A little respite before the storm I suppose. But, not really.
The U10 lads have their final regular season game before play-offs - if they win tomorrow morning
they'll be seeded 6th going into the post season.
Sunday morning at 9 is the final training session with the Thanksgiving Tournament Team, and then
at 12:00 noon is the start of the Dinamo Recruitment Session at Griffith Park - and the launch of
the Women's Team.
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Harvey Edgington and I used to play football in Carlisle on the ground behind the old technical
college, we worked with the British Deaf Association to highlight issues relating to profound and
partial deafness, and we lived in the same building full of bedsits on Currock Road just off
Beaconsfield Street.
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Friday night and we're on our second LAPL game in 5 days, back at Crossroads we're 2-0 down to
Penmar at half-time. We're really not concentrating, or working anything like as hard as we need
to, and though we're a couple of first-choicers light (Nick, Jeff, Mike, David, Theo all out)
credit to Penmar - they capitalize.
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So there was the Hollywood United game and all the anticipation that went with it, and we did
brilliantly to draw 1-1, with Anthony LaPaglia having the game of his life in goal for Hollywood -
and them unleashing the hounds of their 'A' team against us in the second half when they were 1-0
down.
It was quite a high really, as we enjoyed a couple in The Daily Pint afterwards.
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From Super Metro Final Summer 2009
From Super Metro Final Summer 2009
In just 5 years, The Dinamo Football Club has gone from a scrimmage at this very field to the final
of the Super Metro Division - the highest expression of the beautiful game in the Los Angeles
Municipal Sport Program.
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The U10 lads are in a bit of a slump as it turns out. Last weeks loss and yesterday a 5-3 loss. Now
the lads are 4w's and 3l's with no D's. It was one of those games that didn't auger well - the
other team only had 6 so I agreed (not my best decision in hindsight) to match them 6 on 6.
Of course, it was disruptive because we've been playing well with a 2-1-2-1 outfield - so I have to
take part of it on the chin.
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Do you change teams when the results go bad ? Poor old baldy, the tribulations of supporting
Newcastle United. Nick was the talismanic epicenter of the LA Vale team that was unbelievably
successful in 2007 - arguably the most successful football team in Los Angeles ever.
2009 and Nick is the talismanic epicenter of the FK Dinamo team, top scorer, captain, pre-match
motivator and all round great bloke, basque anarchist, intellectual, debater, supporter, friend.
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The end of season funk that I normally fall into has in the last three seasons been ameliorated by
the continuation of the LAPL and this season by the U10 Boys Dinamo team that is playing in Santa
Monica AYSO.
The funk has been cast completely aside by FK Dinamo's incredible run since mid season in The Los
Angeles Premier League where we've lost one game in the last 7 and won the other 6 - we haven't
drawn all season.
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The end of season funk that I normally fall into has in the last three seasons been ameliorated by
the continuation of the LAPL and this season by the U10 Boys Dinamo team that is playing in Santa
Monica AYSO.
The funk has been cast completely aside by FK Dinamo's incredible run since mid season in The Los
Angeles Premier League where we've lost one game in the last 7 and won the other 6 - we haven't
drawn all season.
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It's a standing joke in the-not-from-LA LA footie community that a bit of rain cancels
everything.
The U10 lads dominated my weekend, we lost ignominiously 6-2 on Saturday and then exited the 5 v 5
tourney in the first round. I've heard all the excuses, but we were short two lads in the first
half on Saturday, and robbed of 4 minutes playing time in the first of two games on Sunday.
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It's a standing joke in the-not-from-LA LA footie community that a bit of rain cancels
everything.
The U10 lads dominated my weekend, we lost ignominiously 6-2 on Saturday and then exited the 5 v 5
tourney in the first round. I've heard all the excuses, but we were short two lads in the first
half on Saturday, and robbed of 4 minutes playing time in the first of two games on Sunday.
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Probably been over doing it a bit, lately, and now I'm paying the price. The regular Sunday game is
perfect of course, and then Tuesday with Loko. Then there's usually practice on a Friday - so far
so good.
A good mate of mine runs a Thursday night open session - 6 v 6 best of three sets of three of first
to 5, with maybe a final to 7 for the Universe.
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Probably been over doing it a bit, lately, and now I'm paying the price. The regular Sunday game is
perfect of course, and then Tuesday with Loko. Then there's usually practice on a Friday - so far
so good.
A good mate of mine runs a Thursday night open session - 6 v 6 best of three sets of three of first
to 5, with maybe a final to 7 for the Universe.
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