With about 6 days in hand, G12 Sure Shots face their final training session this Wednesday before the much anticipated Friendly against Firebrands takes place this Saturday.
The author finds it hard to believe that this is really happening. What started out as a post-Wave Challenge congratulatory-'good game'-wall-to-wall post on Facebook to each other by Tania of Firebrands and Yvonne of G12; suggesting playing against each other's teams again has turned into an event, though minor, in the floorball world. Players from several floorball clubs in Penang are involved in this event.
Kuan Yang from Frontliners and Lin Ken from Innebandy! Co. - the official referees of the match
together with
Michael, also from Frontliners and Brandon from Ztec - the secretariats
I accepted the idea of the suggested friendly by Tania as I had promised the team during that eventful ride home from Balik Pulau Stadium that I will look out for tournaments or matches for G12 to participate in as I felt that it was sad if we only got to play ONE tournament in 2009. After consulting with our coach, Nick and the girls, G12 as a team officially accepted the Friendly planned by the two very random girls.
A few questions I find myself asking are..
Is G12 really ready?
Have I done my best in selecting the players to play in Sure Shots?
Can we handle it without depending too much on our injured coach, Nicholes?
But what happens if we lose?
Will that drown our spirits and possibly break us, knowing far well that we're still feeling beaten up since the Wave Challenge incident that took place in April?
Will we still give it our all, knowing in mind that most of the supporters and fans there will be rooting for the opposing team?
But most importantly..
Will we leave our insecurities behind and play well as a team?
Because to me, that's what matters.
Play together, win or lose together.
ONE TEAM.
written by von.
