Hey ppl!

We're basically training every tuesday (1000hrs) and wednesday (0800hrs) in Nov. So 4th, 5th, 11th, 12th, 18th, 19th, 25th and 26th. There's also one on the 29th (saturday)...

Please take note that our pt rep has the liberty to add training days to improve our physical fitness so do prepare to sacrifice another day or two. However, pt will not be compulsory, so if you have work or other important stuff, it's ok to skip.

Also, friendlies will be slotted in at random days... So... Just try to make it for the friendlies when coach informs us about them kay? Thanks.

That's it folks!
Jiayou for OP!
Sarah.

20 October, 2008

Yo everyone!

Soccer Camp is coming up! Just to remind y'all, its on the 11th to the 13th of December '08.

This is the proposed itinerary for the camp. It can be subjected to change though...

Day 1
0900-1030	Training
1030-1200	Station Games
1200-1400	Lunch
1400-1500	Stationary Games (e.g. Taboo, Charades)
1500-1700	Non-soccer related games
Day 2
0900-1100	Street Soccer
1100-1300	War Games + Showering time
1300-1430	Lunch
1430-1500	Break
1500-1700	Telematch
1700-1930	Showering time + Go to Shao’s house
1930 onwards (optional)	Dinner + Movies + Night Games
Day 3
1000-1100	East Coast Park (fixed games) – volleyball, etc
1100-1200	Lunch
1200-1730	The Amazing Race
1730-0000	BBQ + Games (at Lynette's house)

Now that you've got a glimpse of the fun and games coming your way, aren't you much more excited about the camp? Hurry and sign up now at a Kaihui near you!

P.S. Registration fees are to be confirmed. You may look for Kaihui for more details.

6:39 PM

08 October, 2008

Taken from RedSports

“No drinking, no alcohol, no smoking, no late nights” - an interview with Aleksandar Duric (Part 5)
October 8, 2008
By Dawn Yip and Les Tan

Aleksandar Duric is a Serbian who became a Singapore citizen in 2007 and within weeks he was wearing the red of Singapore at the National Stadium. Duric got his papers the hard way - he applied like everyone else and was rejected twice before he got approval. He was not on the Football Association of Singapore Foreign Talent Scheme, as most folks would assume. Today, at age 38, he is still a first-choice striker for Singapore, an amazing situation for someone his age. He remains one of the fittest players in the S-League where he plays for the Singapore Armed Forces, a testament to the professional that he is. But there is more to Aleks than just football. In his 38 years, he has experienced poverty, the loss of his mother to war and years of separation from his family because of the Balkans conflict. He sat with us for hours one day to chat. Here is his story.

PART 5: The road to success

In 2001, Aleks played his first full season in the S-League as a striker with Geylang United. Having never played as a striker professionally in his life, he scored an astonishing 37 goals and Geylang won the title that year. That performance led to a 3-year contract with Geylang, during which Aleks would become one of the most prolific scorers in the league, keeping his team in the top three positions. It was also during that period that his daughter Isabelle and son Alessandro were born.



In 2003, Aleks scored his hundredth goal in the S-League, and his two hundredth goal in 2007. He was only the third player in Singapore league history to achieve either milestone. His move to SAFFC also helped the team clinch double honours in 2006 - S-League and Singapore Cup champions. For his achievements, Aleks was named Player of the Year in 2007.
Aleks attributes his success to hard work and discipline. “You must be willing to sacrifice yourself - no drinking, no alcohol, no smoking, no late nights. If you want to do that, you will never go far.” It is the reason that Aleks, despite being one of the oldest players in the League, has remained one of its fittest and strongest.

“I see a lot of talents in Singapore,” says Aleks, “but they will sit in the coffee shop until 5am. They get fat so easily. They think about girls and everything else first. The last thing is football. In my way, football should be on top.”


Singapore, his country
Aleks eventually decided to become a Singapore citizen. “Singapore is the only country where I stayed for a long time,” said Aleks. “It’s the longest place I’ve ever been after my hometown. I feel myself part of Singapore. All my true friends, people I know, are here.”

Singapore feels like the Yugloslavia Aleks grew up in in one important way. “it’s a multi-ethnic country and everybody respects everybody. From a young age, I mixed with other religions. My neighbours were Muslims. We never thought about it until the war started. Their parents worked in Germany so my mother raised them with us.”


When Aleks finally got his Singapore passport, he was delighted. “Even happier than when I got my Australian passport,” he says. He received letters from friends and neighbours, and people would thank him. Aleks even recalls senior citizens in Ghim Moh coming up to him saying, ”This is the kind of people we need in Singapore.”

It seemed perfect recompense then, that in his debut game with the national squad in October 2007, he would score two goals against Tajikistan, advancing the Lions to the next round of the World Cup for the first time in Singapore’s history.

Recipe for success:
Aleks’ daily routine involves over two hours of training - gym work in the mornings and ballwork and running in the afternoons. Most days he also cycles his kids to and from school - about 8km in total. His discipline extends to sleep and food. Aleks is usually in bed by 10 pm every night and up by 6am, and he avoids chilli and fatty foods like prata and chicken rice.

In Aleks’ world, there are no shortcuts to excellent performance. “If you train well, you play well. If you skip training, if you don’t give 100% in training, you won’t be able to play well.”

“I’m a man who wants to do my best, to do things to perfection,” said Aleks. It’s a defining trait that goes well beyond football. “I am very neat,” Aleks revealed. “In the hotel room, I need everything in order. Shampoo is here, conditioner is here. My teammates ask me what am I doing.”

We chatted with Aleks about a wide range of issues, and here is some of what he had to say:
On losing loved ones to ethnic war“My mom was killed by people from a different religion. But I don’t hate anybody. It’s not worth it to think that way. Keeping the anger doesn’t go anywhere. You can’t judge people you don’t know.”

On the Youth Olympic Games: “I don’t think the people realise yet what they’ve got. The closer you come to 2010, the more you’ll see what it’s about, what the buzz is like. When people all over the world come, it’s just amazing. It will be one of the best things to happen in Singapore. If you’re a local athlete competing in front of your own countrymen, if you usually give 100%, you will give 300%.”

On sportsmen he admires: “Mohammed Ali. Because he came from a poor background. He always gave a good fight, and entertainment. In soccer also, you fight, and you entertain. If you don’t entertain, people don’t come back. 

David Beckham is a true professional. As a kid, all he thought about was football. His target was to play for the country. He never drinks, never take drugs. He’s a family man.”

On the person who most influenced him: “Definitely my dad, in the way he brought us up. He was a strict man. We of course didn’t agree on many things. But now you grow older you realise. And with his small money, he built this huge house and left it to us. And he was still raising us at the same time.”

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Just something my sister sent to me. But you know something, I think he revoked his Singaporean citizenship and went back to Serbia last Sunday permanently.

7:11 PM

07 October, 2008

My legs are aching...

I am sooo glad that i'm not in MAD. I finally understand why they're all so muscular and skinny. They have survived training that's probably ten times worse than what I've just gone through. In one word, it can be described as 'torture'. And there's still tomorrow to look forward to. Joy. At this point, I pause for a moment in order to send murderous glares at those who got their first choice. Namely, Qiaoyue, Lynette, Shao, Sylvia and Vic-ki. Hmm anyone else I need to murder? I'm feeling homicidal. Dancing for six hours does that to you. So I'm ranting. Thus, the purpose of this post. For me to rant. I want to pon school tomorrow but my mother won't let me. She let's me pon normal school, but the moment I told her that I was having a dancing sabbatical, she said "you're going and that's final. It's time you learnt this." See, that's the problem with having a dance teacher-in-charge for a mother. I want to wakeboard. Stupid QY. It's not fair! The computer that allocates sabbaticals must hate me. And what's worse, the class has more guys than girls so I have to dance the girl's part. I want to see Smint again!

I hope you are all feeling suitably sympathetic now. If you gloat some more, I WILL kill you the next time I see you. Which will probably be Thursday. Since you are all in my wing, it'll just make things easier for me. QY will just have to wait till training to die. Dancing has awoken my homicidal side. Now I know why Shao is homicidal, it's kinda fun. In a crazy-psychotic -megalomaniac-who-tortures-and-kills-people-for-his-own-amusement kind of way.

7:43 PM

04 October, 2008

1. OPEN HOUSE
-set upbooth in field
- set up laptop to play video
-5 people man the booth, including a few kicking the ball with people who are interested in soccer
- 2-3 walk around to give cards used last year
-tourguides: morning- lynette, Hannah and shufeng
afternoon- qiao yue and sala

2. FILMING
- Monday after FOS
- Bring soccer jersey, boots, socks and soccer shirt

3. Next training
-Thursday (9/10/08)
-5pm

4. Future trainings
-Mons, Weds and Sats (prefably twice a wk w coach)
-optional gym trainings on Thursdays

5. Soccer Funds
-$2450 extra funds from school :D
-coach fees increased from $80-$100

11:47 PM

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