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Winning it semifinal and quarterfinal games in penalty kick shootouts after scoring one goal in each game, the floodgates opened for Brooklyn United in the Boys Under-15 final and the team defeated Clarkstown, 8-2, in the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association State Cup.
Brooklyn United defeated Clarkstown, 8-2, in the Boys U-15 final. (Photo courtesy of ENYYSA)
Winning it semifinal and quarterfinal games in penalty kick shootouts after scoring one goal in each game, the floodgates opened for Brooklyn United in the Boys Under-15 final and the team defeated Clarkstown, 8-2, in the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association State Cup.
This match for the Ray Wolfe Cup was played at the Blue Sky Sports Complex in Middletown, N.Y. on Saturday, May 30.
“The boys walked into our third final this spring and were very nervous after losing the previous two,” Brooklyn United coach Andrew Giraldo said. “Really happy to win the State Cup Championship and win one trophy this spring. The boys have been working very hard.”
Neil Duff scored two goals while Thomas Bogdahm, Julian Cavallaro, Liev Cohen, Beckett Lemire, Henry Todd and Louka Valdes-Habib apiece.
Clarkstown received the Rocco Amoroso Sportsmanship Award as determined by the game officials. Amoroso, a US Soccer Life Member, started the Long Island Junior Soccer League Sportsmanship Program in 1980 and it spread to Eastern New York, nationally and then to China and Ireland, and in the process.
Brooklyn United will represent Eastern New York at the nationals in Salt Lake City from July 16-23.
Wolfe played in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League, coached in the Cosmopolitan Junior Soccer League and was State Youth Referee Administrator of ENYYSA for nearly a decade before passing away seven years ago.