Impact 1 – Minnesota 0

By: Franck | August 9th, 2009

We did it. We won. We beat the Minnesota Thunder.

We now stand alone in the 6th spot in USL-1, with ten games to play.

The Impact had a boatload of chances, missing most of them, but scoring one when it counted. Roberto Brown’s goal in the 51st minute was the decisive marker in a match where Minnesota showed very little on the D-side of things, and little more on the offensive side.

I tip my hat to the 3 forwards: Roberto Brown, Rudolph Mayard and Rocco Placentino. Brown played especially well, holding on to the ball and feeding it to his wingers, while Mayard and Rocco had numerous chances, the former hitting the crossbar in the first half, the latter firing a few on net while setting up a few more plays. I also liked Ciaran O’Brien’s play, once again.

Next up is Portland on Wednesday, at home, which should be a tough match. Hopefully we’ll once again see this better Impact squad, you know, the one that shows up to play.

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• Thomas |  August 9th, 2009 at 9:10 pm

  
  
  

  This is really unrelated, but about what percentage of the Impact squad is French-Canadian?

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• Franck |  August 9th, 2009 at 10:37 pm

  
  
  

  well…if by French-Canadian, you mean players who are from Quebec whose origin is French-Canadian, then I’d say, if I go by the current roster, 8%, or 2 players, Patrick Leduc and Alex Surprenant.

  Of course, if you count the players who are from Quebec, but whose first language may or may not be French, then I’d say 40%, or 10 players. These include players whose origins are italian, english-canadian, african-canadian…I’m not positive all of them speak fluent french.

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• Thomas |  August 18th, 2009 at 11:44 pm

  
  
  

  Thanks. I’m surprised it’s so low. Is the rest of the team mainly from other parts of Canada? Or is it a international mix of players?

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