“Love you long time”, when you see this title what would you think of. Naturally a person might think of a song name, a movie, a play or even poem. Have you actually ever seen a person give this name to a sporting team? When I heard this I was shell shocked, what the hell is happening to kids these days? The worst part is this kid included me in the team as well. It’s the name of the football team me and a bunch of my friends have put together to enter a 5 aside futsal tournament.

If I was the opponent, I’d laugh and shout “hahaha you guys are soooo GAY!!” >.< Just too bad this time I might be at the embarrassing end of it. Why did I even put it up to Nirmal to name the team I should have known better then give that bearded kid the responsibility. It was my fault and I now have to face the consequences. The only thing I can hope for is our opponents to underestimate us because of that name (not that we’re so pro anyway >.<)

The tourney is on this coming Saturday 25^th October. We have a few reliable players, our goalkeeper James is reputed to be pretty good. Our striker Yusoff is pretty decent, him and I combined pretty well when we played together hopefully that can keep on going during the tourney. Patrick is always dependable when it comes to defending although sometimes he lacks the enthusiasm and ends up not being serious in the game, I don’t think he’ll ever be like that in a tournament though. Then there is me, the so called heart of the team and I’m supposed to make things happen. Honestly well with these guys around I’m like pretty good against them but, I’ve gotten so used to playing these guys I’ve forgotten how other players are and every time I play with new people my passed get intercepted easily and get caught in possession. I usually step up to a challenge though, I’m not fully confident of myself but I know I won’t suck too bad, football is one of those things I’ve always been decent at and I hope I don’t disappoint anyone. The ones I’ve mentioned so far, I expect to be the good performers.

Now comes the 3 weaker links in the team, they are not really bad but they have their good days and bad days and sometimes they can totally phase out. I’ll start with Chandra, my closest cousin and usually a explosive character in the futsal pitch, not an anger management issue though. He is a pretty decent defender, perhaps because of his physical approach to the game but he can also be one of those wing back kind that runs forward and takes shots. The only set back to Chandra is he lack the confidence and he gets tensed when he’s under pressure and he does irrational things...haha yeah but not things like getting into fights and all, he just kicks the ball where ever he is facing. The second one is Nirmal, yeah the one that named the team “Love you long time” I’m going to begrudge him for a long time for that >.< Nirmal is a stable player and on his day he can be a great asset but he also has his downside, Nirmal lacks in fitness (not very badly though) and sometimes also makes silly decisions otherwise he’s great. The last one is Fabian the Fabulous haha. Fabian has a way of getting through players in the most unimaginable manner and I still can’t imagine now. He stumbles and stumbles and stumbles but somehow comes out with the ball, but this is usually with a lesser opponent. With experienced players he seems to do it lesser but still manages to get through every now and then and puts himself in a great position. Fabian is also kind of easy to push off the ball, but I hope he can work it out during the tourney and give us “Fabulous at his best” stuff.

I’ve been talking too much I think, but I just wanted anyone who read this post to wish us luck to do the best we can ^_^ I genuinely think if we all performed in the top of our game, we can beat the best of teams in this tournament. We’ll try to make “Love you long time” proud. Now I want to go watch the Atlentico Madrid vs Liverpool champions league game. You'll Never Walk Alone. Peace out