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Our GALACTICS PREMIER team beat the last year's winning team
in the final of the Walt Disney Soccer Classic XV!
Our GALACTICS PREMIER team beat the strong soccer team MIAMI SELECCION and the team FUTURE STARS PREMIER from Georgia at the Walt Disney World Soccer Classic XV tournament in the semi-final and final in Orlando. The team MIAMI SELECCION had professional players playing from Ecuador, Colombia and Honduras. The FUTURE STARS PREMIER from Georgia had players from the USL semi-professional soccer leagues.
Last years final was between these two teams FUTURE STARS and MIAMI SELECCION, where the FUTURE STARS PREMIER emerged victorious through a penalty shoot-out after playing extra time. This year was almost a replay of last year's tournament, but GALACTICS PREMIER changed the course. Our unbeaten team and champion in the FSSL 1st Division beat both teams in the semi-final and final with the following scores:
Galactics Premier Team Scores:
Thursday, January 24 -5pm - Galactics Premier vs. Olimpia: 11:0
Friday, January 25 - 1pm - Galactics Premier vs. Orlando Atlas Lions: 5:0
Saturday, January 26 - 3pm - Galactics Premier vs. Sao Paulo: 4:0
SEMI-FINAL Sunday, January 27 - 9:00am - Galactics Premier vs. Miami Seleccion: 1:0
FINAL Sunday, January 27 - 1:00p.m. - Galactics Premier vs. Future Stars Premier: 3:1
The City of Clearwater is known for their successful soccer clubs at the youth levels such as Clearwater Chargers and Countryside Lightening, and now another soccer club from Clearwater, the newly established soccer club GALACTICS Clearwater International F.C., is taking a leading position in the adult category through their successful teams GALACTICS PREMIER and their unbeaten team in the FSSL season 2007/2008, the GALACTICS Over40 - such Clearwater is becoming one of the most successful (soccer-) cities in Florida.
Both our leading club teams were definitly ready for this year's 4-day-tournament, taking on the challenge of the Walt Disney Soccer Classic and the tough competition they faced on the field.
The scorers for our GALACTICS PREMIER team troughout the tournament were Carlos Castañeda (8 goals), Jefferson Ramirez (4 goals), Ricky Garcia (3 goals), Joel Fugon (3 goals), Mauricio Muñoz (3 goals), Martin Klinger (1 goal) and Edwin Diaz (1 goal). GALACTICS PREMIER played a total of 5 games, ending in 5 victories and a total of 23:1 goals.
We just uploaded the pictures our photographer Edilberto Suarez took at the 4-day-tournament. Please click here to see all the exciting pictures of our games and celebration (Galactics Premier and Galactics Over40).
Congratulation from all our staff and members.
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