The Milan boys had good 2021 season. This year, the season looked a bit different than the year before. With all the covid restriction being lifted. The boys had a winning season this year, the first time for 3 years. This year, the team was led by senior captains Ben Cislo and Eli Lettere. Most of the games were at home this year. Milan unfortunately lost in the first round of districts 3-2 in double overtime to South Lyon East.
This year, the team had 6 seniors. Those senior were Ben Cislo, Ethan McConnell, Eli Lerette, Martin Gurrieri, Gil
mar Carllhvo, and Noah Stempien. All the seniors had a good last season. We Ben Cislo on how he felt about the season, “It was a good season, although I was disappointed in the outcome, I look forward to seeing how the underclass do in the next seasons.” Ben Cislo was the first captain of the
Milan High School soccer team. Eli Lettere was the second captain of the team. We asked him on how he felt about the season, “Overall a good season, although not the result we wanted for playoffs.”
The preseason had an exciting event happen. During the wind storm of august, the wind picked up one of the goals and threw it into one of the dugouts, completely destroying it. We asked Sebastian Majer o
n how he felt about the preseason, “The preseason is fun because you show up and just have fun, nothing all too serious.” The preseason had a world cup type tournament with teams made up by the boys, to help with team bonding. We asked Jonah Stempien on how he felt about it, “It was really fun to competitive against our teammates in a friendly competition.”
The district game was played on October 13, 2021. Milan was down 2-0 by halftime and comeback in the second half to tie it to go into double overtime. The first half-time of overtime, no one scored. With 5 minutes left in the
second half, they scored off a corner kick. With a goal in the lat few minutes of the game, everybody was crushed by the goal, and the game was basically over. We asked Gilmar Carllahvo how he felt about the game, “It was really unfortunate on how the season ended for us, our recorded didn’t reflect on how good of a team we were.”
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