MISL All-Stars top Mexican All-Stars

MILWAUKEE (Saturday, February 11, 2006) – The MISL All-Stars scored four unanswered goals in the first half and rolled to a 9-5 victory over the Mexican All-Stars before a capacity crowd of 8,671 at Milwaukee’s U.S. Cellular Arena in the 2006 MISL All-Star Game. Milwaukee Wave forward Todd Dusosky scored three goals and added an assist in earning the 2006 MISL All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award. Also leading the MISL All-Stars were Chicago Storm midfielder Novi Marojevic with one goal and three assists, Baltimore Blast forward Adauto Neto, who scored two goals, and Wave goalkeeper Nick Vorberg who held the Mexican All-Stars scoreless in playing the first half and earned the win.

The MISL All-Stars scored first in the game when the League’s leading goal scorer and Baltimore Blast forward Giuliano Celenza took advantage of a miscue by Mexican goalkeeper Jose Bontti and drove an unassisted goal into the lower left corner at 11:03 for the only score of the opening quarter.

Dusosky connected with St. Louis’ Jamar Beasley on a run for an MISL score 7:58 into the second quarter. Dusosky then successfully redirected a restart opportunity by the Marojevic at 12:01, making it 3-0. Baltimore’s Neto, the MISL’s second leading scorer, made it 4-0 to close the first half, when he spun around a defender and beat Bontti at 14:45. Starting goalkeeper Vorberg had four saves as the MISL led in shots at halftime, 24-6.

The Mexican All-Stars failed to put a goal in the net until Antonio Velasquez scored at 9:17 of the third quarter, making it 5-1. Dusosky’s second goal of the game, off the assist from St. Louis’ Shaun David, opened the scoring in the half. Mexico’s Marco Coria then scored a power play goal, before Neto redirected a Marojevic pass with his chest for his second goal of the game at the 10:55 mark, making it 6-2. Scoring in the quarter ended with the Mexican All-Stars Oswaldo Medina scoring the first of his team-leading two goals, making it 6-3, with one of three power play goals scored against Brett Phillips, the MISL’s second-half goalkeeper from St. Louis.

Shaun David’s first All-Star goal off a Phillips assist 30 seconds into the fourth quarter, followed by goals by Dusosky and Marojevic pushed the MISL lead to 9-3. That advantage proved more than enough to hold off a late challenge that included Mexican scores by Medina and Marco “Chikis” Lopez. The MISL finished with a 39-17 shots advantage.

“I thought the atmosphere was great,” said the Wave’s Keith Tozer, the Co-Head Coach for the MISL All-Stars along with St. Louis’ Omid Namazi. “The team played the way we thought they were going to play. If we can get every building in the MISL to do this - this kind of atmosphere - we’re going to take off.”

About The MISL
The Major Indoor Soccer League is a single-entity organization with a coast-to-coast presence comprised of six teams located across the United States, and features the finest indoor soccer players representing 31 countries around the world. An expansion team in Newark, NJ, will begin play in 2007-08. An MISL expansion team for Detroit is approved for 2006-07. The 2005-06 MISL regular season runs for 22 weeks, concluding on April 9. The 2006 MISL Championship Series gets underway the weekend of April 14-16, 2006. For more information on the MISL, visit www.MISL.net.