PIGS SQUEAL
ADF dominates NQ rep side in 4-1 football victory

By Andrew Stackpool

ADF soccer player LAC Amied Shadmaan tries to keep his feet as the Kitty Hawk goalkeeper gathers the ball.

Photo by Bill Cunneen

THE ADF’s finest soccer players took on some of North Queensland’s best and won.

The ADF Football Federation team defeated the representative North Queensland Razorbacks 4-1 in front of about 3000 soccer fans at the Townsville sports reserve on July 9.

The match was played as the curtain raiser for the A-League match between the Queensland Roar and the Central Coast Mariners.

The ADF squad was unsure of the opposition’s quality as it went into the match, though it had watched a recent Razorbacks game and realised they were very quick.

ADF came out of the blocks hard and fast. The tactic worked as the Defence team scored an early goal after an opportunistic header by Leading Aircraftman Amied Shadmaan from RAAF Base Williamtown.

For the next 20 minutes the status quo, as both teams wrestled to gain the upper hand. Then a fantastic long-range goal by the Razorbacks took both teams into the break at 1-all. The game was in the balance.

During the break, ADF coach Warrant Officer Second Class Blaise Fagan had a quiet chat with the team, and made a couple of inspirational substitutions. His tactics turned the game on its head.

ADF stormed into the attack in the second half, as it had done in the first. There followed a dazzling display of laser-like passing and sharp movement by the ADF team, which had the Razorbacks on the run.

The ever-present Corporal Geoff Gillard from RAAF Base Williamtown set the scene with three brilliant goals, giving ADF compete control of the game and, ultimately, the match.

 

 

 

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