Breakers face LOSC in their final League Match

The Breakers face LOSC for their last Master League Match of the 2008-2009 season. The first match against LOSC had LOSC beating the Breakers with the only goal of the match being scored at the 11'.

The fans of the Breakers came our in full force to cheer the Breakers on in their final league match. While the Breakers don't have anything to lose in this battle, LOSC could possibly be in the top 3 with a win??? Could the Breakers spoil


The match began with the Breaker having a number of great opportunities on goal. The first shot came from Manning (16) who had a close range shot, but was unable to get it past the keeper!


The second half of the match had a brilliant shot by E. Chow (63) who unfortunately wasn't able to get it past the strong goal keeping skill of LOSC's goalie.

LOSC did everything they could have done in the match but score. They dominated the match with 55% to 45% possession and even had 6 shots on target out of 8. The Breakers defense



The match ended in a 0-0 draw. Ironically, the draw only gave LOSC 1pt which has knocked them out of the Top 3. Next season should be interesting with the Breakers definitely having a heated rivalry against LOSC next season!

European Masters Cup

The European Championship Cup final match has been set! AS Roma faces Valencia CF.

AS Roma Associazione Sportiva Roma, (BIT: ASR) commonly referred to as simply Roma or AS Roma, is an Italian professional football club from Rome. Founded by a merger in 1927, Roma have participated at the top-tier of Italian football for all of their existence bar one season in the early 1950s. For their 57th season in a row, Roma are competing in Serie A for 2008–09.

Roma have won Serie A three times, first in 1941–42 then again in 1982–83 and 2000–01. As well as winning nine Coppa Italia trophies; on the European stage Roma won an Inter-Cities Fairs Cup in 1960–61, but have had come close to success finishing as runners-up in the European Cup in 1983–84 and the UEFA Cup in 1990–91.

Valencia CF (also known as Valencia or Los Che) is a Spanish professional football club based in Valencia. They play in La Liga and are one of the most successful and biggest clubs in Spanish football. Valencia have won six La Liga titles, seven Copa del Rey trophies, one UEFA Cup, two Inter-Cities Fairs Cups, one UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, two UEFA Super Cups and two Spanish Super Cups. They have also reached two UEFA Champions League finals in a row, losing to La Liga rivals Real Madrid in 2000 and German club Bayern Munich in 2001. Valencia were also members of the G-14 group of leading European football clubs.

In the all-time La Liga table, Valencia is in 4th position behind Real Madrid, FC Barcelona and Athletic Bilbao. In terms of international titles, Valencia is 3rd behind Real Madrid and Barcelona, these three being the only Spanish clubs to have won more than five international trophies.

Valencia is the third most popular football team in Spain, only behind Real Madrid and FC Barcelona.[3] It is also one of the biggest clubs in the world in terms of number of associates (registered paying supporters), with more than 50,000 season ticket holders and another 20,000+ season ticket holders on the waiting list, which will come into effect once the new 75,000-seater stadium is built.


The final match will be played this weekend!

European Championship

The European Championship final match is set.
Chelsea FC will face FC Barcelona in the finals.

Chelsea Football Club (pronounced /ˈtʃɛlsiː/, also known as The Blues or previously The Pensioners) are a professional English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions three times, and have won the FA Cup four times, the League Cup four times and the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup twice.[2]

The club had their first major success in 1955, winning the league championship. Chelsea won several cup competitions during the 1960s and 1970s, but after that did not win another major title until 1997. The past decade has been the most successful period in Chelsea’s history, capped by winning consecutive Premier League titles in 2005 and 2006, and reaching their first UEFA Champions League final in 2008.

Futbol Club Barcelona (Catalan IPA: [fudˈbɔɫ ˌklup bəɾsəˈlonə], Spanish IPA: [ˈfutβol ˌkluβ baɾθeˈlona]), also known simply as Barcelona and familiarly as Barça (Catalan IPA: [ˈbaɾsə], Spanish IPA: [ˈbaɾsa]), is a sports club based in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It is best known for its football team, which was founded in 1899 by a group of Swiss, English and Spanish men led by Joan Gamper. The club has become a Catalan institution, hence the motto "Més que un club" (More than a club).

FC Barcelona is one of the only three clubs that have never been relegated from La Liga and the second most successful club in Spanish football having won eighteen La Liga titles, a record twenty-four Spanish Cups, seven Spanish Super Cups and two League Cups. They are also one of the most successful clubs in European football having won two European Cups, four UEFA Cup Winners' Cups, three Inter-Cities Fairs Cups and two UEFA Super Cups.

Chelsea FC beat West Ham and New Castle United.

FC Barcelona beat Spartak Moscow, and Manchester City.


The 2008-2009 European Championship match has two world class club teams facing off this weekend!

Finishing Master League Season 1 and 2 before Updating to 1.20

The truth is out that I am behind on the blog and am actually closer to being half way through with my second Master League Season with the Santa Cruz Breakers! I have done a better job of maintaining data and highlights from my second season and will be finishing up with the first Master Season before hitting the second Master League on this blog!

I've decided to at least finish my second Master League season before updating fully to 1.20. We have no choice but to initially get the 1.20 file to start the game. However, once we have this done, we have to going to system setup to actually download and use the 1.20 file.

I'd love to hear what people think of the 1.20 file for the US PS3... I've heard from some folks at PESGaming who told me what the European 1.20 update has, but have not heard yet what is included in the US version.

I'm a bit disappointed that the update ruins the user created teams etc... I guess this means a lot of work to get my team situated again... I'll also need to be starting with Master League Season 1 again once I update... UGH!

My final thought on this matter is to possibly wait for 1.30 since I guess this one is the bigger change and addition... Also, by this time I'm sure or hope that we have option files that work for 1.20 or 1.30 on our US PS3.

How great would it be if PES 2009 Option Files were universal across all PES 2009 games and not have European files or NA files etc...

PES 2009 1.20 Update on US PS3!

I am trying to figure out what difference the 1.20 update has on the game... But as I turned on the system to play the game tonight it told me that the 1.20 update is necessary to play the game... It only took about a minute and supposedly I have 1.20 now???

Any ideas?

League C, Division D2 Cup Results

The Breakers were knocked out of the D2 Cup in the first round by Stade Rennais FC. Although the Breakers would have liked to have done better in the D2 Cup, being knocked out early was able to allow the team to focus on the more important league games ahead.



The Cup continued with Shakhtar Donestsk facing Willem II in the finals.

The final match was well played at ended in a 2-2 tie after regulation. Neither squad scored in the extra time and the match was forced to penalty kicks.

Willem II beat Shakhtar Donestsk with a 5-4 goals in the penalty!

The fans of League C, D2 Cup could not have asked for a more exciting match and finish.

Congrats to Willem II for being champions for the 2008 - 2009 D2 Cup! Well Done!

League Game 20: Santa Cruz Breakers vs CFR CLUJ

The Breakers are coming away from an impressive 2-0 victory over the league leading Werder Bremen team from Germany. With only a few games left, the Breakers are looking a lot stronger in their second half as their team is beginning to gel and play like a real team.



Their next match in front of the home crowd is CFR CLUJ. In their first match against each other, the Breakers came away with the 1-0 victory. They hope to pull off another win and give their home town fans more to cheer about!


The match began quickly as Chow (34) took a strong shot on goal, but couldn't get it past the keeper.


Both teams had a few shots on goal in the first half, but only CFR CLUJ was able to find the back of the net with a great goal at the 41'.

The second half of play had both teams playing fairly aggressive.


The Breakers were finally able to break away as Bock (33) nearly made a header, but the goalie was able to just tip the ball out of play.


E. Chow (63) took a beautiful pass from Chow (34) and barley missed a shot of his own attempting to tie the match up!


Finally, Sabatini (3) was able to score the equalizer at the 74' from a beautiful pass by Manning (16).


With plenty of time left in the match, CFR CLUJ created a solid scoring opportunity, but it ended well past Desi (5) the keeper and the game ended in a 1-1 draw.


The fans of the Breakers were a bit disappointed since Santa Cruz had 8 shots on goal and 5 on target, but only was able to get the one goal that at least tied the match up and let them walk away with the draw!