Today FC Minneapolis lost 1-0 to Stegmans at the National Sports Center in a charity game that kicked off at 5pm.
The Minneapolis side started out with Edmund Nimely as the goalie, Jacob Valladolid and Luis Hodgson as full backs while Roberto Cholico and Sam Otieno played center defense.
After a tremendous improvement in previous games, Gamada Indisa joined Dereck Hutson to hold the Middlefield whereas Sendi Ian and Andy Martinez covered the wide flanks accordingly.
Darius Sango who was doubted for today’s game after appearing to have twisted his right ankle joint in yesterday’s training at the club’s training ground in St Louis Park was earlier on cleared to play joining Sami upfront but the Liberian seemed to have not had both his feet in the first few minutes of the game, something many related to his past injuries prior to today’s game.
Zerihun Abebe, Shawn Ndobedi and Minesh Sivaperumal started on the bench but Abebe impressed a lot when he came in for Andy in the second half, fitting in quickly and gracing gathered fans with his refined passes.
Even though Sam was named player of the Match, Sendi had a great game as well today creating a lot of chances and working the Stegman’s defense line and goalie to the very last second of the game.
FC Minneapolis had a chance to equalize in the dying moments of the game when Sendi was taken down by the hosts’ goalie in the penalty box but the referee kept the game going even though it looked more like an obvious penalty.
Stegman’s clearly played well today. They were composed and kept going forward. Once they got the chance they took it and that’s why they won.
FC Minneapolis will return to Alabama Park next week to prepare for their first Championship game of the American Premier League scheduled on the 3rd of October at 07:00 central time against Midnimo FC.
