First Game of the Play Offs

Finally we ended up ranked #4, winning our group. We played a very good last game with an outstanding performance by Jose scoring four goals. Many people was wondering what was different from the previous game when it seemed like Jose was a completely different player. One person said that maybe he saw people from Real Zaragoza looking at him. Close but not quite that... He was "showing off" to his girlfriend and her family. We need to have them come to all the games!

We have out first game of the play offs this Wednesday May 24th at 7 PM. From now on every game is a final. We have been playing well but we will need to play even better to keep advancing. See you all there on Wednesday, be there early so we can organize the team.

Viva LA GARCHA.

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Official Picture Spring 2006

We did the first part, win our group. Three wins and one tied. Let's keep the good work in the Play-Offs.

In the picture: (standing from left to right) Carlos Zuritz, Shawn Kefauver, Marcelo Olivares, Greg Mockos, Diego Bujazha, Marko Aleksic, Dan Kliebenstein, Paul McPherron.
Samuel Barros, Jose Urbez, Ricardo Heres del Valle, Mauricio Cornejo. Not in the picture: Albert Van Geelen, Pelayo Alvarez, David Riano

To be or not to be...

The eternal question: is it better to play well and loose or to play awful and win? I guess we will take the latter this time. We did not play a good game on Monday but it was in part because the match itself was not very interesting. We did play very well the first 10 minutes but, after being 4x0 and with no chances of loosing, we played unmotivated and unorganized. It is ok, we are here to have fun! And it is important that we did not let them score or even come close to Diego's goal. He even had the chance to do what he likes the most... Take the ball and start dribbling players all the way to the mid field.

Next Monday we will play our last game of the regular season against Cascara Mecanica. It is important that we win to stay in the top ten and not play an extra game to get in the play offs. Even more important is that we have to maintain the Sportsmanship Rating of 3.0 That's what we have so far and any score before 3.0 in the last game will put us out of the play offs. So, do not argue with the referees! Even if they make one of their usually awful calls and that costs us a goal. And do not get into any arguments with the other team.

I don't see any reason why we would not win. Greg and Paul will be back and we will put David in the same chamber the British will put Wayne Rooney so he finally gets over that injured ankle!