Soccermania

UCUISS had soccermania on their minds. We wanted to do some sport to warm up, get our bodies moving, socialise and celebrate the arrival of this traditional (Northern Hemisphere & other cold parts of the world) winter game.  With this in mind and the fact that our members from Urban Management were leaving Canberra for good to Indonesia by the end of the first semester we decided to have a few soccer games against ANU.

Our sports coordinator Nining pulled some strings and managed to book the UC soccer fields for no extra cost for practice sessions before the ‘friendly’ soccer matches against ANU. UCUISS’ soccer practice was held on Sunday the 13^th of May and the 20^th of May with around 18 of our members practising and quite a few on the sideline cheering. On the 20^th of May quite a number of our members also turned up to play tennis with Sayogya at UC before going off to play or watch soccer. (Thanks for the free tennis lesson Sayogya).

The first ‘friendly match’ against ANU was on the 25^th of May, (4.30pm) at the ANU soccer field next to the Chifley Library. Our two-practice sessions and extreme confidence paid off. Or was it the cold that got our blood rushing after waiting for an hour for people and soccer ball to show up? Whatever it was, UCUISS won 4 goals to 2. With Larsita and Andre scoring two goals in the first half that lasted for 35 minutes. Even after many complaints and the bitter winter winds of the afternoon our brave tropical soccer players fought on with their spirit of 1945 (semangat 45). Alas, ANU was not that easily defeated with their secret weapon by the name of Aan coming on to the field in the second half and scoring 2 goals for his home team ANU. But yet again Larsita and Andre scored one goal each to win the day 4 –2. Well done, everyone deserved their Cadbury chocolate!

With the first victory still fresh in their minds, UCUISS challenged the ANU team to another game this time at UC’s soccer field. Unfortunately because of an earlier engagement at the Embassy, or maybe because of UC’s fearless reputation, not many ANU players could make it. With whatever team was put together the game went on with our team yet again winning with a score of 4 – 3 against ANU. The last goal by ANU was a penalty kick awarded to ANU’s secret weapon Aan. Unfortunately our goal keeper Ian had not been able to save that point, never mind because UC with the help of soccer players like Erik did really well again, while Priyono playing for ANU also did well by scoring a goal. We hope that everyone had a good time and thanks to the Urban Management people for enlivening the game with their big attendance.  

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