Warragul United Soccer Club are the 2012 Kendall Cup Champions after defeating Traralgon Olympians 2-0 in the Final. The Warragul side play in the Provisional 1 League in Melbourne and went through the tournament undefeated.  This is the fourth time Warragul have won the prestigious trophy.  Host club, Sale United FC, performed exceptionally well coming in at third place, only missing out on a place in the Grand Final by one point.  

Sixteen year old, Ashley Ross, from Sale was the recipient of two major individual awards on the day.  Ross was the outright winner of the ‘Jamie Kendall’ medal for Player of the Tournament as well as the ‘Alex Brown’ medal for Youth Player of the Tournament.  Other players to poll well for these awards were John Kuol, Traralgon City; Tom Amahdzai, Brayden Dunne, Rory Wagner and Jacob Richardson, all Warragul;  Damien Gilbert, Chad Shelley, both Newb/Yallourn;   Chris Richardson and Tommy Nguyen, both Sale;  S Darko, Noble Park;  Simon Ierardi and Ben Johnston, both Olympians and Tim Stevens from Moe. The referee awards were presented to Connor Wyatt, Lachlan Getzendorfer, Mark Coward and James Nicolopolous.

 The tournament leading goalscorer award was won by Simon Ieradi from Olympians while Michael Griffin from Warragul won the ‘Ron Madin’ medal for Best Player in the Grand Final.

A minute silence in memory of Jamie Kendall was held prior to the commencement of the Final.

The Presentation of all Awards was held at the conclusion of the day with speeches from winning players and coaches hailing this tournament as the most successful, well run competition yet and are looking forward to returning for the ‘2013 Kendall Cup’.  Club President, Romi Bitar, presented the winners Cup to Joe Gauci from Warragul and the runnersup Cup to Anthony Collins from Olympians.

Anyone wishing to play soccer this year can contact Vice President, Grant Richardson, on 0407392358. 

RESULTS:

Sale United d New/Yallourn  1-0                  Warragul United d Traralgon City  3-1

Olympians d Sale United  1-0                  Moe United loss to Noble Park Drina  1-2

Traralgon City loss to Olympians 0-1            New/Yallourn loss to Warragul United 0-1

Noble Park drew Traralgon City 1-1                  Sale United drew Moe United  1-1

Warragul United d Noble Park  1-0                  Olympians d New/Yallourn 3-0

Moe loss to Warragul United 0-1                  Traralgon City loss to Sale United  1-4

New/Yallourn drew Moe United  1-1                  Noble Park Drina d Olympians  2-1                 

FINAL- Warragul d Olympians    2-0

 

FINAL LADDER:

Warragul United

Traralgon Olympians

Sale United FC

Noble Park Drina

Moe United

New/Yallourn

Traralgon City