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Post by Rajiv on Jun 14, 2010 10:08:45 GMT 8
Look Liew requested that I put up a thread on the above tournament, which was held at Sports Planet yesterday. He put together a team to take part, mainly of FIOFAFI/GIFFA players. He'll add his report below.
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Post by look liew on Jun 14, 2010 14:21:26 GMT 8
CH Lim acted quickly on an inside lead n kindly signed us in for this FHM organised tournament at Sports Planet.
We assembled a team, several times over and finally the following 10 men squad showed up :
CH, Xiong Wei, Jonathan, Raj, Sushil, Imran, Dan B, Elvin, Fred, n LL.
CH named us South Africunks.....clearly avoiding the alphabet t.
In the FHM Whirl Cup 2010 Futsal tournament were best dressed German All-stars, flambouyant Spain, French Olympic Galacticos, local teams and us - all shapes/sizes/nationalities and in my Collector Item Rugby Mania grey t-shirts ( unsold for 3 years actually...)
I appointed Raj as Captain due to his clean image ( doesnt screw his teammate's ex-girl), commanding presence, tattoo on his forearm, ability to play football n generally no-nonsense look.
Round 1 game 1 - we played a local Malay team called Last Minute and aside from 1 pinball goal that caught me on the blind and 3 lame shots i saved, we plastered their goal, wrecked their goal posts but could not get our equaliser.....we lost 1 -0. The pace was clearly different from our usual games ( where the pace is not so fast nor the tackles so menacing) and we were not totally settled down.
Game 2 - We got more organised, and with more cohesion, raced to a 2 - 0 lead against an FHM team and before we could finish our Bafana Bafana waltz, they actually pulled 1 back....n we had to pull out the toilet rolls (shit brics) n play hard again. Dan B n Imran starting to warm up nicely. We hung on for a 2-1 victory.
Meanwhile Last Minute had won again and our last game was crucial.
Game 3 was against Sons of Pitches ( with a name like S Africunks, we were in no position to laff at others...) After watching SoP play, we felt incredibly confident and within minutes, panic broke out as SoP scored thru a bewildered S Africunks side as we tot the ball shoul've been out...CLEAR lesson - play to the whistle. We were down 0-1. SoP was stubborn, and repelled every attack we had and practically down to the last minute, we were luckily awarded a free kick rite in front of their goal. Dan B stuck himself rite in the middle of their 2 man wall, n spread wide his legs n Raj shot thru for the equaliser......i m sure FHM writers could have described this unorthodox move much much better.
We drew 1 - 1 and good enough to end up 2nd in the group n advanced to the Quarter-Finals to face the formidable French Olympic Galacticos.
We felt small against the welldressed formidable French..........but Battlestar Galacticos...crashed... It was an engaging game with us drawing first blood, they equalised....we went 2-1 up and they came back to draw 2-2. notable Fred the Frenchman thwarted the opposition by showing them 17 ways of sticking his feet out at just the rite moment to stop a neat dribble or divert a solid pass.......
The game went to penalties , 3 each and we shouted at Sushil (in goal) to make himself BIGGG...to no avail as Sushil ...was already Biggg enough ........no mistake from cannonballers Jonathan n Imran, n placer Elvin whilst Sushil saved 1 from the Galacticos, n with a 5-4 the South Africunks danced on.........n met the Dorset Boys in the semi-finals....
Yup, just like a good ol Cowboy movie, we saw a huge dust ball roll by as we squared up against the smallest team in the tournament - The Dorset Boys...17-19 year olds who had whipped their oppoents 9-1 n 5 - 0 before.....but as worthy men, we just sniffed, wiped away a tear n faced them....the Dorset Boys.
The game was intriguing and looked over as speed, slick passing saw them race to a 3 -0 lead after 5 min......but w a sudden burst of 2 nd wind, we pulled 2 back and the score was a heart-throbbing 3-2. This woke the Dorset boys up and they soon scored 1 more fr 4-2, and we replied to pull it back to 4 -3- it was becoming a reall thriller here........our glimmer of hope n momentum was crushed when they slotted in for 5 -3 n the Final whistle blew shortly after.....our run ended.
In the 3rd n 4th placing, we faced Spain who were disposed of by Last Minute (our first game opponents) and the highlight of the game was taking a photo with the 3 FHM models......after which, i could not get the fog out of my goggles and with the Spaniards in a foul mood, we lost 0-5.
We came in 4th. There were no prizes for 4th and I was the 2nd last to leave so I dont know if Fred managed to get the FHM models's #.....
All in, it was a fun day and I hope everyone enjoyed it too.
Will watch out for another tournament.......CHEERS LL
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Post by Raj Singh on Jun 14, 2010 17:08:08 GMT 8
Just wanna Thank Everyone for their 100% Effort . 4th position was something i did not expect after looking at the teams that participated . Cheers to all and Rest well , I am still nursing my Ankle Injury , Sushil had a back injury and Imran had Groin Injury. Look Liew had Goggles Injury
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Post by Raj Singh on Jun 14, 2010 17:08:34 GMT 8
Hi Look Liew , do let us know when we appear on the FHM Magazine
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