Wanderer’s Cup

Wanderer’s Cup

Each year the Western Sydney Wanderer’s FC host Soccer tournaments for high school students. This year Fort Street entered three teams in the Year 7&8 tournament. Our teams travelled out to the excellent facilities out at Rooty Hill and played against school’s from all around Western Sydney.

All three teams played well and recorded wins. It was great to see them all supporting and cheering each other on. One of the teams (Team 2) performed particularly well and reached the semi-finals, only to lose a heart-breaker on penalties and finish third overall (see Noah Field’s clutch penalty kick on the video).

All the players are to be commended on their effort and performance on the day. There were a few highlights that are worth a special mention. The girls team captain Beatrice Shimada was not only brilliant in goals, but she also showed outstanding leadership skills and realistically played the role of player/coach on the day. Several coaches from other schools commented on the maturity and teamwork shown by our girl’s team. Another highlight was Mark Donlon, who played dynamically up front and ended up being the tournament’s leading goal scorer! This was a significant achievement considering the number of teams who participated and fact that Mark is only in Year 7!

It was a physically demanding day, with the students playing on full-sized pitches, but only having very short breaks between games. All the players gave their all during the games and one student (who will remain nameless) literally gave everything they had and had to be carried to the bus!

Thanks to Ms Ezekiel and Mr Sarif for organising such a fun day.

Team 1:

Beatrice Shimada

Eliza Cai

Avivi Davidson

Aira Garg

Nozomi Giorgini

Steph Ha

Xixi He

Audrey Khong

Vera Liang

Jay Jay Wasley

Anne Liu

Rita Munoz

Nina O’Keeffe

Devika Warrier

Nancy Zhang

Team 2:

Christopher Alexidis

Noah Field

Mark Donlon

Achyuth Arunjai

Darwin Chan

Victor Feng

Akira Howard

Saharsh Kontham

Kayvis Lan

Michael Nguyen

Lakshin Saravanan

Saahil Noor

Parthiv Prithvi

Zachary Silvester

Ruslane Singatouline

Dhruv Singh

Team 3:

Gabriel Cutcher Skellern

Billy Dacey

Joshua Feng

Wilson He

Mohsin Fouladi

Adam Jebara

Caleb Jeung

Hayden Kan

Vijay Mahendran

Francesco Menichetti

Gautham Palluru

Luke Patterson

James Sun

Boris Tosic

Jacob Turner

Ian Zhang