today members (and future members) of Yaletown Football Club’s first team took the field twice during the Vancouver International Soccer Festival at David Lam Park (sandpit *cough*) under the name Team United Nations. This is in the spirit of the event where members of nations around the world are competing in 2 divisions, Mens & Co-Ed. Team UN is in group B of the Mens division alongside Serbia, Ismaili-Muslim & IH World.
Formerly the Wish Cup, which YFC has won twice, the Vancouver International Soccer Festival is organized by Adri Hamael and so far has been a great success. Teams are playing fair, competitive footie and the general atmosphere of the event has been very positive so far.
Taking part in this year’s competition, YFC’s 4th year participating, are the following club members:
- Minoru Echizenya
- Will Meredith
- Allyn Fong
- Peter Rossing
- Darryl Sheepwash
- Sherman Lai
- Jose Burgos
- Nima Farahmand
- Stuart Trann
- Adam Jennings
- Antonio Rabelo
- Pierce Joneson
Team UN won both their games at 1pm and 7pm against IH World & Ismaili-Muslim.
In the first match, Team UN won 3-0. Nima Farahmand slotted in the first against IH World, followed by a Will Meredith finish from distance & Jose Burgos was played into the box to work his way into shooting position to roof it past a helpless keeper. This was somewhat of an easy match where Team UN had the run of play throughout. IH World were forced into damage limitation and barely succeeded going down by three goals, having their post rung twice and at least two other clear chances were missed.
During a 6 hour layover spent at Soho and watching some matches on the grass, to everyone’s shock Peter Rossing popped up in False Creek. Fearless, Peter dove into the water to fetch a Yaletown Teamgeist ball booted there by someone. It made for quite the afternoon! Soon after Team UN’s next match kicked off against Ismaili-Muslim, which was a far more difficult game. They made for tough oppposition, however the end result was similar with a 3-1 victory. After a big challenge near half-way, Adam Jennings lasered a freekick through the wall into the bottom left corner. Will Meredith then finished off an Antonio cross, before Ismaili-Muslim pulled one back only for Will to put the game on ice with a neat finish after a well executed team move.
Tomorrow at 10am Team UN takes on Serbia who looked decent with a win & a loss.