Making It Count

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Cyle Larin, keep this name in mind! Rookie in the MLS season playing for the Orlando City SC Larin ruled the game yesterday at the Citrus Bowl. On the last home game of the season Larin kept the dream of making to the playoffs alive. Orlando City SC played really well organized and confident, but soccer is a treacherous sport. NYCFC in a corner shot managed to lead the score at the 45’ min. Orlando came back a little slow, seemed like they were giving up and nervous about it. Some supporters complained on how nervous they were, attempting crazy plays seeking a goal. Until 62th minute when Larin received the cross from Winter and headed to corner of the goal leaving no chance for the goalie. The team started to play well organized again, a simple draw wouldn’t be enough for the playoffs. 10 minutes later Winter receives a perfect pass and is face to face with the goal, after a few attempts he crosses and…yes, Cyle Larin once again shaking the net putting Orlando City SC ahead of the game.
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Published by Pedro H. Cox

Make It Count: ORL v. NYC

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Make it count! Tomorrow Orlando City SC faces New York City for a spot in the playoffs. Orlando City must win this last regular season home game, but for Orlando’s unfortunate luck they don’t depend only on themselves. With the 3 games left, one more than Orlando, the Montreal Impact is the favorite on taking the spot. 

 Orlando City is playing without 2 of its main stars, Kaka and Brek Shea, suspended for 3 yellow card on their last game against the Impact. It all falls down to Cyle Larin, Orlando’s rookie of the year, who was been playing on beast mode. Larin scored incredible 15 goals in this season, top striker for both the team and the league.

Orlando City currently holds 41 points in the league and the Impact 42. Orlando needs to win the following next two games and wait on a possible mishap by the Impact, loosing two games or loosing 1 and drawing two games. If Orlando City looses against the New York City there chances decrease drastically. In hopes of still making the playoffs they would need a 3 streak lose by the Impacts.

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Published by Pedro H. Cox

Vasco Upset Flamengo 2-1

In Week 28 of the Campeonato Brasileiro, Vasco da Gama took on Flamengo at the Maracanã stadium on Sunday, September 27th! Going into the game Sunday Flamengo was favored to win the nights match over their opponent Vasco da Gama, but don't put out their opponent just yet because it was a very close game that came down to a 1 goal deficit. The team based out of the country's capital city, Rio de Janeiro, Vasco da Gama recently against Flamengo hasn't been too well with 3 drawn matches and 2 lost matches.

The match Sunday started like any other game would, in about 10 minutes in Flamengo was on their opponents side of the field and off a cross the field pass they scored in the 11th minute making the score 1-0 in favor of Flamengo. Then Rodrigo a player for Vasco da Gama, from 26 meters out, puts a ball in net off a free kick scored in the 35^th minute to make the game tied a 1 a piece! Then the go-ahead goal scored by Nene putting Vasco up 2-1 and that would be the final score for this match! Stay tuned for next week’s matches, highlights and scores for Campeonato Brasileiro! For week 30 of the league, make sure to check out the Flamengo versus Figueirense Wednesday October 14^th! Attached below, is the recap of the game!

Game Recap!

Written by: Chris Maialetti

Breakaway Soccer Talk Brand

                Myself and my classmate Pedro Cox are developing a brand together; the brand is for a Sports talks show. The show is called Breakaway Soccer Talk; it covers Brazilian soccer matches and popular Brazilian soccer news. For anyone who is interested in following those particular Brazilian soccer leagues a bit further than normal news channels and the entire show is dedicated to it and not a segment. The leagues that are in Brazil are Campeonato Brasileiro, and Copa do Brasil. The main focus of our talk show is going to be covering just the Campeonato Brasileiro. The leagues consists of clubs all around Brazil, designed very similar on how the United States sports leagues set up their teams, they try to evenly spread them throughout the country so that everyone has a chance to follow a team.

                 A little background information on the league currently is made up of 20 teams spanning all over Brazil, the current champions of the league are back to back winners, they are Cruzeiro, a team based out of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. Some popular players around the league are Ronaldinho, Emerson Sheik, Guerrero, Gabigol, Elias, and Paulo Victor. 

All Star Subs

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No. This time is wasn’t Guerrero or Paulinho to take Flamengo for the win against Joinville at the Maracanã Stadium in front of a little over 52,000. The stars from the game came from the bench. Ayrton and Gabriel were the not so expected heroes for the night; both players skills and commitment were starting to be questioned by the supporters until yesterday night. When Pará got injured still at the first half, Ayrton was given a chance, a few minutes later he scores a beautiful upper 90 goal. The first thing that comes to mind is back in 2001 when Petković scored against Flamengo’s biggest rival at the same upper 90 Ayrton scored.

The game was even more special for Gabriel who hadn’t had the opportunity to play since the arrival of the new coach Oswaldo de Oliveira, at the end of  August. Got in 12minutes left for the end of the match, but time wasn’t a problem, Gabriel scored less than 1 minute later over the goalkeeper.

Oswaldo de Oliveira mentioned at the end of the game he feels optimistic regarding the future of the team, who is currently fighting for G-4 and classifying to the South American cup. Flamengo who was has been considered one of the favorites to be in the top 4 in the past month, but had a streak of 3 loosing games that mathematical speaking decreased there chances, but with a new win the team might just launch off with remaining 9 games in the league.

Written by Pedro H. Cox

Ronaldinho leaves Fluminense FC

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Less than 3 months after being an official player for Fluminense FC, Ronaldinho, resigned from his duties. The reason has not yet been released. Assis, Ronaldinho’s manager and brother, confirmed his exit from the club in social media. Later that day Ronaldinho posted on Twitter his farewell to the club supporters; “Thanks to everyone at Fluminense FC. With a lot of respect and gratitude that I say goodbye to this big club”. Ronaldinho is currently free lance on the market and hasn’t received any offers from any clubs so far. He signed his contract early July and played his first official game as a Fluminense FC on August 1st. 7 games later Ronaldinho is no longer part of at the team.

Ronaldinho was going through a rough period at Fluminense FC, he was not getting total support from the supporters, wasn’t playing as he used to and started on the bench for 3 consequitive games. The games he actually started playing he ended up being substituted by the end of the first half.

Ronadlinho later that day posted on Facebook a formal letter thanking the supporters and the club’s executive. He said it was an honor to represent the team for a couple of months and thanked the president, the board members and all of the coaches. Fluminense FC later posted a farewell and thank you letter to Ronaldinho. Marcos Junior should be playing in Ronaldinho’s spot until another player is either signed or a youth player brought to the professional division.

Written by: Pedro H. Cox