Lanka's 10
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It was on Solis, Vrishika the 21st, Week 3, fresh in the MAFL season, and being great apparently wasn’t enough that day for Amrita Immortals’ Captain, Uday Lanka.
He had to be Phenomenal.
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Dennis Goes West
/Huacheng Dongji will sell its star striker, Darkeem Dennis, to Europa United for 550,000 M-Credits in an unprecedented deal that has rocked the MAFL.
Read MoreTales From the Pitch: My Brush With Greatness
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All the MAFL stadiums are open air, and because we humans haven’t been able to exist without oxygen yet all players are required to wear a EV (environmental) suit that houses life-support, communications, and propulsion systems. You’d think that all the tech would make the suit bulky and cumbersome but it fits like a glove. And I look amazing, like I’m some kind of superhero! Staring at myself in the mirror gives me the confidence boost I need so I put on my helmet and race out to the pitch. Today, I’m an official Titan, clad in purple and gold.
Read MoreWhere Titans Live.
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Olympus Mons is the largest known volcano in the solar system.
Where else would Titan's live?
As the stories go, the founding fathers of San Olympus decided to go it alone in their quest to settle Mars because they were convinced that collaborating with other agencies would hold them back. The were tenacious at achieving their goals and though it was wrought with endless challenges, in many ways, they made it look easy.
Read MoreWeek 14 Roundup
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For the final round of shots, United Coach Matthäus Reinmann called in his goal keeper, Yvonne Barnato, to the disbelief of many of her teammates including Fuchs visibly shaking his head.
Read MoreOne Would Lose
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Titans and Comets were the buzz throughout the colonies leading up to Week 14 of MAFL play.
And that was the buzz that permeated in each transport making the trek to Marineris Stadium. An unprecedented 14 spectator transports with 6 making the long trek from other colonies - this was the first time both parking decks were used at Marineris Stadium.
Read MoreTales From the Pitch: Our Beautiful Game
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Every sports enthusiast can point to that exact moment that made them a lifelong fan. Maybe it was seeing your favourite team come back from insurmountable odds, maybe it was seeing your favourite player score an impossible goal, or maybe it was being present when sports history was made.
Read MoreDynamo Scramble to Find Alternate Stadium
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Refusing to forfeit a game, Novyimir Dynamo executives announced plans to hastily construct a new stadium in a neighbouring settlement after the team was shut out of its home field by the ongoing quarantine.
Read MoreWeek 13 Round-up
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Regardless how you are looking at the sport, whether it is from boys vs girls, from the top, middle or bottom, the MAFL continues to excite.
Read MoreEuropa Divided
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For United, this was their 5th loss in a row as they continued their slide downwards to a 5 and 8 record for the season.
The reason for their downward trend - a tradition of putting goals into nets hasn’t materialized.
In 7 of the 13 games to date, United has been held scoreless.
Read MoreSweet Sixteen
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For MAFL, who are those “Sweet Sixteen” – the finest competitors who have come of age?
Let’s start with the 8 Captains of the league.
Here they are listed in order of their team’s ranking and their goal totals after Week 13.
Read MoreTake it when you get it
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It's quite possible this win came as much to the surprise of DJ as everyone else, but when you are in the gutter, take it when you can get it... and ENJOY IT!
Read MoreAl'amal Fails To Topple Titans
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The last home game win came in Week 8 against the Marineris Comets. It feels like eons ago since this crowd erupted into excitement over a Farra goal, but it wasn't happening for her, or them, in today's contest.
Read MoreThe Contrast between Comets and DJ
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Winning has just seemed to elude Dong Ji. Even with a respectable number of goals (14 on the season, which just puts them behind Immortals and Al’amal), DJ has consistently run out of steam by the end of every match. Aside from their opening game victory against the Immortals to an elated home-crowd, DJ has been unable to beat any another team aside from their sister colony’s Wuji club, who has also been struggling.
Read MoreDon't take a breath; Sudden Death
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With 55 minutes of oxygen supply per half in their suits, minus 45 minutes of game time, minus another 3 minutes of added time, minus every minute of missed penalty shots, equals new meaning to the term…Sudden Death Overtime.
This was the case in Week 12’s Al’amal SC vs. Tiangong Wuji match which needed 16 penalty kicks in overtime to determine a victor.
Read MoreIs there a dark side to Titans' dominance?
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With their defeat of Europa United, the San Olympus Titans moved to 11-1 – solidifying themselves as the most dominant team in the MAFL.
The Titans’ runaway success has shocked scouts and bookmakers, most of whom weren't expecting much from the league’s only majority-female team. But their cruise to a near-perfect season has exposed the prevailing soccer wisdom from Earth to be obsolete on Mars – where lived experience on this planet has proven far more valuable than natural talent and athletic ability.
Read MoreDynamos Tune Out
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Just when you though that the Dynamos had turned over a corner for the 2nd half of the season after besting Al’amal SC in week 11, apparently, just didn’t feel it was necessary to show up for week 12.
Read MoreMAFL Midway
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It’s been a thrilling ride so far in the inaugural MAFL season and to celebrate the midway point of the season, the league broke out into a big spontaneous party.
A Penalty Kick Over Time Party!
Read MoreBorn to Play?
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Europa United Forward Alex Barlas described his first week on Mars with terms like, “absolutely maddening” and “why did my parents bring me here again?”
Put yourself in his cleats: isolated from friends some 54.6 million kilometers away; constantly facing severe risk of radiation exposure that could increase his lifetime risk of cancer; a complete shift in diet; a majority of his day spent on exercise just to keep his muscles and bones from deteriorating; and for the rest of his day - confinement with fellow citizens.
Who would have guessed he would grow up on Mars and become among the first to play professional sports on a whole new world?
Read MoreHuacheng's Darkeem Dennis
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Darkeem Dennis, one of the breakout stars of the upstart MAFL, is alone at his pod in the west quarter of Huacheng. Through a port window over his single bed, the lava plains seem endless, just craters and silhouetted ancient volcanoes.
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