RSL Nerd: RSL vs. Kansas City/Fiji National Team

Sorry for the late post about this Wednesday Open Cup/Friendly game. I went mostly for Fiji, to see them get slaughtered by the reserves of this MLS team. But this Open Cup game was pretty good itself. Cunningham made a really stupid mistake in the fourth minute to earn himself a yellow card. He kicked it out of Hartman's hands. He KICKED it out of Hartman's HANDS. Sorry Jeff, but I don't know what you were thinking. Anyhoo [:-)], later in the thirteenth minute, Adu received a ball, headed it to himself, and went into the penalty area, where he was tackled hard by the hands of Kevin Hartman. Penalty Kick. Should have been a red card to Hartman, but amazingly enough, he was not booked. Oh well. Cunningham scored it. The game remained like this until the point that we thought that that would be how the game would end. But Seitz made a mistake (for the third time this game, the other two should have been goals, but good defending stopped 'em) and this time it actually cost him.

Sacha Victorine (unasissted) 88'

We're goin' to extra time. The first period passed uneventfully. However, four minutes into the second period, Jeff Cunningham played a great little ball into Andy Williams, who scored the game winner. RSL held off the Wizards for another eleven minutes, earning their first Open Cup win against an MLS team. But that wasn't it for that great night. RSL Reserves were to take on the Fijian National Team. Oh, I was sure hoping that RSL would have no mercy and they would make this game 15-0. Needless to say, it didn't happen. Oh well, 3-0 ain't bad. Brown scored two and Tejada put in one. It should've been 3-1 when a Fijian player beat Kyle Reynish but the wind blew the ball just wide of the wide open net. That was the best part of the game itself. But the game itself was not the highlight of the game. It was the weather and the fans. I had a Fijian man sitting a few rows behind me shouting, "Front Page News! Fiji plays in the snow!" And man, it sure did hail. We could barely see the field during those two or three minute outbursts two or three times. It coated the field! It was so hard to see the ball that the brought in a neon orange ball. That was pretty cool. Needless to say, though, by the end of the game, I was one of less than probably two hundred fans who braved that awful weather. The fact that only four Rogue Cavaliers remained should tell you something. Anyhoo, that's the game, Week 3 summary is coming soon. Below are some pictures from the game that I took.