In the Boys-Under-12 Small-Sided State Open Cup final between two Cosmopolitan Junior Soccer League (CJSL) teams, Kosmos Greek-Americans of Queens shut out Downtown United from Manhattan, 3-0. The 8 vs. 8 game for supremacy in the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) was played last Saturday, May 31 at Stringham Park in LaGrange.
“As First Vice President of the Cosmopolitan Junior Soccer League, I’m very proud that two teams from our league made the final,” said Kosmos coach Andreas Touros. “And I’m very proud to have faced Gustavo Palomino as the opposing coach as he played for me as a young man when I coached the Hellenic-American Soccer League Under-21 Select Team.”
Dino Nicolaou scored two goals for Kosmos while Richie Debrosse, who played most of the game in net, added an insurance goal. The other Kosmos keeper, Mo Hamza, shared the shutout as well.
“We had a couple more opportunities to score. We played a very nice team in a very clean game,” commented the other Kosmos coach, Nick Nicolaou. “I think we played a little bit better but the score should have been 1-0 or 2-0 as the other team played very well too.”
Kosmos received a $2,000 check from Eastern New York to defer the costs of playing in the Regionals from June 26 to July 1 in Kingston, Rhode Island.
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