Category Archives: U15

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

Black ‘Saturday’ para os Homens e S15

This Saturday two games were played, both resulted in heavy defeats.

S15 lost by 19-0 against a strong team of Clube Futebol Benfica.

The men moved to st. Maria da Feira to face the C.F.U.Lamas and they left  with a defeat by 11-1. The experience spoke louder and it was not possible to do more, this was, so far the worst game that the LC played, not for the result but for the lack of concentration and low level of hockey that until then had been quite good.

But as not everything is bad, the lonely goal of the LC was scored by John Harrison, becoming the youngest player to Score in a men Championship (14 years)

João Miguel Freitas

LC Ladies x LC S15 – 1º jogo da época

Primeiro jogo da época, uma equipa de sub15 ainda em construção contra as actuais Campeãs Nacionais. Os sub15 entraram algo nervosos, mas muito destemidos, sendo que a primeira ocasião de golo foi da parte dos nossos pequenos.

O jogo tomou então o rumo que seria de esperar, muita troca de bola por parte das Ladies e os sub15 a tentarem defender o melhor que conseguiam, de destacar o guarda redes Manuel, que evitou muito golos por parte das Ladies. As Ladies chegaram ao intervalo em vantagem. O melhor estaria guardado para a segunda parte, com um espírito de entre ajuda fantástico os sub15 chegaram ao golo por intermédio do nosso pequeno, João Burnay. Os nossos pequenos ganharam outro ânimo e contra a corrente do jogo, voltariam a marcar com um desvio ao segundo poste por parte do Francisco Burnay.

As Ladies que praticamente controlaram todo o jogo, não gostaram do atrevimento dos mais pequenos e mostraram porque são as Campeãs, colocaram o pé no acelerador e com muitas trocas de bola e jogadas bem delineadas chegaram ao golo que lhes daria a vitória.

Tendo em conta que foi o primeiro jogo da época de campo, não foi mau, mas ainda há muito para corrigir e para trabalhar, sub15 ainda temos de trabalhar muito.

Cláudia Fidalgo

U15s take third place in the Outdoor Finals

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After a tough start to the Outdoor Finals by unexpectedly losing 2-1 (John Harrison) on the Saturday to Casa Pia AC, followed by losing the toughest game of the tournament to Lousada 3-1 (John Harrison) after leading 1-0 at half-time, the team was out to prove its worth against GD Viso on Sunday morning. Although the game made no difference to the play-off places, a change of formation to 3-3-2 saw Ioio Santos open the scoring with a perfect second post goal. However, Viso soon struck back with their captain using long aerial balls, a tactic our team had not encountered before at this level. Drawn 1-1 at the interval and only 25 minutes to play, another formation change to 2-4-2, putting John and Ioio in front of an almost impenetrable midfield wall with Vicente and Kim in the middle,  paid off. John took the opportunity for a clean hit inside the area, followed soon after by Vicente making one his legendary runs into the area from midfield, to make it 3-1. Viso pulled one back but a short corner saw John put another one in the net, followed by Antonio tipping one in to make it 5-2. The 3rd place play-off was a bit of a foregone conclusion with the kids now getting into their stride and the new formation. John took an early opportunity for a hit on goal to open the scoring. Although Viso pulled one back, it was one-way traffic after that. Vicente scored two, Aires and Fred one a piece and Ioio closed the show with a perfectly executed second post tip-in over the goalie’s head from a short corner (as practised!) to win 6-1. Many thanks to Vitor and João Miguel for pitching in with warm-ups, coaching and tactics in Joe´s absence.U15 2016 Finals

James