First Futsal Tournemant with MyRAWK - The Aftermath!

3 somersaults and 2 carpet burns later, it was finally over. The rag-tag team from MyRAWK has survived the last minute training and our first ever futsal competition. I was playing for the Team B guys (wearing white) and we lost both our preliminary game - one due to our inexperience and naivety (1-3), while the other was because we couldn't cope up with the stamina of a national league level Afican team (0-2).

The other team sent out by MyRAWK, Team A did a lot better than us as they are our main team with better, fitter and younger players. They won against a local team (2-1), draw (1-1) against a top level African team and finally lost out to the another African team (the same one that beat us earlier) in the last 16 knock-out stage with a score of 2-4. They were so close to qualifying for the quarters and was leading most of the match but just lack the extra steam to hold on till the end to prevent the Africans from scoring.

Considering the fact that we had trained for barely one month+ and hardly with a full team, we did pretty well but ultimately the lack of training & fitness did us in. We were jokingly saying how we will be thrashed by those national level teams and Africans but much to our credit, we held together as a team and fought hard to ensure we walked out with our heads held high and kept the scoreline respectable.

All of us kept cheering each other on through out the match and were easily the most boisterous bunch of guys in the futsal center. When we played the African teams, we could see all the local teams and spectator were cheering us on. We were also the only "muhibbah" team in the tournement, we have Malays, Chinese and Indian playing for MyRAWK. It was great to get feed back from a friend that the organisers were very happy with our participation - we were "fun, noisy, boisterous and friendly."

It was sort of a vindication to the bunch of guys that had worked so hard to make MyRAWK what it is today. We do not need to be egoistic and act like a bully to form a group to represent LFC fans. Being friendly and open to anyone and everyone will win eventually win us more respect and goodwill from all football loving fans. Walk On lads!

Team A (red): Mike (captain), Kelvin, Jaz, Randolph, Tony, Rizal, Ben & Allan

Team B (white): Will (captain), Syam, Steven, Bul, Alvin, Nyana, Ming & Jon

-JonC-