Cabo Azure 3-0 TakeshwarAn expected win which created an unexpected result as the Maçaricas take first in group D and secure a much easier path in the knockouts. Doubtless the Græntfjallers deserve better than to crash out in the group stage, but despite scoring four goals in a win over Mytanija, the Snow Wolves fell short on head to head. Takeshwar, for their part, showed no more fight than they did in either of the other two matchdays, providing an easy win for Cabo Azure to continue its surprising domination of the group.No Pos. Name
GK Antunes
LB Branco
RB de Lima (off 74')
CB Mendes
CB Moniz
RM Ferreira
LM Serra
CM Alves (goal 81')
CF Montenegro (C)
LW Silveira (goal 51')
RW Gouveia (off 67')
RW Carriço (on 67', goal 78')
RB Costa (on 74')
With that said, this match wasn't a guaranteed win from the getgo. Indeed, the first half looked almost perilous as the Maçaricas failed to get any traction on offense. One singular offender was young Vasco Gouveia, who earned his start with a decisive performance in the win against Mytanija, but found himself replaced by Ademar Carriço in the second half, who promptly scored the game's second goal. Gouveia disappeared for long stretches of the first half, leaving Montenegro stranded and out of ideas, a cardinal sin in Azurean football.
The Azureans will next play San Ortelio, who have scraped out a second-place finish in a weak group. I Spadi are the more experienced side, having made their debut in Copa Rushmori 36, but a milquetoeast performance in the group stage does not bode well for a knockout match against the winners of a group like Group D. The winner of the Copa Azure-San Ortelio match will go on to face the winner between Astograth and Southwest Eastnorth in the quarterfinals
O Interregno pt 3 "The Resistance"
Opposition to the Transition Council originated as opposition to King Reinaldo II, while he was still Prince Reinaldo in the months that preceded his father’s death. Two distinct groups met in secret and monitored the ailing king’s health closely for any signs of when his unpopular son might take the throne. The two factions are retroactively dubbed “republicans” and “royalists”, so called because of their opposition to and support for the continued rule of the royal family, but the kingdom versus republic divide only scratches the surface of the issues that divided the Azurean opposition in those days. As one historian put it, “everyone could agree that Reinaldo II needed to be replaced, but no one could agree who or what should replace him.”At the heart of the matter was the fact that Cabo Azure had, up to that point, successfully resisted globalization. With the exception of a few royally-chartered companies in Sao Simone purchasing specialty goods from overseas, the majority of goods consumed in Cabo Azure in the first half of the twentieth century were homegrown, from foodstuffs to textiles and hand tools. The dawning age of electronics cast serious doubt on the Azurean manufacturing sector’s capacity to keep up (no Azurean firm ever produced a television, for instance, and most radios were imported) and led many to petition the ailing King Reinaldo I to expand import licenses.
The royalists were by and large in favor of maintaining the tight controls that the government had always had over the Azurean economy, fearful that an influx of cheaper goods from elsewhere in Rushmore would undercut Azurean producers and hollow out the economy. The republicans, by contrast, believed an increase in competition and a reduction in consumer prices would benefit the Azurean people by lowering the cost of living on the islands. Historical data shows both sides were right; dozens of Azurean companies shuttered or sold out to foreign investment in sectors that were liberalized, while consumer prices in those sectors dropped significantly, leading to the ubiquity of what had previously been luxury goods, such as televisions and microwave ovens.
There was common ground between the factions, especially where the royal family was concerned; both sides agreed that sending young Princess Abigail to boarding school in Cassadaigua was to everyone’s benefit, and staunch royalists and republicans worked together to make the necessary connections for the transaction. In fact, Abby was a darling of both sides of the aisle, with moderate republicans seeing the face of a new, progressive constitutional monarchy, while royalists believed Abby had the necessary attributes to continue the royal tradition.
While the details of the 1974 assassination attempt on King Reinaldo II are obscure, it is widely believed the royalist faction was behind it, based mostly on the fact that the plotters moved shortly after Princess Abigail returned to Cassadaigua from holiday. Contemporary media paints the plotters as a patriotic opposition, loyal to their country over their king, who sought to end what was sometimes dubbed his “reign of terror”. Regardless, it had the opposite effect, as it rallied popular support to Reinaldo and allowed him to set aside the marriage of his father to Abby’s mother, effectively disinheriting Abby.
The coup of 1979, by contrast, is thought to have been orchestrated by the republicans, with significant support from the nouveau-riche who would go on to form the Gang of Seven. The “republican” label covers a broad ideological base, from socialists to neoliberals, but all managed to cooperate well enough to effect the coup before fracturing.
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(51’) Ásvaldursson; Grímólfursson, Guttisdóttir 
Hispinas 5–2 Isle Noire 
Astograth 0–1 Hispinas 
