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Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Sunday, October 16, 2011

Saturday's UFL matches: Loyola vs Team Socceroo and Kaya vs Diliman



Kaya overcomes a deficit to upend Diliman FC
by rick olivares

October 15, 2011
Rizal Memorial Football Stadium

Kaya Cignal FC living up to the meaning of their team name of “yes, we can,” overcame a 2-1 deficit, the loss of their team captain to a knee injury, and the sending off of a teammate to deal Victory Liner-Diliman FC a stinging 3-2 loss in the third play date of the 2011 UFL Cup.

Fresh of their 7-nil conquest of ABC Stars FC, the University of the Philippines-based eleven looked to pick up from where they left off with star striker Jinggoy Valmayor netting a goal in only the third minute.

The conceded goal steeled Kaya as they dominated possession and went on the attack with newly-acquired striker Nate Burkey scoring on a deflected strike in the 21st minute following a brilliant throw in by Jason Sabio. Kaya’s defense repeatedly had Diliman’s pair of wondrous midfielders – Anto Gonzales and Stephen Permanes – coughing up the ball. Without the link up from the middle to the attack third, Bob Salvacion’s squad had to resort to long balls just to get their attack going.





Younghusbands, Hartmanns, spark Loyola to a 15-1 thrashing of Team Socceroo
by rick olivares

October 15, 2011
Rizal Memorial Football Stadium

Team Socceroo should learn from this 15-1 beating.

One of the country’s newest football clubs entered the Rizal Memorial Football Stadium two hours before kick off singing songs while their supporters cheered them on. The merriment continued all the way to their dugout where they got dressed and taped for the big game.

In contrast, the Loyola Meralco Sparks arrived without fanfare despite their galaxy of stars. And maybe it’s best to describe, “glided in like a shark” for after 45-minutes of play, the revealed the true predator within.

Entering the first match of Group B* play with an offensive-minded 4-3-3 formation, the Sparks wasted no time in putting scores on the board as Mark and Matthew Hartmann scored the first three goals of the match. Then Phil Younghusband, who a week earlier rediscovered his scoring touch against Nepal in an international friendly, began to pepper the thoroughly overmatched and outclassed Team Socceroos with five goals. 

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Did game analysis for the matches on AKTV last Saturday. Muchos gracias to Aaron Atayde and Jason Webb!

3 comments:

  1. sir, your commentary assignment yesterday was pure biased. we heard not a commentator but a Kaya fan. you should have at least stayed neutral or just stayed away from the mic.

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  2. That's your opinion. And I am not a Kaya fan. Actually, I have many friends among that Diliman team and have written quite often about them. Suck up that loss and don't look for cobwebs where there aren't any.

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  3. Socceroo is a JOKE!!! A highschool team in Barotac or Sta. Barabara Iloilo can also score 15 goals against them...It's a waste of time watching them play..they don't even know how to kick and pass the ball properly..if you watched the game closely, they really suck!!!, the girls screamed because of their looks and not because of their skills..wtf! the second game though is what you call a treat to soccer fans like me....

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