U.S. Paralympic Team Falls to Russia 5-0 in CPISRA Football Championship

Oct. 23, 2009

The U.S. Paralympic Soccer Team dropped its opening match against Russia 5-0 at the CPISRA 7-a-Side Football Championship in the Netherlands. Russia, which is ranked one of the top two teams in the world along with Ukraine, opened the scoring on a U.S. own goal in the ninth minute and never looked back, adding goals in the 10th, 11th, 17th and 50th minutes as Ivan Potekhin registered a hat trick.

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