Ok as promised, here's an entry on the tournament.

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Tourney : Futsal Tournament sempena launch of VMY2007
Venue : Titiwangsa
Time : 9.00am

Mumtazian had entered their 2nd official tournament - in conjunction with the launch of VMY2007 @ Titiwangsa.

We were grouped together with Baba FC and Merc FC in Group I.
And surprise, surprise..were slated to play in the very first match of the tourney againts Baba FC - a bunch of mamaks + one lost Malay guy. What a match!

1st Match - vs Baba FC
Result: Mumtaz FC 2 Baba FC 4
Scorer for Mumtaz : Dale (2 goals)
Starting Lineup: Aloi , Nazri, Brody, Dale, Azan

Mayb the jitters of playin the first match got into us.
Started quite erraticly, and concede the first goal thru a mistake by Brody (sorry, but this is a fact agreed by the team).
Out of an attack, he passed the ball back to Aloi, who were unprepared for the unexpected back-pass.
And voilaaa....goallll number 1 for Baba FC!

Team mumtaz was shell shocked by the goal, and were punished minutes later by another mistake. Defensive mistake. 2-0.

2nd half - Mumtaz FC came back strongly.
A quick one-two pass between Brody and Dale, and goalllll!
Scored by me.
A good goal I have to say.
2-1.
Still ada peluang.

Tgh2 nak semangat dapatkan the equaliser, suddenly the baba's attack, and scored their 3rd and 4th goal.
Damn!
A consolotion goal was scored by Dale minutes before the end.
A dissapointing start.

Later, got to know tht Baba FC lost 1-0 to Merc FC.
This means that Mumtaz had to win at least by a 2 goal margin to qualify to the next round (top 2 from each group layak to d next round).

2nd Match - vs Merc FC
Result: Mumtaz FC 0 Baba FC 3
Starting Lineup: Aloi , Syed(Brody), Edi, Azan, Dale (Iwan)

We played carelessly in the match.
The opponent played hard, aggresive and also dirty (ada ke leh main tolak badan aku bila off the ball...wht the **ck?)
And all the goals were from defensive errors (as told and observed by our el Capitano - Nazri).
Really, really dissapointing.

In short, it was another good experience for the Mumtazians.
We must strive harder in the next competition.
As usual, we WILL RISE again!

p/s: newsflash - Mumtaz FC will recruit 2 new players (ex-MPPJ players) to the team. Hari tu dah main masa friendly ngan team One Utama, and OBVIOUSLY they still need to understand our play. Byk kene cuba n strategy kene rancang betul2. Capitan, any ideas? mana peginya strategy and player positioning and formation?