All, Lao Shen and Wang Qi have reminded us of how this team is built upon: having fun together. No fun, no play, no team. I totally agree. Right now, the team is united and every player controls his temper, I believe. There were no blamings in last game. What I am trying to push is to bring up each individual player's potential and conscious and use it to the maximum in this 30C division. I had to do that. Sorry, guys, if I am being too 'pushy' from that perspective. Is our team good enough for 30A? No. No. 30B? Depends. 30C? Yes. Like Wang Qi said, "It's so happy to watch the team making progress and getting mature everyday". Well, he meant Chinese national team initially. But I am sure he meant team Dragon as well, if he is asked. Loosing a game is not big deal. And it is not too much fun definitely, especially we know we are a better team. Our team has to learn from it though, so that we are less likely to loose 2nd, 3rd game. Again, it is quite pity to not seeing too many old Dragons on team's Thursday practices. Thanks for all the comments and let's keep the team spirit! Go Dragons, -Chen, Si -----Original Message----- From: Wang, Julian Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 8:26 PM To: Steve Shen; Chen, Mark; Dragon (E-mail) Subject: RE: first loss of the season Ok, I have the same feeling too. To play the league games, you need to be serious but you need to keep some sort of balance and always have fun. What's the big deal to loose a game? We tried division C before and proved we were not good enough. Your guys may be and may be not good enough in the division C depending on your expections. If you want to win more champions, you may want to try division D agian next season because it's much easily there. In division C, you may still win the championship but to keep the team cool and united may be the first key to achieve your goals. I'm not sure how many you follow the Chinese national team. I read their news almost everyday. It's so happy to watch the team making progress and getting mature everyday. Have fun guys, Lao Wang -----Original Message----- From: Steve Shen [mailto:peaceman888@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 7:48 PM To: Chen, Mark; Dragon (E-mail) Subject: Re: first loss of the season It is really not my business to say any thing here. But since lots of my friends play there, so... I think there is main thing missing here, FUN. The team doesn't seem to have fun any more. Too much of techniques and line-ups... Hey guys, your are there to play is because you LOVE to play, enjoy to play is the fundamental, win or loose shouldn't be a big deal, not to mention you will loose anyway, anyhow. The best team of the world loses their game... Don't worry about your standing, score... Just enjoy the soccer, THE ORIGINAL FOOTBALL, you may surprise to find out how much fun you can have, and what you can get when you are having fun, like our national team... Go China, and Go Dragon Lao Shen "Chen, Mark" <MChen@santera.com> wrote: Dragons, We had a 'great' and 1st game loss of the season. And FC Devan ended their 5 loosing stream and had their 1st win! Yes, we are struggling now in the 30C division, as we all expected when team decided to move up one more level. Almost everybody agreed that team just could not score in the 2nd half and agreed that if we had more players, situation would not have improved too much!!! Do not want to repeat what has been said for many many times already, such as we had total control for 45 min etc. etc..! We all know our strength and weakness. So after seeing following symptoms: 1) Only a few shots were made in 45 minutes! 2) Very few cross-over balls from either side! 3) No fighting energy on the front line! 4) Couldn't make a good pass! 5) Couldn't receive a good pass! I will propose to change the way we play offense, possibly by moving the< Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone with Yahoo! <http://rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/tag/?http://phone.yahoo.com/?.refer=mailins ideymail> by Phone.
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