Li Huan, You had a good point - our team moral is going down, we need to keep the spirit up and work together like one person. On the other hand, last games' lost is not only your fault, everyone did something wrong, like me, Xiao Su called me the "king of the foul":) It is not easy for us to gather together to play this exciting sport. I really evaluate the fun and friendship we had/will have much more than anything else, win or lose just a life event. As long as we tried and enjoy the fun of the sport. John -----Original Message----- From: Xiandong Su [mailto:xiandongs@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 5:39 PM To: Li Huan; dragon@ez.swmed.edu Subject: Re: Second League Game: 1 PM Sunday at Highpoint Park 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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