U17 - Future defeat Naya

By Tara Bush
Caymanian Compass

Future 3
Naya 0

Despite going down to 10 players, Future de-feated Naya 3-0 in the U-17 League at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex.
Wednesday's game, of-ficiated solely by Paul Macey, was competitive with both teams display-ing a high degree of tal-ent.
Future appeared primed for the win from the onset as at least four of their players are regu-lars in the Foster Broth-ers National League. They seemed to be more confident and better able to spread the ball around the field than their small and less poised oppo-nents.

Despite this, Naya's keeper Mario Dinnall and mid-fielder Troy Taylor managed to hold Future off until the 30th minute.
Gustavo Cappleaf, wearing bronzed boots, crossed the ball from deep in the right hand corner of the field. Ed-ward Kerr then sent a side-winding shot that hit the target. Future kept up the pressure. Just as the referee was ready to sound the half-time whis-tle, Future's Jared Yates and a Naya player got into a tussle, which re-sulted in the referee brandishing a red card and a yellow. Yates was sent off for violent con-duct and may miss as many as three games for the incident, according to Macey. Down to 10 players, Future was not a fluid as before with their passing game. In fact for the first 20 minutes of the second half their play appeared a little jerky and the game was scrappy.

While Naya's forwards did manage once or twice to get the ball into Fu-ture's third, they were not able to really test the keeper.
Then in the 83rd min-ute John Kelly, a de-fender for Future, came from the back. He fi-nessed his way through Naya's mid-fielder and defences and slotted the ball into the net. Six minutes later Kelly found the net again, taking the score up to 3-nil.
More U-17 play con-tinues this week Tues-day-Thursday at the Truman Bodden Sports Complex and the George Hicks Field.