second half melt down

3-3 at half, 7-1 in the second. Nasser, kelly, bob, luciano, fernaz, abraham and tony had no answer for dmitri's whites after break. when jason replaced departing andrew, the balance had shifted. robin, joe, yusef, shevchenko and nori could do no wrong. or the blues just ran out of gas. oh well, behavior was much improved (i'm told) and the temps were tolerable.

bring a friend next week. not long before youth season begins.

late start, 98 degrees, all survive

kelly's whites survive ordeal! (berny goes scoring wild in the end. alex loposov begins the comeback. dmitri (two goals) and the blues had matters well in hand but couldn't hold on. yusef leaves early with hammy.

nuri brilliant in defense. misha gave all he had. bob dependable in goal as always. slow day for corey. good luck next week with your tourney. nice run by naveen. luciano was LOUD as usual.

bravo whites (alex, new/alex, andrei, robert, sam, toni and kelly) for never giving up. final 6-5 and 98 degrees.

we'll need extra players next week. bob and corey to costa mesa tourney.

thanks for the support Miretsky family! Soccer tradition is passed on to next gen.

I'm playing like ^%#@ today

At halftime, "so far not a good day" waxes our profiled player BOB S.

We understand Bob, not easy keeping pace with the youngins'. (Corey today and Daniel and Nick other matches. Evan not available for quote.) Nick now in Florida with Embry Riddle.

Our Bob was born in the area and is graciously allowed to work for WVSL/Socal and his other import business by his spouse.
Bob is semi-fluent in 1.5 languages. English and Swiss/German.

Of his many career soccer hi-lites Bob includes coaching Romeo Beckham for one season.

As for the extremely late starting match, Whites prevail 4-3 behind trifecta from Berny (of course).

Nuri, Corey and Robert scored for the Blues who had many other scoring opportunities.

New player Naveen (S. Africa) will bring new player next week.
Hopefully we will have keys to the goals by then and not have to assemble any.
Nice to see Franco running and whistling (reffed first half), Yusef plays again and Andrei B. played and scored one off the post.
Let's try to start match on or before 8:30 to mitigate temps. OK?