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Open Women let themselves down v Surfside

Sunday, 27 June 2010 23:01

A GAME OF TWO HALVES.

Our girls began the match flat and disappointingly allowed Surfside to jump to a three goal lead at the break. Angela and Steph were our best contributers for the half.

After some positional changes during the break, Geelong were able to apply their force on Surfside and seriously challenge for a win. With Milly up forward and Nicole in her new role in defense, Geelong appears to have finally laid the foundations of a solid structured team. The girls rallied in the second half to redeem some credibility in the match, not conceding any further goals. The end result being Geelong 0-3 Surfside.

Reserves record 4-1 Win v Hume Utd

Tuesday, 22 June 2010 12:42

New Coach Steve Gaitanis commenced his tenure with a resounding victory.  Lining up in 3-5-2 formation the team took a little while to settle but the boys started worrying Hume from about the 20 minute mark onwards.  The first goal was a cracker from Shane Zordan who shot on the turn from about 20 meters out to leave the keeper hopelessly stranded.  This was a strike of the highest quality and would not have looked out of place in South Africa the moment.  The Hume goalie’s night got worse about 5 minutes later when Nick Bosevski scored with an effort equally appealing to the eye.  A penetrating ball from Chris Balaburova was met by Bosevski with a thundering volley from a tight angle.  This strike had Marco Van Basten Euro 1988 Final stamped all over it.  Had South African vuvuzelas been available then they surely would have been blowing!

Geelong went into the half time break 2-1 ahead.  The challenge was to keep the pressure on Hume.  Paul Edebohls came off the bench and looked lively.  Shiva Kanapathy was causing Hume all sorts of problems on the left and an excellent run and pull back left Alex Ilioski with the simple task of putting the ball into an empty net.  Nick Bosevski grabbed his second after some excellent interpassing involving Edebohls.  Late in the game Geelong had the opportunity to make it 5-1.  Michael Temelkovski beat the off side trap but was fouled by the last defender as he was about to pull the trigger from 10 meters out.  A red card and a penalty followed.  The spot kick, taken by Ilioski, was ballooned over the cross-bar.

At the end of the day the 4-1 score line could have been even greater and reflected the difference between the two teams.  It also means that the reserves have been undefeated for now for 4 weeks.

Under 17’s back on top

Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:58

A  4-1 win over Barwon Blue saw the U/17’s return to the top of the ladder approaching the mid-way point of the season.

After a slow start with the back four under a bit of pressure from barwon blue, Geelong broke the deadlock after 20 minutes, when prolific striker Alberto Lopez opened his account with a cheeky chip over the keeper from 30 yards. A minute later skipper Dylan Stojanovski  made it 2-0 with an even more audacious chip from just outside the area. And the third came in as many minutes when Stefan Luong latched onto a lovely through ball from Shiva Kanapathy to round the keeper and finish sweetly.

The restart saw a string of poor refereeing decisions go against Geelong and Barwon maintain their pressure on defenders Daniel Gray, Michael Illioski and Anthony Nguyen despite being down 3-0. In a messy goal-mouth scramble Barwon pegged one back in what looked like a foul on keeper Rhett Joy. The Geelong boys sealed the win after Alberto Lopez secured a brace with a tidy finish. The win sees the undefeated Geelong return to the top of the table after last weeks bye and in good form approaching next weeks top of the table clash against the also undefeated Lara at Stead Park.

Heart Geelong community festival

Thursday, 27 May 2010 19:57

15th-17th June 2010

Westpac are bringing Melbourne Heart FC to Geelong for the Community Football Festival.

See the schedule of events: Geelong-football-festival-events.pdf