Its been a while since i sit and enjoy a game of soccer. Think the last time i actually sit and watch was the previous world cup. Man it was definitely once exciting match!
Last night i dragged the one sitter sofa and sat down next to my bro and watch this soccer match on ESPN, Chelsea vs Arsenal (Live). I'm not familiar wht the latest line up so bro was fillin me in wth names like , Deco , Denilson, Adebayor, Clichy , etc. I'm more familiar wth the old line up, Bergkamp, Anelka, Henry n so on. I gotta say the goals Persie made was beautiful! Sharp and precise, especially the 2nd goal! The way he turned his body and scored that goal, it was the perfect combination. But sadly before the game ends, i fell asleep on the couch!
While i was watchin that match, it reminded me of the times when i was in Club Med, Cherating wth a group of friends. It was definitely one memorable trip i had. Up till now i do miss the feelin off playin soccer wth the rest of them! Since there were quite a number of us, we decided to have a friendly soccer match. This time around its the mix team where boys and girls would be playin. So of course the boys being boys, thought that all the girls present at that time know zilch bout soccer. They were so wrong!
We might not know all the rules and we might not know how to juggle or do a bicycle kick and so on, but we definitely know how to defend and keep the ball on our ground. Some girls were jst too, i would say girlish to wanna participate in soccer, so it left a few of us to be in the team.
The boys showed us how to pass the ball , how to kick, which position should our leg be when we pass the ball to another team mate and so on. Then its time for the position assignment. The boys were so eager to be the strikers and midfielders so there was only positions of defenders left. I was the left wing. Some actually told me that i need to be able to kick wth my left leg to be on the left wing but i couldnt care less bout it, wht's important is that i play my role well and each team members play theirs.
So we'd like a day to practice before the real match. The concept is somewht like the world cup where the winner will proceed to the next phase to face the next opponent and so on. So finally we managed to get to the final. Boy! It was really exciting! the group of people cheerin for us, the team work and team spirit were jst overwhelming! That particular match was crucial, so everyone on the team was so tensed up and some started to let emotions took control of them. But thank god for our goalkeeper, also our leader, he managed to calm everyone down during our two minutes break.
I definitely enjoyed myself the most in this soccer match despite knowin how much some guys will jst give in / "give face" to their opponent simply cuz they are girls in order to prevent injuries and so on but this particular opponent, a striker, i dont really know him well , the way he was running wth the ball towards me and tryin to score were just amazing! why? for the fact that he didnt give a damn that im a girl and the he gave his full force when he kicked the ball towards my direction, treating me like im one of those guys, but thank god i managed to block it wht my upper thighs and due to that he failed to score. man! that kick was definitely one hard one, my upper thighs were red-flushin from the hard kick and i was in pain but that doesnt stop me from defendin any attacks that was aimed at me.
Our team managed to scored a point from the free kick and wht i was proud of was that this free kick was done by a girl! way to go girl! I heard the other team boo-ing at her cause they dont think she can score and she proved them wrong! Later on, our two snobbish strikers scored another 2 goals, one each, and the result was 3-2. though we won by jst a point but it was one good team work there! then only at that time i truly understand and know how those footballers in the field feel when their team won!
The Chelsea - Arsenal match was spectacular. Especially the second half with Van Persie's two goals. I'm not too much of a Arsenal fan either.
We're only just starting conditioning for our upcoming season today. Rough first day, heh ice and ibuprofen for me tonight.
» yourcupoftea on 2008-12-01 08:17:49
wow. now i know something new about u!
» renaye on 2008-12-01 09:01:29
lol.. salute
RYN: very annoying haih..next time ill print the newspaper article to show them lol
» jolenesiah on 2008-12-01 09:18:37
i would love to go somewhere but i just came back from rural setting: kuala selangor. and i would really love to have another escapade but i can't due to financial constraint.
» renaye on 2008-12-02 09:50:28
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