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Andrewsburgville comes into this cup ready for any challenge, led by Andrew Figueiredo, and his high scoring in the league and on the international stage. Filipe Campos is the best defender, strong and always ready to steal the ball. With 102 caps, he is the most experienced player on the squad.

Swiss National Team to Compete
Returning legend Gordon du-Lusavik will lead his team in the Gaveoan football cup after missing the past few competitions due to an ankle injury. du-Lusavik, age 31, is a former medalist at the Baptism of Fire, and has started for Basil AC on many occasions before being transferred to a Kinitarian team.

The Swiss national team also has some new faces, among them Nicholas Jayet, a 21 year old goalie (also from Basil), who has been declared "the future of Swiss goalkeeping." Replacing M. Wind as the starter for the national team, he has been cited saying he looks forward to any and all competition that comes his way.

Gaveo had a tradition of playing football but ever since the "Dark Times" Gaveo hasn't played internationally in over 60 years, the last time they played was the Gaveoan Empire beating the newly seperated Arubbizion beating them 5-1. Now Gaveoan people finally decided to form a national team consisting Gaveo's best. Hernan Garcia, age 39 has gone past his 20s prime but was ready for the cup saying, "This is my one opportunity, I will take it." Hopefully Gaveo shows the world its futbol prowess...

The Raptors are ready for this tournament after winning their national football cup.

Coach of the Raptors : "The squad is very strong this year compared to the others in Reen. We will be looking foward to how they match up against the other teams from around the world."

"We are prepared to take on Football at the International level representing our home country Reen in the Gaveoan Football Cup. We are all very excited." Explained Wes Leiper (captain) of the Raptors in an interview after practice.

"I would like to thank Gaveo for hosting this Cup and i wish the best to all the teams participating." Said Allan Boze (Chairman of the RFF) in a statement today.

The rules were finally released, two yellows equals suspension and a red card equals (obviously) a suspension, there will be a league (or a round robin) and the top for will advance to the finals 1 against 4 and 2 against 3. After the semis a final and third place game will be arranged... The round robin will consist of 5 games each team...

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MATCHDAY 1
Reen-Free Swiss States
Andrewsburgville-Slembana
MACTCHDAY 2
Free Swiss States-Gaveo
Andrewsburgville-Reen
MATCHDAY 3
Gaveo-Slembana
Free Swiss States-Andrewsburgville
MATCHDAY 4
Andrewsbugville-Gaveo
Reen-Slembana
MATCHDAY 5
Gaveo-Reen
Slembana-Free Swiss States

Locations to be announced soon...

Reen-Free Swiss States (Estadio Nacional de Gaveo)
Andrewsburgville-Slembana (Estadio Buena Vista)

Free Swiss States Amazed at Giant Bathrooms
Says Nicholas Jayet, goalkeeper for the Swiss football team, "Holy crap, the bathrooms in the hotel were ENORMOUS! We had two Jacuzzis! And a sushi bar!" Jonah Nizzy, head coach of the Swiss team, happens to agree. "I'm really glad we're here at the Gaveoan Cup... great bathrooms!" At this point Nicholas interrupted once again. "They also have TV's mounted to the walls so you can watch while you pee!" Nicholas, new to the national team, has been described as more of a silent guy, though extremely excitable when roused.

"I can watch myself in slow motion on the TV while I urinate!" Jayet cried as he was escorted out of the newsroom by his coach, who was patting him on the shoulder and saying, "Now, now, NIcholas... not good to get your blood pressure up before a game..."

The team will play Reen in their next fixture. We asked experienced and veteran member of the team, Donovan Menelle, to comment on the game. He said, "I don't know. But have you seen the bathrooms in this place? Those things are huge!"

Goalkeeper, Victor Moreno was ecstatic when he was announced as the goalie for Gaveo, "Unbelievable! This was my dream since I was a kid, I practiced all day long and have my parents to thank." Although Gaveo is not going to play tomorrow they are ready to face a dangerous Swiss team. Captian Sebastian Cadiz said "I happy to face a team of this caliber, sure the other teams are good but this is our biggest challenge because this is our first international... I hope we don't mess up!" as jokes around... As said earlier Gaveo will face the Swiss Free States... GO GAVEO!

OOC: When you are start RPing you start off with 3.0 style and rank both increase by .5 for a post you make then after the match it resets back to 3.0

MATCHDAY 1
Gaveo-Raxillion @ Estadio Nactional de Gaveo
Reen-Free Swiss States @ Estadio Buena Vista
Andrewsburgville-Slembana @ Estadio Municipal de Chano

Sorry for any inconveniences, fully schedule to be released...

"Looks like Gaveo is playing after all on Matchday 1 they will be facing last second entree Raxillion." says Sport Gaveo Host Kyle Woodbury. "Ok, men looks like we are playing tomorrow so lets practice our last minute drills, VAMOS GAVEO!!!" *Loud cheers from team* "Looks like our first game is tomorrow, guys," says captain Sebastian Cadiz. "Lets do this!"

MATCHDAY 1
Gaveo-Raxillion
Reen-Free Swiss States
Andrewsburgville-Slembana
MATCHDAY 2
Free Swiss States-Gaveo
Slembana-Raxillion
Andrewsburgville-Reen
MATCHDAY 3
Gaveo-Slembana
Free Swiss States-Andrewsburgville
Raxillion-Reen
MATCHDAY 4
Andrewsburgville-Gaveo
Reen-Slembana
Raxillion-Free Swiss States
MATCHDAY 5
Gaveo-Reen
Andrewsburgville-Raxillion
Slembana-Free Swiss States

The National Raxillion Football Association (NRFA) head coach Tyrone Hersh made a last second entree into the Gaveon Football Cup stating "Raxillion needs a International Association to be noticed into the world of sports other than play in our own backyard."

The Raxillion team seems very confident about there chances in the cup, when asked about his current standing on there success goal keeper Arthur Bickford said "We are the best team in Raxillion and have won our National Cup countless amounts of time, I don't think we have to worry about losing this cup."

Since the last second entree the NRFA will start immediate training as soon as they land in Gaveon, stated by the coach before leaving onto the plane.

MATCHDAY 1
Gaveo 1-0 Raxillion
Reen 0-1 Free Swiss States
Andrewsburgville 2-2 Slembana


Group A Standings
Team P W D L For Ag +/- Pts
1 Gaveo 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3
2 Free Swiss States 1 1 0 0 1 0 +1 3
3 Andrewsburgville 1 0 1 0 2 2 +0 1
4 Slembana 1 0 1 0 2 2 +0 1
5 Reen 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0
6 Raxillion 1 0 0 1 0 1 -1 0

MATCHDAY 2
Free Swiss States-Gaveo @ Estadio Buena Vista
Slembana-Raxillion @ Estadio Nactional de Gaveo
Andrewsburgville-Reen @ Estadio Municipal de Chano

Good luck to all teams!

Huge Dance Party in Bathrooms Broken Up by Team Coach
After their victorious match against a team from Reen, the Swiss footballers immediately preceeded to their lavish living rooms spacing and began a dance party in what has been described as some very large and prestigious restroom facilities. As famous song "Swiss-t and Shout" blared over the loudspeakers, team goalkeeper Nicholas Jayet led the team in some karaoke exercises.

Sadly, the party was soon broken up by team coach Jonah Nizzy, who exclaimed that the team needed to "rest their muscles," and "make sure they don't crash their body's supply of blood sugar." Says defense starter, W. Mazar, "We were just having a bit of fun."

At press time, the coach had reportedly announced that the "giant bathrooms" were now "totally off-limits."

A historic day for Gaveo as they won their first international game by a goal from captain, Sebastian Cadiz. Streets all over Gaveo were filled with fans lining up in the streets to yell out that they won. "THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!" shouts one fan, the Gaveoan national team adds to the happy comments from Gaveoans, "WE DID IT!!!" yells Hernan Garcia, "I thought this day would never come, the match was hard fought and we prevailed." Gaveo face off with an equally happy Swiss team at Estadio Buena Vista. VAMOS GAVEO!!!

Sad day for Reen football fans today because Reen lost their first match today 1-0 to the Free Swiss States Team. Oh well, they still have four more matches.

The Slembana Times: Decent result

By Peter Whiteman, chief football reporter at the Estadio Municipal de Chano, Gaveo (attendance 18,764)

Upsetting, isn’t it? Our first match in the Gaveoan football tournament was played at the smallest stadium. Anyway, we drew 2-2 with Andrewsburgville.

We opened the scoring in the 2nd minute, when Pete Galbor’s cross was headed home by Jack Vanderton. After the goal, we were dominant, with the Andrewsburgvillian goalkeeper Paulo Vitor saving shots from Vanderton, Galbor, Friday Keane, and Yannick Fleftouno. However, Andrewsburgville equalized after 37 minutes (actually after 36 minutes, because the clock said 36:12), when Pedro Nogueira dinked the ball over Peter Jackson, our goalkeeper, from a penalty.

We went back ahead in the 63rd minute, when Zorro Pullman smashed home from 30 yards. It was a great goal, and gave us a deserved lead, as we had had a goal wrongly chalked off for offside in the 49th minute. However, in the last minute, a clearance from Faryz Volix hit Andrew Figueiredo, Andrewsburgville’s star striker. The ball flicked off Figueiredo’s head and looped in over Jackson to give Andrewsburgville an undeserved equalizer.

Raxillion National News Televison Brodcast

A disappointed team for a dissapointed game, Raxillion fans cheered as there team faced Gaveo a close game that looked inevitably as a draw until the last 20 minutes of the game where Gaveo captain Sebastian Candiz scored while flying past defender Chad Neuman, kicking the ball into the top left corner of the goal, where cheers in Raxillion suddenly grew silent. "There is no blame on Chad for losing the game, The team just didn't get much rest for the game that day." said Raxillion coach Tyrone Hersh stating that after they landed it was right to practice, "There still four more games and Raxillion is going to be there at the top" lastly state by the coach.

Team members of the NRFA were heartbroken of the outcome as the slowly dragged themselves off the field. "We played good.. And this loss seriously made us realize that these teams are serious on there intent to win this cup, Hah, we are lucky enough we still have a chance. So watch out Slembana! We are coming for you!" said by goal keeper Arthur Bickford.

Hopefully Raxiilion is able to bring put a win for there proud nation after all there are millions watching! And that's all the time we have for our sports news.

In other news...

MATCHDAY 2
Free Swiss States 0-1 Gaveo
Slembana 3-2 Raxillion
Andrewsburgville 0-3 Reen


Group A Standings

Team P W D L For Ag +/- Pts
1 Gaveo 2 2 0 0 2 0 +2 6
2 Slembana 2 1 1 0 5 4 +1 4
3 Free Swiss States 2 1 0 1 1 1 +0 3
4 Reen 2 1 0 1 3 1 +2 3
5 Andrewsburgville 2 0 1 1 2 5 -3 1
6 Raxillion 2 0 0 2 2 4 -2 0

Another close match this time Hernan Garcia scored the game winning goal on a very big foul on captain Sebastian Cadiz by a Swiss player. The player got a red card and Sebastian will be out for 2 gamedays. The ball wizzed right through the gollie's hand as 90+ minutes were about to be up. Hernan Garcia was picked up by team mates after the game... This is what he said after the match, "That was waaaay to close and am so happy that we got a challenge from a amazing Swiss team, I hope we go have similarly fun time against Slembana, LET GO GAVEO!" And this was the SPORT REPORT for everyone here this is Miguel Fuentes, caio Gaveo.

MATCHDAY 3
Gaveo-Slembana @ Estadio Nactional de Gaveo
Free Swiss States-Andrewsburgville @ Estadio Buena Vista
Raxillion-Reen @ Estadio Municpal de Chano