PHOTOS: Ocoee club soccer team GGS wins 16U Florida State Cup championship

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The 16U GGS Gold team, a club soccer organization from Ocoee, has claimed the top state-level trophy — the Florida State Cup — after topping Key Biscayne SC in the finals.

Led by Davi Miranda’s trio of goals and one more from Jorge Mardini, the 2008-born ballers won the championship convincingly, 4-0, and became the only area team to claim the state cup and advance to play in the Southern Regionals; which will be held in Tampa from June 21-27.

To celebrate their state cup victory, the players, coaches, their families and the GGS staff held a small parade with a police escort through Ocoee.

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Sam Albuquerque

A native of João Pessoa, Brazil, Sam Albuquerque moved in 1997 to Central Florida as a kid. After earning a communications degree in 2016 from the University of Central Florida, he started his career covering sports as a producer for a local radio station, ESPN 580 Orlando. He went on to earn a master’s degree in editorial journalism from Northwestern University, before moving to South Carolina to cover local sports for the USA Today Network’s Spartanburg Herald-Journal. When he’s not working, you can find him spending time with his lovely wife, Sarah, newborn son, Noah, and dog named Skulí.