Soccer Fellowship Report (26th April)

It was absolutely beautiful weather as a large group of players turned up for Soccer Fellowship this Saturday. The call to rally players from the Soccer Team to do some training finally paid off as 14 players from the Soccer Team turned up, with friends and other Soccer Community regulars to make up 20 players in total for the day. Before play started, Ronnie shared devotions, encouraging all to turn to the assurance of knowing God and trusting Him, as so many uncertain things happen in the world that we cannot understand, e.g. sinking of South Korean ferry. 

 Ronnie sharing devotions before the start of play

Play started after the 2 teams grouped themselves, with the dark colours (DC) against the light colours (LC). In an unplanned way, the LC seemed to have more of the central players from the Soccer Team, and the DC had more of the wide players, which made for an interest contest of styles. With 20 players, the team took on each other full field, without GKs, scoring only from inside the six-yard-box.

The LC started much more confidently, keeping ball and passing it around to good effect, while the DC did most of the chasing. It was no surprise that the LC scored first, but the scorer was perhaps the surprise, as it was Michael, playing as the lone striker, converting the put-through by Kevin. From there, the LC scored another couple of goals before the DC pulled one back before half-time.

The DC certainly were more composed after the break, keeping the ball much better and having lots more chances, with David Lim and Yi Jun finally involved in some good link-up play. Another couple of goals were scored by both sides before free play stopped.

This was when the Soccer Team took the last 15min to work on some build-up drills and also attacking/defending from dead-ball situations. The session ended with the Soccer Team composing and taking the photo below to enter in the CRC2014 Facebook contest.

'Blues Parking the Bus'