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Nov. 1, 2006
Clemson Head Coach Trevor Adair
“We made a couple mistakes on a slick surface. They buried them and that’s credit to them. We hit the crossbar, had some chances, you need to put them away and it just didn’t go our way.”
On expectations coming in:
“I mean, just the same as any other team coming in here. Any one of the nine teams could’ve won this. Now you have to look at it like we get an extra little bit of rest for the NCAA’s. It wasn’t meant to be. I was proud to have my kids — they fought hard, they didn’t give up, created some chances but it just wasn’t there tonight.”
“I thought Frederico Moojen played well. Overall as a team, Phil Marfuggi kept us in the game, great senior leader, just a great goalkeeper. Overall, I was proud of how the kids fought. They kept their composure. That’s the way it crumbles.”
Virginia Head Coach George Gelnovatch
“We are glad to be where we are as opposed to where we were last year.Clemson was a good team last year, as they are this year. Just to get the win — we are obviously happy to be where we are.”
How much did last year’s loss serve as motivation?
“Not so much the team we played against, but it was the way we lost. We’vereflected back to the loss in the ACC Tournament as a reference point forthe last year. We had to get better, all the little intangibles of theteam and the guys responded.”
How concerned were you after the 2-0 lead?
“Well, Clemson is very effective in what they do. They keep you in yourhalf with long throw-ins, free kicks. They have a couple of dangerousforwards and are very good about getting numbers in the box. I don’t thinkwe will see a team like that left in the ACC Tournament in terms of thefast restarts and the throw-ins. It prepares you like a functionaltraining period for dealing with that stuff and I told the guys,particularly in the second half that they dealt with it pretty well.”
How important was it that your top players played well together?
“I think they would tell you the same thing. I don’t think it’s aboutthose guys doing anything special. We concentrate on playing as a team,those guys are great and they deserve all of the recognition that theyreceive, but we are a team. This was one of the things