Stamford U13 Boy's Gold Hurricanes go 8-0!
The Stamford Hurricanes U13 gold team ended their Spring campaign with a hard fought 1-0 win over Easton-Redding in front of a large and vocal crowd at West Beach on Sunday, June 20.This win ended a perfect 8-0 season for the gold team scoring 26 goals but more importantly only allowing 3 goals in over 640 minutes of competetive play.This is their second unbeaten season in a row and they have also won their last two open tournements.
The team members include: Ossie Acuna,Brad Cappello,Cristian Flores,
Scott Gavidel,Matthew Michael and Skyler Iafrate,Ryan lacey ,Giovanni Ninivaggi,Jose Novoa,Mahesh Raman,Christopher Ryan ,Christian Tomaj,Kole Tomaj,Gabriel Torres and Brendan Travers .The very able manager was Mala Raman, Maurice Ryan was the coach and he was excellently assisted by Dave Cappelo.
The U13 Gold team was certainly a team that was more than the sum of it's parts.They trained hard three times a week, through the winter and spring. They truly played for each other and epitomised the idea of team over individual. The parents were equally supportive of the players and the coaches and showed genuine appreciation for the efforts of the teams opponents.
The team draws its talent from all over town. The team had players from King Low Haywood Thomas, Greenwich Catholic, Trinity Catholic and every public middle school here in Stamford. Players or their parents were born in England, India, Ireland, Italy, Guatemala, Iran, Croatia, Mexico, Chile, and of course the USA - we could almost run our own World Cup All Star team! This points out the wonderfull diversity of soccer both socially and economically here in Stamford and speaks very well of SYSL as a true community based sports organisation.
Going forward the plan is to move the best players up to our established A team to fill the holes left by players moving on to high school .To restock the team with the best new players in town plus the best from our house leagues. The hope is that when they have all moved on to High School they will have all the fundementals neccessary to challenge for a place on their team of choice. [Contributed Story]