Back...

...on the Pitch!

"Baby it's good to be back
So good to be back
Baby it's good to be back,
in your arms again"

Those are the words sung by Natalie Cole in her song: "Good To Be Back".Of course for mad redo1 it is certainly good to be back, but in his case it is good to be back on the pitch playing the sports he loves most: football.

In conjunction with the long Chinese New Year holiday when many GanuSoccer.Net forum members made their way home from all over Malaysia, a get-together event was organized to give GSN members an opportunity to meet and catch up with the latest happenings.

The event was held at the 'C' Pitch of the Gong Badak Sports Complex. A few members brought some food to give it a pot-luck feel. At first, mad redo1 planned to bring fried bee-hoon, unfortunately lack of time saw him bringing poppiah instead.

Members were divided into two teams, aptly named GSN A and GSN B. mad redo1 was included in the latter and took the field for the whole of the match. It watch not for the faint-hearted as in the end the score stood at 7-7, giving it a bit of a futsal feel.

Conceding seven goals was not a good way to mark your return to the field but mad redo1 could console himself knowing that he played behind a generous defence which liked to go forward a lot. He even managed to save a penalty but could not prevent the rebound from being slotted past him by an opponent.

(Thank you Hamzi Fahmi for the photo)

It was a good outing and perhaps could lead to a few more 11-a-side matches involving GSN playing against other teams around town. mad redo1 certainly hopes so. But in order for him to give his best (for a 40 year old goalkeeper) some trainings are required.

So, to more football this year!


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