2nd best.....again

I just spent my whole day playing in a football tournament today, which i didn't expect it to last that long. The tournament started around 8am and my team will only start to play around 8.45am. I was suppose to meet up with my team mates at 8am but i overslept myself, I'm gonna blame it on the alarm here. Luckily I managed to get there in time before our match start.


We lost our first match 3-0. A very bad start for us, maybe some of us haven't woke up from our dream yet.....including me. The pitch condition wasn't helping much either, it was rain soaked and we were like a bunch of buffalos playing in the mud.


We played much better in the second match, beating one of the favorite 1-0 courtesy of an own goal by one of their defender after being pressured by me into getting mixed up with his keeper....ehem ehem.

The third and final group match was a must win for us in order to get into the semi-final. After half an hour of hard work, we got the result we needed by beating the 'local' team 2-0 at their home ground.

This was our vice-captain trying to act cool.




Into the semi-final, we were pitted against a team which their players always played futsal with us on a weekly basis. In other words, we know this team well. Their results in the group stage surprised us, they won all their group matches convincingly. I think somehow they were a bit surprised as well. Against us somehow, their luck ran out. We marched on to the final after a hard fought 2-0 victory.

Condition of my boots after the tournament.

In the final we met with another 'local' team, and this team is a lot stronger than the first one. I came on as a second half substitute after i got a knock on my ankle during semi-final. After battling it out for 30 minutes, we were lucky to get away with a 0-0 draw. Penalty kicks then decides the champion.

We lost the penalty by a mere 5-4 margin and therefore can only settled for runner up....which was good enough considering it was an open tournament, and our team never really trained together as a team.


You might wonder why my post was titled "2nd best....again"? Cos this was like the third time I got a runner up for any football or futsal tournament. First time was back in KK when I was in my college football team playing in the intercollege tournament. Second one was in Miri competing in a Chinese futsal tournament. We didn't even expect ourselves to get this far in an open tournament. So, it was a great result for us.


Now, I'm suffering from sunburned and headache after almost whole day staying out under the sun and rain.....ugh.