Unity FC opened its regular league season with a well-earned 3-1 victory over Spanish Future Stars at Esther Shiner Stadium on Sunday.
Both are expansion teams in the Canadian Soccer League, having taken part in the Royal CSL Cup competition won by Serbian White Eagles on June 9th.
The early play was end to end with Unity FC having a slight edge and opening the scoring at 28 minutes with a goal coming off a corner kick and headed into the net by defender Hope Junior. It was 1-0 at the interval.
Future Stars equalized with a picture goal by Michael Kusi heading in from a cross from the right wing at 47 minutes, but Unity went ahead 2-1 one minute later, a goal scored directly from a corner kick by Lucas Ramos.
Ivan Flores increased the Unity FC lead to 3-1 at 75 minutes, the score at the final whistle.
Unity FC continues to place local players and players from other countries on trial with midfielder Daniel Dominguez the most recent to arrive from Mexico . Dominguez played the full 90 minutes in Sunday’s game, while head coach Douglas Nassif made just three changes during the match.
Brazilian Johnathan Silva has arrived to join Spanish Future Stars and start training with the squad next week and seven players are scheduled to arrive from Cali, Colombia by the end of June.
