Kicked About
The second day of the Trophy of Legends would be rather harder on the Birds, who won only the opening match against German V.8 titleholders Köln-City Kickers. It was again
Chia Kwang Tse who seized the key opportunities despite starting in midfield, and after Moritz Giesinger had cancelled his 40th minute strike, Chia would answer instantly to pave the way for
Mohd Marzuki Khairul to close. Before that,
Dimitris Germanakos did his part by saving Angel Calvo's 61st minute penalty, after the Uruguayan tried to be too clever with his dink down the middle.
That was as far as it got for Grilled, whose main excuse were that they had to fly off for a friendly after all was done. A 2-6 loss to former Swedish national champions and current IIe club Rommeholen FC was perhaps par for the course, with
Lim An Keng and
Aw Keng Chuan scoring. 3-5 to Dortmund's IV.59 participants Deportivo Baukau perhaps less so, but that was in large part due to former German youth striker Eric Brustmann exploding with a hat-trick. Germanakos's spot kick heroics continued as he psyched Ole Olsen out, while
Joe Reece exhibited a glimpse of his heading ability to get on the scoreboard together with Chitre and Lim.
The Buns would arrive having just played their first fixture in the King of Football Cup tourney against Icelandic III.12 former Harmbikar Íslands champs Real Rioja CF, which they lost after Burkhard Kausl got it over
Gilberto Sorondo in the 32nd minute. That presaged a third bore draw, this against Swiss VI.821 team HFC 2014, who never quite looked like getting through the Buns' defensive line.
Ho Ah Kian pinged one off their bar in the 78th, before player-coach Dierk Ebersberg received the game's only booking for contesting a decision.
Defeat against Czech V.209 contestants SK Skalice A followed, with the only goal coming very late after
Amaya Ravula had put a couple wide from counters. Skalice were a menace from their many corners, and it was perhaps inevitable that they would get one in, with Vasiliy Trofimov doing the honours six minutes from time. The Buns then beat Italian IV.7 champions .Paranoid 2-0, as
Prakash Bhujbal and
Vitaliy Efendiev struck hard towards the end of the first half.
Grilled International maintained the best record of all as they got to five wins out of six, despite starting with a miserable 0-3 against Romanian V.195 runners-up Team-1. Alfonso Gómez and Sansão Guerra punished some terrible individual defending, with Guerra's nutmeg of
Leri Bezhanishvili in the 14th minute badly affecting the ex-Georgian U-20 star. International just could not string passes together, and Gus Naylor made it three in the 54th with a reactive touch.
The victories would come at least, firstly at Polish VI.50 winners Prądnik Sułoszowa, who opened through Tomasz Marek's long shot only to be put down 5-2, as Bezhanishvili came good with a stylish brace. French VI.1 titlewinners DESPORTIVO BOCA were next, and after they stunned International thanks to Marc-Antoine Rolland, Nikita Komrakov's dismissal for a late high boot had them concede two each to Golden Boot holders
Umut Koza and
Chua Jun Long, for 4-2 by the end.
