The Maspeth, Queens-based soccer club, Met Oval Academy, won the first-ever edition of The League For Clubs national championship on Saturday night, defeating Napa Valley 1839 FC 3-2 on penalties at the Toyota Soccer Center in Frisco, Texas.
The game remained tied at 2-2 after extra time, before goalkeeper Costi Christodoulou made three saves for Met Oval in the shootout, including the match-winning save of Napa Valley’s fifth penalty.
Met Oval made it all the way from the new league’s regional regular season, through regional playoffs, to a dramatic set of national playoff matches to eventually win the league’s first-ever national championship…