Our first test was the home team, CMSA. Their team had Tengkuk, the guy whose name I have heard since I came to New Zealand. He was their star player, and was said to be fast, quick, pacy. He was tall, and was the one to watch. So everyone was ready, and the game started. Right off the bat, I could feel we were controlling the game, with a sturdy defence, and a pacy attack. Tengkuk had a chance down the right, and was coming with pace towards the ball, but I slid and got to the ball before him, with him tumbling down to the ground, hard. I guess, he wasn't all that after all. They say the bigger they are, the harder they fall.
The half ended with no goals scored, and MUMSA controlling the game. In the second half, we had a problem, when Iylia had to go to the rec center for badminton. That left our defence weakened. It showed immediately, when we were the one being attacked. Still we held on, for the draw, and left the home team starting off their football tourney with a draw. We were happy with the result and optimistic for the next match.
PETUNIA was up next. They were a team that we expected to beat, and after the draw in the first match against the home team, we had high hopes for a win. That didn't turn out to be the case though. A minute after the kickoff, Razif had the ball to the right of the field, with his back to the opposition goal. Then a PETUNIA player came running and tackled Razif from behind, caught his ankle, without getting the ball at all. To make matters worst, the PETUNIA player just walked away without a sorry or a hand up. That fueled Imran to confront the player when he ran from the other side of the field. Tension was now high. Razif went off for the half. A few minutes later, the PETUNIA player had the ball just outside my keeper box, and Is came in and tackled him from behind...all I could do was applaud Is for that, couldn't have done it better myself. Anyway, the player got up, and went to confront Imran, and a semi-fight broke out. Another PETUNIA player of a kells nature came running from behind and shouted at Imran "You don't touch my boy ah!" with the accent and everything. When everything cooled down, the free kick that started it all resulted in a goal. 1-0 PETUNIA. It stayed like that until the end of the half.
Despite being injured, Razif came in for the start of the second half, but after another cynical tackle by the same player, he couldn't continue. He was taken to the medical center near the Uni.The match continued, and due to the high tension created, my mind was only set on slide tackling any of the players. PETUNIA had the ball on my right, and was homing in on goal. Wanting to slide tackle him, I went out of position, but the player had a cool head, and passed across to his team mate, who had an open goal waiting for him. All that and I didn't get to slide tackle anybody. The game ended with a 2-0 loss, and also we had two players injured. Jahatnyer PETUNIA.
When Razif got back from the medical center, he was not the Razif we knew. He's the kind of guy that very rarely swears. But after that incident, it was swearing 24/7. It was "Anak Haram Jadah punyer PETUNIA", "PETUNIA memang shit","Jahatnyer PETUNIA". I know it doesn't seem like very harsh swearing, but coming from Razif, it was.
Morale was down, our star player, and probably the only player capable of scoring for us is now injured. We went through the two remaining matches with a loss and a draw. The last match was fun though, because both teams had already no chance of qualifying. So we ended the day, with 2 draws and 2 losses with no goals scored. It was a shame because, we were ranked top to challenge for a medal by the home team. They even joked, why didn't Razif get injured for the match against them. Oh well, we'll get em next year.
We made for the rec center after, and picked up the badminton players. We came up short on badminton and squash as well.
Continued BERSATU 07: Day 3
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