Academy crowned as champs

Crown Academy crowned champions

Captain Seut Baraing lifts the Yamaha Challenge International Tournament trophy as Phnom Penh Crown’s U-15 Academy team were crowned the winners of the first-ever six-team international friendly competition.  The Academy won four of their five matches over the three days of games held at the FFC’s Tonle Bati headquarters. The GIFU Select team from Japan were runners-up, on the same points as Crown but with a far inferior goal difference, with the FFC’s own Academy team coming in third place.
The Crown results were as follows - full match reports to follow:
The Academy defeated the FFC Academy comprehensively in Friday’s opening match of the Yamaha Challenge Tournament at Tonle Bati. PPCFC ran out 6-0 winners with Kim Chhaya getting a hat-trick (26, 31, 47 mins) and a goal each for Mao Piseth (14), captain Seut Baraing (30) and substitute Suon Noeut (55).
Mao Piseth struck 4 times as the Crown U-15 Academy team put the Global Football Academy from Singapore, who are all Japanese players, to the sword, winning 8-1 in Saturday morning’s Yamaha Challenge game. Piseth scored after 1, 17, 30 and 46 minutes. Sin Kakada scored a penalty on 20 mins and Kim Chhaya fired in his goal with fifty seconds on the clock at the start of the 2nd period. Sok Panha and Suon Noeut wrapped it up late on.
The Saturday afternoon Yamaha Challenge game for the U-15 Academy team was a much closer affair than their previous two victories. The GIFU Select team from Japan are in Cambodia on training camp and had won their earlier 2 matches as well. Crown had the better chances in the first-half but there were no goals. Svang Samnang saved well with his feet early in the 2nd half and then tipped over a free-kick later on. In between Suon Noeut, Seut Baraing and Kim Chhaya went close. With 3 minutes to go, Men Piphop crossed, Sin Kakada headed it goalwards and it took a deflection on its way in. GIFU refused to lie-down and hit the bar, before equalizing with a minute left on the clock. In stoppage time Noeut curled a shot against the post and then saw a certain goal saved on the line by a retreating defender. 1-1 was the final result leaving all to play for tomorrow.
The first match for the U-15 Academy team on Sunday morning was against Civil Aviation. Crown started off like a train and were 2 goals ahead in five minutes through Suon Noeut and Choun Chanchav. Four minutes later and CCSA were down to 10 when Soun Sopheaktra was dismissed for two yellow cards. Moments before the break, Noeut was fouled and scored from the penalty kick. Noeut completed his hat-trick 8 minutes after the restart before Kim Chhaya crashed home a 25-yard piledriver. Two goals from Mao Piseth completed the rout.
Crown needed to win to make sure of collecting the Yamaha trophy and they did just that with a great comeback after Svay Rieng took a 4th minute lead. SVR had their keeper Samnang Devid to thank for keeping them ahead, as he saved Kim Chhaya’s penalty seconds before the interval and continued to thwart Crown after the break. On 42 minutes Mao Piseth, the tournament’s top scorer with 7 goals, headed Crown level and Chhaya put them in the lead with a 30 yard free-kick that sailed over the keeper with 4 minutes to go. Captain Seut Baraing made sure of the victory with another 30-yard free-kick that bounced over the keeper to give the PPCFC U-15 Academy team the first-ever Yamaha trophy.

Svay Rieng finished off

PPCFC v SVR, back row, LtoR: Samnang, Sovannaroth, Chanchav, Chhaya, Noeut, Baraing. Front: Chanmony, Chetra, Piseth, S David, Rozak - click to enlarge

Result: PPCFC U-15s 3 Svay Rieng 1 (Yamaha Challenge).
Crown's U-15 Academy boys needed to win to make sure of collecting the Yamaha Challenge trophy and they did just that with a great comeback after Svay Rieng took a 4th minute lead. SVR had their keeper Samnang Devid to thank for keeping them ahead, as he saved Kim Chhaya's penalty seconds before the interval and continued to thwart Crown after the break. On 42 minutes Mao Piseth, the tournament's top scorer with 7 goals, headed Crown level and Chhaya put them in the lead with a 30 yard free-kick that sailed over the keeper with 4 minutes to go. Captain Seut Baraing made sure of the victory with another 30-yard free-kick that bounced over the keeper to earn the Crown U-15 Academy team the first-ever Yamaha trophy. More to follow.

Aviation downed

PPCFC v Civil, back row, LtoR: Samnang, Sovannaroth, Chanchav, Chhaya, Noeut, Baraing. Front: Chanmony, S David, Piseth, Chetra, Rozak - click to enlarge

Result: PPCFC U-15s 7 Civil Aviation 0 (Yamaha Challenge).
The first match for the Crown U-15 Academy team this morning in the Yamaha Challenge Tournament Day 3 was against Civil Aviation. Crown started off like a train and were 2 goals ahead in five minutes through Suon Noeut and Choun Chanchav. Four minutes later and CCSA were down to 10 when Soun Sopheaktra was dismissed for two yellow cards. Moments before the break, Noeut was fouled and scored from the penalty kick. Noeut completed his hat-trick 8 minutes after the restart before Kim Chhaya crashed home a 25-yard piledriver. Two goals from Mao Piseth completed the rout. More to follow.

Close affair

PPCFC v GIFU, back row, LtoR: Samnang, Safy, Chanchav, Chhaya, Baraing. Front: Piphop, Chanmony, Chetra, Piseth, Noeut, Rozak - click to enlarge

Result: PPCFC U-15s 1 GIFU Select Japan 1 (Yamaha Challenge).
The afternoon Yamaha Challenge game for the Crown U-15 Academy team was a much closer affair than their previous two victories. The GIFU Select team from Japan are in Cambodia on training camp and had won their earlier 2 matches as well. Crown had the better chances in the first-half but there were no goals. Svang Samnang saved well with his feet early in the 2nd half and then tipped over a free-kick later on. In between Suon Noeut, Seut Baraing and Kim Chhaya went close. With 3 minutes to go, Men Piphop crossed, Sin Kakada headed it goalwards and it took a deflection on its way in. GIFU refused to lie-down and hit the bar, before equalizing with a minute left on the clock. In stoppage time Noeut curled a shot against the post and then saw a certain goal saved on the line by a retreating defender. 1-1 was the final result leaving all to play for tomorrow. In the other games, FFC defeated GFA 3-0 and Civil Service beat Svay Rieng 3-0. More to follow.

Another eight for Academy

PPCFC v GFA, back row, LtoR; Samnang, Rozak, Chanchav, Chhaya, Safy, Baraing. Front: Chanmony, Piphop, Piseth, Kakada, Chetra - click to enlarge

Result: PPCFC U-15s 8 GFA Singapore 1 (Yamaha Challenge).
Carrying on where they left off the previous day, after defeating the FFC Academy 6-0, the Crown youngsters took the game to the Japanese boys from the Global Football Academy in Singapore and opened the scoring in the first minute. Mao Piseth tapped in from close range from Kim Chhaya's cross. Chhaya lobbed a shot onto the crossbar before Piseth added his second on 17 minutes, taking a pass from Sin Kakada in his stride and working the space to role his shot inside the far corner. Three minutes later Sath Rozak was felled in the area and Kakada put the penalty kick into the corner. On the stroke of half-time, Seut Baraing's long ball sent Piseth away and he rounded the goalkeeper to net a first-half hat-trick. Within fifty seconds of the restart, Chhaya fired in from the edge of the box after a cross was cleared straight to him. GFA pulled a goal back on 40 minutes as Crown rang the changes and missed some good chances. On 46 minutes Lim Pisoth weaved his way past three players and though his shot was saved, Piseth followed up to stroke the ball home for his fourth. Three minutes from time - each half was thirty minutes duration - Suon Noeut put in Sok Panha and his near post shot crept inside the upright. In stoppage time, Piseth set up Noeut and he made no mistake firing past the keeper. Two games and two victories for Crown in the Yamaha Challenge International tournament.
PPCFC v GFA: Samnang (Rafat 37), Chanmony (Panha 42), Chetra, Safy (Sovannaroth 37), Baraing, Rozak (Pisoth 42), Chanchav, Piphop (S David 42), Kakada (Samel 51), Chhaya (Noeut 37), Piseth. MOTM: Piseth. Goals: Piseth 4 (1, 17, 30, 46), Kakada pen (20), Chhaya (31), Panha (57), Noeut (60+2).

Six goals without reply

PPCFC U-15s, LtoR: Samnang, Safy, Sovannaroth, Chanchav, Chhaya, Baraing (capt). Front: Chanmony, S David, Piseth, Kakada, Rozak - click to enlarge

Result: PPCFC U-15s 6 FFC Academy 0 (Yamaha Challenge).
The Phnom Penh Crown Academy team got their Yamaha Challenge International Tournament competition off to the best possible start with a crushing 6-0 win over the Cambodia Federation's own Academy team this afternoon at the Tonle Bati HQ. Tomorrow, Crown face the two overseas teams from Japan and Singapore. Coach Bouy Dary selected a combination of first-generation Academy players and some of the second intake and they combined well to lead by three goals at the break. Mao Piseth opened the floodgates on14 minutes with Kim Chhaya adding a second on 26 minutes and captain Seut Baraing making it three just before the break. The matches are 11-a-side but of thirty minutes duration for each half. A minute after the restart and Chhaya scored his second and then completed his hat-trick on 47 minutes. Substitute Suon Noeut, who has been unwell in recent weeks, came on and scored the sixth goal on 55 minutes to complete the rout.
PPCFC v FFC: Samnang, Chanmony, Sovannaroth, Safy, Baraing, Chanchav, Rozak, S David, Kakada, Chhaya, Piseth. Subs: Rafat, Pisoth, Piphop, Noeut, N David, Panha, Samel, Chetra. Goals: Chhaya 3 (26, 31, 47), Piseth (14), Baraing (30), Noeut (55).
The other results were; Svay Rieng 1 GIFU Japan 3 and Civil Aviation 6 GFA Singapore 0.