Welcome to the Mad Cows' blog


Welcome to the Mad Cows' blog!

The Mad Cows is the EUI's female five-a-side soccer team. We play just for fun and absolute beginners are warmly welcomed. Playing with the Mad Cows is a nice way to do some sports and meet new people to share some beers with. The members of the Mad Cows come from all environments and all nationalities: EUI researchers from all the departments, partners, members of the staff and people from outside the EUI world.
See you on the pitch!

24 November 2009

A FILTY WORK

With the second match I hope my duty as reporter is over: first is question of unwillingness, second and maybe the most important, is that I am bettere suited as supporter.

To talk about a match is quite hard for a supporter, now you can imagine how harder could be for a match like this. Let tell me you about it.

The weather was better than the last time, the benches of the stand overwhelmed with 3 supporter supplied with smoke bombs, and a quarter -the quarter I think it was the most keyed up!- lately even a 4th supporter joined up. The team was calm, ready and properly warmed up, due to the big delay of the previous match, then not too bad at all to start to play, but..
Last year the same match against the same team, the "Mojito Vicchio" finished 8-1.. For them..
This year the girls decided to start sligtly nervous, as usual, but very rampant, pressing and trying to stay in the opposite half as much they can.
Third minute, the 24 of the Mojito's started from their half pitch, ran ahead quickly, got closer to the goal on the right and shot undisturbed an angled bullet. The ball entered the opposite corner of the goal stroking the post, the poor Elena at her first time as Mucche's goalie, was unguilty.
Then the Mucche becamed even more rampant, after few second of discouragement. The first and clearest occasion to score was with Amy, she failed, then Sara and Sandra tried, but the whole team had a good coordination and energies to spend up and down. The fact is sometimes the other girls reached the shooting distance but ours were able in breakaway, not even in precision when was time to shoot.
The first half was quite over when, I can't know exactly how, the Mojito's gained a free kick from the penalty line. Our barrier, well set, at the whistle is inexplicably explosed paving the way to the double by the number 9 of the Mojito's.
End of the first half.
Second started even more rampant. Girls were fighting even on the ground: I saw Sara kicking the ball lacing up the shoes! But all the team did all in the same way spending a lot of strenghts. So, at the 11th one of the opponent reach a good position to shoot and do it, but slowly, Elena trying to kick the ball, moved up the leg.. 3-0!
In similar occasions our Mucche or failed the shot or found the hands of the opponent goalie and became very demoralised and fatigued up to the "chef d'oeuvre" at the 19th minute. Stefania ought to manage throw-in near our goal, did it and, with millimetric precison, reach one of the Mojito's just in front of Elena.. Who is reading can imagine the outcome..
So, I won't tell nothing more about the match.
Now is time to go back to swear the girls on the pitch, hoping they became nasty as this sport need!

M.P.

Mucche 0, Mojito Vicchio 4

Team: Elena - Alessia - Amy - Costanza - Sandra - Sara - Stefania.

No comments:

Post a Comment