MAIN MATCH

SATURDAY 26 APRIL 2014, KELBURN PARK

UNIVERSITY 1. Matt Walker (gk)

2. Mike Graham

3. Simon Davies

4. Sam McLaughlin

5. Andrew Staples

6. Nacho Donovan

7. Matt Rowe

8. Miles Lloyd

9. Steve Davey

10. Seb Ninness

11. Matt Wilson

12. Loic Lassueur

13. Marcus Ebert

Coach: Iain MacIntrye

WATERSIDE KARORI GK Kieran Spargo (gk)

Dave Herman (rgk)

2. Cruze McFarlane

3. Christian Grey

4. Dan Ford

5. Logan Simpson

6. Robbie Hunter

7. Perry Stewart

8. Levi McFarlane

9. Hayden Polyansky

10. Conor Ramsay

11. Issac Harper

12. Sam Wake

13. Dylan Wood

14. William Stuart

15. Ethan Cain

16.

17. Max Duncan

18. Caleb McFarlane

19. Matthew Lewer

Coach: Ian Porteous

CURTAIN RAISER—12.30pm

VICTORIA GOSSIES v WATERSIDE KARORI

Victoria University A.F.C

Victoria University v Waterside

Karori

Wellington Capital Premier

Kelburn Park, 2.30pm Saturday 26 April 2014

Match Programme

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VUWAFC Club Shop

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The Professor

For new readers, the Professor is a weekly look at university football around the world, highlight-

ing university club sides, famous victories and epic clashes. This week we go to the current World

Cup holders to visit the city that was founded in 825 AD by Moors and was once the capital of Al-

fonso X of Castile. With the history lesson out of the way, lets learn about

Universidad Catolica de Murcia www.ucamcf.es

The Universidad Catolica de Murcia is a recent

creation, founded in 1996 as a private Catholic

University. It currently boasts 15,000 students,

10% of which are foreign. A big focus is sports,

with the University ranked 1st in Spanish uni-

versity sports competitions.

UCAM not only promotes the practice of sports

but also sponsors and co-owns sports clubs in

the Region of Murcia, increasing its scope with

the main sponsorship of a basketball profes-

sional team, which plays in the top league,

competing with the basketball arms of FC Bar-

celona and Real Madrid.

In 2009 , a local businessman bought a nearby

club, relocated it to Murcia and with sponsor-

ship and shared ownership with the university,

renamed the club UCAM Murcia. By 2011 the

club was fully integrated into the University

Sports programme, as a sponsor and co-owner.

In 2012, the club was promoted to the Spanish

2B division, the fourth level of Spanish football,

where it finished 17th, and was relegated.

This season has been much better. Last week-

end, UCAM beat Olimpico de Totana 4-0 to seal

their division title with three games to spare.

Later this year they’ll compete in playoffs for a

chance to get back into the higher flight.

The club plays at 'The Mayayo' located in San-

gonera Green, a stadium with a capacity for

2,500 spectators.

Current players include Javi Henares, who was

formerly on the books of Hamilton Academicals

in Scotland and played in Switzerland and Pico,

who was formerly with second division Real

Murcia.

In 2013, the 10th annual European University

Football Championships were held in Spain, at

the University of Almeria. In pool play, UCAM

beat the 2012 European champions Bielefeld

University (who we profiled last year) 3-0. Af-

ter cruising past Belgian and Spanish teams in

the playoffs, UCAM faced the hosts in the final.

The final match was very intense and equalled

ending with 0-0, after disputing the extra time

UCAM Murcia got the win 4-2 on penalties.

Club XI - 18-23 April 2014

Note—Only eight players this week due to the small number of games played over the last weekend. Next week we hope to be back with the full complement.

Keeper: Tax Davidson - Pulled off some top saves for the Beaveres, including an incredible save, go-ing head to head with a 100kg+ Tawa striker—Tax cleared the ball, however tragically copped the full weight…

Defence: Greg McKay - Game number 300 for the Rods, the first player to do so, Greg put in an-other great performance, up front and then at left back. The Rods might have lost, but Greg didn’t stop running the entire game.

Simon Davies—Notable performance for the Mens 1sts against Miramar Rangers.

Midfield Seb Ninness - as noted in the match report about, Seb strove hard to express himself on the ball throughout the second half.

Rebekah Lee—(playing two games) really dug in hard in the last 30 min of that second game and didn't let getting pushed around stop her!

Lance Molyneaux —instrumental in the Cy-cles win with 3 assists and a goal (and because he allowed the captain to finally score by letting him take the penalty!!).

Strikers Lauren Hakkaart - scored a perfect hat-trick, plus one, four goals in total for the Women’s Firsts in their great 5-1 win over North Welling-ton in the ASB Knockout Cup.

Miia Korpela - a great work-rate up front for the Women’s Unified team, which was rewarded with a goal!

If you have a player for the Club XI, email victo-riauniversirtyfootball@gmail.com to see that player’s names go in the mix for that week’s team

Honour Roll

Division Team Opponent This Week Result

Last Wk Psn

Saturday 26 April

Cap Prem Men’s 1sts v Waterside Karori (h) Lost 0-2 3rd

Cap 1 Uni Gossies v Waterside Karori (h) Lost 2-3 6th

Cap 5 Uni Stallions v Naenae (a) - 4th

Cap 5 Uni Accies v Waterside Karori (h) 2nd

Cap 6 Uni Raiders v Marist Inter (a) 7th

Cap 7 Uni Scarfies v Wellington Olympic (h) Lost 0-3 3rd

Cap 9 Uni Unicorns v Waterside Karori (a) 3rd

Cap 10 Uni Amigos v Wellington United (a) Lost 1-2 8th

Cap 10 Uni Cycles v Miramar Rangers (a) Won 7-2 2nd

Cap 14 Uni Goldenrods v Western Suburbs (a) Lost 2-6 8th

Masters 4 Uni Bombers v Brooklyn Northern (a) Lost 1-2 7th

Sunday 27 April

Womens Prem Uni Women’s 1sts v Stop Out (h) Won 5-1 3rd

Womens 1 Uni Womens 2nds v Naenae (a) Won 1-0 2nd

Womens 3 Uni Womens Uni-Fied v Island Bay United (a) Won 3-4 2nd

Womens 3 Uni Womens Uni-4ths v Brooklyn Northern (a) Won 4-0 5th

Monday 28 April

Cap 2 Men’s 3rds v Stop Out (h) Lost 2-3 9th

Cap 12 Uni Wanderers v Wainuiomata (a) 4th

Tuesday 29 April

Cap 11 Uni Brow v Stop Out (a) 3rd

Wednesday 30 April

Cap 7 Uni Beavers v North Wellington (a) Lost 1-3 4th

Cap 12 Uni Corinthians v Brooklyn Northern Utd (h) 5th

Cancellations have already hit home, with only a handful of games played last weekend. Some

teams have only played once this season, after three weeks, so hopefully we’ll get a full range of

games in for the weekend. Already some fine performances though, including the women’s

first team winning its first appearance in the ASB Women’s Knockout Cup in about 10 years...

Men’s Firsts Match Report

Venue: Wellington College (2.30pm kick-off, April 18, 2014)

Following a promising University opening, right midfielder Dave Hudson struck the Miramar crossbar with a cross-shot after being played in by right back Andrew Staples.

However, Miramar gradually gained some as-cendancy, returning fire on the University crossbar from distance, shooting narrowly past an upright, finding keeper Matt Walker in good form with a low save to a first-time strike and causing problems from corners.

University then suffered a blow to its resources with all three substitutes having to be made in a 16-minute spell. On 28 minutes central mid-fielder Nacho Donovan signalled he was strug-gling with a back issue and instantaneously Hudson pulled a hamstring -- his replacement Franky Mwanza then suffered an ankle injury when creating a shooting opportunity with a minute left in the half.

Nonetheless, the visiting side rallied in the final quarter-hour of the period with a dipping strike from the edge of the penalty box by central midfielder Steve Davey having to be pushed out of play by the Miramar keeper. The resultant right-wing corner from striker Matt Wilson was palmed away under pressure at the near post and central defender Si Davies reacted prompt-ly to redeliver the ball into the six-yard box but the keeper eventually smothered in a mini-scramble.

As the half drew to a close a Miramar free-kick taken deep on the left wing bounced just past University’s far post.

Having weathered Miramar pressure early in the second period, University swept to the oth-er end of the field as right back Matt Ryan broke up an attack and played in Seb Ninness and the midfielder cut in from the right wing before shooting just past an upright.

Miramar had a strong penalty claim turned down on the hour-mark and then keeper Walk-er had to scramble across his line to save well to his left.

With the game having taken on an end-to-end battle despite the beaming sun and still condi-tions, Miramar ultimately broke the deadlock on 67 minutes. A free-kick earned to the left of goal outside the box was superbly curled out-side of the boot into the top-right corner of the goal.

A Miramar player arriving on a clearance out of the University area shot just over the bar before central defender played a well-judged ball over the home side’s defensive line to release Wil-son, but the striker inadvertently handled while accelerating away in space.

Right back Andrew Staples delivered a tantalis-ing cross from the wing which University could not capitalise on and then Wilson almost got in on the Miramar goal, before the home side sealed the points with ten minutes remaining. Having halted a University break on the left wing, the ball was promptly played into a Miramar attacker who created space to shoot home firmly into the top-left corner from just inside the area.

Gathering a left-wing Ninness corner deep in the box, Davey floated the ball agonisingly past the left-hand upright and the central midfielder then shot wide after being set up by interplay between Ryan and right midfielder Matt Rowe.

Coach’s comments: Our opponents were ar-guably deserved winners of this contest. They weathered what we could throw at them and then got home with two excellent finishes. Miramar has a lot of experience mixed with youthful skill and pace in its ranks and will un-doubtedly again be a force in the league this year.

Miramar Rangers 2

Victoria University 0

That said, we battled manfully, created our fair share of chances and could easily have taken the lead ourselves at various stages and then potentially forged a different result.

Nonetheless, we have not been maintaining possession as well as we would like in attack and there are some aspects of our defensive play as a team that have been letting us down.

A slight tweak in our training regime is being implemented and we are looking forward to taking on the next challenge of Waterside Ka-rori at home this coming Saturday (the Gossies will be providing the curtain-raiser).

Young Seb was our man-of-the-match for deal-ing with some criticisms levelled in the first pe-riod and then striving hard to express himself on the ball in the second half.

University: M Walker, M Ryan, S Davies [c], B Inkster, A Staples, N Donovan (W Milligan), M Rowe, S Ninness, S Davey, D Hudson (F Mwanza [P Grierson]), M Wilson

Point scorers: 3 S Ninness, 2 S Davies, 1 S Davey

Coach: I MacIntyre

History and Honours

Founded: 1943

Honours:

Central League Division Two: Winners 1998, Third

1992

Capital Premier* (Venus Shield): Runners Up 1956,

1973, Third 1979

Capital One (Power Cup): Winners 1950, 1952,

1965, 2001, Runners Up 1988, 1992, 2012, Third

1999, 2006

Capital Two: Winners 1998, Runners Up 2010,

2011, 2012

Hilton Petone Cup Winners: 1990, 1992

Women’s Premier Division: Runners Up 1995,

1996, 2012, Third 2005, 2013

Women’s Second Division: Winners 1981 Women’s

Premier Cup: Winners 2010, 2011

Club Management

Club Captain: Steve Davey

Secretary: Matt Wilson

Treasurer: Glenn Phillips

Women’s Coordinator: Megan Whintringham

Committee Members: Craig Harris, Lauren

Hakkaart, Matt Lamb,

Associate Members: Matt Ryan, Ben Inkster.

Mens First Team Coach: Iain MacIntyre

Womens First Team Coach: Oliver Davie

Contact

Home Ground: Kelburn Park, Wellington

Website: www.vuwafc.org.nz

Email: victoriauniversityfootball@gmail.com

Club Information