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Thursday,
2nd September 2010
Spurs stun Blacks
Għajnsielem F.C. kicked-off
their 2010/11 season with an
evening
Independence Cup
tie
at the Sannat Ground against St.
Laurence Spurs. The Blacks were
surprisingly beaten 1-0 by the
newly-promoted side and were
thus eliminated at the first
hurdle of the competition.
Matthew Francalanza scored the
decisive goal in the 56th minute
of the match. Daniel Sakic and
Alex Ribic made their
competitive debut for the Club.
Kenny Hili and Joshua Cassar
also featured for the Blacks
when they came on as
substitutes.
match report
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Thursday,
29th April 2010
Season over for the Blacks
Għajnsielem F.C.'s
season came to an abrupt end
following their elimination at
the quarter-final stage of the
G.F.A. Cup by S.K. Victoria W.
The Blacks made a great start
with a Ferdinando Apap goal
after only three minutes. S.K.
Victoria W. equalized
immediately after. The Blacks,
who went ahead before half-time
through Thiago dos Santos. Just
before the 15 minute mark of the
second half, the Wanderers
equalized. The Victoria side
scored twice in injury time for
the final 2-4 score.
The
Wanderers will play Sannat Lions
in the semi-final. Before the
match, the President of the
G.F.A., Mr. Alvin Grech,
presented the league runners-up
trophy to Għajnsielem F.C.
captain Joseph Buttigieg.
match report
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Sunday,
18th April 2010
Hotspurs in pole position
Għajnsielem
F.C. will have to beat Victoria
H. in the last match of the season to
pull even with the leaders and force a
decider for the league championship.
This because Hotspurs beat Nadur Y. in
their clash this week-end. This
situation is no different than the last
time that these two clubs went
head-to-head for league honours. In 1974
the Blacks needed to beat Nadur in the
final match of the season to pull even
with Hotspurs.
They beat Nadur 2-1 in a very tense
match Leli Refalo
scored twice one in each half to set up the decider
against Hotspurs. Then on June 8, 1974
the Blacks beat Victoria Hotspurs 1-0 to
win their fifth consecutive
championship.
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Thursday,
15th April 2010
Għajnsielem F.C.
draw against Pieta
Ghajnsielem
F.C.
registered a 2-2 draw against Pieta
Hotspurs of the M.F.A. first division in
a match played late this afternoon at
St. Aloysius Ground in Birkirkara. Alex
Simoncic, direct from a free-kick, and
Charlon Tabone scored for the Blacks.
Joseph Grech saved a penalty for
Għajnsielem. In
the G.F.A. first division Sannat Lions
beat Kerċem Ajax 3-0 and thus condemned
the latter to relegation to the second
division. Their place in the top tier
will be taken by St. Laurence Spurs, the
new champions of the second division.
Sannat Lions' bid to avoid 6th place and
a playoff against the runners-up of the
second division, Xagħra United, was
set-back Sunday, when S.K. Victoria
Wanderers beat Xewkija Tigers 2-0. The
Victoria side will confirm their first
division status with a win over Kerċem
this weekend.
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Sunday,
11th April 2010
Għajnsielem F.C. launches a new
website
Available
from today, the official website of
Għajnsielem Football Club is the best
way for our loyal fans to keep up to
date with all the news and reports. The
website, designed by Kevin Cauchi and
managed by Loreto Scicluna features a
fresh look with more sections including
a dedicated area for the fans including
a Facebook fan page and YouTube Channel.
The website
boasts an impressive 8200 files
(pictures and web pages). The navigation
is much easier and each match report
includes a dedicated photo gallery. The
History and Statistics section is
literally a piece of art with
hundreds of tables, analysis, results
and historic data.
The website
took 4 months of hard work. Hopefully
the new site will provide a
professional, easy-to-use platform from
which the Għajnsielem F.C. can
communicate better with their fans.
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Sunday,
4th April 2010
Hotspurs march on
Victoria
Hotspurs gave notice that they have
recovered their early season form when
they registered their second league win
in a row by beating Sannat Lions 2-0. In
the day's other match Xewkija Tigers
beat Kerċem Ajax 2-1. The result ensures
that Xewkija will play first division
football next season, and keeps Kerċem
in last place and in serious relegation
trouble.
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Thursday,
25th March 2010
Nadur firmly in contention
After dropping so many
points and failing to win a single match
in the second round, Nadur Youngsters
have moved back in contention with a 3-1
win over reigning champions Sannat
Lions. Nadur's next league match
is against
Ghajnsielem, who will
have played S.K. Victoria Wanderers in a
match that may well determine whether
the Blacks stay in the race for the
league title.
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Thursday,
11th March 2010
Blacks back on track
Għajnsielem
F.C. beat Kerċem Ajax three nil
in an evening match
played at the Sannat
Ground. The three points
lift Għajnsielem to a
first place tie with
Victoria Hotspurs. The
result means that the
Blacks' title challenge
is back on track. After
two dispiriting results,
Għajnsielem, led by
player-coach Alex
Simoncic who earlier
this week took over from
Alex Spiteri, put on a
dominant display that
saw the Blacks return to
winning plays and
complete the season
sweep of relegation
troubled Kerċem Ajax.
match report
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Thursday ,
4th March 2010
Blacks beaten by
Lions
Għajnsielem
F.C. missed an
opportunity to take over
the leadership of the
G.F.A. first division
when they dropped to a
0-2 defeat at the hands
of Sannat Lions.
Għajnsielem conceded a
goal in the fourth
minute of the match
scored by ex-Black Errol
Grima. Despite the
incessant pressure they
placed on the Lions for
a good hour they could
not find an equalizer.
As the minutes ticked by
in the second half, the
Blacks’ manouvre started
to lose its lucidity and
they looked more likely
to concede than score.
Seven minutes minutes
from time John Camilleri
scored Sannat’s second
to condemn the Blacks to
their fourth defeat of
the season.
match report
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Sunday , 28th February
2010
Two wins for Blacks'
youth teams
Għajnsielem F.C.'s youth
teams both improved
their record over the
week-end with emphatic
wins. The Under/17 team
beat Munxar Falcons 10-0
and now have a 5-0-3
record on the season.
Luke Meilak and Jason
Vella both scored three
goals, Carmel Vella
scored two, Carl
Scicluna added another.
The other goal was an
own goal. The Under/14
team moved to a 6-1-5
record with an 8-1 win
over Gharb Rangers
(Damon Hili 2, Alberto
Xuereb, Glen Cutajar,
Andrew Attard, Jamie
Vella, Massimo Mallia).
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Thursday, 25th February
2010
Title chase wide open
Xewkija Tigers inflicted
the second consecutive
league defeat on
Victoria Hotspurs when
they overcame a one-goal
first half deficit and
beat the league leaders
2-1. The result throws
the title race wide
open.
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Sunday, 21st February
2010
Young Blacks
Għajnsielem F.C.'s
future stars
took part in two
grassroots festivals
this week-end.
The Under/10 team drew
1-1 against Valletta
F.C.. Ismael Belhadj
scored for the Blacks.
They also drew 0-0
against Sannat Lions and
1-1 against Oratory
Youths (Christian Zerafa).
The Under/12 lost
against Valletta F.C.
0-3 and against
Hibernians F.C. 0-4.
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Sunday, 14th February
2010
Kerċem Ajax upend
Victoria Hotspurs
Għajnsielem F.C. chances
of challenging for
league honours received
an unexpected boost this
afternoon, when Kerċem
Ajax beat league
championship favourites
1-0 at the Gozo Stadium.
The result leaves the
leaders Hotspurs only
two points ahead of
Għajnsielem at the end
of two rounds of play.
Kerċem lifted themselves
out of last place and
now share 4th place with
S.K. Victoria W. and
Xewkija Tigers.
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Wednesday, 10th February
2010
Sannat and Nadur battle
to a draw
Sannat Lions and Nadur
Youngsters closed their
second round commitments
with a 2-2 draw .
The result leaves Nadur
firmly in third place.
The two teams collected
five points from a
possible 18 in the
second round. Nadur drew
five out of six matches,
and lost to Għajnsielem.
Sannat won one, drew two
and lost three.
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Thursday ,
4th February 2010
Lethal weapon--Simoncic
does it again
Għajnsielem F.C. edged
Sannat Lions by a goal
to nil in a tense
evening match at the
Sannat Ground. The three
points take Għajnsielem
to first place equal on
points with Victoria
Hotspurs. The latter’s
game in hand is Sunday’s
derby against the
resurgent S.K. Victoria
W. Alex Simoncic, once
again proved to be the
difference between the
Blacks and their
opponents. He scored the
winner from a direct
free-kick early in the
second half. Joseph
Grech, heroic in this
outing, collected his
team’s first clean sheet
of the season.
match report
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Sunday, 24th January 2010
Sudden impact--Simoncic
helps Blacks beat Kerċem
Għajnsielem F.C. edged
Kerċem
Ajax 2-1 in a tricky encounter
that even at this juncture of
the season could have
compromised the Blacks’ title
aspirations. The numerous Blacks
supporters at the Gozo Stadium
had their eyes focused on
one-time nemesis, Alex Simoncic,
the transfer window signing from
Nadur Y. The new number 5 in
Għajnsielem’s Starting XI,
unfazed by the extra attention,
did what he probably expected to
do: he led the Blacks to
victory.
match report
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Friday, 14th January 2010
Għajnsielem F.C. acquire
Simoncic from Nadur
Ghajnsielem F.C.
completed the major
transfer of the local
winter transfer market
when they surprisingly
snapped up Alex Simoncic
from Nadur Youngsters.
The 33-year old Serbian
will join the Club with
immediate effect.
Simoncic will be
unveiled as an
Ghajnsielem F.C. player
this Sunday, the 17th of
January at Ghajnsielem
Football Club during an
11 a.m. rally organised
by the committee. The
experienced central
midfielder agreed to a
three year-contract
after he expressed his
desire to play for the
Blacks and accepted
personal terms offered
by the Club. Several
other major clubs had
shown interest in
signing the player, but
Simoncic was determined
to play for the Blacks
and thus become part of
this great club.
Alex Simoncic's record
of success speaks for
itself. He has helped
Nadur Youngsters win
championships and other
major honours both as a
player and as a
player-coach.
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Sunday, 3rd January 2010
9-man
Blacks
stun Nadur
Ghajnsielem F.C. ushered
the new decade with a
gritty performance and a
2-1 win over Nadur Y.
The points lift
Ghajnsielem into a tie
for second place with
Nadur, two points behind
idle leaders Victoria H.
The Blacks had to dig
deep in the last quarter
of the match during
which they had Kenneth
Mercieca and Franklee
Galea harshly sent off
for two yellow cards.
match
report
In Sunday's other match,
Kerċem beat S.K.
Victoria Wanderers 2-0.
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Thursday,
2nd September 2010
Blacks to kick-off season
against St. Laurence Spurs
Għajnsielem F.C. will kick-off
their 2010/11 season with an
Independence Cup tie against St.
Laurence Spurs. New signings,
ex-Kerċem Ajax defender Daniel
Sakic and ex-Nadur Y. and Qala
St. J. striker, Alex Ribic will
feature for the Blacks.
Player-coach Alex Simoncic is
also expected to give playing
time to several ex-youth teams
players in this cup-tie. The
winner will advance to the
semi-final stage where they will
find the holders and reigning
champions Victoria Hotspurs
waiting for them. The Blacks'
league opener is scheduled for
Thursday September 16. They will
play S.K. Victoria W. The Blacks
are expected to make at least
one more signing before that
match.
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Sunday,
25th April 2010
Hotspurs Champions
Għajnsielem F.C.
were three minutes away from
forcing a decider for the
2009/10 league championship.
Their defence, which had been
fantastic in repelling Victoria
Hotspurs' desperate attempts to
score the all-important
equalizer (to Thiago dos Santos'
first half goal), was finally undone by
a deep cross to the second post.
The ball was not cleared. And a
Hotspurs forward nodded the ball
past Joseph Grech and into the
net. The Blacks, reduced to ten
men after the dismissal of Brian
Meilak in the 73rd minute, could
find no way back. The referee's
final whistle left Victoria
Hotspurs three points ahead of
Għajnsielem in the league
standings and, therefore,
champions of the G.F.A. first
division.
match report
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Saturday,
11th April 2010
The Eleventh Hour party
The Ghajnsielem F.C. Supporters Club
organized "The Eleventh Hour - Party for
the Blacks" to rally all supporters
together and give moral support to the
Blacks before the finale of this year's
league season. The event took place at
Ta' Neffa Farmhouse and was well
attended.
Check out the photos
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Sunday,
11th April 2010
Rampant
Blacks beat Nadur
Għajnsielem F.C.
beat Nadur Youngsters 4-1 in what was in
effect a playoff to determine who would
go on to challenge leaders Victoria
Hotspurs for the 2009/10 league
championship. The three points take the
Blacks equal on points with the leaders
who have a game in hand. Hotspurs are
expected to beat Nadur in their next
match. This means that Għajnsielem
will have to beat Victoria H. in the
last match of the season to force a
decider for the championship. If the
Blacks produce the kind of football that
they conjured at the midway point in the
second half, ten minutes of football
that swept Nadur off the Gozo Stadium,
then they have a chance.
match report
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Saturday,
3rd April 2010
Dramatic win for
Blacks
Għajnsielem
F.C. snatched three points from their
clash with S.K. Victoria Wanderers with
a Ferdinando Apap goal deep in injury
time. This after the Wanderers had
equalized with a goal of their own in
time added on. The Blacks had earlier in
the second half fought back from a goal
deficit with a Thiago dos Santos goal
and a Wanderers own-goal. The win keeps
the Blacks in the hunt for league
honours.
match report
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Wednesday,
31st March 2010
Victoria Hotspurs win Jum
il-Ħelsien Cup
Victoria
Hotspurs scored two late goals to beat
Nadur Youngsters 2-0 in the Jum
il-Ħelsien Cup final.
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Sunday,
21st March 2010
Blacks' challenge derailed
For the third time this
season, Għajnsielem
F.C.'s progress in the
league has been
interrupted by Xewkija
Tigers. The 0-2 defeat
at the hands of the
Tigers sets the Blacks
back but does not
eliminate them from the
title race. Għajnsielem
played well for most of
the match, and at times
played the best football
of the season. The
problem was that they
failed to convert on any
one of the numerous
chances that they
created. As soon as
Għajnsielem pushed more
men forward in search of
a breakthrough they
looked vulnerable at the
back. A Xewkija goal
looked inevitable.
Eventually it arrived
somewhat fortuitously
for the Tigers. A harsh
penalty was awarded
against the Blacks which
Basil Chibueze converted.
Rodney Buttigieg sealed
the victory for his side
with a goal late in the
match. Victoria Hotspurs
beat Kerċem Ajax 5-0 in the following
match to pull three points clear of the
Blacks.
match report
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Sunday,
14th March 2010
Nadur suffer late
equalizer
against Tigers
Nadur
Youngsters missed an
opportunity to close to
within one point of the
league leaders when they
had to settle for a draw
against Xewkija Tigers.
Nadur are still in
contention, three points
behind joint leaders
Għajnsielem and Victoria
Hotspurs. S.K. Victoria
Wanderers beat Sannat
Lions and distanced
themselves from the
relegation zone.
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Sunday,
7th March 2010
Under/14 lose to Oratory
Youths
Għajnsielem
F.C.'s Under/14
team continued with its
up-and-down season, when
they lost to Oratory
Youths 0-1. Although the
loss is disappointing,
it is a vast improvement
on the result against
the same team earlier
this season, when the
Blacks dropped to their
heaviest defeat of the
season.
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Sunday,
7th March 2010
10-man Wanderers
frustrate Reds
Victoria Hotspurs and
S.K. Victoria Wanderers
featured in a 0-0 draw
in this weekend's only
first division match.
The Reds, who had a
numerical advantage for
most of the match due to
the dismissal of a
Wanderers player, thus
wasted a great
opportunity to widen
their lead atop the
first division table.
The result keeps not
only Għajnsielem and
Nadur in contention, but
also Xewkija Tigers and
Sannat Lions.
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Sunday,
28th February 2010
Statement of intent
Nadur Youngsters beat
Kerċem Ajax 6-1 in the
two teams' third round
opening match. The win
ended Nadur's six-game
winless streak and
emphatically signalled
their intent of
challenging for honours
this season despite the
barren patch experienced
in the 2nd round. The
win lifts Nadur to
within three points of
leaders Victoria H.
Kerċem meanwhile missed
an opportunity to join
the title race.
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Saturday,
27th February 2010
Flashback
Għajnsielem F.C.The
Ghajnsielem F.C.
Supporters Club
organized "Flashback -
Party for the Blacks" to
rally all supporters
together and give moral
support to the Blacks
before the start of the
third and final round of
this year's first
division league
championship. The event
took place at Ta' Neffa
Farmhouse and was well
attended by over 250
supporters. more
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Thursday ,
25th February 2010
Blacks win in Pembroke
Għajnsielem F.C. were in
action
this action in Malta
where they played
Pembroke A. of the
M.F.A. 3rd Division
Section A. The Blacks
won 3-2. Rodrigo Cariaga,
Joseph Attard and Alex
Simoncic scored the
goals.
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Thursday ,
18th February 2010
Victoria Hotspurs out of
the G.F.A. Cup
Xagħra
United shocked first
division league leaders
Victoria Hotspurs and
beat them by a goal to
nil in the preliminary
round of the G.F.A. Cup.
After surviving the
Reds' onslaught, Xagħra
scored a late goal and
Hotspurs could find no
way back. Sannat Lions
were the first team into
the semi-finals of the
competition. They beat
Oratory Youths 3-0 in
the quarter-final stage.
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Wednesday, 10th February
2010
Blacks
held by Tigers
Għajnsielem F.C. fought
back from a two goal
deficit against Xewkija
Tigers but could not
complete the comeback
and had to settle for a
draw. The 2-2 draw
leaves the Blacks two
points behind Victoria
Hotspurs who also have a
game in hand. This means
that with a full round
of matches still to
play, Għajnsielem’s
hopes of going into the
season finale against
Hotspurs with a chance
to overtake them depend
on third parties .
match report
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Sunday, 7th February 2010
Victoria Hotspurs sole
leaders again
Victoria Hotspurs
reacted to Għajnsielem's
mid-week win over Sannat
with a 3-1 victory over
cross-town rivals S.K.
Victoria W. The league
leaders built a two-goal
first half lead, then
risked a Wanderers
comeback, when the
latter reduced the
arrears. The Reds
restored their two-goal
advantage through a
Hanus penalty. In the
week-end's other first
division match, Xewkija
Tigers beat Kerċem Ajax
1-0 to move out of last
place.
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Sunday, 31st January 2010
Nadur Y. miss a chance
to close the gap
Nadur Youngsters drew
1-1 against S.K.
Victoria Wanderers and
thus missed a chance to
close the gap with the
leading pair, Victoria
Hotspurs and Għajnsielem
F.C.
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Sunday, 24th January 2010
Under/14 side put four
past Xagħra United
Għajnsielem F.C.'s
Under/14 side beat
Xagħra United 4-1 .
Glen Cutajar, Damon
Hili, Alberto Xuereb and
Jamie Vella scored for
the Blacks. Earlier in
the week the Under/17
had a walk-over win over
St. Laurence Spurs, who
did not show up for
their match against
Għajnsielem.
In Sunday's other first
division match Victoria
Hotspurs demolished
Xewkija Tigers 5-0 to
stay three points ahead
of Għajnsielem F.C. on
top of the table.
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Sunday, 17th January 2010
Simoncic presented to
the supporters
The Committee of
Għajnsielem F.C.
presented new signing,
Alex Simoncic to the
supporters during a
rally held at the Club
premises.
The president, Mr. Sammy
Rapa, addressed the
supporters gathered at
the Club and expressed
his satisfaction that a
player that the
committee has craved for
some time has finally
joined the Club. Mr.
Rapa observed that the
first team can now
benefit from the
influence of three
football traditions,
Brazilian, Argentinean
and Serbian. Simoncic
noted that his wish of
wearing Għajnsielem’s
black strip had finally
been realized and he now
looked forward to
helping the team win
games and hopefully more
honours.
more
Meanwhile S.K. Victoria
W. recovered from a run
of poor results with an
emphatic 6-2 win over
Sannat Lions.
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Sunday, 10th January 2010
Nadur nearly inflict a
defeat upon Victoria
Hotspurs
Nadur Youngsters
recovered from their
recent defeat at the
hands of Għajnsielem F.C.
by battling to a 1-1
draw against league
leaders Victoria
Hotspurs. The Whites
outplayed the Reds
and would have deserved
the three points from
this match. The result
is important for the
Blacks because it
prevented Hotspurs from
building a five-point
lead over Għajnsielem in
the league standings. It
also means that with a
win in their next match,
the Blacks will move
into sole possession of
second place and main
challengers of Victoria
Hotspurs in the
championship race.
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