Friday, December 14, 2007

This week was pretty fun as I started off with a training session on Monday which lasted only for 30mins due to the lack of players and the floorball training session ended off with a practice match against EEE and they soundly beat us by a huge margin. The training session was too tiresome for me as I could only last for five minutes. As my team lacked a keeper, I volunteered to be the keeper as I did not want to run myself and tire myself out but trouble was our first match was against NIE who have a few national players in their team and are the tournament favourites and I had no experience in being a keeper. My friend gave me a few basic tips on how to be keeper and a 15 min practice session was all I had before my maiden match with NIE.

As always, I have nightmares before crunch time and dreamt that they were going to put 5 or 6 goals past me. However, our first match against NIE was a pretty close affair as we managed a water tight defence and their players couldn't get a easy shot at goal thanks to my defence who made my workload easier in the first half. In the second half, they came back with a vengence to put a goal past me and eventually, they broke their duck. I was pretty disappointed with the goal but nevertheless we managed to keep the scoreline to a respectable level and we only knew that we have to beat SCI to qualify for the quarters and we did beat although the goal was a bit of gay but who cares as long as we win the match.

We beat HSS in the quarters via another gay goal but lost to MAE in the semis as the match was again a pretty close affair as I was hoping that we would score in normal time as I did not want to face the prospect of penalty shootout where I had zero experience but the fact our make shift team made it to the semis was instead commendable and my stint as a first time keeper was good as I tried my level best at keeping a low scoreline and was worried that I would let in some gay goals. Perhaps, I would be more experienced and be a keeper for my school again.

Mr Kopi drafted me into the volleyball team at the last minute and I agreed as I was free in the afternoon but trouble was that it has been a long time since I played volleyball and was having a bad feeling about it and rightfully, I played a horrible match where half my serves went off court and my layups were pretty aweful and I basically made a fool of myself on court. The fact that I was slotted in at the last minute and we almost had a walkover showed that our team was certainly inexperienced.

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