Candelaria And Marquez National Under-21 Football Team
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| Nickname | Small Blues | ||
| Association | C&M Association Football Association | ||
| Coach | Lloyd Donnelly | ||
| Asst Coaches | Mick Lugo Rod Orión | ||
| Captain | Ben Young | ||
| Most caps | Various (6) | ||
| Top scorer | Ben Edwards (5) | ||
| Home Stadium | Various | ||
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| First international C&M 3-1 Solenial, IJC Group Stage | |||
| Largest win C&M 3-0 Cookesland, IJC Quarter-Final | |||
| Worst defeat C&M 1-3 Jeruselem, IJC Final | |||
The Candelaria And Marquez national Under-21 football team was founded to compete in the first Justantina Cup in St Samuel. Former CMSC winner with Albrecht FC, Lloyd Donnelly, has been appointed coach. His presence instantly provoked controversy, after Donnelly claimed that he would be playing his new charges in his "own way", and that their interests were not "best served copying the playing style of the full side's current manager". He also claimed that the current set of twenty and twenty-one year-olds are "for the most part highly disappointing", comments he later disregarded.
Playing History
| IJC 1 Group B | ||||||||||||
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| Team | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | |||||
| Starblaydia | 2 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| Candelaria And Marquez | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 7 | |||||
| Taeshan | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 3 | |||||
| Solenial | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 9 | -6 | 0 | |||||
The C&M youngsters were entered in the Justantina Cup with little hope of victory, but would ultimately go on to have a very successful tournament indeed. 3-1 and 2-1 triumphs over Solenial and Taeshan buffeted a 2-2 draw with experienced Under-21 country Starblaydia in the group stage; with Donnelly’s side securing second place in the group on goal difference and as a result, somewhat ironically, a slightly easier route in the knock-out stages. The classy 3-0 win over Cookesland in the quarter-finals was marred slightly by the loss to injury of goalkeeper Ray Winkett. ‘Keepers would go on to be a feature of the Small Blues’ Cup; when teenager Ethan Schepinov conceded a penalty and was sent off in the semi-final with St Samuel with C&M 3-2 up. Still three-all after extra time; midfielder Matteo Corradini managed to be enough of an imposing presence to help C&M over the line.
C&M were then clearly the inferior side against Jeruselem in the final, despite a fine free-kick from Ben Edwards that made him the top C&M scorer in the Cup. Ultimately, mistakes by third-choice ‘keeper Imogen Dacosta cost them dear. C&M would pick up the runners-up medals, and Dacosta become the first – and so far last – female player on a C&M national unisex representative side.
Most recent squad
| No. | Pos. | Player | Age | U21 Goals | U21 Caps | Club |
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| 1 | GK | Ray Winkett | 21 | - | 4 | TurksKT |
| 2 | DR | William Burgos | 20 | - | 6 | Arrigo Portuguese FC |
| 3 | DL/C | Karl McDonald | 20 | - | 1 (1) | TurksKT |
| 4 | MD | Matteo Corradini | 20 | - | 5 | Albrecht FC |
| 5 | DC | Ben Young | 20 | - | 6 | Green Island |
| 6 | DC | Chris Ytterland | 19 | - | 3 | Melin & Nader |
| 7 | MR | Ben Edwards | 19 | 5 | 6 | Albrecht FC |
| 8 | AM | Reiban Okeke | 19 | 1 | 5 (1) | MarquezOW |
| 9 | F | Luke Naylor | 21 | 4 | 6 | C.A.L |
| 10 | AM/F | Jamie Rawlinson | 20 | 1 | 2 (3) | Cathedral CIty |
| 11 | ML | Beck Ragab | 20 | - | 1 | Albrecht FC |
| 12 | DR | Terence Johnson | 21 | - | 0 (1) | KT Hotspur |
| 13 | D/ML | Özkan Yalçin | 19 | 1 | 6 | C.A.L |
| 14 | DC | Shane Avdeev | 21 | - | 3 (2) | Caires City |
| 15 | MD | Dean Wilson | 21 | - | 4 | Melin & Nader |
| 16 | ML | Dave Walsh | 20 | - | 1 (3) | KT Hotspur |
| 17 | F | Ryan Gnom | 21 | - | 0 (1) | Port of Clotaire |
| 18 | DL | José Luis Sosa | 18 | - | 0 | MarquezOW |
| 19 | F | Rául Vélez | 20 | 2 | 4 (2) | Radyukevich |
| 20 | MC | Davey Fauske | 21 | - | 1 (1) | AFC MN Smith |
| 21 | MC/R | Lars Wiedemann | 20 | - | 0 | Caires Sports |
| 22 | GK | Imogen Dacosta | 20 | - | 1 | Utd Caires Ladies FC |
| 23 | GK | Ethan Schepinov | 19 | - | 1 (1) | MarquezOW |
