"Creating History" A AFC Eskilstuna Story

[mellosa96]

AFC ESKILSTUNA
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So i finally bought FM17 and wanted to do a story save and what better save to start off with than the team that i cheer and work for (I'm the kit manager for the U17's)


So what is it to know about this team?
Well it's owned by a man who goes by the name of Alex Ryssholm who is the creator of the team back in 2007 and after some moving around and taking over other clubs to gain there league position they started a cooperation with Eskilstuna City and changed name from AFC United to AFC Eskilstuna and the goal for the club is first to become a Swedish top team and then a European top team who plays with homegrown players.

It's going to be hard to play with only homegrown players but a few notable players coming from Eskilstuna is Sebastian Larsson (Sunderland) Kenneth Andersson (Former European Professional) Andreas Alm (Manager in Denmark) Nordin Gerzic (Örebro SK) and one player who are currently playing for AFC Eskilstuna (Haris Cirak) Other noteworthy names are Alireza Haghighi (GK who have been capped by Irans NT) Jernade Meade (former Arsenal and Swansea player)
but the biggest of them all is the man the myth the legend...

Emmanuel "Dench" Frimpong

After his Arsenal time has fallen a bit from grace playing for the likes of Ufa and Arsenal Tula in Russia.
Hopefully he can turn out for AFC and keep us up this season as we are tipped to finish dead last in the league.


Squad overview will come later today.



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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Squad Review
So here is the "long" "awaited" Squad review with being newly promoted and newly created we don't have a lot of money or players so currently we are overspending our wage budget by 8 thousands Euros which is alot. Another thing we have alot of is young players and hopefully we can loan some older players to get the experience we need to survive Allsvenskan.

Goalkeepers

Our first choice GK is Tim Erlandsson who is 20 years old and is currently on loan from Nottingham Forest on a one year deal.
(If the picture/pictures looks bad please let me know and i will use a random player instead of their real picture.)
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Our second choice striker is the one year younger and homegrown player Cem Apek
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We currently only have two goalkeepers in the club and that will have to change in the near future.

Defenders

There isn't much to say about our defense other than that it us full to the brim with talented young players and to lead these youngsters we have Daniel Björnquist at Right Back who has Allsvenskan experience and is at the top of his game at the ripe old age of 28!
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The second choice for the Right Back position has got to be Gustav Jarl who is 21 years old and currently on his second spell with this young club being here on a loan in the 2014 season.
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And to lock up the middle we have Ludvig Öhman who is a 25 year old with experience in Allsvenskan with Kalmar and has played in Japan before joining us.
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Most likely to link up with Öhman is Bun-Dawda Sowe who is a 20 year old CB.
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but he is in tight competition for the second spot by Robert Åstedt, The Swedish 21 year old is seen as our third pick but you never know.
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At the LB position there is a slight hole that we are trying to fill because we only have one left back in the first team but its no other than Jernade Meade! who has been trained in Arsenal and Swansea before trying his luck here in Sweden.
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Midfielders

The midfielders we field is a force to be reckoned with... or at least noticed but one star we have is Anel Raskaj despite pledging his nationality as a Kosovan he has only been applying his trade in Sweden and Norway making around 110 games in Allsvenskan and 130 in the Norwegian Premier League.
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Another CM we have is Mauricio Albornoz who is the older brother of Chilean international Miiko Albornoz
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Then we have the Dench, The myth The legend, Emmanuel Frimpong, Making appearances for Arsenal in the Premier League and playing in the Russian league and hopefully he can impress in Allsvenskan.
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A guy who is going to try and fight for a spot in the team is Alexander Michel who is a 24 year old who has played in Syrianska in all of his career.
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We have a Austrian CDM who has experience from Colorado Rapids in the MLS playing 14 games and also playing 20 games for Iverness in Scotland, It's Thomas Piermayr!
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Ferid Ali is our only through and through CAM but i'm not sure if we are going to need another CAM right now.
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A guinean CDM by the name of Amadou Kalabane is applying his trade at AFC and has been for the last year.
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Here is one of my favorite players in real life, he was a superb Swedish striker to get for a Allsvenskan team back in FM12 and his name is Haris Cirak!
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And lasts but not least it's Christoff Dias de Oliveira A.K.A Chris
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Striker/Wingers

First out of all our Wingers is Omar Eddahri who is looking like a decent winger for this level.
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We have another international player by the name of Thomas Ulimwengu who is a Tanzanian Winger.
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Other than Thomas on the RW we also have Sasa Matic
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Or Rinor Nushi, All of these can be the starter Right Wing.
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Then the first of our three through and through strikers are Mohammed Buya Turay
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Second option is Chidi Omeje
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And our third and final player for the evening, Aaron Bazoukou
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and if you were interested in their stars and potential.

GK
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Defenders
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Midfielders
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Strikers
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And for those interested i have the club history but since it literally 4 years old there isn't much to see here.
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Tomorrow i will get the post of the tactics and friendlies up and maybe the first month of Allsvensk football!


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[mellosa96]

sadly couldn't play anything yesterday because some friends came over but hopefully i will get done with the friendlies today.

AFC Eskilstuna

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Long and short term goals


Today we are going over my short term and long term goals with the team.
To start of i don't have any licences or any past experience except
sunday league football which is what i have in real life, So we are going to grow me as a manager and at the same time make AFC a threat to be reckoned with.

Goals for me

-Get licenses
(Trying to get as many as possible in an attempt to get some recognition in the world)

-Get in Allsvenskan and Swedens most successful managers of all time

Allsvenskan
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Sweden
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So there isn't very far from us to start being in the Allsvenskan HOF as Stuart Baxter who sits at 10th only has two cups and two league wins and for Sweden's HOF we will need a little more as Benny Lennartsson has two Norwegian cups and one league title.

Goals for AFC Eskilstuna

-Become a major Allsvenskan team

Short term is about surviving as we probably have the weakest team mixed with the team with the least experience but we will fight for survival anyways and with it being three teams that get relegated (Two straight, One plays a playoff)

Long term we are aiming for the title and winning the Swedish Cup and hopefully we can do this before 2020 and if that happens we can re-aim the bow for our 2025 target which is.

-Qualify for CL/EL yearly.

Only way to raise the Swedish teams are by playing regularly in European football and our short term goal is to debut in Europe before 2020 and being a stable team in at least Europa League by 2025, The long term is going to be that we are gonna be a playoff/winning CL team by 2040, but i don't know if we will ever make it that far.

-Becomes Swedens best youth developer.

If we are going to play CL/EL football with a shoestring budget compared to the rest of Europe then we will need to develop the best youngsters every year and hopefully sell for a lot (Think around 10Million Euro every season) or have them play in the team.

We have a cooperation with Eskilstuna City which have a decent youth team and hopefully we can use it to the fully from day one.

-Become Eskilstunas best team in the Allsvenskan Marathon table.

Two Eskilstuna teams have played in Allsvenskan before us IK City (Eskilstuna City) and IFK Eskilstuna. This means that we are right now the third best Eskilstuna team in history and i wan't to overtake them both by 2025 as IK City only played one season in the highest division and only got a measly 7 points (Second to last of all teams in Allsvenskan History) they played in the 1925/26 season so they will be fairly easy to overtake.

IFK Eskilstuna played 14 seasons at the highest league and have 317 points from 317 games and they last played in Allsvenskan in the 1964/65 season and their points means if we average a point per game we will need to play in 10.5 seasons before we catch up to them so that means our goal is to overtake them in eight season while they needed 14 seasons for the points meaning we will almost need to be twice as fast in our points gathering.

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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Friendlies and Pre-Allsvenskan predicition

The friendlies went fairly well scoring 17 and only letting 2 goals in during 6 games.

But we played five local teams including our U21 teams and Dalkurd FF who plays in Superettan the division below us.

but we impressed with our possesion and scoring chances and i hope we can bring it in to the start of the season.

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And for our prediction...
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is 16th dead last, but i'm aiming for the number 10th spot and i think that's realistic from us, but if we can do a Leicester i wouldn't complain



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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Transfer roundup spring window 2017

we didn't do that much in the transfer window accept broadening our squad with what was needed because we started with being over our budget.

--- IN ---

We signed two players from our affiliate club to strengthen our bench in case we get some injuries on the starting players.

The first one we signed is our new third GK and he goes by the name of Johan Nygren!
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We also picked up a young GK by the name of Ludwig Fransson who is a 15 year old who will play for the U19 and the U21 when needed.
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And lastly we decided to sign a tall striker who has been tearing up the second division and his name is Emil Fritzell!
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--- OUT ---

We only got rid of one player and we sent him on loan to Högaborgs BK and that was our striker Aaron Bazuokou
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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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the start of our first season in Allsvenskan and hopefully we can impress Sweden and not get relegated.

Match & April 2017


IK Sirius - AFC Eskilstuna

1 - 2

Emmanuel Frimpong (Omeje)
Chidi Omeje (Michel)
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First professional game in the clubs history and we face off against the team that won Superettan ahead of us last year and we put in a really good shift in this game out rolling and playing the opponents and making history by scoring the first Allsvenska goal for AFC was Emmanuel Frimpong!

AFC Eskilstuna - IFK Göteborg

1 - 2

Mohammed Buya Turay (Meade)
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The first real big team that we face and we definitely didn't embarrass our self as they got a cheap penalty which they dealt with superbly.


BK Häcken - AFC Eskilstuna

2 - 3

Jasmin Sudic OG
Omar Eddahri (Meade)
Jernade Meade (Michel)
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Jernade Meade is turning out to be a quality Allsvenskan player tearing up the left wing scoring and assisting left, right and center. The rest of the team also played okey despite the lack of striker playing well.

AFC Eskilstuna - Östersunds FK

2 - 1

Jernade Meade (Raskaj)
Omar Eddahri (Meade)
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Facing Swedens most northern team in the league and we went out guns blazing scoring early with Meade as per usual and eventually going up 2-0 before they scored the last goal and we ran out deserved winners of this game

Kalmar FF - AFC Eskilstuna

2 - 1

Chidi Omeje (Raskaj)
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The team really wasn't feeling like playing today and that really showed as Kalmar scored twice in the opening of the second half.

AFC Eskilstuna - GIF Sundsvall

2 - 1

Thomas Ulimwengu X2 (Omeje, Matic)
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Ulimwengu hasn't really played much yet but he showed some great promise by scoring two important goals to grab the win.

League Table

After a good start to the season this is how the table looks after six games
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Despite taking the league by storm we are not the biggest upset as IK Sirius that also is new in the league is at the top together with Malmö FF with us and Norrköping taking up the number 3 spot.

Player Of The Month
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Jernade Meade has had an amazing start to the season and hopefully he can keep it up as he is this months POTM.





So the best start we could expect and now we are looking forward for against some of the bigger teams in the league.

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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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The second month of our journey in Allsvenskan and reality starts to set in.

Örebro SK - AFC Eskilstuna

1 - 2

Chidi Omeje (Ulimwengu)
Thomas Ulimwengu (Jarl)
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A good game for us against "rivals" Örebro as we come away 2-1 Winners despite missing a penalty and Michel being sent off in the 85th minute.

Djurgården IF - AFC Eskilstuna

0 - 1

Omar Eddahri (Chidi Omeje)
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And it's official, our first clean sheet in Allsvenskan history the next record thats about to be broken is most appearances by Omar Eddahri who is just a couple of games away from beating the 83 that is the current record.

AFC Eskilstuna - Hammarby IF

0 - 3
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Hammarby decided to show us the difference between form and class by letting Kennedy play a great game scoring a free kick from about 30 yards out and then following that up with a 35 yard screamer 7 minutes later, simply just showing how much we have to catch up.

AFC Eskilstuna - IF Elfsborg

1 - 2

Omar Eddahri (Meade)
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Second loss in a row and we really should have won this one, but old IFK Eskilstuna player Viktor Prodell scored the winner for them and all we can do is break up and take aim for the next match.

Halmstad BK - AFC Eskilstuna

1 - 1

Thomas Ulimwengu (Chidi Omeje)
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Cem Apek, our reserve keeper got the chance in this game and he played really badly making two big mistakes, one of witch cost us the game in this match.


League Table

Despite our poor run of form we are still sitting high in the league, a little more than a third of the season has been played.
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We are currently third but three teams can pass us as they have played a game less.

Player Of The Month
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Thomas Ulimwengu has been in some great form over the last 6 games (4 Goals and 1 assist) but this month he scored two of these and is this month POTM


Now its about a month break in the league and i'm going to try to find 4 friendly matches to keep match fitness up.
first game after the break is against Defending Champions Malmö FF

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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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European Update

I thought you might be interested in hearing how it went in some of the European leagues.

Premier League
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So Chelsea will win the PL with Aguero stealing the golden boot, most noteworthy are Liverpool, Crystal Palace and Everton.

La Liga
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Real Madrid eventually won La liga but didn't have a scorer in the top three as Suarez, Gameiro and Messi took these spots with 24 and 23 goals.

Ligue 1
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Monaco shockingly won the title way ahead of PSG with Falcao and Germain scoring 35 goals in the league together.

Bundesliga
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No shock here accept that Poulsen won the golden boot.

Serie A
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Same as Bundesliga, no real surprise about who won and who scored the most goals.

Danish Premier League
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also no surprise that FC Copenhagen wins the league quite easily


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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Summer Break

In Sweden there is a break over the month of June and i decided to take full advantage of this by booking and playing four friendlies that are better than us and that was
Hammarby, AIK, DIF and RB Leipzig who finished third in the Bundesliga!

And boy did we play well so well infact that we won all four games with 12 goals for and 4 against.
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Chidi Omeje had a great month scoring six goals with three of them coming against RBL.


Contracts & Transfers

We managed to sign all our current players accept one who demanded a move to Europe so despite him being very important to us i took the decision to let him leave for his value now rather than on a free in November.


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Only player to leave at the moment and that is Omar Eddahri who left us for the highest league in Turkey but we got 100K for a player on a six month contract and his value was 105 so i ain't complaining to much.


--- IN ---
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And the only player we signed was Carlos Javier on a free after he left as a bosman from Ebro in Spain who has experience from Zaragoza, And we technically got two new players as i recalled Bazoukou from his loan after he scored 11 in 11 and 5 assists to go with that.


Next update will be from the league again.

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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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July 2017

We had a lot of good opponents in this month as we pass the midpoint of the season.

Malmö FF - AFC Eskilstuna

1 - 1

Thomas Ulimwengu
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A strong game after the break as we play even with arguably the best team in Sweden.

AFC Eskilstuna - Jönköpings Södra

0 - 3
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Embarrassing result from the team as we just aren't firing on all cylinders at the striker position, or well Thomas is but you can't trust one striker in the whole squad.

AFC Eskilstuna - IFK Norrköping

1 - 4

Cris (Mohammed Buya Turay)
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Swedens second best team and again you can clearly see why they are with this performance.

AFC Eskilstuna - AIK

1 - 1

Ferid Ali (Ulimwengu)
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Ferid Ali got his first goal of the season by scoring a volley from 25 yards out against a team that should be title contenders.

AFC Eskilstuna - IK Sirius

3 - 2

Chidi Omeje (Gustav Jarl)
Thomas Ulimwengu (Meade)
Ferid Ali (Ulimwengu)
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A great performance from the team as the Ali-Ulimwengu team scored again and hopefully they can keep this up in to the next month.


League Table

Keeping up with our poor form at the start at the month means a little dip in the table but we are no where near relegation zone
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Sitting comfortably in the middle of the table.

Player Of The Month
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Ulimwengu with his second POTM award in the same amount of time, has impressed me a lot.


Next month we will play some middle league teams and also enter the Swedish cup who starts in the fall and end in the spring so hopefully we can qualify for the group stage.​

 

[mellosa96]

my internet has been out but now i'm back, expect an update later today

 

[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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August 2017

a stable month from the team as we settle in and play after the tactic again.

AFC Eskilstuna - BK Häcken

0 - 0
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A boring game which we should have won but their goalkeeper played very well.

IFK Göteborg - AFC Eskilstuna

0 - 2

Emmanuel Frimpong
Thomas Ulimwengu (Chidi Omeje)
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IFK Göteborg seems to have a real problem playing against us as we now have won both games against them.


Östersunds FK - AFC Eskilstuna

0 - 0
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Another draw, and another game we should have won, sadly the team wasn't up for it today.


AFC Eskilstuna - Kalmar FF

0 - 1
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Kalmar played the Counter attacking tactic and i think had one or two real opportunities and sadly they where efficient and scored one of them and then parked the bus for the remainder of the game.


Swedish Cup 2nd round

Ljungskile SK - AFC Eskilstuna

0 - 4

Amadou Kalabane X2 (Meade)
Emil Fritzell (Kalabane)
Chidi Omeje (Fritzell)
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Despite facing a lower league team, the guys really wanted to qualify for the group stage and qualify they did, with Kalabane putting in a superb performance.

Transfers

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We signed another two players from the free agent market, the first one was Brazilian CAM Bruno Da Cruzwho played for Evian TG in Ligue 2 before joining us.
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Second to player to join was Jacobo Candel who has played in the Spanish lower leagues before joining us.
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--- OUT ---

We sold Daniel Björnquist to Ascoli as he wanted playing time and he wasn't getting any here so we managed to sell him for 300K Euro.
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League Table

keeping it safe while playing in the middle of the league, hopefully we can push for a higher spot than this though.
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Ten games to go, could be worse could be better.

Player Of The Month
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Second player to get two POTMs and he has truly deserved it as he was important for our clean sheets and our offensive "Threats"

only four games in the next month against Sundsvall, Örebro, Hammarby and Elfsborg



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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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September 2017

Falling out of form again and also falling in the league table.

GIF Sundsvall - AFC Eskilstuna

1 - 1

Bruno Da Cruz
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Despite the team as usually outplaying the opponents and then let in a weak counter attack goal in but Da Cruz could at least celebrate for his first goal for the club.

AFC Eskilstuna - Örebro SK

2 - 2

Emmanuel Frimpong X2 (Piermayr)
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Frimpong had an amazing game but sadly he missed a penalty which in the end cost us two points as Igboanike showed why you should never surrender.

Hammarby IF - AFC Eskilstuna

2 - 0
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Hammarby is simply outplaying us very easily and outmaneuvering us without problems.



IF Elfsborg - AFC Eskilstuna

3 - 2

Mauricio Albornoz
Emil Fritzell PEN
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Emil Fritzell made his first Allsvenskan goal but sadly the team didn't concentrate all the way in and gave away a cheap goal to also give up the point and with only six games left we feel like we need as many points as possible.

League Table

Falling down the table and getting uncomfortably close to the relegation party.
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Six games to go and i think we can manage to survive the first season.

Player Of The Month
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Frimpong played really well despite the teams lack of form and hopefully he can keep showing his form as we renew our contract in the league.​

 

[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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October 2017

We is now just playing for a position, no relegation, no European qualification.


AFC Eskilstuna - Djurgården IF

3 - 2

Thomas Ulimwengu (Da Cruz)
Chidi Omeje X2 (Da Cruz X2)
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Third time this year that we play DIF and third time we win over them, Bruno Da cruz dominated the midfield and didn't let DIF control the play and he was making important passes left right and centre.


AFC Eskilstuna - Halmstad BK

2 - 1

Haris Cirak
Chidi Omeje (Meade)
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Another game against a team that is below us in the league and we made the most of it as we ran out deserved 2-1 winners and we did it well.


Jönköping Södra IF - AFC Eskilstuna

4 - 4

Ferid Ali
Chidi Omeje (Ulimwengu)
Anel Raskaj (Cirak)
Emil Fritzell
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A lot of suspensions and injuries for this match and the first half was a train wreck as we went 4-1 down before Chidi gave us some hope at the end of the first half. I took advantage of this and fired them up and we staged a big comeback eventually drawing in one of the best second halfs this team has done.


AFC Eskilstuna - Malmö FF

0 - 4
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Erlandsson is only on loan at us and it felt like he just wanted to leave this game and the game against Jönköping so i decided to give Candel the rest of the season since he will probably be our starting goalkeeper come next season.


AIK - AFC Eskilstuna

5 - 1

Ludvig Öhman (Michel)
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But he didn't really impress either but today it felt more of a complete team collapse than against Malmö still doesn't take away the fact that we have let 13 goals in in the last three games.


League Table

a great start to the month but an equally bad ending.
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One game to go for the season and it appears that Hammarby will take the title with Either Göteborg or Malmö taking the second spot, on the other side of the table Östersunds FK are confirmed for relegation while Halmstad is confirmed for at least the Play offs.



Player Of The Month
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Played some really good football this month and hopefully he can finish the last game of the season with a bang.​

 

[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Season Ending 2017

only one game left to report before the end of the season, and it's going to be a match worth little.

IFK Norrköping - AFC Eskilstuna

2 - 2

Mauricio Albornoz PEN
Sasa Matic (Fritzell)

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despite having nothing to play for we managed to comeback late to grab one point against one of the best teams in the league.

League Table & Awards

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In our first season we managed to win every third game but also lost more than every third game, hopefully we can improve on this next season. Hammarby managed to win the title while Sirius and Östersund is done in Allsvenskan for this time.

Golden Boot
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The golden boot went to Fredrik Olsson of Halmstad BK followed by Kennedy Iboananike both whom are playing for teams in the bottom of the table. Our best scorer finished split 17th with 8 Goals and that was Thomas Ulimwengu.

Passing Boot
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Best passer was Niclas Bärkroth in IFK Norrköping who finished split with Haukur Hauksson from AIK.
Jernade Meade finished the highest from AFC with a respectable 8th finish with 6 assists

Best Performer
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Kennedy managed to perform the best seen all over the season with an average 7.49 from 23 games, Our best performer on the other hand was Ludvig Öhman with an average of 7.04 from 27 games.

Golden Gloves
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AIK's young keeper managed to keep the most clean sheets in the league and the future is looking bright for him.


AFC Eskilstuna Season Awards and Stats

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Awards

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Stats

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Season Review

there will be a more in depth review tonight or tomorrow.



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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Season Squad Review 2017

Goalkeepers

Tim Erlandsson
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Tim had an okey season for being newcomers in this league and i would like to keep him but Nottingham are simply asking for to much to make it worth our while.

Jacobo Candel
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Didn't exactly have the greatest games of his career but hopefully he can play better next year as he will be our main goalkeeper as it stands right now.



Defenders

Gustav Jarl
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Jarl was basically our only RWB accept Piermayr who kinda plays out there but we are definitely looking to strengthen this position for the next season.

Ludvig Öhman
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Ludvig was our best Defender this season, and i will expect the same from him when the new season begins but hopefully with some better players around him.

Alexander Michel
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Our own little Milner, been playing a little all over the place and hopefully he can learn the RWB position so we can feel safe abut that side of our defense.

Jernade Meade
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Wow what a season he had for us! got in the TOTS for the league and really grew both one and two levels as a player this year. definitely trying to sign him on a longer contract.

Thomas Piermayr
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our defensive supersub as he can everywhere on the midfield and defense, but ain't looking comfortable in the team.

Robert Åstedt
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A youngster who got some playing time this season and i didn't expect much of him and good was that because he had a season to forget.



Midfielders

Anel Raskaj
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Raskaj didn't exactly light up the league as he was expected to do but he but in a solid performance and hopefully he can get even better next year.

Emmanuel Frimpong
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Delivered on two stats, Goals and cards but played otherwise than that really attractive football and there isn't any shame in that.

Mauricio Albornoz
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The weakest link of our midfield, could have played better but could have played a lot worse.

Haris Cirak
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Another youngster that i didn't have high hopes for but he played some quality football at some times and if he can become more consistent he will probably start over Albornoz

Ferid Ali
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A guy i didn't think i would play much but i played a fair bit and he did play pretty decent when needed.

Omar Eddahri
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Despite being sold before the half point of the season Eddahri made it in the TOTS and i can see why, he was literally the guy creating everything in the middle.

Sasa Matic
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Not much to say about Matic, should have been better.



Strikers

Chidi Omeje
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The goal scoring was pretty evenly distributed over our main strikers, next year Omeje should aim for 10+ goals in the league.

Thomas Ulimwengu
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Hopefully Thomas can also score 10+ goals in the league next year, but my bet is on Omeje.

Emil Fritzell
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Signed him on the hopes that he could become our discount Crouch but it didn't perform as well as i hoped but i will have faith in him as our sub for one more season.​

 

[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Transfer special 2018

We made some real squad strengthening transfers to prepare for the new season and hopefully they will also give us a nice money boost if they ever move.

--- IN ---

I said we wouldn't sign any more Goalkeepers as Candel is a more than qualified for the number one spot but i saw that José Aurelio Suárez who we signed from Barca B for 125K and he is even better then Candel.

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Only reason for signing Suárez in the first place was because i was looking at Sergi Palencia, A fullback who cost us a whopping 160K to sign.

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And the last money costing signing was Mai Hilmarsson who is hopefully Iceland's next superstar and he cost us 44K to sign.
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Then we managed to snag Anton Lans away from Gefle IF on a free as he wanted a new challenge.
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We also signed a different CB in the name of Carl Starfelt who played for Brommapojkarna before leaving on a free.
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We signed a reserves-reserve striker in Anders Jörgensen who joined from Norwegian div 3 side Sortland where he scored 22 goals in 34 games.

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and last signing but definitely not the smallest is Giorgos Samaras who joined on a free and will give us important experience from a lot of different tournaments
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He only joined on a one year deal but if he performs we will definitely look to lengthen the contract


--- OUT ---

We only sold one player and that was our best CB Ludvig Öhman who wanted to leave the club and i decided to sacrifice him for the morales sake. He left on a 300K deal.
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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Squad Review 2018

It´s time again to review the squad for the upcoming season, where we will hopefully be in the top 10 for the first time.
also my internet is still struggling so that is why some of the players have the old picture instead of a new one, hopefully it will be fixed today.

Goalkeepers

We knew that Erlandsson would be needing a new goalkeeper since Erlandsson loan deal ended and we signed Jacobo Candel to fill that spot.
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But we also managed to snag a even better goalkeeper from Spain and he goes by the name José Aurelio Suárez!
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Defenders

We weren't the strongest team in defense so that is what we have been working on for the most part of the pre season.

And we also made some fairly good signings and one of them who decided to join us was Sergi Palencia from Barca B who will be our starting RWB.
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We also strengthen our side with some quality coming from Allsvenskan itself signing Anton Lans on a free from Gefle IF
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we also decided to keep Gustav Jarl as he has been an okey depth player to have in the squad and he is also fairly young too (22)
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after that we have bench/depth player Thomas Piermayr who will still be a bench player for us.
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Alexander Michel will look to play better than last year if he wants to keep a spot on the starting eleven.
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But he will have to fight with Carl Starfelt this year for said spot, and it will not be easy.
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Robert Åstedt is a player who is about to join the bench on every game but is still a fair bit of the starting eleven.
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Carlos Javier is a player we signed last year and he will be a depth player behind all newly signed Spaniards
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and last but not least is Jernade Meade who is still our number one LWB and will probably be for years to come.
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Midfielders

first of our midfielders are Frimpong who played almost every game last season and he will play a lot this year too.
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Sasa Matic is a guy i'm struggling to have on the bench as he plays fairly well but he is just that little bit behind the others for a starting position.
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another player that has the same problem is Ferid Ali but he will probably play more this year.
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Our own Kosovoan player Anel Raskaj is the player that we will be looking to move the ball around.

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and last is the player who is our own cheap supersub and he goes by the name of Haris Cirak
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Oh almost forgot Bruno Da Cruz!
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Strikers

We have a internationally experienced player in Ulimwengu and this year we also have Samaras who has made over 80 appearances for Greece!
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And of course the next one will be Thomas Ulimwengu.
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Newly signed Hilmarsson is one for the future.
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Last years top scorer Chidi Omeje!
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our own Peter Crouch, Emil Fritzell
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and last Mohammed Buya Turay
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[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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Friendlies and Swedish Cup

In Sweden we play the group stage of the Swedish cup in the pre season and we did okey but should have done better.

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The friendlies went well as we played in the first official AFC Cup and this year AIK, DIF and HIF were playing and we eventually won our own cup and i'm planning on doing this every year.
but if we look at the other games there was a lot of goals forward and not much getting in against us and we will try to use this to our advantage going in to Allsvenskan.

Now on to the Swedish Cup.
We had Qviding FF, IFK Värnamo and IFK Norrköping in our group and we are set to finish second in the group and it's only one team who moves on through to the playoffs.

Qviding FF - AFC Eskilstuna

1 - 2

Chidi Omeje (Buya Turay)
Mohammed Buya Turay (Da Cruz)
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We played well but after the second goal it felt like the team came of the throttle and made it a close call.

AFC Eskilstuna - IFK Värnamo

1 - 0

Mohammed Buya Turay (Meade)
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We should have scored more but we got the three points, which is all that matters.

IFK Norrköping - AFC Eskilstuna

2 - 2

Mohammed Buya Turay (Omeje)
Ferid Ali (Omeje)
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We had the lead after 25 minutes but yet again the team came of the throttle and Norrköping used it fully and managed to make a comeback and because of this Norrköping are through on goal difference

Swedish Group Stage Table
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Sadly we didn't make it through to the playoffs but maybe next year!
But now it's time for the league again!​

 

[mellosa96]

AFC Eskilstuna

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April 2018

seven league games in April as we quick start the league.

Örgryte - AFC Eskilstuna

1 - 1

Chidi Omeje (Raskaj)
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We were set on winning this game until they scored a really lucky goal in extra time to steal two points for us.

AFC Eskilstuna - Malmö FF

0 - 2
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Facing of against Malmö FF is always going to be a tough challenge as they are one of the best teams in Sweden and Scandinavia as well and they outplayed us with ease.

Halmstad BK - AFC Eskilstuna

3 - 1

Bruno Da Cruz (Ulimwengu)
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Halmstad is a team we should beat it felt like nothing was working and eventually they ran out as 3-1 winners.

AFC Eskilstuna - Jönköpings Södra IF

1 - 0

Gustav Jarl (Da Cruz)
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Our first win of the new season and it took us four rounds before we could get it, hopefully this won't keep happening as we then would be set for relegation.

AFC Eskilstuna - Elfsborg IF

2 - 1

Emmanuel Frimpong
Chidi Omeje (Jarl)
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Jarl is once again showing of his skills as a wing back after Palencia is injured and will be gone for a long time, but he will not be missed as much if Jarl keeps this form up for the duration of the season.

AIK - AFC Eskilstuna

0 - 4

Máni Hilmarsson (Omeje)
Chidi Omeje X2 (Matic)
Sasa Matic (Hilmarsson)
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What. A. Game.

Incredible the whole team just went on a tear and AIK didn't do anything to stop it and i'm impressed of the guys and how they played.

AFC Eskilstuna - BK Häcken

2 - 0

Giorgos Samaras X2 Pen (Jarl)
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Another great game (Insert DJ Khaled Joke Here)

Samaras was given a chance to impress and he managed to score two goals and seal the deal against Häcken but where does that leave us in the league?

Allsvenskan League Table
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We're sitting pretty in fifth after seven games, almost a third of the league is done and we can hopefully keep pushing up the league.

Player Of The Month
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Omeje is our well deserved POTM for April.

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