SCORING half of his team’s goals, Stephen Iyerio led the Ecclesiastical Faculties (Eccle) football team to a 5-0 demolition of the Arts and Letters Football Club (ABFC) to rule the Thomasian Goodwill Games men’s football tournament at the UST Open Field last Feb. 26.
Iyerio scored two goals at the opening minute and again at the 8th.
Gab Angeles of ABFC came off a midfield scramble and attacked Eccle’s defense, but was easily denied.
Brian Werunga also put himself on the board, feigning to the left before sending the ball the other way to score the third goal for Eccle at the 60th minute.
At the 77th minute, Iyerio stole the ball off a throw-in, dribbled it from beyond the midfield and connected for Eccle’s fourth goal.
Werunga put the finishing touches for Eccle, utilizing his nifty footwork to seal the tally for Eccle at the 86th minute.
“After beating Engineering in the semifinals, I told my teammates that we would be champions. Although we’re in the same bracket as ABFC, I knew that we could push for [with the win],” Nga Reh said.
ABFC was undefeated coming into the Finals and handed Eccle its only loss, 1-0, in their elimination round.
“I think they’ve prepared for us while we did not prepare for them. Some were complacent. We weren’t in tiptop shape,” ABFC coach Rico Macatulad said. Ralph Joshua D.R. Hernandez
