After 80 games of football we came down to the most important of them all. Game 81 – The 2014 Budapest Fives Cup Final.

The two teams set to do battle for the honour and glory of victory were CIS Committee and Argentina. CIS Committee were reminiscent of 2012 winners ABC United of Romania – they had cruised through the Group phase without humiliating their opponents before really cranking it up in the knock-out phase. They were on a run of 7 successive wins and it would take some performance to stop them.

Argentina we were sure would be able opponents who had stuttered a little in the middle of the Group phase (against top opposition) but had recorded 3 successive wins and some big scalps along the way. It was all to play for!

The game was very close and there was not much between the teams at all. You could argue that CIS Committee probably had the better off possession and territory but then Argentina probably had the best chances especially on the counter-attack. However, neither team could find that moment of magic to unlock their opponents' defence as we finished 0-0. Penalty shoot-out time!

Penalty shoot-outs are becoming the trend in our tournaments with Team Bear winning the 2013 Budapest Fives on penalties last year and recently in Valencia just two weeks ago Sparta took the 2014 Valencia Fives also on penalties.

It would be CIS Committee to shoot first….

* First up was Aliaksandr Lisouski who hit the post, on to the keeper, back on to the post and in. 1-0 Belarus.

* Captain Gabriel Lopez Libardi thundered his penalty past the goalkeeper for 1-1.

* A big big moment as Henadzi Nestsiuk saw his penalty cannon back of the bar and out.

* It was advantage Argentina who could go ahead if Kia Bazargani could score but his effort was saved well by the CIS goalkeeper.

* Vitali Ledenev with 6 goals in the tournament made no mistake to put CIS Committee 2-1 up.

* Rodrigo De O Belichar had to score to keep Argentina in it and he lived up to the task, 2-2.

We were now into sudden death penalties. 2-2 became 3-3 which became 4-4 which then became 5-5 as all 6 penalties in sudden death were converted. It was time for the CIS Committee goalkeeper to take his penalty and he powered it home for 6-5. Argentina's 7th penalty proved the decisive one as it hit the post and bounced clear which sparked wild celebrations amongst the CIS Committee squad.

Our sincere commiserations to Argentina who had come so close to glory but just missed out. It was a superb day's play for them though and a quality debut.

Our congratulations go to CIS Committee on their first eurofootballfives.com victory. There is also congratulations to Dydynho who added the 2014 Budapest Fives Top Goalscorer award to the one he collected in the 2013 Krakow Trophy.