{"id":267051,"date":"2017-12-27T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T20:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=267051"},"modified":"2017-12-27T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T20:06:19","slug":"tanholdings-tops-m-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tanholdings-tops-m-league\/","title":{"rendered":"TanHoldings tops M-League"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-267051 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tanholdings-tops-m-league\/mleaguepix1\/'>MLeaguepix1<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-267093'>\n\t\t\t\tTanHoldings Football Club\u2019s Martin Jambor, left, uses his body to protect the ball from the Teen Ayuyus\u2019 Dai Podziewski during the second half of their Division A title game in the M-League last Saturday at the Hopwood Middle School Field.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/tanholdings-tops-m-league\/mleaguepix2\/'>mleaguepix2<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-267094'>\n\t\t\t\tBrothers Lukas, left, and Martin Jambor, pose with the perpetual M-League trophy after delivering the goals in TanHoldings 2-1 Division A finals victory over the Teen Ayuyus  last Saturday at the Hopwood Middle School Field. (Contributed Photo)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>TanHoldings Football Club nosed out the Teen Ayuyus, 2-1, in the thrilling finale in Division A of the M-League last Saturday at the Hopwood Middle School Field.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Jambor made a game saver, while his brother Lukas drilled the go-ahead goal to hand TanHoldings the division crown and give the club a perfect record this season. Martin\u2019s header three minutes into the injury time tied the match, while Lukas registered the game winner five minutes into the 15-minute overtime.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the 86th minute, Sunjoon Tenorio had a great recovery and knocked the ball in to lift the Teen Ayuyus to a 1-0 advantage. Tenorio was at the right place at the right time after teammate Louie Calayag faltered on an attempt in the middle of the box. Calayag found a small opening on TanHoldings\u2019s defense and went for a kick, however, goalkeeper John Bucayo moved in and partially caught the ball before butterfingers had him losing the leather.<\/p>\n<p>The ball then rolled down to Bucayo\u2019s right and fortunately for the Teen Ayuyus, Tenorio was there as he followed Calayag and managed to get the rebound and hit the first goal in the match. Pandemonium broke after Tenorio\u2019s conversion, as he was mobbed by some of his teammates at the sidelines, while others gave him high-fives. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Teen Ayuyus\u2019 celebration turned out to be premature, as TanHoldings was able to force the deadlock, thanks to Martin\u2019s \u201cmiracle header,\u201d according to team captain Jershwin Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Martin\u2019s equalizer came off a cross pass from Ryan Relucio, who received a throw-in from Joshua De Leon. With Deleon doing the throw-in  from the right sideline and Relucio and two other TanHoldings players closing in, the Teen Ayuyus\u2019 defense was concentrated on one side, leaving Martin a bit open for the header as even goalie Chris Aninzo was on the opposite corner post.<\/p>\n<p>Martin\u2019s header hit the upper corner of the left post and dropped into the target to make up for his earlier failed free kick just a few minutes after Tenorio\u2019s shot, which nearly took the fight out of the eventual champions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHonestly after Sunjoon scored, I accepted to myself that we will lose unless there is a miracle. Some players looked down after Sunjoon\u2018s goal. But I kept reminding them that they still have time. Actually, there were just to two to three minutes left. When Martin scored, I shouted to my team \u2018this game is ours, it is a sign,\u2019\u201d Angeles said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUp to this moment, I still can\u2019t believe Martin\u2019s goal. I celebrated late because I was literally shocked because I wasn\u2019t expecting the header will be converted into a goal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Martin was also surprised with his header, which is the kind of shot he does not usually take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI started playing soccer when I was five and I think I only made five headers before. That one (against Teen Ayuyus) was a header in a difficult angle and I don\u2019t even know if I had a defender on me, as all my focus was to hit the ball,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>Though stunned with his goal, Martin said he was positive when he made the attempt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ve got to believe that it will go in. I know we\u2019re down and the time is ticking, but until the referee blows that whistle, you\u2019ve got to believe you still have a chance,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>After Martin\u2019s goal sent the finals in overtime, Lukas made sure his brother\u2019s heroics won\u2019t go into waste. Lukas went for a cross about six yards from the box and the ball rolled into the deep right corner with Aninzo reaching hard for a save, but failing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a blessing and perfect timing that my brother was able to hit that goal after my header,\u201d Martin said.<\/p>\n<p>Now ahead, it was TanHoldings\u2019 turn to put pressure on the Teen Ayuyus, who had four chances to score, but Bucayo this time held his ground on defense on two occasions to frustrate their opponents. <\/p>\n<p>The TanHoldings goalie made his first defensive stop at the ninth minute of the extension when he pushed the ball back off a kick from Tenorio. The second one was another attempt from Tenorio with Bucayo catching the ball. Earlier after Lukas\u2019 go-ahead, Dai Podziewski went for the equalizer, but his header was way over the cross bar. Then for their last push, Tenorio let go off a cross, but the shot was wide to the right. A few seconds after Tenorio\u2019s miss, referee Rusellle Zapanta blew the final whistle, signaling TanHoldings to celebrate its title conquest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had this vision of holding that (championship) trophy after the game and it took a lot of teamwork and each player playing their best to win it,\u201d Angeles said, adding that the Jambor siblings clearly made the difference in the closely fought finals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI let the Jambor brothers rest in the second half. I don\u2019t usually sub them out but, my thought was to let them rest and bring back their 100% energy when they return. We let the other team got tired first before bringing in the Jambor brothers again. Both goals were very important, Martin made the miracle equalizer and Lukas scored the winning goal,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TanHoldings Football Club nosed out the Teen Ayuyus, 2-1, in the thrilling finale in Division&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":267095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[143,7006,11025,7003],"class_list":["post-267051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ball","tag-chris-aninzo","tag-dai-podziewski","tag-teen-ayuyus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}