My Soccer Match

Last Saturday, JIS B team had the first soccer match in the season. This is a very competitive league called Coca-Cola League and the season just started. I am in the U14 league so I'm the youngest in my team. There is the A team and the B team and A team is better than the B team. However, there are lots of 8th grade people participating so I got picked in the B team while most of the 8th graders went in the A team. For the first match, we were playing the French School (LIF) in ISCI at 11:45 a.m. The French School already played a match and won 3:0 so they were in the top of the league. For this match I was playing first as a striker. We all warmed up and got ready.

"PHIP!" The whistle blew. The match started and we did the kick-off. The French School had really good strikers such as Simon. Just after the game started, the other team had the ball and attacked towards us. We couldn't block them so I was 100% sure we were going to lose. Anyways, they dribbled and shot. Luckily, our goalkeeper was good enough to block that shot. We barely crossed the half line and they just went in our penalty box a lot of times but our defenders were good. I attacked towards their goal and dribbled. I got rid of one of their defenders but they were VERY agressive. I couldn't get past them. French School's attack. Simon kept on dribbling and dribbling and went in the penalty box. "PHIP" the whistle blew again and I wondered what was happening. THE REFEREE SAID THAT WE DID A HANDBALL!!! I was sure we didn't do a handball and everybody thought that. Well, it was no use and Simon scored a penalty. We were down 0:1 on half time.

Now it was the second half. We attacked a lot of times and became aggresive than the first half. We were getting better but their defenders were too good. I got substituted out and went in again after 10 minutes. When we attacked, I suddenly had a stomachache so I got substituted out again. I had to watch the game until the end. Yes! We were going straight to their penalty box but the defender blocked again. "PHIP" the whistle blew and WE LOST.

0:1. It was better than we expected and we were better than the first half. Well, life is life. I was disappointed but we could do better next time. I was sure we were going to win the next match against the Indonesian School. There is another chance!!! GO JIS!!!