Europa V Gibraltar United

Gibraltar Premier League Europa FC Match Program Europa FC V Gibraltar United

Sunday 28th April 2019 KO 16.00

Europa V Gibraltar United Officials for todays game.

Referee: H. Warwick Assistants: R. Navarro & J. Villada 4th Official: A. Delgado This week we have had two players together with their Coach training with the 1st team from Sporting Global from the USA. Sporting Global is a company organising Coaching camps and giving opportunities for players under the umbrella of Barcelona Academy.

They are based in Northern Virginia but have expanded rapidly in a few years they have been in business. They are now in Los Angeles, Bogota, Oklahoma City, Washington DC, Madrid & Barcelona.

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Europa FC President Peter Cabezutto

Dear supporters and football fans Here we are 4 games to go another final with the team we will meet in the Gibtelecom Rock Cup Final.

We must keep believing in our squad to keep winning games to keep having a chance of winning the league.

I want to thank our media person Lawerance Stagnetto for all the hard work he puts into everything he does for the club.

So I won’t say anything else and let’s watch a good game of football.

Believe always Believe Peter Cabezutto President

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Today’s Opponents Gibraltar United The club was founded by Aurelio Louis Danino a Gibraltarian journalist whose nom de plume was "Lubinox". The team was made up of local Gibraltarians who remained on the rock during the Second World War. As most of the civilian population was evacuated putting a halt to league football in Gibraltar over the war years, Gibraltar United would represent Gibraltarians and play against the UK based regiments and other military units serving in Gibraltar winning the Governor's Cup in their founding year of 1943. Once competitive football resumed on the Rock in 1946, United sealed their first league title. The club would dominate the next 10 years under Danino's presidency before entering a dry spell, winning a few more titles in the early 1960s with their last league title in 2001–02 - the last league title won by a side other than Lincoln Red Imps for 15 years before Europa's triumph in the 2016–17 season. Despite the triumph in 2002 breaking nearly 50 year without success at the club (aside from 3 consecutive Rock Cup victories from 1999 to 2001), the club quickly began to see a decline in fortunes against the continued dominance of Lincoln, and rumours began to emerge that the historic club was close to ceasing operations, amidst talk of a rumour with lower level club Lions FC to retain Gibraltar United's Premier Division place and adopt Lions' youth program.

After merging with Lions in 2011 to form Lions Gibraltar, the club established itself as a mid-table Gibraltar Premier Division side. However, in 2014, after the Gibraltar Football Association was accepted into UEFA, the club became independent of Lions once again and competed in the Gibraltar Second Division. After a tight race with Angels and Europa Point, the club won the title and promotion to the Gibraltar Premier Division for the 2015–16 season, building a squad with strong focus on Gibraltarian footballers and hiring Manolo Sanchez Nuñez as manager. A difficult first season saw them finish narrowly above the relegation playoff, with an 8th place finish securing safety.In April 2017, the club entered partnerships with Turicum Bank and former Real Madrid defender Michel Salgado, with the latter becoming one of the new owners of the club along with Dubai based businessman Pablo Dana. With survival confirmed at the end of the season with a 7th place finish, it was announced that Salgado would oversee youth trials in June, as well as arranging all transfers in preparation for the next season. United overvalued their squad and did away with their 'local only' policy for the start of the 17/18 season though they still retained around 50% of the squad as local players with a fair number of both full and Under 21 and Under 19 Internationals. After a 4th place finish in the 2017–18 season, manager Manolo left the club. (Source Wilkepedia)

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Gibraltar United Last Game Last Line up V Lincoln Lost 2-0 Goldwin

Subs

Gomez Prieto

Guijaro

Barnett

De Torres

Carrasco

Ratto

Santos

Suarez

Mouelhi

Gil Bado

Alvarez

Zapata

Quiros

Abilov

Negrette Antona Granados Marquez

Founded 1912 Chairman Adrian Ballesteros

Gibraltar Home & Away

Manager Paco Luna

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We had a chat with Sporting Global coach Pedro Mateo and players Ahmari Jones & Nick Adelman.

In general in Europe it’s easier to get a chance to be seen by a scout/club, in the USA to gain access to an academy or good level team there is normally a financial cost to it which limits the amount of people who are able to afford this meaning that many players are lost because of this.

In the US, players aspire to get into Universities and use football as a means to get there, whilst in Europe if you are of a good standard, teams will give you a chance. Once you get the taste of football here, nothing else will satisfy your ambitions. There are many more opportunities in Europe for a player.

Football in Europe is faster than the US and its better organised, with their coaches all having their qualifications and that can only be good for the players to progress.

Both players 1st session was with the 1st team and then with the under 23. Their opinion was that the standard of the players of the 1st team was very high and at first it was difficult for them to maintain a good rhythm.

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They had also just finished playing a tournament and were travelling all day to get to Gibraltar.

They both said they have had a very good experience and were grateful to Europa FC and Sporting Global for given them this opportunity. Football in Europe is part of the lifestyle and everywhere football is talked about.

Nick had moved house to follow his dream in playing football and Ahmari travels 2 hours every time he has a training session or a game.

We wish them good luck to all three for the future!

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Europa Academy

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Football Gibraltar Team Of The Week GK: Jamie Robba (St. Joseph) Def: Ibrahim Ayew (Europa) Def: Mario Ruesca (Lynx) Def: Olmo Gonzalez (Europa) Def: Bernardo Lopes (Lincoln) Def: Alain Pons (Lincoln) Mid: David Gomez (Gibraltar Utd) Mid: Raul Segura (Lynx) Mid: Nahuel Pereyra (Mons Calpe) Stiker: Juan Pablo Pereira (Mons Calpe) Striker: Gabrielle Novello (Glacis Utd)

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Fixtures & Results Matchday 1 of 27 Europa FC 2 - 1 Mons Calpe SC Matchday 2 of 27 Glacis United FC 0 - 0 Europa FC Matchday 3 of 27 Europa FC 2 - 0 Gibraltar Phoenix FC Matchday 4 of 27 Lions Gibraltar FC 0 - 2 Europa FC

Matchday 5 of 27 Europa FC 2 - 3 St.Joseph's FC Matchday 6 of 27 Gibraltar United FC 1 - 3 Europa FC Matchday 7 of 27 Europa FC 4 - 0 Lynx FC Matchday 8 of 27 Lincoln Red Imps FC 3 - 2 Europa FC Matchday 9 of 27 Europa FC WO 3-0 - Football Club Boca Juniors Matchday 10 of 27 Mons Calpe SC 1 - 2 Europa FC 14

Matchday 10 of 27 Mons Calpe SC 1 - 2 Europa FC Matchday 11 of 27 Europa FC 1 - 0 Glacis United FC Matchday 12 of 27 Gibraltar Phoenix FC 0 - 1 Europa FC Matchday 13 of 27 Europa FC 5 - 1 Lions Gibraltar FC Matchday 14 of 27 St.Joseph's FC 0 - 1 Europa FC Matchday 15 of 27 Europa FC 1 - 0 Gibraltar United FC Matchday 16 of 27

Lynx FC 1 - 1 Europa FC Matchday 17 of 27 Europa FC 1 - 1 Lincoln Red Imps FC Matchday 18 of 27 Boca Juniors 0 - 9 Europa FC Matchday 19 of 27 Europa FC 4 - 3 Mons Calpe SC

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Fixtures & Results Matchday 20 of 27 Glacis United FC 1 - 6 Europa FC Matchday 21 of 27 Europa FC 3-0 Gibraltar Phoenix FC Matchday 22 of 27 Lions Gibraltar FC 0-8 Europa FC Matchday 23 of 27 Europa FC 2–0 St.Joseph's FC Matchday 24 of 27 28/04/2019 – 16:00 V Gibraltar Utd Matchday 25 of 27 04/05/2019 – 16:00 V Lynx FC

Matchday 26 of 27 11/05/2019 – 18:15 V Lincoln Red Imps Matchday 27 of 27 18/05/2019 – 18:15 V Boca Juniors

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League Table

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Gibraltar FA News Gibraltar's Under 16s is playing in Bosnia & Herzegovina taking part in a UEFA Developemnt tournament in Zenica.

26/04/2019 - Gibraltar U16 v Montenegro U16 28/04/2019 - Gibraltar U16 v Bosnia & Herzegovian U16 30/04/2019 - Gibraltar U16 v Armenia U16

Squad Liam Asquez

Davan Martin

Ryan Azopardi

Paddy McClafferty

Sean Benitez

Jamie McGrail

Dylan Borg

Kiri McGrail

Julian Britto

Mathew Pilcher

Finlay Cawthorn

Kivan Ramos

Thomas Chakraverty

Omar Salaheldin

Kyle Clinton

Kadrian Verjaque

Bilal Douah

Ellis Wilson

Elias Juel-Salah

Christian Zammitt

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Gibraltar Under 16 Ladies played in Salou.

Gibraltar 0—N. Ireland 3 Gibraltar 1– Wales 4 Gibraltar 1– Republic Of Ireland 4

Squad Sophia Brinkman

Cristina Cosquieri

Natasha Escalona

Akisha Ferrel

Kayleigh Ferro

Jaylene Gaivizo

Mollie Karp

Renai Marcus

Gabriella Martinez

Reighann Mascarenhas Olivero

Arwen Neale

Sarah Popham

Caitlin Robba

Shania Robba

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1st TEAM PLAYERS SPONSORSHIP

Javi Munoz

Dayle Coleing

Peter Jorgenssen

Olmo

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Lance Cabezutto

Ethan Jolley

Manu Dimas

Nalys Castro

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TJay De Barr

Ibrahim Ayew

Mustapha Yahaya

Domingo Utrera

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Alex Quillo

Aaron Payas

Liam Walker

Urko Arroyo

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1st TEAM PLAYERS SPONSORSHIP

Razak Iddrisu SPONSOR

Michael Yome Manuel Arana SPONSOR

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Thomas Hastings SPONSOR

Lee Muscat

Sean Gilbert

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Players Sponsorship Sponsoring one of Europa players has now become one of the most attractive ways to show your support for the club. This package offers a great opportunity for brand exposure in the Match Day Programme and within the local community, as well as giving you the opportunity to meet your sponsored player.

As part of the package your name or business will be printed below the sponsored player in every match day programme. In addition you will receive either a home or away shirt signed by your chosen player. It will be included in our website plus you will receive a personal thank you letter.

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100 YEARS Anniversary 1919-2019 We will publish old photos we have from Europa, if you have some photos please get in contact with us.

7 Leagues

7 Cups

2 Super Cups

AMBASSADOR FOR EUROPA FC MARCEL DESAILLY Left Desailly In Gibraltar.

Right when he played for Chelsea.

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Europa FC 1st Team Squad Javi Munoz

Spain

Liam Walker

Gibraltar

Dale Coleing

Gibraltar

Urko Arroyo

Spain

Emil Peter Jorgenssen

Denmark

Razak Iddrissu

Germany

Olmo

Spain

Michael Yome

Gibraltar

Lance Cabezutto

Gibraltar

Manuel Arana

Spain

Ethan Jolley

Gibraltar

Manu Dimas

Spain

Nalys Castro

France

Lee Muscat

Gibraltar

Ibrahim Ayew

Ghana

TJ De Barr

Gibraltar

Mustapha Yahaya

Ghana

Thomas Hastings

Gibraltar

Domingo Utrera

Spain

Sean Gilbert

Gibraltar

Alex Quillo

Spain

Aaron Payas

Gibraltar

Next Match Saturday 4th May Europa V Lynx KO at 16.00

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