thumb_DSC_0329_1024by Michael
This month’s tournament saw some newcomers as well as some old friends who joined forces with our team – thanks to Dome, Dominik and Anders. We had a total of 12 teams, beside of the usual huge number of Japanese teams there were also two teams from Singapore – making the total number of teams to compete a decent twelve.

First round and we managed to get two draws and two wins – making the second place in our group and proceeding to the top 8 of the tournament. In the quarterfinal we faced our old friends – the Bangkok Refugees – but this time we made it happen. After a strong and hard fight we managed to win and to proceed to the semifinals. Here we met again a team from our group phase – the adorable Dudes – it was a lucky draw for them in the group phase, but this time we were not concentrated as before and to be honest – we really  had a hard time with the referee in this one – as often when you play a team with a certain number of local players, the referees have the tendency to be ‚more‘ correct to the Thai players. Anyhow, there were some very questionable decisions as well as some really nice goals of the opponents – we lost 1:3 and ended up in the game for place 3 in the tournament. Needless to say, that our opponents in this game finally won the tournament.

Last game was again a Japanese team – hard fight, tight game and finally a draw – penalty shooting was on. The first two shots of both teams were in, the third one from the Japanese was missed. So Ivan was the man who could decide – and he did. Win in penalty shootout and a very well deserved third place. Later at the beer booth we were awarded with the wild card for the yearly Championship League final – as the social winners of so many tournaments. Or maybe as the only team who really could manage to finish all this beer after the games. Lets hope that we can get enough players to compete in this yearly highlight and lets help them to finish the beer 🙂

From Vets Tournament November 2015, posted by German All Stars Bangkok on 11/09/2015 (5 items)

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