We Are The Champions!

City of Lodi Boys U14 Champs! Front L to R: Anthony Fugazi, Casey Rea, Patrick Kelly, Steven Fernandez, Tommy Burnnet. Middle L to R: Clayton Silva, Calin Moore, Brandon Calderon, Brent Snyder, Paul Lurma, Miguel Segura, David Baker (behind Miguel), Ryan Bingham. Back Row L to R: H.C. Kelly, Ryan Vandenburg, Chris Rea, A.C. Baker.

What a great season! I thought we were going to be competitive, but I thought we were a little young to win it all this year. We will return 10 of our 15 boys next year. We are going to be tough next year too.

The Championship game was great. The other team (light blue) knock off the number one team in the tournament to be in the game, and we knocked off the number two team in the tournament to be in the championship game.

I watched the team we beat tonight (light blue) beat the number one team. Light blues game plan worked great against the number one team. The number one team had two players that could score. Light blue played those two players man on man, and would drop 10 guys to defence when the other team was attacking. The other team would, as a result of so many people playing defense, take a quick poor shot. The goalie would pick up the poor shot kick it to mid field, and hope their one forward could make something happen on a fast break (transition). Light blue scored one goal, and the other team scored one goal. The over time was scoreless, and it came down to a shoot out. Apparently this coach plays for this, and never loses in a shoot out, and he didn't in that game. He won.

In our game he ran the same game plan. Our team scores from multiple players, and we move the ball well. We also have four guys who play defense who on any other team would be on offence. The three fullbacks are my size or bigger. Nobody can out run them. So when they are on the field no one scores against us. Tonight I never took them off, and we never had a goal scored against us. Our mid field, and forwards move the ball almost perfectly at times to spread out the defence. Back and forth until someone makes a mistake. They made a lot of mistakes, but we only scored three times on them.

We also play a stopper. He's a guy who plays typically behind the half backs, and in front of the fullbacks. He's our Mr. Endurance. He was to shut down their one forward before he got to our defence. He did most of the game.

We had three different kids score tonight. Patrick had an assist on the first goal.

Great game, these don't happen very often. We win 3-0.