Now the series is finally over and our guys have won the Finnish U17 Championship in football! It was actually decided even before our 3 last games by other teams, who lost their chances by tieing their mutual game.
Third but last game, a visit to a town 150 km up north. Our goalies cleared 2 penalty shots, one each. Here's the first one... (I was at the other end of the pitch and couldn't make it close enough in time)
... and here's the second. Result 0-3 win. The home team ended up 4th in the series.
The second but last game against a team who had been a difficult opponent for us. Placed near the bottom of the charts they had managed a tie and a win against us in the first two games. Now, finally and on the home (artificial) turf, our boys won 5-2 taking a 10 point lead before the last game. Our guests ended up 6th in the series because of their excellent results towards the end of the season.
Quite appropriately my son scored the winning 3-1 goal by this header in a corner kick situation.
By this time the team suffered of many injuries, and several of our players were chosen for the final matches of our U19 team, who were fighting for the championship in their own series. We only had one sub for this game.
The final match was against the silver medalists in our neighbouring town. The game had no real meaning because all the medalists had already been decided, but of course we wanted to win. With only 1 un-injured sub on the bench and several of our guys playing the U19 match at the same time, it was a tall order.
Well, we lost 3-2. But it didn't really matter. From the beginning of the year the result was 23 wins, 4 ties and 3 defeats and the championship by a 7-point margin.
This turned out something else than just sports pictures with K-5. You've been victimized by a never ending report about a junior football series from Northern Europe and as far as I've noticed, nobody has complained about it
Thank you all for that
Now it's over and I try to spare you from future reports in this extent. I will promote myself to the U19 series because that's where my son will play next season, and I'll probably shoot some of the Elite series of Finland, too. Some of our guys have already made their debut there as well.
I'll end this by a K-7 shot (18-55 WR kit lens):
The post game victory yell in the locker room. This time it's for the championship.