European Football Cup 2015

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS 2015 – Padania FA

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FINAL RESULT
1. Padania FA
2. County of Nice
3. Ellan Vannin
4. Felvidek LE
5. Romani people
6. Szekelyföld LE

2015 will see CONIFA’s 2nd major footballing event and sporting festival after the 2014 World Football Cup in Östersund Sweden. The 2015 will be in the wonderful Hungarian city of Debrecen and will be played from 17.06. to 21.06. with 6 teams in 2 groups of 3.

The venue:

The European Football Cup 2015 (EFC2015) will be organised by the Szekely Land FA in the Eastern Hungarian city of Debrecen. Debrecen is known as the “second city” of Hungary and is ever since one of the cultural capitals of Hungary. In addition it is home to one of the most successful teams in recent years – Debreceni VSC.
For CONIFA Debrecen acts a perfect host city as it offers a perfect setup to carry out the CONIFA EFC2015. All teams will leave less than 200m away from the main stadium that will be used – the former stadium of Debreceni VSC “Stadion Oláh Gábor Út” and the second, smaller, stadium.
Having everything in one place will surely proof as a big benefit for players, officials, VIP guests and media!

The teams:

Six teams will compete in the first ever European Championship of football national teams outside FIFA. With Szekely Land; Felvidek and Romani People 3 teams will do their first ever steps in a CONIFA event and will meet the World Football Cup 2014 finalists County of Nice and Ellan Vannin and the classical Italian superpower outside FIFA Padania.
We are very sure that the quality of the tournament will be excellent and that probably all matches will be very close calls.

Wednesday 17th June

16:00 CET Padania FA – Romani people (group 2) Result: 3 – 2 (1 – 1)
0 – 1 S. Horvath (Romani)
1 – 1 S. Tignonsini (Padania)
2 – 1 M. Garavelli (Padania)
2 – 2 R. Csoka (Romani)
3 – 2 A. Rota (Padania)

Yellow cards:
L. Ferri (Padania)
J. Kertesz (Romani)
P. Nagy (Romani)

19.30 CET Szekelyföld LE – County of Nice (group 1) Result: 2 – 3 (1 – 0)
1 – 0 L. Hodgyai (Szekelyföld)
1 – 1 F. Delerve (Nice)
2 – 1 S. Magyari (Szekelyföld)
2 – 2 F. Delerve (Nice)
2 – 3 M. Tchokounte (Nice)

Yellow cards:
L. Hodgyai (Szekelyföld)
N. Denes (Szekelyföld)
N. Benkö (Szekelyföld)
A.Kovacs (Szekelyföld)
N. Denes (Szekelyföld)  = red card
A. Kovacs (Szekelyföld) = red card

Summary day 1:
Two really skillful and technical matches, both Szekelyföld LE and Romani people became really positive surprises for all of us and gave Padania and County of Nice really competetive resistance. Now we´re all looking forward for tomorrow when Felvidek and Ellan Vannin enters the tournament.

Thursday 18th June

16.00 CET Romani people – Ellan Vannin (group 2) Result: 1 – 3 (1 – 1)
0 – 1 S. Sharkey (EV)
1 – 1 I. Irhas (Romani)
1 – 2 F. Jones (EV)
1 – 3 C. Bass Jr (EV)

Yellow cards:
S. Nemeth (Romani)
B. Lakatos (Romani)
S. Caine (EV)
C. McNulty (EV)
S. Nemeth (Romani) = red card

19.30 CET Felvidek LE – Szekelyföld LE (group 1) Result: 3 – 1 (1 – 1)
1 – 0 A. Dalkoni (Felvidek)
1 – 1 S. Magyari (Szekelyföld)
2 – 1 Z. Magyar (Felvidek)
3 – 1 M. Kosa (Felvidek)

Yellow cards:
L. Pasztor (Felvidek)
Z. Novata (Felvidek)
Z. Novata (Felvidek) = red card
L. Szöcs (Szekelyföld)

Summary day 2:
Today both Ellan Vannin and Felvidek entered the European Championship which ended up with wins for both of the teams. As yesterday, todays matches were really tight, full with speed, physical play and skillful techniques. The Romani people was so close to score the “Goal of the tournament” with a beautiful bisicleta that just went on the outside of the goal. We can also already determine that Szekelyföld and Romani people plays 5 / 6 place match on Friday. Tomorrow will show which teams that will play against eachother in the semifinals on Saturday.

Friday 19th June

12.00 CET 5 / 6th place Szekelyföld LE – Romani people, Result: 2 – 4 (1 – 1)
1 – 0 P. Silion (Szekelyföld)
1 – 1 J. Oivido (Romani)
1 – 2 J. Oivido (Romani)
2 – 2 J. Mate (Szekelyföld)
2 – 3 I. Irhas (Romani)
2 – 4 S. Horvath (Romani)

Yellow cards:
None

15.00 CET Padania FA – Ellan Vannin (group 2) Result: 1 – 0 (1 – 0)
1 – 0 M. Prandelli (Padania)

Yellow cards:
A. Rota (Padania)
T. Weir (EV)
G. Valente (Padania)
J. McVey (EV)
N. Mazotti (Padania)
A. Pizotta (Padania)

18.00 CET Felvidek LE – County of Nice (group 1) Result: 1 – 4 (1 – 3)
0 – 1 J. Onda (Nice)
0 – 2 F. Delerve (Nice)
0 – 3 R. Andrea (Nice)
1 – 3 R. Czingel (Felvidek)
1 – 4 T. Jaziri (Nice)

Yellow cards:
A. Baudoin (Nice)

Summary day 3:
This days first match determined that Szekelyföld ended in 6th place and the Romani people ended 5th place in the European Championship, a game that Szekelyföld controlled for most of the time but was unable to score when there was possibilities, which was punished in the end by the Romani people. The second game became a hard and though battle between Ellan Vannin and Padania with a lot of emotions involved. It was a extremly important game since it would determine the group placement and it could easily been given even more yellow cards.
County of Nice won the last match of the day againts Felvidek which finally determined the semifinal opponents for both of the teams. Now, we´re all looking forward for tomorrow and the semifinals of this very competitive tournament.

Saturday 20h June

15.00 CET Semi I Ellan Vannin – County of Nice, Result: 1 – 3 (0 – 2)
0 – 1 F. Delerve (Nice)
0 – 2 L. Floridi (Nice)
0 – 3 R. Girand (Nice)
1 – 3 F. Jones (EV)

Yellow cards:
J. Minasi (Nice)
B, Delfino (Nice)
S. Quake (EV)
S. Gignoli (Nice)

18.30 CET Semi II Padania FA – Felvidek LE, Result: 5 – 0 (3 – 0)
1 – 0 M. Prandelli (Padania)
2 – 0 N. Mazzotti (Padania)
3 – 0 M. Prandelli (Padania)
4 – 0 F. De Peralta (Padania)
5 – 0 E. Baruwah (Padania)

Yellow cards:
M. Prandelli (Padania)
A. Pizzolla

Sunday 21st June

13.00 CET 3 / 4th place Playoff Ellan Vannin – Felvidek LE Result: 1 – 1 (1 – 1), Penalties: 5 – 3
1 – 0 C. Bass (EV)
1 – 1 Z.Magyar (Felvidek)

Yellow cards:
Z. Magyar (Felvidek)
A. Dalnoki (Felvidek)
S. Sharkey (EV)
L. Pasztor (Felvidek)
Z. Novota (Felvidek)

16.00 CET FINAL Padania FA – County of Nice, Result: 4 – 1 (2 – 0)
1 – 0 S. Tignonsini (Padania)
2 – 0 W. Rosset (Padania), penalty
3 – 0 M. Prandelli (Padania)
4 – 0 F. De Peralto (Padania)
4 – 1 F. Delerve (Nice)

Red cards:
Nr 4 – Nice
Nr 7 – Nice
Nr 14 – N. Mazzotti (Padania)

20.00 CET Closing cermony