Monday, 19 March 2007

The An Giang Youth Union Anniversary Football Game

I received a phone call from the president of the AGU Youth Union to play football on Sunday morning. I suggested that I might watch however he was sure I should bring playing gear. Well no idea what to expect I agreed and prepared with reading of the football scores from Saturday.

So Sunday rolls around and the challenge began as you all know morning is not my preferred time for anything, except sleep. Yet I managed to wake and be ready. The other team looked fierce as they were the DARD economics team (Agricultural Economics Dept from the Dept of Agriculture and Rural Development). The warm-up started well and I saw that we had enough players so I volunteered to watch the game.

However, this strategy was short-lived as I was thrown into the action playing on the wing. I started to feel the tell tale signs of someone who needs to play a bit more when one of my first touches was little off, kinda like out of play off.

The second half saw me start and I was removed from the wing to play striker and had 3 decent strikes on goal. Just before I left the game for good DARD scored the first goal. They closed the game with another so we lost 2 - 0. After that we all went out to celebrate.

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