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98 Black Ease into Quarterfinals with 6-1 Win over Blackhills

98 Black advanced to the quarterfinals of the Washington Youth Soccer Challenge Cup with a convincing 6-1 win over Blackhills FC today on River Road. WPFC opened the scoring after 16 minutes with a shot that clanged off the goal stanchion and bounced straight down behind the keeper.  Oscar then had a classy finish to [...]

Back to Back Shutouts for 98 Black

The boys have quietly put together back to back clean sheets on successive trips to southern Washington. A week ago, the team topped Columbia Timber 4-0, and today, the side dropped WSA Blazers 5-0. Saturday’s effort was a solid workmanlike performance against the Blazers, with goals by four different players: Jack, Alec, Carson and Pablo. [...]

Blastoff Champions

Blastoff Champions

98 Black ended their summer tournament season by winning the top flight of the 2009 Federal Way Blastoff. The team finished first in the bracket after defeating the UP Seawolves 3-2, Federal Way Storm Green 5-1 and Crossfire Black 2-1.  The final pitted 98 Black against Storm Green, and WPFC cruised to a 6-2 win [...]

Brazilian Falcão Scores an Amazing Indoor Soccer Goal

At the recent Grand Prix de Futsal (a huge annual international indoor football tournament), Brazil crushed Romania 12-0, in part thanks to an incredible goal from futsal legend, Falcao. Some are calling it the greatest indoor soccer goal ever.

Pep Guardiola’s Motivational Video

Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola showed his players an inspirational video ten minutes before the kick-off of the Champion’s League final against Manchester United.   The film mixes images from the movie Gladiator, and the soundtrack includes portions of the opera Turandot performed by Italian legend Luciano Pavarotti.
If you believe the papers, the film moved several of the [...]