Hi, Li Huan, Do not worry, Man, shit happens. There is no qualified/non-qualified stuff because there is no standard. We all play for fun and that is the goal. Look at other teams. They have wife and kids playing around, just like a picnic. Plus we can not always beat others 5-1, right? Xiao Su. --- Li Huan <huan_l_99@yahoo.com> wrote: > Well, what should I say. As a non-qualified sweeper, > I should keep my mouth shut up. As the acting captain > now, I am responsible for communicating with the team > on the issues we have and hopefully we still like to > work together to rebuild the team spirit. I choose to > do it since I always believe some communication is > good for the team, especially in this difficult time. > For those who do not like my emails, please disregard > this and I fully apologize to clatter your mailbox > one more time. > > Yesterday's game was a disaster. It was the worst > game I played and it was the worst score that my team > got since I played in NTPSA. As the sweeper and the > acting captain, I must have done something wrong. As > the sweeper, I apologize for pushing up too much and > allowing the ball being passed over my head, which > resulted in the loss of the second goal. As the acting > captain, I apologize for not trying to take it under > control after many of us spent too much energy on > blaming teammate's mistake and thus totally lost our > focus on what we should do in the second half during > the half time discussion. Man, I still think it is > kind of subtle for me to handle the situation when my > capability as a sweeper was questioned and there looks > like a couple of better alternatives. What I can do is > seating on bench in the second half quietly to cool > down everybody. > > After we become the champion again last season, I told > Chen Shi that something is going wrong with our team > chemistry and we may have some difficulty in our > future > games. I didn't expect it went so far. These are what > we saw in yesterday's game: > -- We started the game with about 13 players and many > of us was getting warm-up in the game. Before checking > ID cards, the referee even come to our bench to make > sure we had enough (or more than 8) players to start > the game. This makes our opponent a little happy. > -- After we lost the second goal with 30 to 35 minuts > of playing, our players begin to toss out negative > comments on the field. Situation become even worse > during the half time break. This makes our opponent > even happier. I still remeber how loudly we laughted > at that Jamaca team. Were we any better than them? > -- We were totally out of focus on how to play the > game and some players were not in the playing mode at > all. This makes our opponent more happier. > -- We started to foul technically or non-technically. > Fortunately, the referee decided to show no more > yellow cards after we lost the 4th goal. The last > thing we did not do is fighting with the referee. This > > disappoints our opponent a little bit. > > Some of these are within my expectation, especially > when we are not ready both mentally and physically and > still think we are a strong team in a tougher > division. > What is out of my expectation is that how weakly we > are when we fall behind in the game. It may not be a > bad thing to identify these issues earlier. There > are 8 games left and we still have time to work > together to get these issues resolved if we want to. > > Regarding to myself, I admit that I may be too old > (or not qualified) to be a sweeper for the team. After > playing this position for more than two seasons in > this > team, I was starting to remove myself out of it in the > > middle of last season. I felt lucky that our previous > opponents did not give me too much embarrassed time > and would like to thank other defense players for > their > strong support which prevented me from getting too > much > embarrassed time. I should blame Chen Shi for setting > me up again and again :-). I must be a fool daring to > take this position again after the incident in the > game vs Drillers last season, in which most of us > thought the game result was not important at all. > However, I will try to play in some other positions > to make contribution toward the team success. > Hopefully, I will figure out my retire time from this > lovely sport has not come yet :-). > > See you guys later. > > > > Huan Li > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games > http://sports.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Coverage of the 2002 Olympic Games http://sports.yahoo.com
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