FC
Foreigntina were up next as they took on Hotpockets.
Hotpockets
were from the Deportivo Dooradoyle stable who
made their debut at the 2011 Amsterdam Fives.
They reached the Plate Final and experienced
a narrow defeat in the final to Rigford Seahawks
(also 2009 Krakow Trophy & 2012 Berlin Fives
Cup winners and 2009 Prague Trophy Plate winners).
In the 2012 Algarve Open they drew a tough group
and finished 4th to make the Plate again. Their
day ended against French side CFC B at the Quarter-Final
stage on this occasion.
In
2013, Barcelona was their destination of choice
where they had a very successful day – they
entered two teams and won both the Plate and
Trophy competitions. Berlin was the destination
of choice for 2014 and it was almost more success
as they reached the Plate Final again. A tough
fought 0-0 draw lead to a penalty shoot-out
and Scandittack FC of Germany won the shoot-out
2-0. The 2015 Algarve Open saw two injury ravaged
squads finish 5th and 6th in their groups before
a Wooden Spoon win and a Plate Quarter-Finals
defeat.
At
the 2015 Barcelona Fives, they looked to repeat
their Barcelona success of 2013 when they competed
as Depo Legends (Ire) and The Alabama Hotpockets
(Ire). Depo Legends won two and lost two to
finish third in Group D and qualify for the
Plate. They defeated Saladmode FC 2-1 in the
Quarter-Finals before their day was ended (1-0)
by Hardly Athletic. The Alabama Hotpockets were
sensational in the group phase with 3 wins and
1 draw to top Group C with 10 points. In the
Cup, they defeated Freshers FC (2-1) and then
drew with Elcombe Old Boys 1-1. They won 3-2
on penalties against the team who would be champions
12 months later. The Alabama Hotpockets just
ran out of steam against Club Esportiu Llefia
when they went down 5-0 in the Cup Final.
2017
saw a third trip to the Barcelona Fives where
they competed with 2 teams again – Deportivo
Dooradoyle and Deportivo 2.0. The former finished
7 th of 8 teams in Group A. Deportivo 2.0 produced
4 wins as they claimed 4 th position in Group
D. They qualified for the Plate but went out
3-2 to Krakowcaine.
FC
Foreigntina were on debut so their eurofootballfives.com
CV was still to be written. Having come from
2-0 down to draw 2-2 in Round 1 they continued
their form here. The Polish team made it 2-0
through Yaniv Rosenberg and Paul Evans. FC Foreigntina
were on the receiving end this time as Hotpockets
hit back to make it 2-2 (Brian Kelleher, Pa
O'Brien).
FC
Foreigntina regained the upper hand though and
bagged a winner thanks to a Rob Clark strike.
It was 4 points from 6 for FC Foreigntina.
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