H8FC Training 25 June 2011

13 people played today I guess. Alex, Crazy, David, Syahrein, Wee Zheng, Tang Yao, Cher Siang, Jerwin, Ah San, the very voluptuous Joey, Daniel, Keith and Chinese Uncle.

Chinese Uncle played with us for the first time. He looks like an ordinary man in his 50s. He played well with basic passes short and long. Most youngsters want to be like Cristiano Ronaldo who showed plenty of dribbling skills or Lionel Messi. A team cannot have 10 Ronaldos. One simple tackle and a through ball to the middle will beat any team who tried to play with 10 Ronaldos.

There was also a heated arguement between Tang Yao and Crazy. When Tang Yao was drawn with a team he sees lousy, he refuses to save any shots as goalkeeper and wanted to end the match fast with the 5th goal. Crazy was playing as his opponent and chided Tang Yao for giving up without effort. Tang Yao was so angry he yelled at Crazy to look at his lousy team.

One of our key players had this take on Tang Yao - 'When Crazy scored to make it 4-0, he was pissed that Tang Yao wasn't serious at all. In fact Tang Yao's team should be pissed. Then Tang Yao was not happy because he thinks he was in a lousy team and he doesn't need to be serious. Then they started arguing. I think this is bad. Well I would have chided Tang Yao if he's in my team.'

The ground is heavily uneven and the goalposts are not the standard football goalposts. We need to play in a real football field. Then we will see our real football skills. I played on the Bishan Stadium field a long, long time ago. Passes and shots were all on target as the ground was very flat and artificial. One day, just one day, we have to sacrifice some money and rent a stadium. If we can eat buffet for $30, why can't we poll money to rent a stadium just once? We have to pamper ourselves once in a while. Once we get a taste of playing on a professional ground, rest assured when you all are working adults, we will be playing at stadiums every weekend. :)