Do Haeng Michael Kitchen

Writer. Attorney. Detroit City FC Til I Die.

NISA 2020 Fall Championship Tournament By the Numbers These are the statistics, as best as I could compile them, from the Tournament.  They were accumulated from the incomplete NISA Match Center for each game, with a bit of internet detective work and game video review to try to fill in the holes.  They are not …

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September 27, 2020 2020 NISA Fall Tournament Group Stage, Game Nine Keyworth Stadium, Hamtramck, MI Oakland Roots 1, Michigan Stars 0 Roots Seo In Kim (Manuel Gonzalez) 4′ Yellow Cards: David Abidor (Roots) 59′ Tatenda Mkuruva (Stars) 90+’ A win for either team would put them in the playoffs, with the loser having to wait …

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September 24, 2020 2020 NISA Fall Tournament Group Stage, Game Six Keyworth Stadium, Hamtramck, MI Michigan Stars 2, New Amsterdam FC 2 NAFC Danny Vincete (Oluremi Williams) 35′ MICH Gonnie Ben-Tal (Kyle Nuel) 45′ NAFC Michael Bello (Danny Vincete) 63′ MICH Steven Juncaj (PK) 77′ Yellow Cards: Alexander Satrustegui (MICH) 20′ Oluremi Williams (NAFC) 37′ …

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Detroit City FC traveled to New York and played to a scoreless draw against the Cosmos on September 9th, to close out the shortened Fall Season in preparation for 2020 NISA Fall Tournament.  The remaining fixtures of the abbreviated season looked like this: September 6, 2020:  LA Force 0, Oakland Roots 2 September 12, 2020:  …

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After the brief Fall Season in which both Eastern Conference and Western Conference teams played each team within their conference once, the standings looked like this: EASTERN CONFERENCE Chattanooga FC 3-0-1 = 9 points Michigan Stars FC 2-2-0 = 8 points NY Cosmos 1-2-1 = 5 points Detroit City FC 1-2-1 = 5 points New …

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June 14, 2019 NPSL Regular Season Keyworth Stadium, Hamtramck, MI Detroit City FC 2, Michigan Stars FC 0 Attendance: 6,872 Record 5-2-1 = 17 points, 2nd Place PrideRaiser goal total:  10 DCFC  Max Todd (Jalen Crisler) 59′ DCFC  Max Todd (PK) 81′ Detroit City FC has played seven games up to this point, giving up …

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May 12, 2019 NPSL Regular Season Ultimate Soccer Arenas, Pontiac, MI Michigan Stars 0, Detroit City FC 1 Attendance: ? Standings:  1-0-0 3 pts, 2nd place. Detroit City FC Shawn Lawson (PK) 30′ They crossed the US border in 2014, formerly known as FC Windsor Spartans, to join the NPSL.  They called themselves FC Sparta …

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July 15, 2016 Keyworth Stadium, Hamtramck, MI NPSL Regular Season Match Detroit City FC 1, Michigan Stars 2 DCFC  Javi Bautista 26′ STARS  Eric McWoods 79′ STARS   Eric McWoods 85′ Attendance:  6,384 Final match of the regular season, and it was a family affair.  My son, Colin, and his son, Chad, attended their first DCFC …

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May 13, 2016 Wisner Stadium, Pontiac, MI NPSL Regular Season Match Michigan Stars 2, Detroit City FC 2 DCFC Andre Morris (Ali Al-Gashamy) 5′ DCFC Tyler Stephens (Cyrus Saydee) 33′ MICH Joe Coombs (Keaton Levock) 50′ MICH Joe Coombs (Cody Archibald) 60′ Our season opened on the road, in Pontiac, where we ended last year’s …

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July 19, 2015 Detroit City FC 2, Michigan Stars 0 Wisner Memorial Stadium DCFC  Javi Bautista (Bobby Budlong) 51′ DCFC  Seb Harris (Cyrus Saydee) 56′ Attendance:  More Le Rouge fans than Stars fans. Final match of the regular season in Pontiac against the Michigan Stars.  I arrived early, garbed in my photographer’s vest peppered with …

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