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Friday, March 24, 2006

Champions, yet again

i'm starting to tink there might jus be a formula to winning these tournaments. i'll tell u later. and so the story shall begin again, bout the escapades of our adventure which led to yet another GOLD medal. Whheeeeeeeeeeeee.........

NTU street soccer tournament. very bad response, very few teams took part but tt aside, it was like a mini interhall tournament cos the teams were mainly teams made up of pple from the same hall. read: hall 1, 2, 4, 5 and including 2 teams from my hall - hall 3. it started last week, our team comprising of me, yejie, shen weiming, shun zhao, ron, guoliang and zhenming - our keeps. the semis and finals were supposed to be last week but it was cancelled due to adverse weather. ok lemme now start ranting bout our route to "glory".

Group stage: we were grouped with the team from hall 1, hall 4 and some ah-tiong team. kinda raped the ah-tiong team but could only muster 2 goals. a crappy deflected one from me, and another from guoliang. drew the next game against hall 1 0-0 and lost the last game against hall 4 0-1. after some calculation, we ended up having the same points and goal difference as hall 1. so it went to the dreaded penalty kicks. spot kicks in futsal are never easy and only yejie managed to put the ball at the back of the net with zhenming saving wadeva crap tt was thrown at him. so after some nail biting anxiety, we went thru to the semis, which was held todae.

Semis: face off against hall 2, with the likes of james "jamesy hole", shao sheng and zhong hua (my previous AJC soccer capt). attack attack attack, defend defend defend. haha no goals. 0-0 it was. and i was pretty peeved cos i tink zhonghua kinda looked down on me cos he kept attacking on my side (it was the similar case during the actual IHG). spot kicks again. the same thing happened again, all of us missed except yejie who did a perfect shimmy and lots of mee goreng before slotting the ball past the keeper. zhenming saved all the shots yet again.

Finals: we were made to face hall 4 - the team tt we lost to in the group stage. very cautious game but still we conceded the first goal thru an excellent shot from the opposition. into the bottom corner and across the keeper, clinical finishing! we got kinda demoralised by tt goal really cos like the other team, our defense was usually our strong point and we hardly concede goals and to concede one lidat was really disheartening. but within another minute we equalised!! courtesy of yours truly ahahah =p. ron got to the left corner and was kinda stuck there so i was screaming my head off to him and sumhow the ball rolled into my path, dragged it past an oncoming defender (who looked like he was going to take my legs away) and placed it into the right corner of the goal!!!!!!!!!!! ahaha euphoria u might expect but i din noe how to celebrate wahha =/ok so it was end to end action again until full time. 1-1

SPOT KICKS YET AGAIN for goodness sake. yejie missed finally. we were kinda at a loss cos we wud usually go thru on his goal. but.............. i scored on my try! ahah abit lucky tho, thru the legs of the keeper but it rolled past the line tho. more action awaits. zhenming continued to save the shots as per the norm but he finally let in one past him. 5 kickers gone, the remaining 2 of the team had to haf a go. being a basketball player, asking zhenming to kick a ball was kinda asking too much from him. with the kickers from the other team missing it was up to him now. he stepped up...... and blasted the ball into the top right hand corner!!!!! ahaha ANOTHER GOLD MEDAL!!!! YAY!!!!

and so the formula goes like this... first: in both finals, we conceded the goal first. second: i come and score some stunning equaliser (haha ok i'm bragging now). third: i lose a earring because of the game.

ok prizes aint as good as the NUS one: the medal and 120 bucks adidas voucher for the whole team tt's all. but at least the medal looks way better than the previous one. but den again, as long as the medal is GOLD it looks good. oh and i almost forgot to thank the supporters: teck seng, ronald, weilun and jingda (whose first thing he said was "chup si ta men!!") hahah, and this is it - our route to the gold biscuit. 16 penalties, 3 goals and one medal.

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