Guatemala beats Verdes in CONCACAF football
Good evening. I’m James Adderley and welcome to this crucial serving of Sports Monday.
The Belizean football sub-champion Real Verdes face its second CONCACAF opposition a of the ’98 campaign. Yesterday in a role as host to Aurora of Guatemala.
It’s rainy day this Sunday but the Guats still get off to a great start. Never-the-less Darren Hinds foils any attempt for an early goal. Still in search of the lead, the visitors dominating at this point over the long range shot which forces Hinds to concede a corner kick. Aurora continues to run the score and how this scoring opportunity gets squandered is anybody’s guess. The Belize side finally finds some offense going to Brent Burgess who beats the goal keeper left side and guess what misses an empty goal people.
On this press Denmark Casey gets this shot at goal but the Guatemalan defense chooses to give up a penalty instead so referee Sabio of Honduras accommodates. The man Verdes chooses to execute his number 3, Nelson Moss – He tries for the deep right pocket but the pill screams past the goal the ball upright and that makes two giveaways by Belize in a row.
Folks it comes right back to haunt the Verdes team. It’s the last minute of first half when this center finds number 12 and this his bicycle kick provides the fans with a truly spectacular goal as Aurora takes a one zip lead to the locker room.
In the second half the visitors go up 2-zip as this pot kick beats Darren Hinds and the green machine looks stalled. So the machine sends a goal and Erwin Contreras and fresh off the bench, the striker comes in to splice this ball game with the right foot and put Belize onto the scoreboard.
In the closing moments Aurora of Guatemala hangs on to the 2-1 big W.
John Trapp, Real Verdes
“The game out here to win you know, especially at home in front of our fans. What coach told us was to go out there and work as hard as possible, try to get at least one or two goals quick on this team and then after that you can relax and knock the ball around. And that’s exactly what we did. The first goal, we missed the first goal followed by a penalty by Nelson Maud. I mean that really demoralized our team.”
Q: “From my viewpoint you could beat this team, however, after this performance, going into Guatemala for the return match, do you feel that you can actually rescue something out of this series with the Guatemalan team Aurora?”
John Trapp
“I think definitely, definitely. We’re working along together. Every game we played better, I think we played better, you know James, The thing is, what I’m saying is that our Belizean team, we have to get out of that thing that every time we get that break and we don’t score a goal we don’t worry about it. And with that team James, one break they get, they will put it in for you and Belize has to start getting like that.”
Let’s now head to Roger’s Stadium for pre-teen softball. Sunday’s marathon we fond defending champions C.T.C. in action against Roses. With runners at first and second C.T.C.’s Hortense Thurton gets tagged one run from home but Thurton does come back to strike out the very next batter. Roses return with Nicole Arnold on the mound and here she returns her third out of the inning. Roses go on to cap the defending champions C.T.C. 9-5 again.
In closing folks, just want to remind you that the national defending champions Juventus of Orange Walk leave the Jewel on Tuesday traveling to Guatemala to be hosted by Communicaciones in a quadrangular which also features Alejandra of El Salvador and Olympia of Honduras.
And that’s it for sports. Thanks to all our cameramen for their great work.
Jah over all, I’m James Adderley.
