And they're all won

Estresse Intenso - Saidercray 0-2
Saidercray: Palmington - Humphrey, Bank (46. Garvew), Zuckerer - Butcher (57. Giney), Encel, Mortey, Moycon - Johnson-Clark, Ho (68. Brownland), Pawlson
Goals: 0-1 Moycon 27., 0-2 Johnson-Clark 56.

The series of victories simply doesn't break off. Saidercray's B-team, in which third goalkeeper Jeffrey Palmington made his debut for the national team, won 2-0 against Estresse Intenso and shot them out of the olympic football tournament.
Contrary to what croaks had predicted, the already established group winners from Saidercray apply themselves to listless ball-passing, but joined in the game as if something would be on stake for them - especially the permanent substitutes like Palmington or Johnson-Clark wanted to use their chance to present themselves and their capacities in an international set exercise.
The Estresse Intenso team, obviously having reckoned with another way of playing, reacted startledly and couldn't put up a lot against the white dressed Storks in the first15 minutes. Then, it appeared that Estresse, who had good chances to advance with a victory, had managed to adjust to the situation, and first good attacks from their side were seen. But this endured only until minute 27, when after a very good chance for Estresse a long goal kick of Palmington flied over the withdrawing team to right midfielder Moycon who shot it into the goal before a defender had catched up with him. After another 10 minutes of despairing assault resulting into a great chance, but not into the equalizer, Estresse's fighting spirit was broken and the match shallowed, as also Saidercray feeled that the 1-0 could probably be enough for the 5th victory. However, one more goal should follow in the mostly boring second half, in which no team did much more than necessary: Close to Estresse's penalty area, Johnson-Clark snatched a horizontal pass and directly kicked the ball into the goal's net, scoring his first goal in his third match for Saidercray.

In the quarterfinals, Saidercray, which is the only IDU team which survived the groups, is the favourite against Reineberg, 2nd placed team from group D with good offensive qualities, as they scored 14 goals in 5 matches. Experts expect that Vondelick will trust on the defense which has grown a lot stronger since IDUFC 06, which shall catch Reineberg's attacks and directly introduce counter attacks with fast forwards like Dishyatt or the recovered Cunio.
In the three other quarterfinals, home team Capitalizt Slani plays against St. Samuel, Wentland against Cafundeu and Ariddia, who profited by Saidercray's last victory, against Bazalonia.

A look at other sports

In female basketball, Saidercray advanced along with Malabra and will face Sativaville in the quarterfinal. The female football team clearly missed the first two places in its group and has thus been eliminated, as is the male basketball team. Cyclists Key and Tyler qualified for the first round in men's individual pursuit, and Kevin Inide will participate in the 100 m breaststroke finals, although his chances to gain a medal are small. Those of Susan Chaah are better, who qualified together with Prisca Vigoda for the woman's 100m breastroke final and was 4th in the semifinal.
Tabler's gold from cycling remains Saidercray's only medal so far, but more may come.

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A frontier to chaos

A report from the former Saidercray-Brechenlass frontier

More than 1,500 km of demarcation line formed the frontier between Saidercray and Brechenlass, which could be reached within an hour by car from the cities of Dropaney and Hilngare, and it didn't take much more time to arrive at Saidercray coming from north Brechenlassian cities New Saratoga or Himmlichstadt.
The frontier to Brechenlass extended trough hills and mountains, hit and left rivers. With a ruin of a castle here, a rural highlander village there and many rocks and trees inbetween, our western borderland is a landscape which you can either call idyllic or boring and which wouldn't have anyone's guess for the place where a large-scale operation of red cross, police, military etc. would try to prevent a humanitarian catastrophy in late spring 2007.

Kedalfaxes "Kennerwyck Times and Post" of April 29 reported from Kedalfaxian Commonwealth member state Brechenlass: "[A] sudden, quick, and violent struggle erupted in Brechenlass, destroying the government, and leaving an unknown number of people dead. Power and communication infrastructure was knocked out completely." More dramatically spoken: What once has been our frontier to Brechenlass, is now our border to chaos.

News do not arrive from -former?- Brechenlass since, yet something else does: refugees. They do not know why all this happened in their state, they do not know what happened in general, but they know what happened right to them, and knowing this made them flee, taking with them not much more than what is purely necessary to survive. Fortunately for Saidercray, all major Brechenlassian cities are closer to Schnauzerland or Eisophca than they are to us, so most of those who escaped might have escaped to one of these states, but the number of those who chose Saidercray as their destination is big enough.Those of our provinces which border or Brechenlass, which are five of ten, from Burgow in central northern Saidercray over Tynborough, Varaylia and Fainland to our most southern province Coastland, have been put into state of emergency by President Woshkal.

Tent towns are built to receive the refugees which arrive covered with dust, with their faces marked by their occurences, but without any home. Hospitals in western Saidercray run on low flame for doctors have been sent borderwards, and relief organizations call for contribution in nationwide collection campaign.

The vague situation in our western neighbour country renders everything more difficult. There is no person to speak to on the other side, since the old government has obviously been overwhelmed without a new leader of whatsoever kind having risen afterwards, which means that all diplomatic contact is torn. There is no answer on who the men behind the uprising are and on what their motivation is. In an unlikely, yet not impossible worst case, the riots might spread to neighbouring states like Saidercray. To prevent this, border controls have been tightened to keep all those out who might be troublemakers instead of refugees.

It appears that until there are clear pointers to the backgrounds and the outcome of the chaos, Saidercray can only wait and do its very best to help.

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Saidercray advances to second round

Saidercray - Abu Omar 3-1
Saidercray: Simpson - Lardon, Uguel, Zuckerer - Baqura, Dacker (61. Moycon), Encel (46. Mortey), Ungcade - Brownland, Pawlson (80. Dishyatt), Ho
Goals: 1-0 Uguel 24., 1-1 26., 2-1 Baqura 43., 3-1 Ho 60.

Already in the last but one group match, the Saidercray national team has made the advancement and the group victory clear. After a 3-1 victory against the team of Abu Omar, Saidercray leads with an advantage of 6 points and 5 goals to the 2nd place.

With the self-confidence of three victories, Saidercray controlled the match from the beginning to the end.

In minute 24, defender and team captain Uguel headed the ball into the goal of Abu Omar after a corner by Baqura. Yet only two minutes later, Abu Omar equalized, again with a header following a corner. For the next 17 minutes, the match became more open, until Baqura scored the lead for his team when he kicked a ball into the goal which had hit the crossbar shortly before after a shot of Pawlson. In the second half, only one more goal should follow: In minute 60, Ho increased to the upshot of 3-1. Mortey, who had come in minute 46, played a flat cross into the penalty area, and Ho conveyed it into the goal with the sole of his foot.

Only three goals against Saidercray in four matches speak a clear language: Marco Vondelick's plan to improve the defense after IDUFC 2006 (Saidercray Today reported) obviously yields fruits. Though still playing 3-4-3, Saidercray does no longer rush against the adverse goal, yet aims at transfering the events slowly, but continuously into the opponents' part of the field and, once it is there, sticking it to this are until there is a chance for a goal. Furthermore, team captain Uguel who injuredly missed the IDUFC performs excellently in his role as the head of the defense rank.

Directly after the match, while first fans already began to celebrate into local pubs, Vondelick proclaimed the new devise: go for gold. "Where is the team against which these boys cannot win? It's nowhere. We do now want the golden medals and we know we can get them."
For the last group match against Estresse Intenso, he furthermore announced to let many young players have their turn in the beginning team - news which might annoy Ariddians since both Ariddia and Estresse Intenso have 6 points at the moment.
Meanwhile, hopes for a new match against Mikitivity disintegrated. The IDUFC 2006 winner who eliminated the Storks in the semi-final is the last team in group B with 1 point from four matches. On the other hand, the third IDU team, Malabra's, still has good chances to advance aswell.

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Brownland brings second round near at hand

Saidercray - Kelssek 1-0
Saidercray: Simpson - Bank, Humphrey, Garvew (66. Zuckerer) - Giney, Ungcade (66. Butcher), Encel, Moycon - Dishyatt (46. Pawlson), Brownland, Johnson-Clark
Goal: 1-0 Brownland 12.

Saidercray has won its third of so far three matches. As early as in minute 12, Gareth Brownland succeeded in shooting the goal of the day. The forward who had come into the team for injured player Cunio, who will also miss the two remaining group matches, scored a penalty after Moycon had been tackled from behind.
After continuing to play offensively for another quarter of an hour, the Storks saw that they could gain victory with less effort since Kelssek played very harmlessly. Yet in the second half, the team would almost have been punished for this tactic, but keeper Simpson thwarted two good chances of Kelssek. Afterwards, Vondelicj brought two new players and Saidercray played better again, so that victory was safe from then on.

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Storks march on

Ariddia - Saidercray 1-2
Saidercray: Simpson - Lardon (46. Bank), Uguel, Humphrey - Butcher, Moycon (60. Dacker), Ungcade, Mortey, Baqura - Ho, Cunio (70. Dishyatt)
Goals: 0-1 Ho 25., 1-1 36., 1-2 Dishyatt 75.

In a tactically ambitious match against current KPB world ranking's 16th and former World Cup winner Ariddia, Saidercray achieved its second victory in the second game and climbed the summit in group C.

Coach Marco Vondelick switched from the traditional 3-4-3 to a 3-5-2 system with two defensive, one central and two offensive midfielders. Against the very offensive Ariddians, Saidercray thus got the upper hand in the midfield and could quickly change over from defense into offense, thanks to the excellent performance of central midfielder Ungcade.
The teams neutralized each other at a very high level and a match developped which bored ordinary fans and which inspired tactic experts.
It was Saidercray's third chance at all which made the team take the lead in minute 25. Ho successfully chased a long pass, got the ball close to the touchline and crossed it to forward mate Cunio. Instead of shooting onto the goal himself, Cunio saw that Ho had meanwhile entered the penalty area and passed the ball back to him who completed from acute angle.
Afterwards, the match became more attractive with Arriddia reinforcing their offensive efforts and Saidercray aiming at a quick second goal to knock down their opponent. Right when it looked like Saidercray was becoming more and more dominant, Ariddia got a direct free kick at 22 meters to Simpson's goal. The ball flew against the post and from there to an Ariddian forward who the scored the 1-1 in minute 36.
In the 2nd half, the old tactical match developped again. In minute 70, Cunio was injured in a n in itself harmless duel and was replaced by Lawrence Dishyatt. Only three hundred seconds later, the striker from Dropaney marked the goal by which Saidercray carried the day. In a one-on-one situation against an Ariddian defender, Dishyatt outlined a pass to Baqura, yet instead of this he revolved about the player and shot the ball into the goal of Ariddia.

Being group C's only team which has won its first two matches, Saidercray has gained a very good starting point. Another win in the next match, and the team's advancement is almost certain.

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