The first game of our preseason was not the prettiest, but you cant expect for a new team still working to become a family on the pitch to beat one of the best teams in the state. Our starting XI: Manuel Sonato, Eric Ramirez, Ruben Garcia, Juan Perez, Armando Bejarano, Facundo Bentancourt, Francisco Navarro, Tony Espindola, Daniel Flores, Justin Garcia, and Steve Hyppolite played well for most of the game. Homestead Hawks got off to a good start and pressured our team for the 10 beginning minutes. Most of the momentum belonged to the Hawks who led 1-0 at half time. Our team had 10 minutes to take a break from the 90 degree weather and talk about the issues.
Our team took the pitch for the second half and changed the momentum to our side. After 7 minutes of play Steve Hyppolite scores his first goal in his first game for the team, and ties the game at 1-1. Then 2 minutes later our team lines up for a corner kick, Facundo gives the signal that he is about to cross the ball, and when he makes the contact, the ball had so much curve that he scored off the corner kick. An Olympico! How rare? Now the score is 2-1 in favor of LWS FCB.
Don't let the excitement fool you because right before the end of the 3rd quarter the Hawks tie the game at 2. Then at the start of the 4th quarter the Hawks took the momentum back, we held them off for 10 minutes playing solid defense. But then a small mistake on a cross and the ball slips through the defense and our goalkeeper and then all of a sudden the Hawks take the lead. Then after that goal our team suffered a mental lapse. The Hawks scored 3 more goals and won the game 6-2. It was a hard loss, coming back and letting the lead go. But don't let the score take away how well our goalkeeper, Manuel Sonato, played. The team after the game promised to work even harder to make ourselves better. We'll see if the training helps us out 2 weeks from now as we play Plantation Predators at Buttonwood Park. Come out and support us on 9/7/13 as we play Plantation!
