NGEF Rock

'N.G.E.F. Rock' is a Canadian soccer club, founded in 2002 by a white man and a brown man who finally saw things eye-to-eye. The team was a member of the UWO IMS Soccer Leagues and played in the Men's Outdoor, Men's Indoor, Men's Open Super, Co-Ed Outdoor, and Co-Ed Indoor divisions. NGEF Rock was the 1st team to ever complete the "Triple Crown" for Indoor Leagues (2005) as well as the 1st team ever to complete the "Drive for Five" by winning all 5 leagues offered by UWO to males in 2006-2007. A women's team was never formed, however there was a large interest.

The team played their home games at the U.C.C. gym and Brescia fields at the University of Western Ontario in the city of London, Ontario. The team's official colours are red and white.

NGEF Rock had a large following, mainly made up of players that that were N.G.E.F. NGEF Rock. There also was a year where internal strife marred their chances at the perfect season (winning all 5 leagues aka - the Drive for Five), where a rogue agent disguised himself as a teammate, and quit in the playoffs...causing the team to forfeit due to a lack of numbers. This was later rectified, and the team chemistry was restored, leading to the 1st successful completion of the Triple Crown.

Players

Roster

All-time Stats

Guest Players

Haidar Al-Shabani

Marco Peeters

Erik Elmauer

Carlos Garcia

Emma Klara-Portova

Year-by-year

History

NGEF Rock was formed by a white man and a brown man that finally saw things eye-to-eye. However, the wheels of this machine of domination had been put in place a couple years prior.

There was an uprising of talented soccer players that were fed up with the system. Something needed to change. "El Ranchito" was a pickup 1st Team All-Star who wanted to form a group of players that could take on any team in London. A good friend of his from pickup was "Jebber", the man with the fastest feet. He could dribble around anyone, and introduced both the "cutback meg" and the "double meg" to this pickup society. He too had big ambitions, and playing with the varsity team just wasn't living up to them. A playboy at Suageen Maitland Hall justly named "Fabio", began regularly attending pickup with his tryout friend, Karim Ben Sari. As pickup was highly competitive in the early 2000s, with 2 or 3 varsity teams, a few competitive IMS teams and an Asian team with "Ocean" as their captain, these four began teaming up in order to get some playing time. You win, you stay on...you loose, you sit. So it became clear that going with a full squad was the only way to defeat Kiwi and the Heartbreakers, Sweet Feet, ...

Honours

WU Soccer Midnight Blitz Tournament

• Winners: 1 (2003 'entered as "Luigi's Team"', 2004, 2007)
• Runners-up: 1 (2006)
• 2004 Golden Boot Award - Karim Ben Sari and Justin Heldsinger (7)

U.W.O. Pickup Soccer

• Completed the cycle for the 1st time (2001)
• Recorded the longest winning streak in pickup history (3 cycles - 43 straight wins: 2003)
• All-time pickup goal scoring leader, Karim Ben Sari, recorded his 1000th career goal on February 12, 2005
• Originated the "down on one knee" rule for all pickup players which is still in use today
• In his final days at Western, Karim Ben Sari's T-Shirt was retired, and was thrown up into the rafters of the U.C.C. gym

Awards

2001-2002:(MVP) Karim Ben Sari (given the sock from Mike G)- Karim, Douggie & A-Ran all voted for themselves and Mikey did not!!

2002-2003:(MVP) Domen Nero and Mellissa Bruno

2003-2004:(MVP) Ariana Cancelli and Karim Ben Sari

2004-2005:(MVP) Victoria Caves and Karim Ben Sari | (MIP) Aran Balachandran | (Most Looks Like Fabian): Domen Nero | (Rookie of the Year): Amanda Gatto & Ashley McManus

2005-2006:(MVP) Tom Swales and Karim Ben Sari

2006-2007:(MVP) Aran Balachandran and Nadim Ben Sari

Official Sponsors

The sponsors for the N.G.E.F. Rock Soccer Club include: Back Taxes and Back-Door-Styles