Salute to Brazil

We interrupt the feline-fest briefly for a nod to our Brazilian friends. For some reason, this little blog has picked up significant traffic from Brazil lately - some sort of embedded Brazilian Portuguese cuss word? Anyway, on this blog:
- we love Romario and hope his next political ambition is mayor of Toronto;
- we're happy to be able to generate our own Brazilian national team football shirt;
- and speaking of that team, who can't love them?

Congrats to Nephew/Cousin Michael

OK, I couldn't wait for the official game report so I went here to see the 0-1 result for Ontario Power Generation.  While you'd always rather win, that's a great result against a team that was 10-0 with 58 goals for and 7 against!  You guys should be very proud!  As are the Red Boys, whose league clearly uses the same ISP...

One question for coach/guest blogger Darren.  Why are the scores so low in that league?  I'm really struck by the fact that OPG's average game score was a 2-1 win, while the Red Boys on average won their games 5-4 or maybe even 6-5 (we don't post as many stats for some reason).  Shorter games?  Better defence?  Or do they make you guys play on skates?

Before the Big Game

On Saturday September 6th the U9 Boys North Bay Soccer Youth Soccer League will hold its final game. My team, Ontario Power Generation (and yes, we've got the power), will play the undefeated Kia of North Bay.

Our season was great...we ended the season in second place. While I have had many chances in front of the net, I have been only been able to score once. However, in the final game I am looking for a hat-trick.