Sunday, August 29 Re-Cap Ontario Cup competition!

AEK London bound for final
There won’t be the big number of London teams that usually dominate Ontario Cup finals day, but one of the two is AEK London of the Western Ontario Soccer League, who have made it for the third straight year. AEK defeated Toronto Blackstars FC 1-0 on the weekend and will play Ottawa Royals in the Sept. 19 final. Read More

Sunday, August 8
London teams had mixed results in weekend Ontario Cup competition. The biggest surprise was in senior women’s play. The North London Galaxy, looking to win their fourth straight Ontario Cup, was upset by Windsor Caboto in a quarterfinal game 2-1 on penalty kicks.
Three other North London girls’ teams were more successful in moving to the semifinals.
The under-16 Galaxy defeated Brampton 7-2,
the under-14 Lasers defeated Oshawa 2-0
and the under-13 Spartans emerged 1-0 winners over Erin Mills.
The Lasers have defeated both of the teams that made the Ontario Cup final last year.
The under-12 North London Supersonic, the fifth North London girls’ team to have made it to the quarterfinals, lost a close 1-0 contest to North Mississauga.
In the men’s division, AEK London got a second-half goal from Haris Cekic to defeat Thunder Bay Juventus 1-0 in London. Cekic had arrived back in London the night before after spending five days in the MLS Kansas City Wizards’ camp.
London Portuguese, the other Western Ontario Soccer League men’s team, travelled to Brampton and were defeated 2-1 by the Ebony.
In under-16 Tier 1 boys’ play, Ajax defeated London United Gunners 4-0.

London Indoor Soccer-$8-million soccer site a first for SW Ontario !

London Optimist Sports Centre
By Debora Van Brenk, The London Free Press

  London, ON – Like orange sideline flags, wooden stakes mark where work will start this week on Southwestern Ontario’s first, full-sized soccer centre. The $8-million London building — to be built southwest of the Western Fair Agriplex, and owned and operated as the not-for-profit London Optimist Sports Centre — will feature a regulation soccer pitch that can be curtained off into four smaller indoor-standard pitches. The city last week made final a land swap for the central site. The swap was in exchange for the group’s soccer-dome land near the airport. Now, construction will move faster than a World Cup speed dribble, with project completion targeted for March 2011. Read More

London Indoor Soccer found a new home !

  London, ON – The London Optimists Sports Centre, which draws 4,500 players weekly, will move from the east end to a spot near Western Fair grounds

 VAUGHAN, ON (Sept 23, 2009). — In the last  game of the 2009 Ontario Cup Finals on a cool Fall evening under the floodlights of the Ontario Soccer Centre turf field, Real Toronto met AEK London FC in a much-anticipated re-match of last year’s contest between these two rivals.

The 2008 match resulted in a 2-1 victory for Real Toronto, but this outcome was later over-turned on account of a player eligibility infraction with the result that London EAK represented Ontario in the annual quest for the Challenge Cup at the Club Nationals in St. John’s, Newfoundland. With many of the same players contesting the 2009 title, the stage was set for an action-packed game with a low tolerance for unsportsmanlike conduct on both sides. [more]

Gauss family passing ball