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Arsenal's Paasman, Forero Win 2006 USASA National Veteran's Cup With Connecticut Stars
Posted by Lou Costantini on
Jul 30 2006
at
05:00PM PDT
2006 USASA National Veteran's Cup
Over-45 Champions
Connecticut Stars SC
at Wilmington, North Carolina
on July 18 - July 23, 2006
Hello All,
As most of you probably know, Gigi Garofano (of Club Napoli 'A' in the SASL Masters League) organised three teams made up of mostly SASL players to play in this year's USASA Veteran's Cup tournament in Wilmington, North Carolina, July 18th through July 23th. The teams were entered into the Over-45, Over-50 and Over-55 brackets.
Tournament general information is here:
http://www.usasa.com/2006logo/cups.aspx
and details are here:
http://www.ncsoccer.org/ncasa/Veterans%20Cup.htm
Unfortunately, Gigi didn't have an overabundance of players, some dropped out just before the tournament, and some of the players had to play in two or even three of the brackets! Considering the heat and humidity, it must have been exhausting to play two or three games each day and no doubt this was the cause of some disappointing results.
As I understand it, there were close to 300 teams entered into the tournament this year, including mens and womens age group brackets from Over-30 all the way to Over-60 in 5-year increments. It has become a highly prestigious tournament, inaugurated in 1998.
Without further ado, here is how Gigi's three teams fared:
Mens Over-45 Bracket (a total of six teams entered):
Group play:
Connecticut Stars 5, Olimpia (Georgia) 0
Connecticut Stars 0, Radnor United 0-45 (Eastern Pennsylvania) 0
Connecticut Stars 2, Greensboro United 0-45 (North Carolina) 0
The Stars qualified in 1st place to play in the semi-finals:
No details given, but they must have won!
Final:
Connecticut Stars 2, Showmars (North Carolina) 0
Undefeated and unscored against, they finished as Champions for the second year running -- and defeated the same team as last year!
CONGRATULATIONS, CHAMPIONS!
Cheers,
- Garry Archer (SASL Executive Board)![image](https://photos-images.active.com/file/1/304/3048774/original/a8cc1471-26ec-4ece-a9a1-29f151c8191a.jpeg)
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