Now that regular league play is over, the Twisters have to play a qualifier match to stay in their current league.

Qualifier Match: V.152 vs. BEEsies (205963584)

This was a home game for the Twisters and there was a crowd of 15,193.

Twisters 3 – BEEsies 0

Possession for the Twisters was 77%

Goals:
V.Killinger – 3′
A.Bourez – 35′
A.Bourez – 66′

Injuries:
L.Cerutti (GK) – 30′  sub was M.Ardley

Cards:
Twisters – 0
BEEsies – 3 (Yellow)

With winning this qualifier game, the Twisters will remain in V.152 for at least 1 more season.

Now it’s time to get to training and show a better force next season.

Yep another loss..  0-5 to be exact.

But some good news, I finished 6th in our league which means I get 1 more chance to play and win to stay up in that division.

No goals, no injuries and no cards is the best news, although I was really hoping to score at least 1 goal.  Twisters will have to play a qualifier match to be able to stay in the current division.

1/13/09 – Press Release:

FC Twisters owner today sacked the coach Pekka Kankkonen after showing lack of a solid training program and a dismal season.  The Twisters hired a young coach named Immanuel Niemann to take over training and coaching and hoping to bring some long term changes to the team.

More to follow..

So with one game remaining the season is coming down to an end.  With the team moving up to a new division this season, I have to say we did OK.  Although we are not out of the woods just yet as we will have to play a qualifier to stay in the same division.

Although after learning some new things I wouldn’t too upset if I dropped back down to VI but let’s just see what happens in the qualifier.

FC Twisters still needs to drop some dead weight and work on their youth squad, but things are still looking pretty good.

FC Twisters played a friendly in Zürich against *Pegasus*

The Twisters lost 0-2.

“The main reason for the loss being the players we fielded,” the manager said.  “Since we are moving toward the end of the season we wanted to get some of our backup squad on the pitch to game some game time and some training.”

Goals:
Twisters – 0

Cards:
61′ – L.Flood – Yellow
82′ – Z.Manor – Red

Youth squad had a friendly match today against the crawlers and pulled out a draw.
Final 2:2

“Some of the Youth are doing much better” the manager was overheard saying.

Goals:
T.Vela  – 13′
A.Bello – 39′

Cards:
T.Vela – Yellow – 40′
T.Vela – Red – 88′

FC Twisters started off pretty well against the Chesapeake Dawgs. It was nearly a sell out at Thunder Stadium. This was the second to last game of the season.

The Twisters just could not hold it together long enough for the draw let alone a win, but only lost by one. Final was 0:1. Last time these two teams matched up the Twisters lost 0:6 so there have been some improvements.

Goals:
Twisters – 0

Injuries:
73′ A.Robinsson (moderate injury) <> (sub) L.Flood
81′ J.Thibodeau (injured but playing)

Attendance:
20,053

The last round before finals take place this week.  I’m not sure how I fair up but I haven’t been chopped out yet.  This weeks game looks like it will be a close one looking at all the scenarios.

I will keep you updated to let you know how well I did.  Also only 2 weeks left in season play and looks like I might have to play a qualifier to stay in the current league.  I will keep it posted.

FC Twisters won their latest tournament round 4-3 over ‘The Dreads’

Goals:
Jed Thibodeau 43′
Alexis Bourez 49′
Alexis Bourez 57′
Alojzije Dumić 61′

Injuries:
None for Twisters

Cards:
None for Twisters

The team is now traveling back to the states to get prepared for league play coming up this Sunday.

Twisters went up against Crohns this time playing at their stadium and the outcome wasn’t as good as the last one. The match ended up with a draw 2-2.

Goals:
James Mann      79′
Alexis Bourez   80′

Injuries:
None

Cards:
None

Manager Statement:
“We are trying to figure out why we pulled out a draw when our last meet up was 5-0 win.  I guess it’s time to head back to the training pitch to sort out a few things.”