There were one or two surprises at the 2018 Greenlandic national championship, which was held in the country's capital city, Nuuk, in mid-August, not least the dramatic slump in form of Qeqertarsuaq's G-44 or local side NÛK's fine run all the way to the semi-finals, but the fact that B-67 retained the trophy was not one of them. The tournament was originally scheduled to have been held in Sisimiut, down the coast from Nuuk and home to SAK, but it was moved to Nuuk because the town's new artificial pitch would not be ready in time for the tournament.
The Sisimiut pitch's installation was delayed because the equipment needed to install it was in southern Greenland and was unable to have brought north until a week before the national tournament was due to begin. In the end, the pitch was only opened on 18 August.
B-67's first match in Group B - as near as you'll get to a Greenlandic Group of Death, at least on paper, and one which also contained G-44 from Qeqertarsuaq, 2017 champions IT-79, and, from the southernmost reaches of the country, Nanortalik's Eqaluk-54 and the country's oldest surviving club, K-1933 from Qaqortoq - was against G-44, and Frederik Funch soon had the tournament hosts in front, though when Aputsiaq Olsen coolly equalised for the northerners, there was no hint of what was to come. However, Patrick Oteri Frederiksen put B-67 back in front, and the pre-tournament favourites never looked back.
B-67 eased to a 4:1 lead at half-time thanks to a dipping shot from John-Ludvig Broberg and a second for Funch after a driving run from Ari Hermann and final pass from Karsten Møller Andersen, and scored six more without reply as G-44 unexpectly and dramatically collapsed during the second half. John-Ludvig Broberg scored three more goals during the second half, and was joined on the scoresheet by Morten Gade Nystrup, Norsaq Lund Mathæussen and Niklas Thorleifsen in what turned out to be a disastrous day for a team which nowadays regularly features in the last four of the championship.
IT-79, last year's runners-up, got off to a flying start against K-1933, hitting the team from Qaqortoq for seven. Kuluk Ezekiassen, Julius Motzfeldt and Morten Fleischer each scored twice, with Hans-Karl Berthelsen being the other scorer. (They ended the game with ten men after Lars-Peter Broberg was red-carded.) That was before they themselves lost 5:1 to a rampant B-67 in their next match, which was marred by a serious injury to goalkeeper Malik Mikaelsen, who hurt his shoulder in an accidental collision with Norsaq Lund Andersen.
It was enough to put the Students' custodian out of the rest of the tournament. Julius Motzfeldt scored a cracking goal to bring IT-79 back into the game after going 2:0 down, but that was as good as it got; former team-mate Ari Hermann was in scintillating form for B-67, and, although he didn't get on the scoresheet himself, he was involved in four of his team's goals. Goals from Møller Andersen (two), Oteri Frederiksen, Funch and Lund Mathæussen sent B-67 fans home in good spirits.
G-44, meanwhile, recovered from their first-day disaster to beat group underdogs Eqaluk-54 2:0. Inooraq Olrik put them in front in the sixth minute after putting a loose ball through the keeper's legs. Seven minutes into the second-half, Pavia Mølgaard put his side further ahead, rolling the ball home past two defenders from 25 yards out after he collected the Eqaluk-54 goalkeeper's attempted clearance.
IT-79 and G-44 met in the next match, which was essentially the decider for runners-up spot, and the team from Nuuk eventually prevailed by 4 goals to 2, although it was hard going at times against a team still smarting from their 10:1 humiliation against B-67. Julius Motzfeldt struck the first after a flying run and pass from Abilinnguaq Sandgreen. Pavia Mølgaard equalised delighfully for G-44, and then took advantage of a team-mate's dispossessing Peri Fleischer to put his side in front. Aqqa-Nuka Reimer equalised ten minutes into the second period, pouncing on a fumble by the G-44 goalkeeper.
IT-79 hit the front after a curling shot from close to the touchline which somehow beat the goalkeeper; Hans-Jørgen Zeeb received the congratulations from his team-mates, but replays later showed that Aqqa-Nuka Reimer got the final touch on the ball to divert it past the goalkeeper. With four minutes to go, Peri Fleischer was given the time and space to trap the ball inside the D and curl it past the goalkeeper to make it 4:2 to IT-79.
The Students' place in the last four was confirmed when they slammed eight goals past Eqaluk-54 - with the ever-reliable duo of Jakob Fleischer and Julius Motzfeldt each contributing a brace - whilst conceding a solitary goal in the process, but what a goal. It was perhaps the goal of the tournament: Niels-Ole Simonsen latched on to a poor clearing header and, from well inside the centre-circle, unleashed a half-volley which flew over IT-79 keeper Steffen Høegh Møller and into the net. (One could perhaps use the hackneyed old chestnut "if the goal had been scored in the Premier League, it would be all over the media" at this juncture.)
If Simonsen's effort was a contender for goal of the tournament, the group's next game between G-44 and K-1933 was surely the game of the tournament. Salik Sebulonsen opened the scoring early on for K-1933 before Pavia Mølgaard levelled superbly. The game was a see-saw affair; Mølgaard put G-44 ahead before Sebulonsen equalised with a lovely effort of his own. K-1933 went in front through Henrik Ezekiassen, and then G-44 equalised through Thomas Abelsen to make it 3:3. Sebulonsen capped an excellent first half when he scored another fine goal to complete his hat-trick and put the southerners in front. Zakorat Zeeb is a man who knows where the back of the net is, and he scored his first goal of the tournament to bring G-44 level once again. Eight goals and it was only half time.
Sebulonsen scored yet another cracking goal early in the second half for his fourth and K-1933's fifth; team-mate Inuk Knudsen added another to extend the lead, using no little skill and still more perseverence to beat three defenders before scoring. Zakorat Zeeb struck twice, with admirable coolness, to get his hat-trick and bring the score to 6:6 with twenty-five minutes left to play. Angula Kielsen put K-1933 ahead with a long-range effort, and Sebulonsen scored yet again to make it 8:6.
He was denied a sixth when his shot from the edge of the area struck the underside of the bar, appeared to cross the line before hitting the underside of the bar again and bouncing back into play; the referee waved play on. Knudsen scored his second of the game to extend his team's lead to three goals with four minutes to go, and Inunnguaq Geronne made it ten when he rifled home in the last minute of injury-time to round off a more than eventful ninety minutes.
The result ensured the Qaqortoq side would take part in the fifth-place play-off, while G-44 were condemned to the seventh-place play-off. It was the first time in ten years that the team from the Disko Bay region hadn't qualified for the semi-finals (back in 2008, they hadn't even qualified for the national tournament). To be frank, they hadn't really deserved much better.
Meanwhile, in the final game in Group B, B-67 continued on their goal-spree by thrashing Eqaluk-54 by eight goals to nil. Captain Peter Knudsen headed in the first in the third minute, and they never looked back. Both Knudsen and Ari Hermann scored twice for the team in blue as their goal count reached 29 in four matches.
Over in Group A, Ilulissat club Nagdlúnguak-48 were looking for a springboard to their first national title since 2007, and they were clear favourites in a group containing Nuuk's third club NÛK, Kagssâgssuk (Maniitsoq), Upernavik side UB-83, and Kugsak-45 from Qasigiannguit, who finished fifth on their last appearance in the final stages in 2016.
N-48 didn't feature on the first day of Group A fixtures, which featured a tight encounter between NÛK and UB-83 and a hat-trick from NÛK's Minik Lyberth, whose third goal decided the game over two minutes into second-half injury-time. Kugsak-45 went 3:1 up early in the second half of their game against Kagssâgssuk, and looked at one stage as though they would go on to score a bagful..but then the wheels fell off the yellow-and-black bus. They conceded four goals in the last half-an-hour and looked completely deflated at full-time. It was a portent of things to come.
Kugsak-45's second game was against UB-83, and although they pulled a goal back after going 2:0 down, they conceded two more goals in the second half. N-48's goal-machine got going as their campaign kicked off with a 4:0 win against NÛK; Jan Jensen scored twice as the group favourites scored three times in the second half. Both Reimer brothers (Nick and Lars-Erik) and both Jensens (Markus and Jan) netted for N-48 in their next outing against Kagssâgssuk, which finished 5:0; Adø Løvstrøm also got his name on the scoresheet.
Kugsak-45's misery continued with a 5:1 hammering by NÛK. Kristian Broch opened the scoring in the first ten minutes. Peter Frederik Samuelsen levelled for Kugsak-45 ten minutes later, but, once again, his team couldn't capitalise and instead capitulated as Kjeld Frederiksen and Aqqalooraq Lund each netted twice in the last twenty-five minutes of the second half.
It was scoreless for the first half-an-hour in the game between UB-83 and Kagssâgssuk, until Aannguaq Kristensen took advantage of some dozy defending from a free-kick to put the Upernavik side ahead; the two-man wall split, Kristensen strolled up and struck the ball into the net via a deflection from just outside the six-yard box. Moments later, he first hit the post after putting the ball past the Kagssâgssuk goalkeeper, and then his rebound struck the top of the bar.
Try as they might, Kagssâgssuk were unable to get back into the game after missing a couple of good chances after the break, and they were made to pay by Kristensen, who cut through the defence to score UB-83's second, and then got his hat-trick in injury-time, much to the joy of his team's tiny band of supporters. The game ended in farce, however, as seconds after Kristensen completed his hat-trick, team-mate Hans-Jørgen Danielsen got himself needlessly sent off after apparently aiming a head-butt at opponent Jens Kleist, who had rather roughly shoved goalkeeper Jesper Petersen over the goal-line.
Kugsak-45 concluded a miserable set of group games with a fixture against N-48, and, sadly for the team which finished fifth back in 2016, this game went according to the form-book. They started brightly enough, and dominated possession early on, but were undone by Nick Reimer, who latched on to a through ball in the ninth minute and steered the ball under the goalkeeper. Jan Jansen stylishly added a second four minutes later, and when Reimer tapped in for Nagdlúnguak-48's third after 25 minutes, the game was as good as up. He claimed his hat-trick seven minutes before the break when he received a quick free-kick from brother Lars-Erik, barged through the defence and beat the goalkeeper at the near post. The youngest player in the tournament, 14-year-old Nemo Thomsen, scored his first goal at a national championship barely two minutes later, running clear of the defence, rounding the keeper and coolly sidefooting home from an acute angle. In first-half injury time, Jan Jensen bundled a rebound over the line to send N-48 in to the break six goals to the good.
Nick Reimer, his work done for the day, was substituted at half-time by N-48's talisman Markus Jensen, who got on the scoresheet five minutes into the second half after finishing off a lovely team move with the help of a defender, who diverted the ball into the net. He scored again two minutes later after receiving a pass from a defender, and Kunuuteeraq Isaksen made it 9:0 on the hour with a long-range drive. Thomsen was fouled in the penalty-area, and calmly dispatched the resulting spot-kick to bring up double figures. Nukannguaq Petersen scored the eleventh, receiving a back-heel from Markus Jensen, running a yard forward with the ball and wrong-footing the goalkeeper with his shot.
The biggest cheer of the day was reserved for Kugsak-45 substitute Jonas Hansen, who, in a polar opposite to Nemo Thomsen, was the oldest player in the tournament and didn't even have his own shirt when he came on half-way through the first half. With twelve minutes to go, the 48-year-old latched on to a through ball, and exquisitely half-volleyed a hook shot over the N-48 keeper from outside the box. Kunuuteeraq Isaksen quickly restored N-48's eleven-goal advantage, however, and Thomsen got his own hat-trick when he converted another penalty with just over eight minutes to go to complete a good day at the office for his team, and a catastrophic one for the boys in yellow and black.
Whether UB-83 would have done better with or without the suspended Hans-Jørgen Danielsen for their final group game against N-48 will be a question forever unanswered, but the unfortunate goalie Petersen was at fault for the first of N-48's goals, fumbling Nick Reimer's speculative long-range shot over the line in the 19th minute. Reimer had now scored in every group game for N-48, and barnstorming forward Jan Jensen was to achieve the same feat with his goal early in the second half. Reimer scored his second of the game with ten minutes still to play, and could have claimed his hat-trick in the last minute, but instead unselfishly passed the ball to Nemo Thomsen, who was in a better position and curled the ball past Petersen to round off the scoring as well as rubber-stamping his team's place in the semi-finals.
The final group game in Group A was between NÛK and Kagssâgssuk, and it was the former who quickly got into their stride, going ahead early on courtesy of Aqqalooraq Lund's fine turn and shot from the edge of the penalty-area. Minik Lyberth doubled NÛK's advantage in the 10th minute with a lovely half-volley from inside the D, and captain Anders Frederiksen started and finished the quick-fire move that led to his team's third after less than twelve minutes played. Jørgen-Peter Petersen quickly reduced the arrears when he outpaced the NÛK defence and fired his shot high into the net.
There were no more goals to report until Lund scored his second after 71 minutes, driving through the defence and beating the keeper with a precise shot into the bottom corner, and grabbed his third with eight minutes to go, when, with the Kagssâgssuk defence appealing for a free-kick, he ran through a king-sized gap in the defence to score with a shot from just outside the area. Morten Lyberth made it six when he beat the defence for pace and latched on to a loose ball just in front of the goalkeeper. Kagssâgssuk's Bruno Wind reduced the arrears in the last minute when he ghosted in to head the ball into the back of the net from a corner, and celebrated in style.
As was expected, Nagdlúnguaq-48 won the group at a canter, but there were many things during the group matches which typified all that is good about Greenlandic football: Wild's little celebration; the tiny knot of UB-83 supporters cheering their team on during their game against Kagssâgssuk, which was played in adverse conditions in front of a crowd of no more than thirty-five people; young and (comparatively) old footballers - in the persons of N-48's Nemo Thomsen and Kugsak-45's Jonas Hansen - giving it their all, and scoring to boot; the celebrations following Hansen's goal, and his subsequently receiving a sporting handshake and pat on the back from opponent Markus Jensen; and, no diving and scarcely any dissent shown toward the match officials.
The business end of the tournament approached, with the semi-finals taking place after the first of the play-offs for the minor placings. And, sadly for Kugsak-45, there was to be no respite from the horrors suffered during the group stages when they were at the wrong end of a 7:1 drubbing at the hands of Eqaluk-54 in their ninth-place play-off match. It was a sorry end to a disastrous tournament for a team, which, two years ago had one foot in the semi-finals only to capitulate badly against IT-79. Now, although they put in plenty of effort, they were simply not good enough, having been caught time after time on the counter-attack. And, they could not even claim they were in the strongest group.
G-44 had a troubled tournament, to say the least, conceding ten goals on two occasions and ending up in the play-off for seventh place, where they met Kagssâgssuk who, after defeating Kugsak-45 in their first match, lost their next three games. Kagssâgssuk ended up losing the play-off as well, by four goals to one, and finishing the game with ten men after Philip Holmene was sent off. Their tournament can be summed up, like their last few appearances at a national championship, by the (corrupted) one-liner from an old television advertisement: they came, they played, they went home. As for G-44, it was a poor performance from a team accustomed to challenging for a place in the final. They will surely do better in 2019..if they manage to qualify from the regional qualifiers, that is.
UB-83 were a breath of fresh air in this tournament, showing resiience and an attacking nature in equal measure, and deserved at least a point against NÛK in addition to their victories against Kugsak-45 and Kagssâgssuk. They were up against K-1933 in the fifth-place play-off, who were thrashed by both B-67 and IT-79 in their group matches, but soundly defeated Eqaluk-54 and came out on top after an unbelievable 90 minutes against G-44, thanks in no small part to Salik Sebulonsen's five-goal haul. Goals were expected, and Sebulonsen came up with another four as K-1933 swept the northerners aside, 6:0.
The first semi-final was a repeat of the 2017 match at the same stage between IT-79 and Nagdlúnguak-48, which was a real thriller, and which the Nuuk club won after extra-time. Those expecting another exciting encounter this time around were to be sadly disappointed; N-48's talisman Markus Jensen had had a quiet tournament by his own high standards, playing deeper than in previous tournaments, but he opened the scoring seven minutes into the second half, curling the ball past Stephen Høegh Møller in the IT-79 goal.
Kunuuteeraq Isaksen doubled the lead with ten minutes left, stealing in at the back post to head the ball into the back of the net. Two minutes later, he was sent off for a second yellow card for a slightly late tackle, but he would be in the team for the final as Jan Jensen deftly beat Høegh Møller at the end of a counter-attack right on the 90-minute mark to complete a 3:0 victory against an IT-79 team which battled hard and were camped in the N-48 half for most of the latter stages, but couldn't find a way through a well-marshalled defence.
There was a Nuuk derby in the other semi-final when perennial favourites B-67 met NÛK, who were appearing in their first national championship since 2015. Things didn't get off to a great start for the underdogs when Michael Hansen was injured in a tackle after just 25 seconds and ended up being substituted a few minutes later, and although they were second best throughout the first half, they reached the break unscathed.
It didn't take long for the stalemate to be broken, however, and it was broken in style in the 50th minute. B-67's Niklas Thorleifsen whipped in a free-kick from a fairly acute angle which deceived friend, foe and keeper Carlo Lyberth, and flew into the net just inside the far post. He doubled the lead barely a minute later, when, from Patrick Oteri Frederiksen's pass, he ran into the box and subtly clipped the ball over Carlo Lyberth. NÛK clawed their way back into the game with just over 15 minutes left, when Morten Lyberth reached a long ball from Minik Kleemann before two B-67 defenders and shinned the ball high over the advancing goalkeeper Brian Rosing Kleist and over the line.
B-67's two-goal advantage was restored in farcical fashion with eight minutes left; a loose ball was left by NÛK captain Anders Frederiksen for team-mate Leif Eskildsen, who was caught completely unawares and more or less tripped himself up under his own feet inside the six-yard box. Norsaq Lund Mathæussen nipped in and prodded the ball past Carlo Lyberth, who was as bemused as his team-mates. Four minutes later, B-67's place in the final was assured when Oteri Frederiksen raced through the defence, squared the ball to Aputsiaq Gabrielsen, whose shot was bravely saved from point-blank range by Lyberth; unfortunately for him, the ball spun behind the NÛK keeper to provide Oteri Frederiksen with the simplest goal he will ever score, a tap-in from barely a yard out.
NÛK might have lost their first semi-final appearance since 2013, but they still had the chance to finish the tournament on the podium when they played IT-79 in the third-place play-off. But, they fell behind after 26 minutes. Hans-Karl Berthelsen, the Students' star man in previous tournaments but who had been less prolific during this edition, whipped in a cross which was acrobatically met by Jakob Fleischer. His effort was parried by Carlo Lyberth, but Julius Motzfeldt reached the rebound just before defender Arne-Frederik Simonsen and steered the ball into the net. Fleischer netted IT-79's second seconds before the break; a string of passes led to Lars-Peter Broberg threading a ball behind the NÛK defence, and Fleischer nipped in to chip Lyberth at the edge of the 18-yard box.
Morten Lyberth pulled a goal back with a quarter of an hour left after Kristian Broch headed on a free-kick; defender Morten Fleischer inadvertently headed the ball out of the hands of his own goalkeeper, Rosing Kleist, and Lyberth hooked the ball into the roof of the empty net. It was to no avail, as IT-79 restored their two-goal advantage a couple of minutes later. Julius Motzfeldt found himself in space outside the area and shot, but although his effort was saved, he collected the rebound, rounded Carlo Lyberth and gently stroked the ball into the net, the ball beating the backtracking Eskildsen and Frederiksen as it rolled over the goal-line. The Students deserved their third-place finish, with Morten Fleischer and Julius Motzfeldt, who scored in all but one of his team's matches, their stand-out players throughout the tournament. Team talisman Hans-Karl Berthelsen scored just the one goal in the tournament, but ended the tournament top of the assists chart.
It will be interesting to see whether they or NÛK will qualify for the 2019 tournament, but it was good to see them back at the highest level, and they generally acquitted themselves well. Although they were well beaten by N-48 and B-67, they far from disgraced themselves. Aqqalooraq Lund's and Minik Lyberth's goals were important for NÛK, and Carlo Lyberth in goal performed well.
And so to the final. As per usual, B-67 were the bookies' favourites, but N-48 had swept every one of their opponents away, with Nick Reimer leading the way. Markus Jensen was less prevalent in front of goal but providing plenty of inspiration and assists, and Jan Jensen was bulldozing his way around the penalty-area throughout the tournament with good effect.
Like N-48's Jensen, B-67's Ari Hermann had not featured highly in the goalscoring charts, but he was also providing assists and was being his usual industrious self. Patrick Oteri Frederiksen and Peter Kundsen were rocks at the back, though they let Nick Reimer in for the first big chance of the game after ten minutes. a thre-man move involving Markus Jensen, Jan Jensen and Reimer carved the B-67 defence open, only for Reimer to badly scuff his shot wide.
Reimer was to rue his miss as, two minutes later, John-Ludvig Broberg headed Frederick Funch's long cross from the left-hand side past Gabriel Petersen to give B-67 the lead. Reimer had the opportunity to put his side level in the 25th minute, when he got to a high ball ahead of Knudsen on the right-hand side of the area, rounded goalkeeper Rosing Kleist, but, after seemingly doing the hard bit, badly scuffed his shot a yard wide from twelve yards out with only the backtracking Aputsiaq Birch to beat. Norsaq Lund Mathæussen almost doubled B-67's advantage a minute or so later, but his shot from the left-hand side went just wide of Petersen's far post.
More bad news followed for N-48's large and colourful contingent of fans when Markus Jensen failed to appear for the second half, and this was obviously a follow-on from the knock he received early on in his team's semi-final against IT-79. His place was taken by Nemo Thomsen, the youngest player in the tournament, and quite possibly the youngest player ever to take part in a national final. Thomsen also became the youngest player to receive a yellow card in the tournament after clattering into Morten Gade Nystrup in the 54th minute.
On the hour mark, moments after N-48's Kaali Lund Mathæussen was yellow-carded for retaliating against Patrick Oteri Frederiksen - who was himself extremely fortunate not to go into the book as well for blatantly provoking his opponent - and with fog rapidly enveloping the Nuuk Stadion, B-67 pulled further ahead. A fluent move from midfield ended with Funch providing the killer ball for the second time that afternoon, sending in a cross from the left for Norsaq Lund Mathæussen to head home from the far angle of the six-yard box, looping the ball into the far corner, across goal, over Petersen and evading Kaali Lund Mathæussen's valiant attempt to stop the ball crossing the line.
That effectively ended the game as a contest, although N-48 fought on until the bitter end, they were unable to fashion a chance clear-cut enough to trouble Rosing Kleist (although Nick Reimer did his best); B-67 should have gone three up with two minutes left, when Gade Nystrup picked up the ball just inside his own half, tore into the N-48 half, beat two defenders, cut across the edge of the area, but with a gaping hole left by the N-48 defence, delivered a tired-looking shot from the edge of the penalty-area which was well saved by Petersen.
B-67's Aputsiaq Gabrielsen made surely the shortest of cameo appearances when he substituted John-Ludvig Broberg with twenty-one seconds of injury-time left. Cue jubilant scenes amongst the B-67 players at the final whistle as fireworks went off in the background (a first for Greenlandic football), though it would have been nice to see veteran goalkeeper Loke Svane get a run-out for the first time in the tournament after playing in the regional championship. He did, at least, pick up his ninth winners' medal, having won his first winners' medal with Kugsak-45 back in 2002. An impressive haul for perhaps the best Greenlandic goalkeeper of modern times, who should perhaps have played at a higher level and who is now playing for the reserves, as well as moving towards coaching; he took up the post of assistant manager for the first team after GM 2018. Who's to say he won't be back to claim a tenth title as manager sometime in the near future?
For Nagdlúnguak-48, there was, once again, only heartbreak. Many of the players were sprawled on the artificial turf of Nuuk Stadion after the match, and Nick Reimer sat on the touchline, disconsolate and in tears. Yes, he missed two chances which might have altered the course of the contest, but, on the other hand, this tournament saw him come of age, and how. He was simply terrific, and, alongside Markus Jensen, was the driving force behind the team during GM 2018. They were both ably assisted by Gabriel Petersen in goal (who was consistently good), a rock-solid defence which had conceded only the one goal en route to the final, brother Lars-Erik, Kunuuteeraq Isaksen and Ado Løvstrom in midfield, and Jan Jensen up front, with Nemo Thomsen emerging as a bright prospect for the future. Manager Jakob Reimer must be looking forward to this year's edition with some confidence.
But, as ever, they - and everyone else - will have to get past B-67, who will go into the regional qualifiers for the 2019 tournament without manager Tekle Ghebrelul, who departed after the conclusion of the championship to take up a coaching role at Swedish Futsal side Örebro SK. He has left behind the most consistent club in Greenland, and players who have raised the standard of football in Greenland to new heights. Think of Ari Hermann, who is perhaps the best footballer in Greenland at the moment, and mainstays such as Peter Knudsen, Frederick Funch and Hans Brummerstedt, and Patrick Oteri Frederiksen, a player who won the award for player of the tournament, and someone who has come on leaps in bounds over the past couple of years.
Club vice-chairman Finn Meinel was full of praise for his team's performance, especially after their showing in 2017, saying that "the team played really well, with, especially, Ari Hermann, Lohn-Ludvig Broberg, Niklas Thorleifsen and Patrick Oteri Frederiksen leading the team."
"After experiencing a disappointing 2017", Meinel continued, "the team had [..] their sights on making 2018 their year. Hard work followed, which, together with good tactical skills from coach Tekle Ghebrelul, ensured that the senior team reclaimed the GM in both Futsal and outdoor football in a convincing manner. Tekle got some deserved results in his final year as B-67 head coach."
Sadly, Hermann, the Jensens et al will not be attending the Inter Games in Anglesey later this year; the KAK declined the Ynys Môn FA's invitation to take part last summer. But, many of those taking part in GM2018 also travelled to Denmark in early December to represent their country at the annual Nordic Cup Futsal tournament. It wasn't a huge success, as Greenland lost all four of their games at the tournament, which was played on a round-robin basis. Finland won the tournament, which ran from 4-8 December, winning all four of their matches.
Domestically, the 2019 season has already been mapped out, and the finals of the women's championship (won, of course, in 2018 by GSS) will be held in Nuuk at the end of July; Sisimiut will host the 2020 version on the town's new artificial pitch, and Ilulissat will be the venue for the 2021 national finals.
The men's regional tournaments will begin on or around 22 July, and will be held in Ilulissat (Avannaa/Nord), Nuuk (Qeqqa/Midt-Tunu) and Qaqortoq (Kujataa/Sud). The national championship finals will be held in Sisimiut in 2019 for the first time in eight years, and are scheduled to begin on 5 August, with the final being held on 11 August. Ilulissat will host the tournament in 2020 before it returns to Nuuk in 2021. First up for the country's male footballers will be the Futsal championship, which will kick off in Nuuk in mid-April; the women's equivalent will be held a week later in Aasiaat. It promises to be another interesting year for the country's footballers, both indoors and outdoors. It will be anybody's guess as to who will finish top of the pile in Sisimuit in August, but B-67 will, as ever, be the team to beat.
GROUP A (NÛK, UB-83, Kugsak-45, Kagssâgssuk, Nagdlúnguak-48)
12/08/18 NÛK 3:2 UB-83 (Minik Lyberth 3; Karlsen (pen), Kristiansen)
12/08/18 Kugsak-45 3:5 Kagssâgssuk (Ittukusuk Isaksen, Peter Frederik Samuelsen, Arne Petersen Hansen; Phillip Holmene 2 (1 pen), Jørgen-Peter Petersen, Søren Kreutzmann, Aka Lyberth)
13/08/18 UB-83 4:1 Kugsak-45 (Søren Kristiansen, Aannguaq Kristensen 2, Gerth Kristiansen; Peter Frederik Samuelsen)
13/08/18 NÛK 0:4 Nagdlúnguak-48 (Jan Jensen 2, Sandgreen, Nick Reimer)
14/08/18 Kagssâgssuk 0:5 Nagdlúnguak-48 (Løvstrom, Nick Reimer, Markus Jensen, Lars-Erik Reimer, Jan Jensen)
14/08/18 NÛK 5:1 Kugsak-45 (Kjeld Frederiksen 2, Aqqalooraq Lund 2, Kristian Broch; Peter Frederik Samuelsen)
15/08/18 UB-83 3:0 Kagssâgssuk (Aannguaq Kristensen 3)
15/08/18 Kugsak-45 1:13 Nagdlúnguak-48 (Jonas Hansen; Nick Reimer 3, Nemo Thomsen 3, Jan Jensen 2, Markus Jensen 2, Isaksen 2, Petersen)
16/08/18 UB-83 0:4 Nagdlúnguak-48 (Nick Reimer 2, Jan Jensen, Nemo Thomsen)
16/08/18 NÛK 6:2 Kagssâgssuk (Aqqalooraq Lund 3, Minik Lyberth, Anders Frederiksen, Morten Lyberth; Jørgen-Peter Petersen, Bruno Wind)
GROUP B (G-44, B-67, IT-79, K-1933, Eqaluk-54)
12/08/18 G-44 1:10 B-67 (Olsen; John-Ludvig Broberg 4, Funch 2, Mathæussen, Gade Nystrup, Fredriksen, Thorleifsen)
12/08/18 IT-79 7:0 K-1933 (Fleischer 2, Ezekiassen 2, Motzfeldt 2, Berthelsen)
13/08/18 G-44 2:0 Eqaluk-54 (Olrik, Pavia Mølgaard)
13/08/18 B-67 5:1 IT-79 (Møller Andersen 2, Oteri Frederiksen, Funch, Norsaq Lund Mathæussen; Julius Motzfeldt)
14/08/18 K-1933 6:2 Eqaluk-54 (Biinia Abelsen 2, Angula Kielsen, Joorut Nielsen, Inuk Knudsen, Erni Tellesen; Inuuteq Petersen, Atsiaq Gedionsen)
14/08/18 G-44 2:4 IT-79 (Pavia Mølgaard 2; Aqqa-Nuka Reimer 2, Motzfeldt, Peri Fleischer)
15/08/18 B-67 6:0 K-1933 (Peter Knudsen 2, Norsaq Lund Mathæussen 2, John-Ludvig Broberg, Niki Petersen)
15/08/18 IT-79 8:1 Eqaluk-54 (Jakob Fleischer 2, Motzfeldt 2, Nukannguaq Zeeb, Malik Kristensen, Ivik Paulsen, Marco Leibhardt; Niels-Ole Simonsen)
16/08/18 G-44 6:10 K-1933 (Zakorat Zeeb 3, Mølgaard 2, Thomas Abelsen; Sebulonsen 5, Inuk Knudsen 2, Ezekiassen, Kielsen, Geronne)
16/08/18 B-67 8:0 Eqaluk-54 (Knudsen 2, Hermann 2, Møller Andersen, Thorleifsen, Niels Svane (pen), Gabrielsen)
SEMI-FINALS
18/08/18 Nagdlúnguak-48 3:0 IT-79 (Markus Jensen, Isaksen, Jan Jensen)
NAGDLÚNGUAK-48: 1 Gabriel PETERSEN; 2 Minik SVENDSEN (15 Karl-Louis SANDGREEN), 22 Inooraq SVENDSEN, 14 Kaali LUND MATHÆUSSEN, 3 Peter LEIBHARDT; 5 Lars-Erik REIMER, 6 Kunuuteeraq ISAKSEN, 4 Ado LØVSTRØM (10 Nemo THOMSEN), 7 Nick REIMER; 9 Markus JENSEN (8 Bruno SANDGREEN), 21 Jan JENSEN
IT-79: 12 Steffen HØEGH MØLLER; 14 Lars-Peter BROBERG, 9 Morten FLEISCHER, 56 Nukannguaq ZEEB, 17 Malik KRISTENSEN; 46 Peri FLEISCHER, 7 Hans-Karl BERTHELSEN, 33 Kaassannguaq ZEEB, 11 Kuluk EZEKIASSEN (19 Aqqa-Nuka REIMER); 10 Julius MOTZFELDT (29 Abilinnguaq SANDGREEN), 15 Jakob FLEISCHER
RED CARD: Kunuuteeraq ISAKSEN (NAGDLÚNGUAK-48)
18/08/18 NÛK 1:4 B-67 (Morten Lyberth; Thorleifsen 2, Lund Mathæussen, Fredriksen)
NÛK: 1 Carlo LYBERTH; 2 Hans RASMUSSEN, 5 Anders FREDERIKSEN, 13 Leif ESKILDSEN, 19 Michael HANSEN (4 Arne-Frederik SIMONSEN); 10 Kjeld FREDERIKSEN, 3 Minik LYBERTH, 7 Aqqalu LARSEN, 20 Aqqa OLSEN (9 Minik JEREMIASSEN); 6 Minik KLEEMANN (17 Miki EGEDE JENSEN), 15 Aqqalooraq LUND (14 Morten LYBERTH)
B-67: 19 Brian ROSING KLEIST; 24 Hans BRUMMERSTEDT, 5 Peter KNUDSEN, 13 Aputsiaq BIRCH (62 Christian KNUDSEN), 2 Mika DAVIDSEN (7 Frederik FUNCH); 4 Morten GADE NYSTRUP, 6 Patrick OTERI FREDERIKSEN, 21 Niklas THORLEIFSEN, 26 Amos ROSBACH; 10 Ari HERMANN (8 Aputsiaq GABRIELSEN), 19 Karsten MØLLER ANDERSEN (18 Norsaq LUND MATHÆUSSEN)
NINTH-PLACE PLAY-OFF
18/08/18 Kugsak-45 1:7 Eqaluk-54
SEVENTH-PLACE PLAY-OFF
18/08/18 Kagssâgssuk 1:4 G-44
FIFTH-PLACE PLAY-OFF
19/08/18 UB-83 0:6 K-1933
THIRD-PLACE PLAY-OFF
19/08/18 IT-79 3:1 NÛK (Motzfeldt 2, Jakob Fleischer; Lyberth)
IT-79:12 Steffen HØEGH MØLLER; 14 Lars-Peter BROBERG, 9 Morten FLEISCHER, 4 Nuka-Peter OTTOSEN, 17 Malik KRISTENSEN; 46 Peri FLEISCHER, 7 Hans-Karl BERTHELSEN, 13 Ivik PAULSEN (29 Abilinnguaq SANDGREEN), 11 Kuluk EZEKIASSEN; 15 Jakob FLEISCHER (19 Aqqa-Nuka REIMER), 10 Julius MOTZFELDT (22 Nikku MATHIASSEN)
NÛK: 1 Carlo LYBERTH; 2 Hans RASMUSSEN, 13 Leif ESKILDSEN, 5 Anders FREDERIKSEN, 4 Arne-Frederik SIMONSEN; 9 Minik JEREMIASSEN (10 Kjeld FREDERIKSEN), 8 Kristian BROCH, 6 Minik KLEEMANN (14 Morten LYBERTH), 7 Aqqalu LARSEN; 15 Aqqalooraq LUND (11 Inunnguaq OLRIK), 20 Aqqa OLSEN (3 Minik LYBERTH; 17 Miki EGEDE JENSEN)
FINAL
19/08/18 Nagdlúnguak-48 0:2 B-67 (Broberg, Lund Mathæussen)
NAGDLÚNGUAK-48: 1 Gabriel PETERSEN; 2 Minik SVENDSEN, 22 Inooraq SVENDSEN, 14 Kaali LUND MATHÆUSSEN, 3 Peter LEIBHARDT; 5 Lars-Erik REIMER, 6 Kunuuteeraq ISAKSEN, 4 Ado LØVSTRØM; 7 Nick REIMER, 21 Jan JENSEN (8 Bruno SANDGREEN), 9 Markus JENSEN (10 Nemo THOMSEN)
B-67: 22 Brian ROSING KLEIST; 4 Morten GADE NYSTRUP, 13 Aputsiaq BIRCH, 21 Niklas THORLEIFSEN, 6 Patrick OTERI FREDERIKSEN, 9 John-Ludvig BROBERG (8 Aputsiaq GABRIELSEN), 10 Ari HERMANN; 18 Norsaq LUND MATHÆUSSEN (26 Amos ROSBACH)
KAK/GBU TEAM OF THE TOURNAMENT
Gabriel PETERSEN (Nagdlúnguak-48); Kaali LUND MATHÆUSSEN (Nagdlúnguak-48), Aputsiaq BIRCH (B-67), Anders FREDERIKSEN (NÛK), Morten FLEISCHER (IT-79); Patrick OTERI FREDERIKSEN (B-67), Lars-Erik REIMER (Nagdlúnguak-48), Kuluk EZEKIASSEN (IT-79); John-Ludvig BROBERG (B-67), Ari HERMANN (B-67), Nick REIMER (Nagdlúnguak-48)
PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT: Patrick OTERI FREDERIKSEN (B-67)
MOST TECHNICAL PLAYER: Markus JENSEN (Nagdlúnguak-48)
MOST COMBATIVE PLAYER: Kaali LUND MATHÆUSSEN (Nagdlúnguak-48)
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Some of the above information was gleaned from Sermitsiaq, KNR and Facebook, as well as from PFB's sister account on Twitter. Any errors will be corrected upon notification. Many thanks to B-67 vice-chairman Finn Meinel for his assistance.
The Sisimiut pitch's installation was delayed because the equipment needed to install it was in southern Greenland and was unable to have brought north until a week before the national tournament was due to begin. In the end, the pitch was only opened on 18 August.
B-67's first match in Group B - as near as you'll get to a Greenlandic Group of Death, at least on paper, and one which also contained G-44 from Qeqertarsuaq, 2017 champions IT-79, and, from the southernmost reaches of the country, Nanortalik's Eqaluk-54 and the country's oldest surviving club, K-1933 from Qaqortoq - was against G-44, and Frederik Funch soon had the tournament hosts in front, though when Aputsiaq Olsen coolly equalised for the northerners, there was no hint of what was to come. However, Patrick Oteri Frederiksen put B-67 back in front, and the pre-tournament favourites never looked back.
B-67 eased to a 4:1 lead at half-time thanks to a dipping shot from John-Ludvig Broberg and a second for Funch after a driving run from Ari Hermann and final pass from Karsten Møller Andersen, and scored six more without reply as G-44 unexpectly and dramatically collapsed during the second half. John-Ludvig Broberg scored three more goals during the second half, and was joined on the scoresheet by Morten Gade Nystrup, Norsaq Lund Mathæussen and Niklas Thorleifsen in what turned out to be a disastrous day for a team which nowadays regularly features in the last four of the championship.
IT-79, last year's runners-up, got off to a flying start against K-1933, hitting the team from Qaqortoq for seven. Kuluk Ezekiassen, Julius Motzfeldt and Morten Fleischer each scored twice, with Hans-Karl Berthelsen being the other scorer. (They ended the game with ten men after Lars-Peter Broberg was red-carded.) That was before they themselves lost 5:1 to a rampant B-67 in their next match, which was marred by a serious injury to goalkeeper Malik Mikaelsen, who hurt his shoulder in an accidental collision with Norsaq Lund Andersen.
It was enough to put the Students' custodian out of the rest of the tournament. Julius Motzfeldt scored a cracking goal to bring IT-79 back into the game after going 2:0 down, but that was as good as it got; former team-mate Ari Hermann was in scintillating form for B-67, and, although he didn't get on the scoresheet himself, he was involved in four of his team's goals. Goals from Møller Andersen (two), Oteri Frederiksen, Funch and Lund Mathæussen sent B-67 fans home in good spirits.
G-44, meanwhile, recovered from their first-day disaster to beat group underdogs Eqaluk-54 2:0. Inooraq Olrik put them in front in the sixth minute after putting a loose ball through the keeper's legs. Seven minutes into the second-half, Pavia Mølgaard put his side further ahead, rolling the ball home past two defenders from 25 yards out after he collected the Eqaluk-54 goalkeeper's attempted clearance.
IT-79 and G-44 met in the next match, which was essentially the decider for runners-up spot, and the team from Nuuk eventually prevailed by 4 goals to 2, although it was hard going at times against a team still smarting from their 10:1 humiliation against B-67. Julius Motzfeldt struck the first after a flying run and pass from Abilinnguaq Sandgreen. Pavia Mølgaard equalised delighfully for G-44, and then took advantage of a team-mate's dispossessing Peri Fleischer to put his side in front. Aqqa-Nuka Reimer equalised ten minutes into the second period, pouncing on a fumble by the G-44 goalkeeper.
IT-79 hit the front after a curling shot from close to the touchline which somehow beat the goalkeeper; Hans-Jørgen Zeeb received the congratulations from his team-mates, but replays later showed that Aqqa-Nuka Reimer got the final touch on the ball to divert it past the goalkeeper. With four minutes to go, Peri Fleischer was given the time and space to trap the ball inside the D and curl it past the goalkeeper to make it 4:2 to IT-79.
The Students' place in the last four was confirmed when they slammed eight goals past Eqaluk-54 - with the ever-reliable duo of Jakob Fleischer and Julius Motzfeldt each contributing a brace - whilst conceding a solitary goal in the process, but what a goal. It was perhaps the goal of the tournament: Niels-Ole Simonsen latched on to a poor clearing header and, from well inside the centre-circle, unleashed a half-volley which flew over IT-79 keeper Steffen Høegh Møller and into the net. (One could perhaps use the hackneyed old chestnut "if the goal had been scored in the Premier League, it would be all over the media" at this juncture.)
If Simonsen's effort was a contender for goal of the tournament, the group's next game between G-44 and K-1933 was surely the game of the tournament. Salik Sebulonsen opened the scoring early on for K-1933 before Pavia Mølgaard levelled superbly. The game was a see-saw affair; Mølgaard put G-44 ahead before Sebulonsen equalised with a lovely effort of his own. K-1933 went in front through Henrik Ezekiassen, and then G-44 equalised through Thomas Abelsen to make it 3:3. Sebulonsen capped an excellent first half when he scored another fine goal to complete his hat-trick and put the southerners in front. Zakorat Zeeb is a man who knows where the back of the net is, and he scored his first goal of the tournament to bring G-44 level once again. Eight goals and it was only half time.
Sebulonsen scored yet another cracking goal early in the second half for his fourth and K-1933's fifth; team-mate Inuk Knudsen added another to extend the lead, using no little skill and still more perseverence to beat three defenders before scoring. Zakorat Zeeb struck twice, with admirable coolness, to get his hat-trick and bring the score to 6:6 with twenty-five minutes left to play. Angula Kielsen put K-1933 ahead with a long-range effort, and Sebulonsen scored yet again to make it 8:6.
He was denied a sixth when his shot from the edge of the area struck the underside of the bar, appeared to cross the line before hitting the underside of the bar again and bouncing back into play; the referee waved play on. Knudsen scored his second of the game to extend his team's lead to three goals with four minutes to go, and Inunnguaq Geronne made it ten when he rifled home in the last minute of injury-time to round off a more than eventful ninety minutes.
The result ensured the Qaqortoq side would take part in the fifth-place play-off, while G-44 were condemned to the seventh-place play-off. It was the first time in ten years that the team from the Disko Bay region hadn't qualified for the semi-finals (back in 2008, they hadn't even qualified for the national tournament). To be frank, they hadn't really deserved much better.
Meanwhile, in the final game in Group B, B-67 continued on their goal-spree by thrashing Eqaluk-54 by eight goals to nil. Captain Peter Knudsen headed in the first in the third minute, and they never looked back. Both Knudsen and Ari Hermann scored twice for the team in blue as their goal count reached 29 in four matches.
Over in Group A, Ilulissat club Nagdlúnguak-48 were looking for a springboard to their first national title since 2007, and they were clear favourites in a group containing Nuuk's third club NÛK, Kagssâgssuk (Maniitsoq), Upernavik side UB-83, and Kugsak-45 from Qasigiannguit, who finished fifth on their last appearance in the final stages in 2016.
N-48 didn't feature on the first day of Group A fixtures, which featured a tight encounter between NÛK and UB-83 and a hat-trick from NÛK's Minik Lyberth, whose third goal decided the game over two minutes into second-half injury-time. Kugsak-45 went 3:1 up early in the second half of their game against Kagssâgssuk, and looked at one stage as though they would go on to score a bagful..but then the wheels fell off the yellow-and-black bus. They conceded four goals in the last half-an-hour and looked completely deflated at full-time. It was a portent of things to come.
Kugsak-45's second game was against UB-83, and although they pulled a goal back after going 2:0 down, they conceded two more goals in the second half. N-48's goal-machine got going as their campaign kicked off with a 4:0 win against NÛK; Jan Jensen scored twice as the group favourites scored three times in the second half. Both Reimer brothers (Nick and Lars-Erik) and both Jensens (Markus and Jan) netted for N-48 in their next outing against Kagssâgssuk, which finished 5:0; Adø Løvstrøm also got his name on the scoresheet.
Kugsak-45's misery continued with a 5:1 hammering by NÛK. Kristian Broch opened the scoring in the first ten minutes. Peter Frederik Samuelsen levelled for Kugsak-45 ten minutes later, but, once again, his team couldn't capitalise and instead capitulated as Kjeld Frederiksen and Aqqalooraq Lund each netted twice in the last twenty-five minutes of the second half.
It was scoreless for the first half-an-hour in the game between UB-83 and Kagssâgssuk, until Aannguaq Kristensen took advantage of some dozy defending from a free-kick to put the Upernavik side ahead; the two-man wall split, Kristensen strolled up and struck the ball into the net via a deflection from just outside the six-yard box. Moments later, he first hit the post after putting the ball past the Kagssâgssuk goalkeeper, and then his rebound struck the top of the bar.
Try as they might, Kagssâgssuk were unable to get back into the game after missing a couple of good chances after the break, and they were made to pay by Kristensen, who cut through the defence to score UB-83's second, and then got his hat-trick in injury-time, much to the joy of his team's tiny band of supporters. The game ended in farce, however, as seconds after Kristensen completed his hat-trick, team-mate Hans-Jørgen Danielsen got himself needlessly sent off after apparently aiming a head-butt at opponent Jens Kleist, who had rather roughly shoved goalkeeper Jesper Petersen over the goal-line.
Kugsak-45 concluded a miserable set of group games with a fixture against N-48, and, sadly for the team which finished fifth back in 2016, this game went according to the form-book. They started brightly enough, and dominated possession early on, but were undone by Nick Reimer, who latched on to a through ball in the ninth minute and steered the ball under the goalkeeper. Jan Jansen stylishly added a second four minutes later, and when Reimer tapped in for Nagdlúnguak-48's third after 25 minutes, the game was as good as up. He claimed his hat-trick seven minutes before the break when he received a quick free-kick from brother Lars-Erik, barged through the defence and beat the goalkeeper at the near post. The youngest player in the tournament, 14-year-old Nemo Thomsen, scored his first goal at a national championship barely two minutes later, running clear of the defence, rounding the keeper and coolly sidefooting home from an acute angle. In first-half injury time, Jan Jensen bundled a rebound over the line to send N-48 in to the break six goals to the good.
Nick Reimer, his work done for the day, was substituted at half-time by N-48's talisman Markus Jensen, who got on the scoresheet five minutes into the second half after finishing off a lovely team move with the help of a defender, who diverted the ball into the net. He scored again two minutes later after receiving a pass from a defender, and Kunuuteeraq Isaksen made it 9:0 on the hour with a long-range drive. Thomsen was fouled in the penalty-area, and calmly dispatched the resulting spot-kick to bring up double figures. Nukannguaq Petersen scored the eleventh, receiving a back-heel from Markus Jensen, running a yard forward with the ball and wrong-footing the goalkeeper with his shot.
The biggest cheer of the day was reserved for Kugsak-45 substitute Jonas Hansen, who, in a polar opposite to Nemo Thomsen, was the oldest player in the tournament and didn't even have his own shirt when he came on half-way through the first half. With twelve minutes to go, the 48-year-old latched on to a through ball, and exquisitely half-volleyed a hook shot over the N-48 keeper from outside the box. Kunuuteeraq Isaksen quickly restored N-48's eleven-goal advantage, however, and Thomsen got his own hat-trick when he converted another penalty with just over eight minutes to go to complete a good day at the office for his team, and a catastrophic one for the boys in yellow and black.
Whether UB-83 would have done better with or without the suspended Hans-Jørgen Danielsen for their final group game against N-48 will be a question forever unanswered, but the unfortunate goalie Petersen was at fault for the first of N-48's goals, fumbling Nick Reimer's speculative long-range shot over the line in the 19th minute. Reimer had now scored in every group game for N-48, and barnstorming forward Jan Jensen was to achieve the same feat with his goal early in the second half. Reimer scored his second of the game with ten minutes still to play, and could have claimed his hat-trick in the last minute, but instead unselfishly passed the ball to Nemo Thomsen, who was in a better position and curled the ball past Petersen to round off the scoring as well as rubber-stamping his team's place in the semi-finals.
The final group game in Group A was between NÛK and Kagssâgssuk, and it was the former who quickly got into their stride, going ahead early on courtesy of Aqqalooraq Lund's fine turn and shot from the edge of the penalty-area. Minik Lyberth doubled NÛK's advantage in the 10th minute with a lovely half-volley from inside the D, and captain Anders Frederiksen started and finished the quick-fire move that led to his team's third after less than twelve minutes played. Jørgen-Peter Petersen quickly reduced the arrears when he outpaced the NÛK defence and fired his shot high into the net.
There were no more goals to report until Lund scored his second after 71 minutes, driving through the defence and beating the keeper with a precise shot into the bottom corner, and grabbed his third with eight minutes to go, when, with the Kagssâgssuk defence appealing for a free-kick, he ran through a king-sized gap in the defence to score with a shot from just outside the area. Morten Lyberth made it six when he beat the defence for pace and latched on to a loose ball just in front of the goalkeeper. Kagssâgssuk's Bruno Wind reduced the arrears in the last minute when he ghosted in to head the ball into the back of the net from a corner, and celebrated in style.
As was expected, Nagdlúnguaq-48 won the group at a canter, but there were many things during the group matches which typified all that is good about Greenlandic football: Wild's little celebration; the tiny knot of UB-83 supporters cheering their team on during their game against Kagssâgssuk, which was played in adverse conditions in front of a crowd of no more than thirty-five people; young and (comparatively) old footballers - in the persons of N-48's Nemo Thomsen and Kugsak-45's Jonas Hansen - giving it their all, and scoring to boot; the celebrations following Hansen's goal, and his subsequently receiving a sporting handshake and pat on the back from opponent Markus Jensen; and, no diving and scarcely any dissent shown toward the match officials.
The business end of the tournament approached, with the semi-finals taking place after the first of the play-offs for the minor placings. And, sadly for Kugsak-45, there was to be no respite from the horrors suffered during the group stages when they were at the wrong end of a 7:1 drubbing at the hands of Eqaluk-54 in their ninth-place play-off match. It was a sorry end to a disastrous tournament for a team, which, two years ago had one foot in the semi-finals only to capitulate badly against IT-79. Now, although they put in plenty of effort, they were simply not good enough, having been caught time after time on the counter-attack. And, they could not even claim they were in the strongest group.
G-44 had a troubled tournament, to say the least, conceding ten goals on two occasions and ending up in the play-off for seventh place, where they met Kagssâgssuk who, after defeating Kugsak-45 in their first match, lost their next three games. Kagssâgssuk ended up losing the play-off as well, by four goals to one, and finishing the game with ten men after Philip Holmene was sent off. Their tournament can be summed up, like their last few appearances at a national championship, by the (corrupted) one-liner from an old television advertisement: they came, they played, they went home. As for G-44, it was a poor performance from a team accustomed to challenging for a place in the final. They will surely do better in 2019..if they manage to qualify from the regional qualifiers, that is.
UB-83 were a breath of fresh air in this tournament, showing resiience and an attacking nature in equal measure, and deserved at least a point against NÛK in addition to their victories against Kugsak-45 and Kagssâgssuk. They were up against K-1933 in the fifth-place play-off, who were thrashed by both B-67 and IT-79 in their group matches, but soundly defeated Eqaluk-54 and came out on top after an unbelievable 90 minutes against G-44, thanks in no small part to Salik Sebulonsen's five-goal haul. Goals were expected, and Sebulonsen came up with another four as K-1933 swept the northerners aside, 6:0.
The first semi-final was a repeat of the 2017 match at the same stage between IT-79 and Nagdlúnguak-48, which was a real thriller, and which the Nuuk club won after extra-time. Those expecting another exciting encounter this time around were to be sadly disappointed; N-48's talisman Markus Jensen had had a quiet tournament by his own high standards, playing deeper than in previous tournaments, but he opened the scoring seven minutes into the second half, curling the ball past Stephen Høegh Møller in the IT-79 goal.
Kunuuteeraq Isaksen doubled the lead with ten minutes left, stealing in at the back post to head the ball into the back of the net. Two minutes later, he was sent off for a second yellow card for a slightly late tackle, but he would be in the team for the final as Jan Jensen deftly beat Høegh Møller at the end of a counter-attack right on the 90-minute mark to complete a 3:0 victory against an IT-79 team which battled hard and were camped in the N-48 half for most of the latter stages, but couldn't find a way through a well-marshalled defence.
There was a Nuuk derby in the other semi-final when perennial favourites B-67 met NÛK, who were appearing in their first national championship since 2015. Things didn't get off to a great start for the underdogs when Michael Hansen was injured in a tackle after just 25 seconds and ended up being substituted a few minutes later, and although they were second best throughout the first half, they reached the break unscathed.
It didn't take long for the stalemate to be broken, however, and it was broken in style in the 50th minute. B-67's Niklas Thorleifsen whipped in a free-kick from a fairly acute angle which deceived friend, foe and keeper Carlo Lyberth, and flew into the net just inside the far post. He doubled the lead barely a minute later, when, from Patrick Oteri Frederiksen's pass, he ran into the box and subtly clipped the ball over Carlo Lyberth. NÛK clawed their way back into the game with just over 15 minutes left, when Morten Lyberth reached a long ball from Minik Kleemann before two B-67 defenders and shinned the ball high over the advancing goalkeeper Brian Rosing Kleist and over the line.
B-67's two-goal advantage was restored in farcical fashion with eight minutes left; a loose ball was left by NÛK captain Anders Frederiksen for team-mate Leif Eskildsen, who was caught completely unawares and more or less tripped himself up under his own feet inside the six-yard box. Norsaq Lund Mathæussen nipped in and prodded the ball past Carlo Lyberth, who was as bemused as his team-mates. Four minutes later, B-67's place in the final was assured when Oteri Frederiksen raced through the defence, squared the ball to Aputsiaq Gabrielsen, whose shot was bravely saved from point-blank range by Lyberth; unfortunately for him, the ball spun behind the NÛK keeper to provide Oteri Frederiksen with the simplest goal he will ever score, a tap-in from barely a yard out.
NÛK might have lost their first semi-final appearance since 2013, but they still had the chance to finish the tournament on the podium when they played IT-79 in the third-place play-off. But, they fell behind after 26 minutes. Hans-Karl Berthelsen, the Students' star man in previous tournaments but who had been less prolific during this edition, whipped in a cross which was acrobatically met by Jakob Fleischer. His effort was parried by Carlo Lyberth, but Julius Motzfeldt reached the rebound just before defender Arne-Frederik Simonsen and steered the ball into the net. Fleischer netted IT-79's second seconds before the break; a string of passes led to Lars-Peter Broberg threading a ball behind the NÛK defence, and Fleischer nipped in to chip Lyberth at the edge of the 18-yard box.
Morten Lyberth pulled a goal back with a quarter of an hour left after Kristian Broch headed on a free-kick; defender Morten Fleischer inadvertently headed the ball out of the hands of his own goalkeeper, Rosing Kleist, and Lyberth hooked the ball into the roof of the empty net. It was to no avail, as IT-79 restored their two-goal advantage a couple of minutes later. Julius Motzfeldt found himself in space outside the area and shot, but although his effort was saved, he collected the rebound, rounded Carlo Lyberth and gently stroked the ball into the net, the ball beating the backtracking Eskildsen and Frederiksen as it rolled over the goal-line. The Students deserved their third-place finish, with Morten Fleischer and Julius Motzfeldt, who scored in all but one of his team's matches, their stand-out players throughout the tournament. Team talisman Hans-Karl Berthelsen scored just the one goal in the tournament, but ended the tournament top of the assists chart.
It will be interesting to see whether they or NÛK will qualify for the 2019 tournament, but it was good to see them back at the highest level, and they generally acquitted themselves well. Although they were well beaten by N-48 and B-67, they far from disgraced themselves. Aqqalooraq Lund's and Minik Lyberth's goals were important for NÛK, and Carlo Lyberth in goal performed well.
And so to the final. As per usual, B-67 were the bookies' favourites, but N-48 had swept every one of their opponents away, with Nick Reimer leading the way. Markus Jensen was less prevalent in front of goal but providing plenty of inspiration and assists, and Jan Jensen was bulldozing his way around the penalty-area throughout the tournament with good effect.
Like N-48's Jensen, B-67's Ari Hermann had not featured highly in the goalscoring charts, but he was also providing assists and was being his usual industrious self. Patrick Oteri Frederiksen and Peter Kundsen were rocks at the back, though they let Nick Reimer in for the first big chance of the game after ten minutes. a thre-man move involving Markus Jensen, Jan Jensen and Reimer carved the B-67 defence open, only for Reimer to badly scuff his shot wide.
Reimer was to rue his miss as, two minutes later, John-Ludvig Broberg headed Frederick Funch's long cross from the left-hand side past Gabriel Petersen to give B-67 the lead. Reimer had the opportunity to put his side level in the 25th minute, when he got to a high ball ahead of Knudsen on the right-hand side of the area, rounded goalkeeper Rosing Kleist, but, after seemingly doing the hard bit, badly scuffed his shot a yard wide from twelve yards out with only the backtracking Aputsiaq Birch to beat. Norsaq Lund Mathæussen almost doubled B-67's advantage a minute or so later, but his shot from the left-hand side went just wide of Petersen's far post.
More bad news followed for N-48's large and colourful contingent of fans when Markus Jensen failed to appear for the second half, and this was obviously a follow-on from the knock he received early on in his team's semi-final against IT-79. His place was taken by Nemo Thomsen, the youngest player in the tournament, and quite possibly the youngest player ever to take part in a national final. Thomsen also became the youngest player to receive a yellow card in the tournament after clattering into Morten Gade Nystrup in the 54th minute.
On the hour mark, moments after N-48's Kaali Lund Mathæussen was yellow-carded for retaliating against Patrick Oteri Frederiksen - who was himself extremely fortunate not to go into the book as well for blatantly provoking his opponent - and with fog rapidly enveloping the Nuuk Stadion, B-67 pulled further ahead. A fluent move from midfield ended with Funch providing the killer ball for the second time that afternoon, sending in a cross from the left for Norsaq Lund Mathæussen to head home from the far angle of the six-yard box, looping the ball into the far corner, across goal, over Petersen and evading Kaali Lund Mathæussen's valiant attempt to stop the ball crossing the line.
That effectively ended the game as a contest, although N-48 fought on until the bitter end, they were unable to fashion a chance clear-cut enough to trouble Rosing Kleist (although Nick Reimer did his best); B-67 should have gone three up with two minutes left, when Gade Nystrup picked up the ball just inside his own half, tore into the N-48 half, beat two defenders, cut across the edge of the area, but with a gaping hole left by the N-48 defence, delivered a tired-looking shot from the edge of the penalty-area which was well saved by Petersen.
B-67's Aputsiaq Gabrielsen made surely the shortest of cameo appearances when he substituted John-Ludvig Broberg with twenty-one seconds of injury-time left. Cue jubilant scenes amongst the B-67 players at the final whistle as fireworks went off in the background (a first for Greenlandic football), though it would have been nice to see veteran goalkeeper Loke Svane get a run-out for the first time in the tournament after playing in the regional championship. He did, at least, pick up his ninth winners' medal, having won his first winners' medal with Kugsak-45 back in 2002. An impressive haul for perhaps the best Greenlandic goalkeeper of modern times, who should perhaps have played at a higher level and who is now playing for the reserves, as well as moving towards coaching; he took up the post of assistant manager for the first team after GM 2018. Who's to say he won't be back to claim a tenth title as manager sometime in the near future?
For Nagdlúnguak-48, there was, once again, only heartbreak. Many of the players were sprawled on the artificial turf of Nuuk Stadion after the match, and Nick Reimer sat on the touchline, disconsolate and in tears. Yes, he missed two chances which might have altered the course of the contest, but, on the other hand, this tournament saw him come of age, and how. He was simply terrific, and, alongside Markus Jensen, was the driving force behind the team during GM 2018. They were both ably assisted by Gabriel Petersen in goal (who was consistently good), a rock-solid defence which had conceded only the one goal en route to the final, brother Lars-Erik, Kunuuteeraq Isaksen and Ado Løvstrom in midfield, and Jan Jensen up front, with Nemo Thomsen emerging as a bright prospect for the future. Manager Jakob Reimer must be looking forward to this year's edition with some confidence.
But, as ever, they - and everyone else - will have to get past B-67, who will go into the regional qualifiers for the 2019 tournament without manager Tekle Ghebrelul, who departed after the conclusion of the championship to take up a coaching role at Swedish Futsal side Örebro SK. He has left behind the most consistent club in Greenland, and players who have raised the standard of football in Greenland to new heights. Think of Ari Hermann, who is perhaps the best footballer in Greenland at the moment, and mainstays such as Peter Knudsen, Frederick Funch and Hans Brummerstedt, and Patrick Oteri Frederiksen, a player who won the award for player of the tournament, and someone who has come on leaps in bounds over the past couple of years.
Club vice-chairman Finn Meinel was full of praise for his team's performance, especially after their showing in 2017, saying that "the team played really well, with, especially, Ari Hermann, Lohn-Ludvig Broberg, Niklas Thorleifsen and Patrick Oteri Frederiksen leading the team."
"After experiencing a disappointing 2017", Meinel continued, "the team had [..] their sights on making 2018 their year. Hard work followed, which, together with good tactical skills from coach Tekle Ghebrelul, ensured that the senior team reclaimed the GM in both Futsal and outdoor football in a convincing manner. Tekle got some deserved results in his final year as B-67 head coach."
Sadly, Hermann, the Jensens et al will not be attending the Inter Games in Anglesey later this year; the KAK declined the Ynys Môn FA's invitation to take part last summer. But, many of those taking part in GM2018 also travelled to Denmark in early December to represent their country at the annual Nordic Cup Futsal tournament. It wasn't a huge success, as Greenland lost all four of their games at the tournament, which was played on a round-robin basis. Finland won the tournament, which ran from 4-8 December, winning all four of their matches.
Domestically, the 2019 season has already been mapped out, and the finals of the women's championship (won, of course, in 2018 by GSS) will be held in Nuuk at the end of July; Sisimiut will host the 2020 version on the town's new artificial pitch, and Ilulissat will be the venue for the 2021 national finals.
The men's regional tournaments will begin on or around 22 July, and will be held in Ilulissat (Avannaa/Nord), Nuuk (Qeqqa/Midt-Tunu) and Qaqortoq (Kujataa/Sud). The national championship finals will be held in Sisimiut in 2019 for the first time in eight years, and are scheduled to begin on 5 August, with the final being held on 11 August. Ilulissat will host the tournament in 2020 before it returns to Nuuk in 2021. First up for the country's male footballers will be the Futsal championship, which will kick off in Nuuk in mid-April; the women's equivalent will be held a week later in Aasiaat. It promises to be another interesting year for the country's footballers, both indoors and outdoors. It will be anybody's guess as to who will finish top of the pile in Sisimuit in August, but B-67 will, as ever, be the team to beat.
GROUP A (NÛK, UB-83, Kugsak-45, Kagssâgssuk, Nagdlúnguak-48)
12/08/18 NÛK 3:2 UB-83 (Minik Lyberth 3; Karlsen (pen), Kristiansen)
12/08/18 Kugsak-45 3:5 Kagssâgssuk (Ittukusuk Isaksen, Peter Frederik Samuelsen, Arne Petersen Hansen; Phillip Holmene 2 (1 pen), Jørgen-Peter Petersen, Søren Kreutzmann, Aka Lyberth)
13/08/18 UB-83 4:1 Kugsak-45 (Søren Kristiansen, Aannguaq Kristensen 2, Gerth Kristiansen; Peter Frederik Samuelsen)
13/08/18 NÛK 0:4 Nagdlúnguak-48 (Jan Jensen 2, Sandgreen, Nick Reimer)
14/08/18 Kagssâgssuk 0:5 Nagdlúnguak-48 (Løvstrom, Nick Reimer, Markus Jensen, Lars-Erik Reimer, Jan Jensen)
14/08/18 NÛK 5:1 Kugsak-45 (Kjeld Frederiksen 2, Aqqalooraq Lund 2, Kristian Broch; Peter Frederik Samuelsen)
15/08/18 UB-83 3:0 Kagssâgssuk (Aannguaq Kristensen 3)
15/08/18 Kugsak-45 1:13 Nagdlúnguak-48 (Jonas Hansen; Nick Reimer 3, Nemo Thomsen 3, Jan Jensen 2, Markus Jensen 2, Isaksen 2, Petersen)
16/08/18 UB-83 0:4 Nagdlúnguak-48 (Nick Reimer 2, Jan Jensen, Nemo Thomsen)
16/08/18 NÛK 6:2 Kagssâgssuk (Aqqalooraq Lund 3, Minik Lyberth, Anders Frederiksen, Morten Lyberth; Jørgen-Peter Petersen, Bruno Wind)
TEAM
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P
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W
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D
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L
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GF
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GA
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PTS
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GD
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NAGDLÚNGUAK-48
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4
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4
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0
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0
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26
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1
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12
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25
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NÛK
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4
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3
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0
|
1
|
14
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9
|
9
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5
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UB-83
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4
|
2
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0
|
2
|
9
|
8
|
6
|
1
|
Kagssâgssuk
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4
|
1
|
0
|
3
|
7
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17
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3
|
-10
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Kugsak-45
|
4
|
0
|
0
|
4
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6
|
27
|
0
|
-21
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GROUP B (G-44, B-67, IT-79, K-1933, Eqaluk-54)
12/08/18 G-44 1:10 B-67 (Olsen; John-Ludvig Broberg 4, Funch 2, Mathæussen, Gade Nystrup, Fredriksen, Thorleifsen)
12/08/18 IT-79 7:0 K-1933 (Fleischer 2, Ezekiassen 2, Motzfeldt 2, Berthelsen)
13/08/18 G-44 2:0 Eqaluk-54 (Olrik, Pavia Mølgaard)
13/08/18 B-67 5:1 IT-79 (Møller Andersen 2, Oteri Frederiksen, Funch, Norsaq Lund Mathæussen; Julius Motzfeldt)
14/08/18 K-1933 6:2 Eqaluk-54 (Biinia Abelsen 2, Angula Kielsen, Joorut Nielsen, Inuk Knudsen, Erni Tellesen; Inuuteq Petersen, Atsiaq Gedionsen)
14/08/18 G-44 2:4 IT-79 (Pavia Mølgaard 2; Aqqa-Nuka Reimer 2, Motzfeldt, Peri Fleischer)
15/08/18 B-67 6:0 K-1933 (Peter Knudsen 2, Norsaq Lund Mathæussen 2, John-Ludvig Broberg, Niki Petersen)
15/08/18 IT-79 8:1 Eqaluk-54 (Jakob Fleischer 2, Motzfeldt 2, Nukannguaq Zeeb, Malik Kristensen, Ivik Paulsen, Marco Leibhardt; Niels-Ole Simonsen)
16/08/18 G-44 6:10 K-1933 (Zakorat Zeeb 3, Mølgaard 2, Thomas Abelsen; Sebulonsen 5, Inuk Knudsen 2, Ezekiassen, Kielsen, Geronne)
16/08/18 B-67 8:0 Eqaluk-54 (Knudsen 2, Hermann 2, Møller Andersen, Thorleifsen, Niels Svane (pen), Gabrielsen)
TEAM
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P
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W
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D
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L
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GF
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GA
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PTS
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GD
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B-67
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4
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4
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0
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0
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29
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2
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12
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27
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IT-79
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4
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3
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0
|
1
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20
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8
|
9
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12
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K-1933
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4
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2
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0
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2
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16
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21
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6
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-5
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G-44
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4
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1
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0
|
3
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11
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24
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3
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-11
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Eqaluk-54
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4
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0
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0
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4
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3
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24
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0
|
-21
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SEMI-FINALS
18/08/18 Nagdlúnguak-48 3:0 IT-79 (Markus Jensen, Isaksen, Jan Jensen)
NAGDLÚNGUAK-48: 1 Gabriel PETERSEN; 2 Minik SVENDSEN (15 Karl-Louis SANDGREEN), 22 Inooraq SVENDSEN, 14 Kaali LUND MATHÆUSSEN, 3 Peter LEIBHARDT; 5 Lars-Erik REIMER, 6 Kunuuteeraq ISAKSEN, 4 Ado LØVSTRØM (10 Nemo THOMSEN), 7 Nick REIMER; 9 Markus JENSEN (8 Bruno SANDGREEN), 21 Jan JENSEN
IT-79: 12 Steffen HØEGH MØLLER; 14 Lars-Peter BROBERG, 9 Morten FLEISCHER, 56 Nukannguaq ZEEB, 17 Malik KRISTENSEN; 46 Peri FLEISCHER, 7 Hans-Karl BERTHELSEN, 33 Kaassannguaq ZEEB, 11 Kuluk EZEKIASSEN (19 Aqqa-Nuka REIMER); 10 Julius MOTZFELDT (29 Abilinnguaq SANDGREEN), 15 Jakob FLEISCHER
RED CARD: Kunuuteeraq ISAKSEN (NAGDLÚNGUAK-48)
18/08/18 NÛK 1:4 B-67 (Morten Lyberth; Thorleifsen 2, Lund Mathæussen, Fredriksen)
NÛK: 1 Carlo LYBERTH; 2 Hans RASMUSSEN, 5 Anders FREDERIKSEN, 13 Leif ESKILDSEN, 19 Michael HANSEN (4 Arne-Frederik SIMONSEN); 10 Kjeld FREDERIKSEN, 3 Minik LYBERTH, 7 Aqqalu LARSEN, 20 Aqqa OLSEN (9 Minik JEREMIASSEN); 6 Minik KLEEMANN (17 Miki EGEDE JENSEN), 15 Aqqalooraq LUND (14 Morten LYBERTH)
B-67: 19 Brian ROSING KLEIST; 24 Hans BRUMMERSTEDT, 5 Peter KNUDSEN, 13 Aputsiaq BIRCH (62 Christian KNUDSEN), 2 Mika DAVIDSEN (7 Frederik FUNCH); 4 Morten GADE NYSTRUP, 6 Patrick OTERI FREDERIKSEN, 21 Niklas THORLEIFSEN, 26 Amos ROSBACH; 10 Ari HERMANN (8 Aputsiaq GABRIELSEN), 19 Karsten MØLLER ANDERSEN (18 Norsaq LUND MATHÆUSSEN)
NINTH-PLACE PLAY-OFF
18/08/18 Kugsak-45 1:7 Eqaluk-54
SEVENTH-PLACE PLAY-OFF
18/08/18 Kagssâgssuk 1:4 G-44
FIFTH-PLACE PLAY-OFF
19/08/18 UB-83 0:6 K-1933
THIRD-PLACE PLAY-OFF
19/08/18 IT-79 3:1 NÛK (Motzfeldt 2, Jakob Fleischer; Lyberth)
IT-79:12 Steffen HØEGH MØLLER; 14 Lars-Peter BROBERG, 9 Morten FLEISCHER, 4 Nuka-Peter OTTOSEN, 17 Malik KRISTENSEN; 46 Peri FLEISCHER, 7 Hans-Karl BERTHELSEN, 13 Ivik PAULSEN (29 Abilinnguaq SANDGREEN), 11 Kuluk EZEKIASSEN; 15 Jakob FLEISCHER (19 Aqqa-Nuka REIMER), 10 Julius MOTZFELDT (22 Nikku MATHIASSEN)
NÛK: 1 Carlo LYBERTH; 2 Hans RASMUSSEN, 13 Leif ESKILDSEN, 5 Anders FREDERIKSEN, 4 Arne-Frederik SIMONSEN; 9 Minik JEREMIASSEN (10 Kjeld FREDERIKSEN), 8 Kristian BROCH, 6 Minik KLEEMANN (14 Morten LYBERTH), 7 Aqqalu LARSEN; 15 Aqqalooraq LUND (11 Inunnguaq OLRIK), 20 Aqqa OLSEN (3 Minik LYBERTH; 17 Miki EGEDE JENSEN)
FINAL
19/08/18 Nagdlúnguak-48 0:2 B-67 (Broberg, Lund Mathæussen)
NAGDLÚNGUAK-48: 1 Gabriel PETERSEN; 2 Minik SVENDSEN, 22 Inooraq SVENDSEN, 14 Kaali LUND MATHÆUSSEN, 3 Peter LEIBHARDT; 5 Lars-Erik REIMER, 6 Kunuuteeraq ISAKSEN, 4 Ado LØVSTRØM; 7 Nick REIMER, 21 Jan JENSEN (8 Bruno SANDGREEN), 9 Markus JENSEN (10 Nemo THOMSEN)
B-67: 22 Brian ROSING KLEIST; 4 Morten GADE NYSTRUP, 13 Aputsiaq BIRCH, 21 Niklas THORLEIFSEN, 6 Patrick OTERI FREDERIKSEN, 9 John-Ludvig BROBERG (8 Aputsiaq GABRIELSEN), 10 Ari HERMANN; 18 Norsaq LUND MATHÆUSSEN (26 Amos ROSBACH)
KAK/GBU TEAM OF THE TOURNAMENT
Gabriel PETERSEN (Nagdlúnguak-48); Kaali LUND MATHÆUSSEN (Nagdlúnguak-48), Aputsiaq BIRCH (B-67), Anders FREDERIKSEN (NÛK), Morten FLEISCHER (IT-79); Patrick OTERI FREDERIKSEN (B-67), Lars-Erik REIMER (Nagdlúnguak-48), Kuluk EZEKIASSEN (IT-79); John-Ludvig BROBERG (B-67), Ari HERMANN (B-67), Nick REIMER (Nagdlúnguak-48)
PLAYER OF THE TOURNAMENT: Patrick OTERI FREDERIKSEN (B-67)
MOST TECHNICAL PLAYER: Markus JENSEN (Nagdlúnguak-48)
MOST COMBATIVE PLAYER: Kaali LUND MATHÆUSSEN (Nagdlúnguak-48)
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Some of the above information was gleaned from Sermitsiaq, KNR and Facebook, as well as from PFB's sister account on Twitter. Any errors will be corrected upon notification. Many thanks to B-67 vice-chairman Finn Meinel for his assistance.
