It is a feat that’s as good as any accomplished by a team in London at any level at any time and needs to be recognized as such.

Monday, London Marconi soccer club won its second Canadian championship in succession.

One win is exceptional. Two wins is an extraordinary accomplishment. But winning two straight Canadian titles is London Hall of Fame worthy.

Two years ago, coach and player Tyler Hemming and a few of his soccer associates decided to bring many of the city’s top soccer players together in one franchise. The result has been stunning.

He brought a core of players from the highly successful AEK franchise to Marconi and the combination of players from both teams has proven an unstoppable force that has yet to run into an immovable object.

In many ways, dominance in the Western Ontario Soccer League was to be expected. In 2014, though, Marconi lost its first game to Benfica. It lost a game to Croatia in June 2014. That would be the last game the team lost in WOSL Premier League play. They did lose a game in August 2014 in Premier Cup play.

But that August game was the last game the team lost. Not all the scores are available but Hemming estimates the team has gone close to 60 games without a loss. In all competition in 2015 Marconi has gone 36 games without a loss.

“Sure, it’s only men’s amateur soccer, but that’s still a great accomplishment,” said Hemming, who is a player-coach for Marconi. “It’s surreal right now. It’s just surreal.”

Putting together that kind of record not only demonstrates the highest level of talent in that discipline, it also challenges the vagaries of fate and fortune.

That it’s amateur soccer makes Marconi’s success even more eye-popping.

This isn’t pro soccer, where most of the time the only worry players have is playing soccer.

Most of these players either go to school or work for a living. They have families to look after. There are injuries to worry about. They play on a variety of surfaces, some not very good. Winning or losing may come down to a good or bad bounce. The success of a league, Ontario or Canadian championship may come down to the inconsistency of a refereeing decision.

While Marconi dominated the Canadian tournament giving up only one goal in five games and that on a penalty, the team had to go to extra time to win and that wasn’t determined until five minutes from the end.

When you look at the team’s Ontario Cup play, it could have ended in the second round when Marconi squeezed by Windsor Ciociaro 1-0, then survived a 3-2 game in the quarterfinals against Toronto Panathiakos.

A loss in either game and Marconi wouldn’t have gone on to the national tournament.

For two years and most of some 60 games, Marconi has been able to overcome all of that.

They’ve done it with talent but it’s more than that. There are intangibles every successful team must have.

Cam Vassallho has been the president of the Western Ontario Soccer League for 10 years and has seen a lot of soccer. “Marconi is an exceptional team,” he said. “But they are a good group that plays for each other. They have great individual players but they all work for the team. It’s why they do well.”

More ‘great’ teams have fallen flat because their players couldn’t work well together.

The list of individual players wearing the Marconi colours is exceptional including Haris, Cekic, Michael Pereira, Younan Samra, Denver Spearman, Geert Ramjin, Mark Haynes, Hemming and Jovan Ivanovich among others.

Ivanovich scored both goals in the final including the penalty winner.

“Speechless,” Ivanovich told Canada Soccer after the game. “It’s the most difficult tournament to win in Canada. No words can really describe what’s going through my head right now.’

“I can’t speak highly enough about these guys, group of individuals that are just amazing on and off the pitch. We gel so well, we love to play for each other.”

And that pretty much says it all.