... Soccer Season Closing ...

Goooooaaaaal. That was literally the way season 1 of soccer ended for the Black Stars. Elvis just felt the need to show off, the Kenyan Killer they call him, by taking up an ESPN top ten moment spot by scoring the last goal of the season with 4 seconds left to go in the game.

The season was really great and was surprisingly oversubscribed. The number of people who wanted to play was waaaaay more than the number of allocated teams spots and it was really nice to see that kind of enthusiasm. Jessica did a great job organizing the whole tournament, getting us to practice and the likes … some of us of course felt the need to take the Iverson path … “we’re talking about practice. PRACTICE”. Dez . We were definitely not your standard polished pro English Premier Soccer League team when the season started but we definitely improved as the season progressed. There were tough times when other teams had us in a tough spot (talk about Robo Girl … but that is another story)


The girls really came through for the team and we lost a couple of soldiers in the good fight – Erica went down in game one of the season and Marcela in the last game of the season. They managed to somehow hold it all together for a good 40+ minutes with no rest – hats off to all the girls, Lisa and Jennifer#2 on defense, Jana, Jennifer#1, Jessica and Renee on the goals, Marcela on handling the whole floor, Jo and Adrienne with the lovely pom poms. Not to forget the dudes – Seitu aka “like glue”, the Nigerian Nightmare trio Dez, Ola and Tari, the Kenyan Killer Elvis, Diego aka D Maradona. Big shout out goes to out goalie Chris who scored all the way from our goal – not to forget all the spectacular dive saves … that’s a true hero man.

All in all, it was a great run. Kudos to all the players, the cheerleaders, the cheerleaders at heart as well good old David Silva over at MVP Arena not to forget our worthy opponents all through the season who made it the exhilarating experience that it was. I guess in the wise words of NSBE we could call this “an experience that positively impacted the community – the NSBE community as well as all the others who had a jolly old time participating in the games”. Marching on to season two …


Nov 10, 10:25PM - Black Stars 1 vs Relentless 8
Nov 17, 10:25PM - SVSE 10 vs Black Stars 4
Dec 1, 8:45PM - Black Stars 2 vs Smack! LE 9
Dec 8, 7:55PM - Black Stars 8 vs AC Milan 2
Dec 15, 8:45PM - Black Stars XX vs Benchwarmers XX
Dec 22, 8:45PM - Black Stars XX vs Relentless XX
Jan 12, 7:55PM - Sports Basement SV XX vs Black Stars XX
Jan 19, 6:15PM - Black Stars XX vs Smack! LE XX
Jan 26, 7:05PM - Black Stars XX vs AC Milan XX
Feb 2, 7:05PM - Black Stars XX vs Benchwarmers XX

Season Record XX-XX