Author Archives: Joao Miguel Freitas

New battle for the U15

The U15 had their second game of the season against a very experienced CFB and again performed well. Whilst most of the CFB team (including their key players) will be too old for U15 next year, ALL of our team will be eligible demonstrating the youth and potential we have!!

We did not have a goalkeeper and still need to identify somebody for the future (please everyone, help us find a new candidate ?) and this inevitably impacted on the result, but the team fought a spirited battle to the end and it is clear we are making progress. Well done guys & gals!

Andrew Baird

Ladies Perderam o primeiro jogo da época

As ladies perderam no ultimo sábado contra os S15 do casa pia, num jogo fernético one o resultado foi semore uma incerteza, começamos a ganhar por 2-0 mas o casa pia deu a volta e chegou aos 2-3, empatamos 3-3 e o casa pia volta a marcar mas as ladies carregaram e chegamos ao intervalo com 4-4, na segunda parte com o jogo mais partido e muitas oportunidades falhadas as ladies finalmente marcam voltando para a frente do marcador em 5-4, os miudos do Casa Pia liderado por Rodrigo Castro, a mais jovem estrela do hóquei português conseguiram dar a volta fechando o resultado em 5-6

Marcadoras LC:

Joana Penetra

Angela Lima

Isabel Gregg

Maria Mateus Leitão

Edina Borges

 

S13 começam o campeonato!

A equipa de S13 iniciou o campeonato contra a fortissima equipa do CFBenfica (Fófó) com muitos estreantes, Guilherme Machado, Vasco Ferreira e Philippa Sawyer. A Equipa visitante adiantou-se no marcador logo aos 4 minutos, mas o LC recuperou e virou o resultado para 2-1, numeros que chearam até ao intervalo grande.


O 3ª tempo foi mortifero para o LC, foram 10 minutos de desconcentração que deu oportunidade do CFB marcar 4 golos. O 4º tempo voltou a ser mais equilibrado e voltamos a marcar acabando o jogo em 3-5:

Marcadores:
Pedro Leitão (2)
Lourenço Harris (1)

João Miguel Freitas

Nova Vitória das Ladies por 4-0

Novo jogo, nova vitória das Ladies, desta feita contra o CPAC Feminino, num jogo muito atipico contra uma equipa claramente inferior à nossa, tivemos muitas dificuldades em impor o modelo de jogo pretendido, não pela oposição (quase nula) mas por falhas próprias.

Mesmo assim as Ladies em certos momentos do jogo lá iam conseguindo uma ou outra jogada que se materializou em golo.

A vitória sorriu num resultado que pecou por escasso com muitos CC falhados.

Marcadores:
Angela Lima (2)
Claudia Fidalgo (1)
Edina Borges (1)

João Miguel Freitas

Abertura do campeonato para os S15

The U15 team is very young (3 out of 8 are U13), inexperienced (2 have only just started playing hockey for the first time ever) and they have had very few practices together since the season started so we needed to be a bit realistic in our first game against a very strong CPAC team (the reining National and Regional champions!).
The coach made three main pre-game requests of all the players – to have fun; to give 100% effort and to ignore the score result.
All in all it was a superb performance, both individually and collectively, and way exceeded expectations. After 10 minutes (out of 40) the score was justifiably still 0-0 and CPAC looked rather surprised! The best goal came in the second half with a brilliant finish into the top of the net by Rodolphe (wow, if he can just find the right net next time then we will crush our opponents ???!). I can rarely recall a game where every player gave +100% effort (I can prove this from the shirts which were all completely drenched and “smelly” – don’t worry, already washed and perfumed!), and fought like lions right to the very end.

So we have lots of potential and lots to work on but if we can maintain this trajectory and dedication then we will make great progress by the end of this season!

I would like to especially thank Francisco for offering to do GK duties without any prior practice – it is a very difficult task and he is a talented outfielder who we really need to play out of goal.  I would like to ask everyone to think long and hard if they can help us find someone (11-14 yrs old) who might be interested in trying out being a GK, perhaps a footballer who would like to be in goal but doesn’t have an opportunity?
Lastly, a special thank you to all our supporters and wonderful parents whose off field support is so essential – we really appreciate you (don’t we kids!!!!!!).
Andrew Baird