{"id":3756,"date":"2013-02-19T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/?p=3756"},"modified":"2013-02-19T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T19:03:24","slug":"rsl-elite-u16-u18-recap-from-presidents-day-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grandesportsacademy.com\/rsl-elite-u16-u18-recap-from-presidents-day-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"RSL Elite U16 & U18 Recap From Presidents’ Day Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The U16 and U18 RSL Elite teams had impressive showings at the Presidents’ Day Cup hosted by SC del Sol over this past weekend. Even though both teams failed to win the championship for\"Grande<\/a> their age group the players and teams looked impressive throughout the tournament. Below are recaps for each team<\/p>\n

RSL U18 Elite<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Check out the U18 picture gallery from the tournament <\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Going into the tournament RSL knew their opening game was going to be tough. SC del Sol, one of the strongest teams in the tournament, defeated them 3-1, with two goals coming from set pieces. Based of the way the tournament is set up the loss to SC del Sol eliminated RSL from advancing to the next round. The team responded to this by winning their next three games and were so dominant in their final game against Colorado United the opposing teams Head Coach asked the referee to end the game ’18 minutes early.<\/p>\n

Quotes from the tournament:<\/p>\n

Martin Vasquez<\/strong> – What do you take away from the tournament?<\/em> “We were disappointed when we went to Surf Cup because we did not take the opportunity to do well in a very prestigious tournament. This tournament is very prestigious coming in and one of the goals was we need to show better because there are a lot of college coaches here along with good teams. Obviously we wanted to go to the final and the first game was against the best team in the tournament. A tie would have been great because that gives us an opportunity to advance but we lost and it essentially eliminated us. The approach we took after this game was make the best of it in the next three games. Three wins when they obviously were the best team, no doubt. Individually some of them had a great tournament and our forwards scored a lot of goals it was a big plus. We take away a big plus from this tournament and knowing the next tournament is even tougher Dallas Cup we know that we’re heading in the right progression that we are taking.<\/p>\n

Eric Gonzalez<\/strong> – You’re thoughts on the tournament.<\/em> “It was a little disappointing in the end for us but the tournament itself wasn’t too bad. We played a couple of decent teams and in the first game we were unlucky that we couldn’t get a better result. It cost us the tournament but the team put a good effort and were happy with that.”
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