Last Sunday in the sizzling heat of Shanghai we held our last 08/09 league games. There was a fierce battle going on for the second spot and the final standing just confirms how close it was !
E-Rouge – Japan 3-5 Last time the two teams met Japan lost 5-0 so this time it seemed that Japan was motivated not too go through the same “losing face” experience and want to end the season second in the league !
Bulls – Hawks 8-3 By far the largest defeat for the current SPL Champions and there were a lot of reasons for the loss but the Bulls are scoring machine with Nico clinching the top scorers number 1 spot for a second year in a row with 16 goals and it simply was too much for the Hawks.
Lions – Vlis 5-0 Lions needed to win this as they knew the Bulls were ahead of them. Hans of Vlis pulled his hamstring while trying to run the 100 meter in 12 seconds it looked bad and wish him speedy recovery as we need “Icons” like Hans in our league.
An amazing season came to an end and the standing speaks for its self number 4 Japan was only 5 points away from the Champions. Everybody will remember a bad day in the office and all the what if and what if’s but too me its sure that next year we will have several teams in a positions to clinch the Championship.
Most important of all we had a “fair-played” season with no incidents and we let everybody enjoy the games, that’s what we stand for and that’s our goal !
But wait a minute……..we are not finished yet ! We have a full program on June 21st for all the SPL Players, Coaches, Family and Friends. This year it looks like the weather gods are with us and allthough it will be hot it seems we can avoid the rain of last year !
12.00 – 14.00 PM as per Frederik’s email we have two 7 aside fields set up for a mini tournament, 2 groups of three teams
14.00 – 16.00 PM SPL Cup Final Lions vs Galacticos (guaranteed a good game of football and fun to watch)
16.00 – 16.15 PM SPL Penalty Shoot Out (Its all about money/drinking and shooting straight)
16.15 – 20.00 PM SPL end of the season party outside at Latina next to the field, we will have long tables for the teams / We have the best samba band from Brasil playing specially for us, All you can eat BBQ at 80 rmb, beer/wine at 20 rmb. Don’t worry we make sure that each team gets in the mood and we will give you some free cocktails !
18.00 PM SPL Price Ceremony / Captains make sure to nominate one MVP each for your team / We have a CUP for every team and a special price for the Top Scorer !
Hope to see you all on Sunday / Cheers !! / Freek / SPL President on behalf of the SPL Committee
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