There Virtus Corno won on penalties‘Ancona Lumignacco the 50th edition of the Memorial Bernardis, Boz and Scussolino by They laugh for Under 20 teams.
The Virtus Corno coach Giuseppe Cortiula he appears satisfied with the success obtained and underlines: “Congratulations to my boys who fought until the end and earned the trophy. We could have closed the match earlier with a couple of clear opportunities not exploited properly, but a bit of bad luck and a bit of demerit then took us to penalties. However, I think we deserved to win the match. Credit to Ancona Lumignacco who has players with good feet and who played a great match.”
The Regional Councilor Mauro Di Bertpresent at the final awards ceremony, was keen to say: “I saw a great game from both teams. Good and healthy competitive spirit on the pitch respecting the opponents. It was a beautiful evening, a nice atmosphere of celebration and sport with a large crowd of fans who had fun encouraging their players and who appreciated the game played on the green rectangle. Virtus Corno won on penalties but this does not take anything away from the good performance of the Ancona Lumignacco players who performed. fought and honored the sport until the end of the match”.
The captain of Virtus Corno, Riccardo Menazzistates: “I am very happy with the victory and with having lifted the Cup with my teammates. They are a good team and stronger than us technically. Where no one gave us hope for the final victory, we then demonstrated our value on the pitch by expressing a good team game, fighting for every ball with passion and commitment and above all believing until the end. This victory repays us for the previous two years where we reached the semi-finals.”
The captain of the Ancona Lumignacco, Nicholas Geattideclared: “We played our game and perhaps we should have done more to close the match earlier. There were some choices that influenced the match and we had some absences due to injury. However, unfortunately it went like this. I feel sorry for myself because I missed the last penalty “all the way” which was decisive. Our match lived up to the situation and I am happy with my teammates who gave everything they had to give penalty kicks. I think we deserved to lift the Cup in the end. However, despite the good performance and the effort put in on the pitch, Lady Luck looked the other way.”
Mimmo da Silva
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