Forfatter: Richard
Dato: 08.02.2004 18:56
I understand you were looking for translations, so I'll try my best to to translate one of the newspaper articles regarding Dylan and his trial with Brann...
From Bergensavisen (BA), one of the local newspapers:
(- AM I HURT?)
http://www.ba.no/multimedia/archive/00362/dylan_362564h.jpg
Here, Dylan Macallister asks Cato Guntveit (team captain) if he's hurt, after the Australian had scored Brann's only goal. The 21-year-old just can't remember.
35 minutes into the game, Dylan Macallister jumps into the back of Åsane defender Richard Vågenes and lands on his head. He stays on the ground.
But after a few moments he gets up, plays on, and scores the equalizer for Brann. But when play is about to be resumed after the goal, he walks over to Cato Guntveit.
-Have I hit my head, he asks.
Guntveit confers with the referee for a moment and then asks Macallister to leave the pitch. But the tough fellow plays on until the half time break, in which the team physician Jon Schelderup reveals he has suffered a concussion.
-His eyes were weird... I knew something was clearly wrong, Guntveit tells BA.
Now, the rest of his trial with Brann is spoilt. Macallister needs rest and treatment and may have wasted his chances to get a contract with Brann.
(- Dazed and grave when he left)
The 21-year-old was obviously nervous at the start of the match. He failed to receive the ball and walked around the pitch seemingly purposeless. But he got better and better towards the end of the first half. He won all aerial duels and demonstrated his jumping abilities, power and timing. None of the spectators could tell he had suffered a concussion when he scored the 1-1-equalizer.
-He don't remember anything. Not the goal, not which day of the week it is, not what the score was at half time... He had to be substituted, team physician Jon Schelderup tells BA.
The press wasn't allowed to talk to Macallister after the game, but appeared dazed and had a grave look on his face when he left the arena along with goalkeeper Håkon Opdal.
(- We've seen enough)
Schelderup criticized the referee for allowing Macallister to play on, but it was the Australian himself who signalized he was okay.
-The referee should have allowed us onto the pitch to check on him. It's not ideal to play with a concussion, the physician stated.
It is unsure what Macallister's early exit of the game means for his chances to get an offer. That decision will be taken tomorrow. Mons Ivar Mjelde (head coach) would have preferred to see him play a full game before deciding, and he had planned to let Macallister play for the Brann reserves against Nest-Sotra today (Nest-Sotra being a team from division 3, the highest regional league).
-I think we've seen enough. We're left with a positive impression. He's strong in the air, but the way the team played today, we weren't to take full advantage of that. It is not easy being outstanding when the team fails, he points out.
-We wanted to see that little extra from Dylan today, but we didn't, Mons Ivar Mjelde adds.
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