Tyler dominates the ball

Written by Brennen Randquist – Pictures by Jose Chavez

FC Denver Premier played their fourth game of the season Real Colorado. Denver needed to come out with a win as they had tied their previous two games and needed 3 points badly. FC Denver was ready for the task on a gorgeous Colorado fall day.

FC Denver owned possession during the first 15 minutes, absolutely owned it. They were crisp and knocking the ball all over the pitch. They kept it up throughout the majority of the first half, but got fatigued as the game went on due to the heat, and the absence of a few key players.

Nonetheless, Tom Marks opened the scoring with his solo effort. His class on the finish was unmatched and he scored an excellent goal about 20 minutes into the game. The lead was short lived, as Real negated the goal almost immediately. FC Denver decided to give up a poor goal. The rest of the first half was sloppy and scoreless with FC Denver gaining most of the possession. The half finished without many scoring chances.

The second half started and FC Denver knew they needed to a win. Sure enough, FC Denver came out looking for the winner right away. They continued to knock it around, and looked very fresh compared to Real Colorado in the second half. FC Denver was absolutely killing it but couldn’t score. Finally, Roy Tewell sent blistering shot from inside the 18, but the keeper came up with an enormous save that rebounded and ricocheted to Chuy, who had an excellent shot of the post, that eventually bounced back to Roy who slotted it home. FC Denver took the lead, 2-1.

FC Denver dominated the rest of the half, but almost got beat at the end by a great chance from a Real Colorado striker. Luckily, the shot went off the post right before the final whistle blew. The second, half and whole game, was dominated by FC Denver, who just could not find the back of the net more frequently. However a result is a result that FC Denver will always take it.

Brennen getting dirty

Man of the Match: This week’s honor goes to the men in the middle Brennen Randquist, Tom Migchelbrink, and Dave Kroening.  FC Denver had the upper hand the entire match because of their tireless effort breaking up plays and composure when keeping possession.

Masters Game Recap by: Kurt FitzRoy

To quote the late great UCLA coach John Wooden

“I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.”

And with temperature’s hovering around the 90 degree mark on Championship Sunday, the Masters Club showed off that talent with a 3-1 victory over an overmatched Corrosion Team. An example of this talented team came in the score-line with two of the three goals coming from off the bench. This just reinforces FC Denver’s depth and talent, the score line reads Chris Lujun, Patrick Okeefe and Kurt FitzRoy all with 1 goal. But this was only part of the equation in this title match, the strength of the Masters Club all season and in this game particular was the “I am the bully on the playground who is going to take you lunch money and you can’t do anything in your power to stop me”………….DE-FENCE.

Allowing only one goal in the waning moments of the match just solidify the mind blowing 26-3 goal differential. These numbers smack you square in the face that championships are indeed won with de-fence. And with that stat line and a Championship Title in the club house The Masters Club will take there unabashed talent and bombastic de-fence to The over 30 Division 1 league next season.

John Wooden once said “Make each day your masterpiece.” well The Masters Club on this day created their Mona Lisa…………

Man of the Match: Chris Lujan

Chris Lujan is a proud member of the FC Denver Masters team and worked hard all season to do his part, sometimes in limited minutes, and kept a positive team attitude. In the final, he proved his value on the field with a great individual first goal coming in strong off the bench. The goal set the tone for the match. He continued to work hard all match long and was able to get to the end of a cross late in the 2nd half and almost score what would have been the team goal of the season. Congratulations to Chris on this big team day.