Dallas Cup Diary Continued

Wednesday 8th April 2009
Today the boys played Fc Barcelona. The conditions were less windy and we played in Richland Park. The boys played their best match so far, creating lots of goal scoring chances and demonstarting the performances they have shown during the season back in the uk.

The game ended 4 nil to Lewisham and could have been more. The goal scorers were Louie who scored 2, marcus 1 and Ricardo 1. The boys dominated possesion for long periods of the game, impressing the local college scouts, who were very interested in some of our players.

The confidence feed back into the players and team spirit was great, now looking forward to a couple of friendlies against Houston Dynamo who won the u19 group the previous year and the Dallas Texans who were in the super group and our host team.

Thursday 9th April 2009
Today we played Houston Dynamo who knocked us out of the tournament last year. The game was very even we both teams creating chances. Lewisham took the lead with a goal from Bobbys header. Houston then had 15 minutes of dominace creating several chances and scoring one. The boys then turned the game around and put the pressure on hitting the crossbar twice one of the attempts being a 25 yard screamer by Reece.

In the last two minutes of the game there was some fantastic link up play with Marcus slotting the goal past their Keeper. The dynamos had now time to recover and the game was won by Lewisham 2-1. There record in the tournament is now played 4 won 2 with a plus 1 goal difference.

In the evening the texan parents invited all the players and coaches to a fantastic mexican restaurant and a good time was had by all, with each parent complementing our boys on their attitude and behaviour and manners whilst staying with the families.