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   Published on: 5/11/2008   Last Visited: 5/11/2008

   Notre Dame athletic director Noel Casilao provided the information.

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   The St. Francis School boys' soccer team has some talent, but Coach Noel Casilao said it will take work to get those talents to work for the team.
   
   "Individually, there's some players with good talent," Casilao said. "But, basically, they don't play as a team -- everybody wants to do it themselves. I'm trying to teach them that it's not an individual thing. We're working on cohesiveness."
   
   Casilao is also the assistant coach for the Notre Dame Royals girls' soccer team, and the coach for Guam Shipyard in the women's soccer league and for Big Blue in the men's league. This is his first year coaching the St. Francis boys' team after two years coaching the girls' team.
   
   He said this boys' team has been too focused on offense.
   
   "The team is offensive in nature," Casilao said. "The hardest thing to do is to score a goal. The good part is that it's easy for us to score a goal; the bad part is that it's hard for us to defend. Basically the team is an attacking team, but they forget that they need to defend."
   
   The team doesn't lack talent, though. Casilao is recommending five of his players for the national youth team: Brandon O'Mallan, Kevin Lujan, Dominic Sablan, Tommy Murphy and Jude Bischoff.
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   "O'Mallon is an overall player," Casilao said. "He can play any position the coach wants him to play -- goalie, striker, defender, midfield. I look at the opponent, and if the opponent is skillful, I let him play sweeper to start and then move him to offense."
   
   Lujan is fast, with good technique, but has the tendency to wait for the ball on the wing, Casilao said.
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   "He can create scoring opportunities for his teammates and for himself," Casilao said. "He's a good one-on-one defender because he's fast. He can also play any position."
   
   With these players, the team just needs to become more team-minded.
   
   "It's hard for a coach to change their mentality toward the game," Casilao said.

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   Big Blue was created in 2003, with the help of Notre Dame High School athletic director and coach Noel Casilao and sponsor Mat Pothen, by taking players that were too old for the youth league and providing them an outlet to continue playing soccer.
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   Team: The Big Blue soccer team in the Budweiser Guam Men's Soccer League includes, from left: (kneeling) Aaron Lizama (Notre Dame High School student, under-16 Shipyard Wolverine and under-17 national team member); Thomas Shimizu (Father Duenas Memorial School student, under-16 Shipyard Wolverine and under-17 national team member); Ryan Crisostomo (Goody's and former ND student); Don Weakley (family business and former ND student); and Rudolph "RC" Salas (Macy's); (standing) Rodney Camacho (Southern High School student); Mike Crisostomo (Guam Power Authority and under-10 Shipyard Wolverines coach); Dennis Amuan (federal employee); Paul Wade (Southern High athletic director); John Rosario (federal employee); Jim Shimizu (GPA, Bishop Baumgartner Memorial School girls' soccer coach and under-14 Shipyard Wolverines coach); Roger Sachdev (owner of Gino's in Agana Shopping Center); Noel Casilao (Notre Dame athletic director, Big Blue manager and coach, Shipyard women's coach, and Notre Dame
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   Big Blue: Big Blue's Noel Casilao (9) and Paul Wade (10) have a split second to decide who will take the ball.