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JIFL News N°6. vol 3.
Season 2006-2007
:: Edito
One of the best
sounds on the planet
Dear Supporting Actors in the Worldwide Football Arena, Starting on Thursday, February 15th, ESE (which stands for Euro Soccer Excellence) will be hosting the Bambinos Football Club which means that all players 7 years old and younger are welcome to come to ISCI and play football from 3:30 - 4:15 PM every Thursday afternoon. The sessions are mainly just to introduce the children to football in a lightly structured yet enjoyable fashion. ESE (Euro Soccer Excellence) Football Club Every Thursday from 4:00 to 5:45 PM, the ESE FC youngsters meet at ISCI for high level training and challenge matches against top local academies like Ronny Pattinasarani and Ricky Yacobi's football schools. Enrollment is limited to 40 players from the ages 8 up to 17 years old. ► SuperSkills Centers SuperSkills is unique. Every Monday starting at 4:15 - 5:45 PM at ISCI in the gym, Tuesdays in Kemang at Kembang School and Wednesdays at Pelita Harapan near Sentul, SuperSkills sessions are ongoing. Players can join anytime and after 12 weeks they are encouraged to test their ability in order to move up to the next 'belt'. The system uses a Martial Arts based system of progressive development and guarantees improvement for any player. In fact, I will be willing to bet that it can improve anybody's precision based individual skills by 50% in any 12 week session. You may scoff at that last statement but I have spent my life in football and dedicated most of it to the beautiful game and I have found that this is the absolute fastest way to become a competently skilled player that I have ever come across. Like I already said, SuperSkills is unique. For additional information on any of these programs, please contact Marvin and he will provide answers to all of your questions. Keep in mind that we will try and accommodate children of any members of the JIFL teams in regards to any of these programs as our top priority. ► My Philosophy on Football My Pledge: For the rest of my days on this planet I am going to enjoy playing football (and my golf) even if it means being a little less competitive but a little more joyful. I am going to take simple pleasure in every strike of the ball, every sight and smell, every sound that is a football being struck and the most beautiful sound of all... that swoosh sound as the ball strikes the back of the net and spins for a moment before dropping to the ground followed by the interrupting whistle of the referee as he calls the goal good. Now isn't that just one of the best sounds on the planet?  Bernie Schumm once made the statement: 'It is always about
winning!". Yes, he is right. I agree. It is always about winning
and that is why we compete. We compete to win but listen for a
moment to the clarification of that statement. I used to be one of
those football warriors who competed for the win at all times. I
had to do so because that was my job. But recently, I realized
finally that my true nature is that I just love the sight, sound,
and touch of the football itself. Is is actually about ball
mastery. So in reality, I just love bossing the ball around and
winning just happens to be a by-product of that ability. Back in
the serious days, I was never one of those players that complained
about training. In fact, I loved training. In fact - in fact, I
sometimes had spells where I loved training more then the actual
matches themselves and for much of my career, we had two-a-day
trainings in nearly every club that I ever played. But what made
me suddenly remember this episode of my life and how I used to
feel? It was all of my recent training in golf that brought me to the memory of that period of my life. I realized the other day as I was striking golf balls at ISCI that I just love to practice. Whether it is football or golf, I love to try or invent a skill and then work on that skill until is incorporated into my being - a second nature if sorts. So then I thought about it some more and I realized that it is success that I am in love with and the 'winning' is just a label put onto the ability to succeed. So perhaps I might change Bernie's statement to: "It is always about succeeding!". Or perhaps, one might consider the statement, "It is always about competing". And finally, one might consider the statement, "It is always about improving". None of these may not sound as powerful as Bernie's original but, if you take all three of them together then they give a new and improved texture to Herr Schumm's life philosophy because, in the end, my friends, winning ain't everything and the journey along the way is often more rewarding the destination itself! D. :: League Standings
:: Reports
Scorers : Chris (Vikings) (1) NO STAT & NO REPORT FROM WANDERERS It was a fairly good game in the first half, unfortunately the Vikings lost its shape in the second and Wanderers took full advantage by scoring three well earned goals. Definitely the easiest third half we ever won though... Marvin (Vikings)
Scorers : Nico (D's Place) (1), Gaston
(D's
Place) (1), Joel
(D's
Place) (1), Sugimoto (Japan) (2)
A
good-natured
friendly match between the two football clubs. Both teams were anxious to
get started after a lenghty break and a late game start. We were aware of
Japan's speed and wanted to control the ball and slow the game down, which
we managed to do for most of the game. Nico, in all alone, opened the
scoring after their substitute keeper, who came in for their starting
keeper who got a yellow card for delay of game, dove the wrong way. Gaston
poked it in to make it 2-0 after a mad loose ball scramble. They scored
just before the half to make it 2-1 at the break. We then got some
breathing room after Emma scored to make it 3-1. They scored again to make
it close mid-way through the half but were shut down thereafter with zero
scoring opportunities. A good match.
Scorers : Rudy Penjol
(Doit)
(1),
Denis Clarke
(Doit)
(1),
Matt Parkin
(Doit)
(1),
Gareth Withe (Doit) (1), Thierry Araman (1) (G+), Salomon Gonzales
(1) (G+),
Yannick Araman
(1) (G+) Attendance: 4 security guards, 3 BIS host national staff and 16 drivers or roughly the season average for most Scottish Division 2 outfits. Do It started the match kicking from left to right ( a little tribute to Gerald Sinstadt there!) in their traditional yellow shirts and were soon into a groove with their free flowing passing game pinning the Jermans in their own half. Gareth Withe sporting an early 1990’s Jason Donovan style streaked hair reveled in the free ranging role manager Denise Clarke had assigned to him and saw a lot of the ball, mainly around the half way line unfortunately as Do It built from deep. This tactical approach began to create a number of half chances until Rudi my last name isn’t really Penjol went past a nicely overweight Jerman defender but rather than shoot, cut back inside, beat the lumbering Prussian again, pushed it too far so he had to skip past another lunging defender before having a shot which rebounded to him and just as you thought that our little Indonesian whippet had blown his chance, he managed to slot home through a sea of Deutshe defenders. Well I think that’s what happened, I was unsighted by Ronan’s belly! 1-0 and very much in control with Mike and Ronan seeing a lot of the ball down the flanks. Very much in control until stand in goalkeeper Grice decided he would even up the encounter by attempting to stop what can only be described as a tame shot with his right nipple as he crumpled to ground down to his right. Attempts to save the moment by calling for offside were rightly turned down by the referee ( who had a pretty good game all told) while the linesman just smiled and looked at his flag . 1-1 and suddenly Do It had changed from a confident team of crisp ball passers into a tired and shaky looking side who kept on passing to the hedge at the side of the pitch. The lederhosen lovers were suddenly full of running and created a few half chances which mainly flew over the bar. A lovely exchange of passes saw a young man from the Palatinate put through but he was roughly bundled to the ground by Owen Hargreaves impersonator Matt Parkin who surprisingly avoided any card despite being last man and the young opponent screaming on the ground with a dislocated shoulder! A few caring words were offered him by Gareth as he left the field. One lad got a little too excited and jumped in with a nasty two footed challenge on John Taylor who is probably still feeling it now! The ref was quick to get out his yellow card and quell any unecessaries by a number of angered Do It athletes. The Thuringians continued to press and it had all gone a little bit quiet, possibly because Denise – who was very vocal early on - had thankfully ran out of breath. However, the little ex-Rochdale favourite was to give Do It a crucial half time lead. Not since the days of Wilf Mannion and Tom Finney have you been able to witness center forward play like it. Ronan I think it was who fired in a deep cross to the far post for Clarke to rise above the Bavarian defender (hard to believe but true!) and head straight at the teenage Hessian in goal. The ball rebounded back out with the two strudel munchers and the veteran Lancastrian all prostrate on the ground. Amazingly, the aged mind and legs were the first to react and Denise jumped up like Zebedee on speed and gave Do It perhaps an undeserved lead just before half time. After some refreshment and the usual chat about what a good passing team we are and it being our game for the taking etc. the second half kicked off and before you could say “Ronan don’t do something stupid” the great Oirishman had and was the second victim of the refs yellow card. Not sure what happened as I was taking another brilliant catch from a corner (blatant self promotion I know but I don’t remember doing a lot well). Again Do It looked comfortable playing their passing game and I was just thinking how we were going to put them to the sword , when it was at this point that Lucas Sheard who ( and it has to be said had enjoyed an outstanding game at center half) suddenly started defending like a Manchester City player and not supporter. Despite the same information being offered to him by several Do It players, he delayed his pass to El Sid long enough to be robbed by a young Saxon who, after being held up by the diminutive sweeper, managed to pivot and shoot home at the near post past the luckless Do It goalkeeper who was so confident it was missing that he was a tad annoyed with himself when it didn’t. 2-2. Fortunately Sheard took the blame like a man accustomed to it which was just as well as moments later he was at it again with a ferocious backpass which Grice volleyed clear only to an onrushing Pomeranian whose first time shot was saved by the slightly overweight Blackpudlian low to his right. Eric, Mr. Falkirk 1985, cleared it up field and away from a nervy Do It defence. Moments later and all was not well for the home team again as El Sid was surprisingly dispossessed just outside the area and it took a straightforward yet made harder than it was by falling over my own feet save to keep the scores level. Imanol’s pass infield just 30 yards from the Do It goal seemed to sum up this period of Do It defending. It was beautifully weighted and went straight to a grateful Hanoverian who fortunately fluffed his chance by running into one of his own players. A rare Do It sortie into the Rhinelanders box saw Big Tim Parsons claim to have been bundled to the ground by the tiny Brandenburger at the back. The Leicester Liverpudlian politely informed the referee of his mistake by not awarding the penalty. Tim followed the ref around for a bit attempting to strike up a conversation where he could relay his version of events more fully but strangely the ref wasn’t interested. Cometh the moment, cometh the man. MOM Matt Parkin shocked everyone, least of all himself, by a Maradona like run from just inside his own half. Jinking past upwards of four startled Mecklenburger defenders he found himself in the unfamiliar territory of the Teuton box (sounds rude but isn’t Eric!) and with the keeper coming towards him, surely the lad from Derby would take this chance to blast it high over the bar but no…he coolly slotted it into the bottom left hand corner and ran off to the corner flag in a sort of “Did you see what I did, I can’t believe it myself” sort of goal celebration. El Sid was so impressed he used up all his energy reserves by running and joing in the celebrations. 3-2 and a couple of minutes later a beautiful Do It move saw a cross in from the right be controlled by the early nineties coiffured Withe who hammered his shot home into the back of the net. Gareth thought his goal was every bit as good as Matt’s…. but it wasn’t! Sid didn’t make the celebrations for this one. 4-2 and the Swabians had to be finished….but no back they came again. Do It were caught on the break by the speedy Jerman Indonesian striker and a lunging tackle from Eric deflected the ball onto the post away from the covering dive of the stand in keeper and rebounded straight to the Jindo, who prodded it in. 4 -3 and the shakes
were back for a nervy last few minutes which Do It thankfully saw out without
any further generosity at the back.
Equal
ball possession at the begin of the first half. Then DO IT after 20 minutes took
the lead after a mistake in the German defence. However German Plus responded
immediately after 5 minutes. A nice pass to Hendrik, the DO IT keeper could only
deflect the ball and Thierry scored from short distance. Shortly after that the
incident that overshadowed the match. Mathias was running towards the DO IT
goal, passed by the DO IT defender and got fouled. A clear red card, as the DO
IT defender was the last man, however no card were given at all, a free kick
only was awarded. Later at the hospital it turned out that Mathias dislocated
his collarbone, something what obviously not happens so often. Here in Indonesia
they cannot fix it 100% and Mathias could never play soccer again, so he now has
to go to Singapore, as soon as he can. Last week against KNUDDE it was Felix
with a torn ligament and now Mathias with the dislocated collarbone. Yannick got
a deserved yellow card later in the first half and then approx. 5 minutes before
the break DO IT took the lead again. Half time 2-1 DO IT.
Scorers : Doug Slusher (1) (JIS), Gordon Boyd
(1) (JIS),
Benni Saputra
(1) (JIS),
Richard (1) (Vikings)
JIS-Vikings was a
close game between 2 teams still recuperating from the holidays. In other words,
this match was not played in blistering pace. Still, as usual a very enjoyable
match against the Vikings.
It was a
disappointing effort from a side that looked very good on paper but we did not
create enough going forward and when we finally did, we were not sharp and then
a missed penalty which cost us dearly. It was 0-1 at half time and we controlled
the controlled 2nd half until JIS on their first real attempt scored to 0-2.
Richard scored to 1-2 and we were back in the match, well for about one minute
and JIS was up 1-3 and JIS had wrapped up the match. During the very important
after-match-cooling-down-exercises it started to rain heavily and it continued
until Jkt was complete submerged, hopefully not an omen for the rest of our
season.
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What is happening in the Worldwide Football Revolution as
of late...? Well, I have been so busy since I came back from the
USA that it took me an entire month to put the JIFL schedule down
on paper and the same to get a newsletter together. Anyway, I have
a story cooking for next week that targets the future generation
of players for the JIFL - the sons of the veterans who have built
this league are now coming of age and making their mark in the
league. Maintaining that in mind, to start with, here is the
rundown in regards to football opportunities for your children and
perhaps your neighbours children:
