Our
fifth ever Trophy Final now awaited us and we
had been treated to some superb Finals before.
The
first ever Trophy Final in eurofootballfives.com
history took place in Berlin 2012 and was a dramatic
affair as Hertha Beerlin versus FC Cobaltslautern
went all the way to penalties.
In
Valencia 2012, Sporting Abeergut held off a late
rally from FC Dad to win it 3-2.
At
the 2013 Barcelona Fives we needed another penalty
shoot-out as Spain's Drunk Perfect and Ireland's
Deportivo Dooradoyle drew 1-1. The Irish team
then won 2-1 on penalties.
Then,
earlier this year at the 2014 Budapest Fives,
Contejus Hurricanes (with a man sent off) holding
on to a close 2-1 win over Cava Sundays.
Could
Fireball and Ziar Crew live up to these expectations
in the 2014 Bratislava Fives Trophy Final? The
one thing we knew was that it would be a Slovakian
team taking the glory.
Ziar
Crew had scored an incredible 15 goals in 2 games
to reach this Trophy Final but they drew a blank
in the first half here as Fireball took the lead
through Miroslav Sloboda. It was Sloboda's ninth
goal of the tournament – a great return.
The
second half was a completely different story as
Ziar Crew rediscovered their goalscoring touch.
Matej Rapcan equalized for 1-1 and then turned
the game on its head by putting Ziar Crew 2-1
up. He then completed his hat-trick to make it
3-1 and secured victory with a fourth goal to
make it 4-1. It was then left to Lubos Hromota
to round off proceedings and complete a sensational
5-1 victory. There could be no doubt that, with
20 goals in 3 games, Ziar Crew were worthy winners
of this competition.
As
well as team success there was individual success
as Matej Rapcan would finish tournament top goalscorer
with a record of 13 goals in 8 games. Congratulations
to him.
Our
commiserations go to Fireball who gave it a real
go and went on to collect Runners Up medals. We
look forward to seeing them return to action in
the future and maybe the medals they pick up will
be of the winning variety.
For
today though, we present you the 2014 Bratislava
Fives Trophy Winners– many congratulations to
Ziar Crew.
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