Mamma Zu FC

December 4, 2011 - MZ2

2011-12-06T19:03:00.001-05:00

December 4, 2011 - MZ1

2011-12-06T18:51:00.001-05:00

Zu vs Sticky Rice

2011-12-06T17:07:00.004-05:00

Well Gents,

It was a successful season. I had 3 goals this season and we accomplished at least one of them. Winning the championship was a goal distance from us. It was a well played game and it was exciting for both teams. Cosmin came through with a great goal and Paul gets the assist. We will have to settle for a 1-1 tie and second place in Div 4.

Good news is we will be promoted. It was the goal that we had to get to 3rd division.

Ryan played his last game as a Zu'er. We will also loose Jay.

Look for a dinner in January. Josh and I spoke with Ed at Mamma Zu and he said because of the holidays it is hard to schedule anything until things simmer down. We will likely have a combined dinner on a Sunday with Zu Tu. Details to come.

Since Ryan will miss the dinner we will have a gathering in the next few weeks.

Good result this season gents.

Now time for indoor

November 20, 2011 - MZ2

2011-11-21T12:39:00.000-05:00

Mamma Zu vs Morales 2-1 WIN!

2011-11-13T21:21:00.003-05:00

Wow,

We can come home with a win, 3 points, with a whole lot of drama. I thought we were going to loose that game. We were possessing the ball for most of the game. We were tied 0-0. Cosmin tried to score a second after their goalie nabbed the ball. It was loose and it was a fraction of a sec too late for Cosmin. It was a foul. The ref called it. Their goalie stood up and ranted some profanities and shoved Coz to the ground. Or that is how dramatic it seemed. Red card.

Well, we just could not score.

They found a way though. With 5 minutes left in the match, they put one over poor Celvin's head and into the goal. 1-0

All seemed lost.

But Eric had other plans. Fed perfectly by Kevin, Eric had a sure goal. A defender leveled Eric in the box. Penalty kick for Eric 1-1

2 minutes left.

They had a few runs at goal, but Ryan started a counter attack with a long ball to Eric and he sent us home with 3 points in the standings

We are alive and well in the hunt for moving up to 3rd. Div

Next up, final game. Sticky Rice

Cap Ale 5 Mamma Zu 2 LOSS

2011-11-06T18:27:00.003-05:00

Arg,
Loosing is never fun. It hurts. But we are not above loosing. We can beat every team in this league. A friend once told me over a game of pool, "I can miss every shot on the table". Those guys came out of the gates scoring. Hard to overcome a 4-0 deficit.

We did give them a run for their money. That is all I ask of you guys. Play until the whistle blows. A full 90 minutes is what we came for. Let's give them that 90 with effort. Never give up the ship. The other thing I will ask is to lose noblely. If we start sniping at eachother we will never get back in the game. Head down and get to it. And we did.

Some bad luck for us at the net and good saves by thier goalie and hard defense won this game for them.

Play positive my brethren.

Ok recap,

fast dudes can score. And thier one fast guy had 3.

I have never seen a ref take back a call. Glad it was one against me that he took back. I think the player obstructed me, sopped and I tried to get around him and he fell and tied up my legs. Glad he rethunk it.

Goals for us to keep us alive. Thanks to Eric for 1 goal and 1 assist. Kevin with a goal with an assist from Josh W we think. Anyone want to clear that up if it is wrong?

Champions lose with grace. But come back all the harder for the next team. I feel sorry for them.

Next up Morelos 1 pm next Sunday

October 23, 2011 - MZ2

2011-10-23T21:37:00.000-04:00

October 23, 2011 - MZ1

2011-10-23T20:50:00.001-04:00

Mamma Zu vs Lion's 7-0 WIN

2011-10-23T13:24:00.003-04:00

We played Lions to a win finally. We had tied them so many times.
Happy Birthday wish come true to Brendan. He got his birthday goal. Les, we tried to get you the ball too, but at least you got an assist. Eric was a machine, 2 goals and 1 assist. Celvin had a beautiful heel kick for a goal. Bill had a rocket from the top of the key. Greg brought his A game. 2 Assists. Alex was all over with one goal and 1 assist. Paul had a nice goal. Joao played his last game as a Zu'er. He got the shut out and we tried to get him a goal, but he will dream about his assist on the plane to Brazil. Thank you for your years of service and helping us reach new heights of soccer. An era is coming to an end. We will miss you and Jackie very much. We will plan on 2014. Make sure there is floor space at your moms house. And I hope you land the job, good luck with that.

Final games are tough. Celvin will be our goalie for the remainder of the season. Thanks for stepping in C.

Tuesday night we have a copa bruce tournament game against Resistance. 6pm Dorey Park.

3 more games in the season and they will be tough. Next Sunday we will play possibly the best team in the league. But we can play with these guys. Sticky Rice 1pm Dorey park.

After that Cap Ale and Morelos

Cheers
M

October 9, 2011 Game

2011-10-18T20:54:00.001-04:00

Mamma Zu vs Glanville TIE

2011-10-09T22:41:00.003-04:00

TIE

We know it all too well. It is a point. A positive point.

We passed the ball well, controlled it the majority of the time. One goofy goal on a set play. Bad luck. We had awesome production from the old guard. James with some awesome footwork to get free and see a streaming Cosmin for the tie goal.

Their goalie was fantastic. We shot right at him a lot, but there were some saves he made that were unreal. He kept them in it till the end and we were peppering them with shots and pressuring them till the whistle.

I dont even want to have a vote on refs this week. Although they did make some good offside calls for us. I wish his vision was better for the deliberate hand ball and the cleat first slide tackle on me, or the multiple other non-calls that were boggling. But we need to make it happen on the pitch. We must know we cant wait for them.

We will meet next week for a scrim with our team for a practice.

Next opponent Lions United. Another chance to overcome previous tie games. After last season we almost tied every game. So we need to break the tradition with them.

September 18, 2011 Game

2011-10-07T18:40:00.000-04:00

September 11, 2011 Game

2011-10-07T18:39:00.000-04:00

mamma Zu vs reQuire group

2011-10-02T16:33:00.002-04:00

Tie 2-2

oh how lonely that first word is. It can be joyous when a team is behind and saves a loss. The other team was able to feel that. While we feel the burn of the tie. We have been there before. Loosing a win in the last seconds. We need to work on that. It was both an unlucky goal and preventable. They hustled it. And they gained themselves a point and took two away from us. So ties are positive. We did not loose. We played well against them and they struggled. They were a man down. Our passing was able to keep us in the game, but it was close the whole match.We would have needed a two goal buffer to feel confident for the win. We will have to learn to keep the ball away from them with a lead late in the game. Think about how we can do it differently for the future. It will likely rear it's ugly head again this season. We need to over come that. But it was a team loss guys. And blame lies squarely here. Let's keep the finger pointing at me. It is more constructive.

Some good things to see were our tenacity of not giving up. We had some strings of good plays through out the match. Both goals coming from PKs attributed to Eric are what we needed at the right moments. I gave Alex the assist because he unselfishly gave Eric the PK's and he caused the penalties.

One of the shining moments of the game were when a player came late and there were Jersey's short for the amount of players. Brendan volunteered his jersey so that player could play. He sacrificed for the team yet again. I am sure the reason was the same as last time, when Brendan came off the field after 7 minutes and I said you just got out there, and he said "I want to win". I started tearing up. Well, not in front of you guys, but we need to thank Brendan for the sportsmanship award. I also felt bad about the limited playing time some of us had, including me. Dermot was injured, not serious but I was remiss about not getting him time. Some of this will shake out when we have less players for certain games as I know this is going to happen in this schedule we have. Hang in there.

I have an order for a few extra jerseys in at Strictly Soccer. Also, I want to get new socks. I will get a price but Mamma Zu will probably not pay for them, so if you want a set of socks, we will have to buy them on our own.

OK, some negatives. The refs were pretty good but they did miss some fouls that I thought were very dangerous. Alex got seriously bruised with an egg on the shin. Josh was clobbered and was down for a few counts with bloody lip. I just scrubbed out the blood from his jersey. Andy got clobbered as well and hurt his ribs but was able to come back. I am sure it will hurt tomorrow. Jay got nailed on that last goal. These guys played rough. The only one I felt was bad was Josh but I don't think it was malicious. The one guy playing defense started telling the line judge after they gave a red card for the hand ball, that he should put a white jersey on. He kept it up and he got a yellow. Then they scored, so it made that last goal taste all the more bitter. I think we deserved to win, but earned a tie. I have a feeling the other team felt robbed with the PKs but both would have been goals.

So I will leave you with this.

It is good to have Bill back from his injury.

It is good to have Celbin for Jay's replacement.

It is good we have a point instead of none.

It is a good bunch of guys we play with, so lets keep it even keeled.

Looking forward:

Date Time Field Team

10/9/2011 3:00 PM Bryan Park "C" Glanville FC

10/16/2011 BYE Most likely a scrim

10/23/2011 9:00 AM Bryan Park "A" Lions United

10/30/2011 1:00 PM Dorey Park #3 Sticky Rice

11/6/2011 3:00 PM Dorey Park #6 Capital Ale FC I

11/13/2011 1:00 PM Bryan Park "C" Morelos

More schedule to come *cup games?

Pete's Mom vs Mamma Zu 4-1 win

2011-09-18T21:01:00.000-04:00

Well, it looks like Pete's Mom forgot to pack the orange slices this week. I was a little worried about this team. They spanked Lion's 8-2 last week, who have been a good competitor over the years. I think we Tie them every time except for once when we beat them 4-1. Pete's was at a full 11 at the whistle and soon went to 10 when a player went down with injury. We had a full squad of hungry hippos for goals. We passed well and we seemed to gel once we settled in. We wore out the other team by the end of the first half. It was 1-1 tie though and we had to climb back. We had the olde "talk" at half time and made adjustments and ran them even more. We started to finish. Eric had 2 goals and an assist. Production. We had Kevin Carter back on the squad and he added some spark. His altercation with one of their players should have resulted in a yellow for the other guy after Kevin was shoved right in front of the ref. Jay in goal did not get much workout, and after securing a win for our Mamma Zu Tu brethren the game before, he was happy to have a walk in the park. The slant on the field Dorey Park #6 seemed more extreem (7 degree grade?) and the sidelines were very narrow, but did not make a difference to us. We passed well and finished well and had an enjoyable romp on the pitch.
I got a chance to possibly socre and the whole team was looking for some forward to pass me the ball in front of the net, as I streamed down the field in gazelle fashion. I also just wanted to prove i could still run.
Good job defense, we shut down some talented but one demensional players. I also want to give props to the mids for support of the D and moving the ball and getting fine assists to the forwards. Guys at the top, you did what you do best, put it in the back of the net.
I will attribute the final goal to the deserving player if someone can update the old man to the rightful owner.

Next up, our nemisis Glanville in 9 days on an 8:30 tuesday night. Strange things happen at night. Let's let it be strange for the opposition this time

Mamma Zu vs La Flamma Blanca

2011-09-16T12:08:00.002-04:00

WIN 5-3

First game of the season posts a win for the Zuers. Sweet showing for our first game. New players Bill, Eric and Joshua made contributions to the win as well as everyone on the team playing their roll.
After a moment of silence for 9/11 we went on to a roller coaster ride. Trading scores with an iron man team of 11 for Blanca, we wore the team down with subs and ball possession and strong finishing. Bill scored in his first game with us and Eric scored 2 and Les with his uncanny ability to find the back of the net in clutch moments put us ahead. Joshua scored as well. 2 assists go to Paul M and Alex posted one as well.

Up next, Pete's mom, a talented team from the 5th division making their way to 3rd. They have to come through us. Let's make it a game.

MJD

2011-05-29T13:01:00.001-04:00

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Mamma Zu vs Capital Ale House 4-2 WIN!!!!

2010-11-07T19:32:00.001-05:00

Boys,
We finally got a W. And I am not talking about an ex president either.
We came out storming with goals to take a 2-0 lead stunning a squad that beat us last season, and probably looked at our record and fatally underestimated us. They were like a hornets nest poked by a stick. We got another goal to take it to 3-0. The most goals we have scored all year.
We were thirsty for some soda after the game so we took it to half with the lead intact, even though we got a little soft. Complacency is a scourge every team deals with. We just need to make sure we get complacent after the game from now on. A had ball called in the box led to thier first goal
Second half we had some breakdowns and they scored twice, causing some consternation. We had a tough fight in the second half as Ale house was fired up to win. They showed some good spirited play finding our holes and scoring. With time running low the pressure was put on. We had a goal called back on a questionable offside call. If it was questionable because it was Adrien. If it were Manny or Cosmin, it would have been guaranteed off. Andy was offside but they over looked it and called Adrien.
We sealed the game with a goal late with a few minutes left.

Goals are wildly abundant today. Cosmin was showing off for his Dad and son by scoring 2 goals. James had a goal and an assist. Andy had an assist and Alex had a great day feeding goals with two assists.

One more game to go in the season. I will be talking to Mamma Zu to set up our dinner in the next few weeks after the season. It will be on a Tuesday or Wednesday around 8:30pm. We all have to be there at the same time because they frown on latecomers. We will meet at my house for beers before hand. More details coming.

Capital City Crew 2 Vs Mamma Zu 2 TIE

2010-10-24T20:47:00.002-04:00

A beautiful day for playing soccer with the sun shining and temps in the low 70s. Thanks to old Zooer Robert Cataldo and John from Sticky Rice for sticking around to watch the game. Nice to have some of the old guard cheering us on.
We played these guys back in 5th Division. They played us well then as well as today. They had one sub. We had 6 subs. Yet another hard fought tie. We played a great game over all as we have in every game this season. We scored first with Justin making a great pass to Cosmin and Cosmin, who had the best game as a Zooer put it home. He played like an animal. Maybe it is because he was showing off for his son. Bring him to all the games. Crew came back shortly after on a broken play and scored. Half time.
We were happy with the play, but determined to win this one. We had the wind and the sun in their goalie's eyes this half. Their goalie was not the normal goalie for them. But he made some fantastic saves. We had many chances to put this game away with him foiling our efforts. They shot one from the 20 mark and man that one had some zip that beat Jay just past his left hand. Rocket. We were on our heels but came back with a solid effort by Andy to force an error and Adrien was there for the picking. Sweet move to get by the goalie and it was back of the net. Sweetness. I hope we are able to win a game this season, we have been playing to win and it has just not gone our way. We will take the point though.
Shout out rewards go to Les, who had the most grass stains on his jersey. Who ever was wearing #9 had a feather on his jersey. I don't remember anyone running into a bird on the field. Ryan takes the Shout out award this week with the most stain stick used. Honorable mentions go to me ()() and Daniel who had some blood on his, 8 looked like he had tomato sauce on his and 15 had some good dirt on the shoulder.

Next up Richmond Blaze. Lets win it.

Lion's United 2 vs Mamma Zu 2 Tie

2010-10-17T19:37:00.005-04:00

Early morning games are sometimes tough on the younger guys. They tend to stay up late "studying" for exams on Saturday night. We missed out on the young guys today and could have used some fresh legs. We only had 11 the whole game. Ironman style.
Starting a game at 9 near the trees, our field was wet from the dew. Sun was low and in the eyes of the goalie. My brilliance of choosing the dry side and the side where the opposing goalie would have the sun in his eyes did not bode well for us as I would have liked. The Lions scored first. They had numbers this time., 7 subs to our no subs. It made up for the last meeting when we drubbed them and they only had 10.
We answered with another goal immediately after. Manny headed a ball crossed to him and then right before the goalie was going to grab it, Adrien heads it just past his reach for the equalizer. There was much rejoicing. And calls to get another one. Only it was the Lions turn again. After a questionable start where the ref was addressing our defense, they capitalized on the confusion with some fancy passing, and put it away. We tried to score again. Alex had some wonderful shots on frame. Only 3 of them hit the post. Bad luck. We got a hand ball in their box and PK hammered the goal home with a crafty fake to the left and got the goalie to bite, then hit it right for the back of the net to gather.
2-2 tie, hard fought by both teams.
Other than Michael Archer getting kicked while he was on the ground and the one guy retaliating for some puishing and shoving, it was a clean match with good reffing. We even hit the ref with a soccer ball during warm ups and it didn't cost us.
Manny not only got an assist, but a bee sting as well. I hope he is OK, He said that Koreans were impervious to that stuff.
Lets hope we win one here soon. We have been playing very well but have to start scoring some more goals.
I was washing the jerseys after the game
Next game 1:00 PM Mamma Zû FC vs. Capital City Crew Bryan Park. Man we are playing more games there this year woot!
PS.
I am instituting a new recognition. I was doing the laundry as our captain's duties dictate. I have always noticed that MVP players on the field in goal results. I also want to institute the "shout" award. The double entandre of "giving a shout out" and the stain remover "shout" will be given each week. I win this week with the most engrained mud and grass stains on the jersey. It was from that retaliation tackle from behind that guy gave me. However in the spirit of hard play and sacrifice, there were two runners up. THe jersey numbers were 16 and 17 with equal dirt and crud. I suspect it was none other than my two cohorts in the defense Ryan and Michael Archer, who played stellar D and it showed in the amount of stain remover i used. Maybe at the banquet we will give a spent bottle of Shout to the winner.

mama zu seasons part 2

2010-06-19T13:30:00.003-04:00

mama zu family

2010-06-13T15:04:00.001-04:00

3 game catchup post.

2010-04-22T13:13:00.003-04:00

Capital Ale 2- Mamma Zu 1
Ukrops Park, grass field.

I barely remember this game, it was so long ago (like 2 weeks). I remember that the other team was good, that every time the ball went off the field it went down a massive hill, and that we lost. I also remember Manny looking forlorn afterwards, and Karl complaining about his back being hurt. No idea who scored, or how. Oh well, perhaps best forgotten. Injury notes: Karl (back), Yonni (hammy, I think), Carlos (cannot remember)

Mamma Zu 5- Galazy FU II 2
Dorey Park, Field 5

Now here’s a game for the memory banks. First half, up a man, we dominated play and took a 3-1 lead after falling down 1-0 about 10 minutes in. Our scoring started out on a fast break play when Manny got the ball in the middle of the field and made a nice angle pass out to Fawaz, who drilled a low burner past the keeper from about 25-30 yards out. Cosmin, unhappily wearing #7, scored 2 in the first half. One was a sweet curling shot over the keeper on a 3-on-1 break, which was followed immediately by Manny telling him “Good thing you scored, or I’d have killed you. I was wide open.” [This will be important later.]

In the second half, they scored relatively early to get it back to 3-2 on a slow motion goal by Jake from our summer team last year. Then we struck back quickly with a goal from PK (after a halftime shoe change—wear the Adidas from now on!) on a nice pass from Cosmin. Glad he made the drive back for that one. Finally, the drama began again a few minutes later when Chris (I think) got taken down in the box and we were awarded a Penalty Kick. Manny lobbied hard to take the kick, and buried it in the upper 90. Sadly, Cosmin entered the area before the kick, and the goal was taken off the boards (Manny, that’s what you get for sassing Cosmin)… Cosmin, either out of spite or because he felt bad about that goal, then made a sweet run from midfield to score about 5 minutes later, completing his hat trick. #7 was good luck for Cos.
Also, thanks to Alex for coming out and playing keeper for us, and to Matt Grove, for coming out to cheer us on despite his own injure-reserve status. Injury notes: Chris (ankle).

First victory of the regular season. 5-2 Zu. Woohoo!

Lightning 5- Mamma Zu 1
Dorey Park Field 3

Lightning have an appropriate team name, I think… the guy I was guarding was both faster than me and more skilled. Not a good combo! We held our own for the first 10 minutes or so before yielding a goal on a nice give and go run/finish play by them. Immediately, however, Cosmin (back to his old number, much to his chagrin) struck back with a sneaky little toe poke behind the defense and keeper to tie the game and give us a strong sense of positive momentum. Sadly, that momentum was short-lived as we gave up 2 quick goals, and 3 more total in the half. One was a nice free kick that got through Joao’s parry attempt, and another was on a jump ball that Joao got out-jumped on, and nobody else could stop it… Also of note, one of their guys got a yellow card for an unnecessary takedown from behind on Cos. And I think he was the same guy who took me down on a header attempt with a couple of elbows in the back. Fun stuff.

The second half we played better, but still ended up giving up a goal and not scoring. I have already blocked out whatever memory I had of that goal. I do remember Brien with a couple of miracle stops after odd mis-plays where he got caught up between men on run-outs… and myself getting crushed again on another header—maybe that’s why I forgot the goal. We also had a near-goal from Fawaz on another blazing low shot that their keeper just managed to get in front of. Also, Alex played, back in his customary forward position, which was a welcome return for us. Injury notes: Carlos (?, left mid-second half), Chris (out-ankle).

Let's get a good turnout tonight, and beat Rogues!

Wednesday Night Special, Copa Bruce style. Mama Zu 6 - 0 River Plate

2010-04-06T08:46:00.001-04:00

After 5 attempts, 6 months of waiting, AND an uncalled for delay due to lack of referees, Mama Zu finally got the 2009 (!) Cup season under way last Wednesday night under the lights at Dorey. And what a start to the Cup it was!

The game started a little slowly on the scoreboard, but not on the field. The Zu was flying around, passing the ball cleanly and crisply through the majority of the first half. The first goal came about 15 minutes in, with a strike from Chris off a pass from Cosmin or Adrian (I think—I missed this one from the bench due to the massive crowd of River Plate subs being in our sightline). Scoring continued about 8 minutes later on a corner kick/hustle goal—corner by Greg, hustle by Brien to knock the ball free from the keeper, goal by Tomasso, cleaning up the mess in the middle. Meanwhile, in the Zu goal, Joao was slapping himself to try and stay awake.

River Plate did have one nice, if odd, opportunity in the first half, also off a corner kick. Somehow Joao stopped a shot after it hit the crossbar, and then the ball lay spinning on the ground, right in front of the goal, yet miraculously surrounded by the Zu defense. Strange but effective D there…

Sadly, I cannot remember the 3^rd or 4^th goals of the first half (they all start to run together after a week), except that Carlos scored one of them. Halftime, 4-0 Zu.

The second half was, largely, more of the same. We were challenged a bit more on D, probably due to both our letting up a little and their determination not to be shut out… but we managed to keep a clean sheet. The closest calls on D came on a couple of plays when Joao had to come out and do his patented slide kick to clear loose balls, and one where he had to do the same on a rebound right in front.

On offense, meanwhile, Carlos again asserted himself with a goal, this time about 30 seconds after coming into the game for Adrian—great substitution there. The final goal also eludes me, but I suspect it came from Fawaz, who had the defense and the refs wheezing all game. My favorite comment came from the sideline ref who asked Delano to tell Fawaz to stop running so much and so fast. Oh, to be 21 and in shape again…

On to Sunday’s game on the carpet at Ukrop Park. Go Zu!

Scrimmage between Edo Squid and Mamma Zu

2010-03-28T17:35:00.002-04:00

Our game was rained out today and I got a text from Gabor from Edo's saying, "lets play!!!!!"
Quick text and email to the crew and we were able to play out there at Doug Wilder MS. Thanks for making this job easy by responding if you could not make it and being able to make a good showing with 9. It was a good game, even though we were missing some key defense. We got a jump on them with a 2-0 lead. beautiful shots by Cosmin. We scored 2 more goals by others and I will add them if they tell me in an email. They scored 3 on us to take it to half. We equalized in the second half but they came on strong with a decimated back line. Good scrimmage all around as it was great to get our foot on the ball.

Game recap, 3/21/2010, Zu 2-Richmond Blaze 2

2010-03-21T19:15:00.007-04:00

In an effort to keep this page a little more active, I am going to try to do a quick recap of every game. Couple of things to keep in mind-- I play in the back, and often don't see all the plays up front, or who is making which passes. Since I missed last week, and the stupid Cup game was postponed (again), we're starting with Zu-Blaze...

The Zoosters started out a little slow, with Karl looking at me as the game was starting and saying "my timing is just a little off today"-- this would be a harbinger of things to come. We had our chances early in the first half, with a few shots going wide, Yonni's near miss on the corner kick, and some slip-ups in center of the field leading to a couple of early fast-break opportunities for the Blaze. But we held strong until a corner kick about 20 minutes into the half, where an unmanned back post and slow clearance led to a cheapie goal for the bad guys.

Rather than come back strong right away, the Zu gave up another goal in short order, this one off a long ball, header slightly mistimed by Greg, and Karl and I unable to recover in time. Joao came out to make the play, but we'd left him too much to do, and he couldn't stop the breakaway goal.

This time, the Zu responded. About 10 minutes later, we saw a nice pass from Adrian lead to a half-bicycle goal from Cosmin. (Heard at halftime: "well, he was called offsides a lot, but that goal makes up for it, i think.") Anyway, nicely played from the two of them there...

Halftime score 1-2.

Second half was much better-played by the Zu, at least from my perspective. We were much better-spaced, and gave up few real opportunities other than 2 near-misses on Corner kicks. Manny made a (rare) great defensive stop on one play, too. Joao did an excellent job, despite threatening to quit mid-game (sorry about that one, Joao-- i was tired, and had my man :)). Up front, we had a bunch of good runs lead to close calls, and finally got a goal midway through the half on a breakaway started by Tomasso from near midfield. Nice ball down the middle to Fawaz, who beat his man in a straight race to the ball and put it solidly by the keeper.

Not a ton of note after the evener, except a few more offsides calls and Joao deciding he would stay with the team, at least for now (I promise to try to listen better... and we need you).

The line of the day came from the Blaze left Fullback, who, upon my hitting a shot about 10 yards left of the goal, cracked: "I guess that's why we're defenders." True Enough.

Final Score 2-2.

We probably should have won the game, but played well, particularly in the second half. A good warm-up for the season, and Rogues next week.

Spring 2010 Schedule

2010-02-15T21:54:00.004-05:00

Our first games have been posted on CVSA website, please have a look!

scratchy start, terrific finish!

2009-12-30T16:57:00.002-05:00

despite the awkward start and stop season that was, Fall 09 finished with Mama Zu taking 2nd place. New players dynamically added depth and width to our game. Matt, Andrew, Carlos, and Josh integrated themselves seamlessly. Nice job gents! Now, about our season ending dinner....

Mamma Zu's - November 22, 2009

2009-11-26T20:02:00.002-05:00

Mamma Zu vs MSFC Sunday Sept 12th

2009-09-19T12:40:00.003-04:00

First game of the season and we had a little rust, a little adjustment to some new faces but we came away with a point. MSFC is a group of experienced Masters that played real well. Superb goal tending by their team kept the Zu from getting anywhere in the first half. They scored 2 goals quickly. We got our rhythm together and put together some counter attacks and Tomaso had a finesse pass lofting over their huge defenders and Yoni there for a header to make our first mark a beauty right past the tenders futile but brave efforts at a save. Meanwhile, Brien goes for a header and one of their defenders goes for his head instead of the ball. Blood all over again like last years opener. Brien goes off wondering if his #13 jersey might be bad luck for someone else next time. 2-1 half. We did not give up and came back at half strong. We noticed them slow down in the second half and our defense and goal tending kept is in the game. Matt got taken down but an over zealous defender and scored a beautiful free kick sailing over the goalies' hands and curving into the right upper corner to tie. Matt had a second chance and scored from the left side with another pretty kick that the keeper had no play on. Time is marching on and MSFC are pressing. They find a hole in a cluster around our goalie Joao and the ball ends up in the back of the net with our defense all taking the blame. We are a humble modest bunch back there ready to take the responsibility. We will take the tie and be happy about it, because this was a very good team and they will fight us for position all season I am sure. Good luck MSFC and great played match all around. 3-3 tie. Matt 2 goals, Yoni 1 goal. Tomaso 1 assist.

Mamma Zu's - September 13, 2009

2009-09-13T23:06:00.002-04:00

Fall 09 New Season, New Division!

2009-09-10T20:32:00.002-04:00

Our Scrimages against Edo was... apparently more challenging than we thought it would be...losing in our first scrimage and tieing the second one. The old guys make up in guile, cunning and some elbows what they lack in speed...apparently.

Also, a shout out to Spoccer for scrimaging with us and giving us a terrific run!

Looking ahead:
we are excited about our first game this Sunday, 9/13 and for the fall season, we have several new players!
Josh Wroniewicz, Carlos, Matt Grove, Andrew Ashwer. Did anyone tell these guys that the initiation to the team involve lining up against the wall and having the team take turns blasting the ball towards their...balls? hmmm...

Our roster is still in a little flux so stay tuned for updates!

Summer season ends

2009-07-28T12:08:00.003-04:00

Congrats to Pine St.! We finished in 2nd place with 8-2-1 record and one of the highest goal differentials in the entire league!

Looking ahead to the end of season Tournament starting August 3rd with every reason to believe we can win it all the way! Please come out and support us! Of course, schedule is posted on the cvsasoccer.org

Pine Street Barbershop - July 27th, 2009

2009-07-27T21:49:00.002-04:00

Pine Street Barbershop - July 1st, 2009

2009-07-05T17:28:00.002-04:00

Mamma Zu's - June 7th, 2009

2009-07-05T17:24:00.004-04:00

2009-07-02T13:28:00.002-04:00

Pine St. Barber

Summer league 09

Roster: Adrian, Cosmin, Greg, Josh W. Josh M. Paul Z. James J. Les, Andrew, Tibor, Joab, Jake, and Manuel.

Spring 09 6th division champions

2009-06-20T10:26:00.004-04:00

Michael: Team captain Spring 09. Way to go!

Past and current Mama Zu'ers

http://www.cvsasoccer.org/archives/2009spring.shtml

Great times. Chris: nice haircut!