Calgary Villains FC News

With sixty-six goals scored and only eleven conceded the Calgary Villains Reserve team enjoyed a record-breaking season by winning the Calgary United Soccer Association Premier League title in 2006. The number of goals scored is the highest in the club’s history and the number of goals conceded is the lowest.

Finishing the season with thirteen wins, two losses and a draw the team, composed of a mix of veteran players and promising youngsters, had a remarkably consistent season. Having led the league from week two, the Villains Reserves never relinquished the position and ended up clinching the title, for the third time in five years, by beating their closest competitor Darts 1-0 on the second last week of the season.

Averaging more than four goals a game the team finished with an impressive plus fifty-five goals for and against ratio. Morgan Keith, Toby Vallance and Alex Middleton all finished in the top five in league scoring with Toby and Morgan tied for top spot with eleven goals a piece.

Thanks to a strong defense and some impressive goal-keeping from Todd Spycher, the Villains kept nine clean sheets and had the stingiest defensive record in the league. Young defenders Aaron Williams, Evan Vincezino, Kommie Hossini and Marc Iervella formed a formidable defensive unit and gave opposing forwards a torrid time.

The Villains Reserve team has traditionally been made up of ex-Major League team members and younger players who are starting their senior careers with the club. This year was no exception with no fewer than eleven players on the roster of eighteen having once played with the club in the Alberta Major Soccer League. Many of the squad have been with the Calgary Villains for the better part of a decade and one of the strengths of the team is the loyalty shown to the club by players like Morgan Keith and Aaron Williams who have spent their entire career with the Villains.

The continuing emergence of talented youngsters has seen the Reserves build on this strong foundation by actively scouting youth league footballers and giving them their first opportunity at the club. This policy has seen the average age of the squad lowered to twenty-two, which is one of the youngest in the Premier League. This trend is set to continue with players from Villain’s youth system pushing for spots on the team.

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