First Ever Futsal Tournament Joined in UTP!!!

Hehe...the first post fully in English....

The futsal tournament was held at v5,UTP for the sake of the fund for Padang Earthquake's Victim... not just playing, we get the chance to do good deeds...

Well, as the title above said,last saturday was my first ever futsal tournament joined since my arrival in UTP in January... As the underdog, my team and I, which consisting of Jena, , Afifi , Amin , Sharif <> , Akmal <> , Luqman <> and myself <> did not expect much from the tournament. Mad tau however is one of our team member, but discarded himself on class reason (is it???huhuhu) ..

We manage to win one game,and lose the other two. The first game, the nerve one, against international brother, was very clumsy one. Their plays was absolutely breathtaking and undefeatble... They have such a line of fantastic player including Arshavin-look-like player (maybe from turkmenistan) and few ( i could say ALL) other superb player. Luckily they netted only twice ( eventhough they hit the post twice...hahaha) ... and luckily as well jena perform in that game... i have no chance to play the ball much, so do to afifi and sharif and amin... but we really relieve when the refree whilst his last whisle for the game. and the most important thing in this game..the referee gave me YELLOW CARD for sliding twice on opponent..ngeh5...

As the first started, we have big determination to win in this match. But we were shocked after they scored first, after unexpected backheel from their striker and jena couldn't do much to keep the ball away. Their fans are crazying outside the pitch and create such a noise atmosphere at the court. I myself feel down for a minute, but continuing playing with lots of spirits to keep my player are enthusiasing. We manage to score a level before half time , after disallowed afifi's goal because the ball did not touch second player when taking the free kick. And few minutes before the end, sharif luckily put the ball on the net as the goalkeeper did not properly catch the ball. Akmal plays superbly on the first half before being subtituted by afifi...

The third game, the decider between our group and the other, we name them as the Blues because they wore chelsea home kit. It was really2 tense game as both team is searching for the important goal. But we clearly dominate the play, did create a lot of chances, which several time threat them and almost hit back of the net. The first half went goalless. As the second half began, i replace luqman to play as defender (for usual..). We again dominate most of the game... but the nature of football, we cannot win unless we got luck... this is proven as 'the blues' score the goal, just second before final whistle. I admit my silly mistake, giving away the ball easily to the opponent. Then the forward struck a right footer toward the lower right of the goal. Jena could do nothing about it. We can only bare to see it as the chance for playoff is flying away from our feet. Better team did not want, but luckier team did get the credit...

So, that was the journey of my first futsal tournament in utp ever... Indeed it was a splendid experience and i hope that our team should done better and get training more usual to fight the more experience team in the future. But we did not upset for the lose, but that was our stepping stone to move forward on futsal competition next time.