Nelasa Week 1 full of surprises!

The NELASA 2010 season has officially started, the opening day match was against the two Boston rivals Curral Grande Vs Strela Negra and it turn out to be a 5-1 blowout by Strela Negra. Christian Lopes open the scoreboard in the 4th minute of first half and Strela Negra never looked back after that. Palcido Teixiera scored three times in the second half for his first Hat trick of the season and Briaman added another one, Curral Grande got one back in the 90th goal score by Mario Rocha .

Saturday the remainder of the teams got to have their openers, Nos Bandera is back in the league and back to its wining ways a 2-1 victory over Café De Fogo goals by Zidane form the penalty spot and Tony, Café de Fogo got one goal back late in the game by #15.

The defending Champs Clube Tabanka faced off against a very good Mindelo team and got out played but come out with a 1-1 draw. Mindelo jump ahead in the first half with a goal by Amancio, and Tito tied the game in the second half.

Boston FC got a very impressive win 3-0 against Juventude 3 goals by Toti.

Tarrafal FC beat Sporting RI 1-0 on the road goal by Sosa.

Dinamo Da Brava spanked Alianca CV at home 3-0 two goals by Daniel and one by Jimmy.

Safira FC the late added Brazilian team won their first NELASA game Vs Fidjus Terra in Brockton with a score of 2-0.

Spiga Midju forfeit (3-0 loss) against Emigrantes for not having enough registered players to play.

Here are the NELASA Power Rankings for WEEK 1

1.Strela Negra
2.Dinamo Da Brava
3.Boston FC
4.Safira FC
5.Emigrantes
6.Tarrafal FC
7.Nos Bandera
8.Mindelo
9.Clube Tabanka
10.Café D’Fogo
11.Sporting
12.Fidjos Terra
13.Alianca CV
14.Juventude
15.Curral Grande
16.Spiga Midju