February trainings

Akitans,

We have 3 new dates of training in February at Wan Chai Park:

- Wednesday 8th February: 10-11pm

- Wednesday 15th February: 8-9pm

- Wednesday 22nd February: 10-11pm

- Wednesday 7th March: 10-11pm

- Wednesday 21st March: 10-11pm


You can find the map of the pitch through this link.

See you there guys!

...and 2012 starts with another win!

This Sunday 8^th was our first 2012 game, and it was the occasion to show that despite Christmas and New Year, we were still in shape and ready for the first league challenge.

With 14 players, the comeback of Florian and one homeless German keeper, we could expect a good game.

After the usual warm up in the corridor, few peoples scared by our extreme ball skill and the difficult choice of our jersey’s number, we stepped on the pitch to have a quick but quite proper keeper training, thanks to Santa Claus who brought us some brand new balls!

Starting in defense, we saw a lack of focus in the first 5 minutes, letting the opponents lead 3-1 and missing our first shots. Hopefully, it didn’t last long and we show, with authority, that our defense is still strong and we inflicted them a 6-0 to lead 7-3 after 10 minutes.

The last 15 minutes were a real lesson of defense, everybody was focus, talking and helping each other and the other team only could score 3 more goals before the half time, that we reached leading 14-6.

The second half, we started in a new attack configuration, with 2 line player. Our lack of experience in this was quite clear, even if showing some interesting combination. We need to work on it during the training to improve!

Also, the second half saw us losing our focus in defense, by being not aggressive enough and letting them shoot easily at 9 meters. Hopefully, our attack was still working well, and we never lost the lead of the game, reaching the full time on the final score of 27-18.

We need to note that it’s actually the first game we played without getting any 2 minutes penalty! And also, Joakim, sorry to tell you so, but it seems your technique to steal the ball at 9 meters when the opponents drop it is clearly not going to work with those referees.

We have to highlight also the good game of Stefan, who scored the important goals and lead us through the game, our good 5-1 defense with Fabien or Yannick as the “1” which show every time its strength, and, last but not least, Tyler, our lost American who scored his first handball goal on the right wing. Tyler, good job, keeps going!

So far, we don’t have any other game scheduled; it would probably be after the Chinese New Year.

But we have a training on Tuesday 17^th at Wan Chai Park, from 9.30pm to 11.00pm, and we may have a run on Tuesday 10^th at the inside loop of Happy Valley.

We hope to see you all there!

Best wishes!!

The editorial staff of the blog wish all of you and your families a wonderful and magnificent year 2012!

Akita is now looking forward to the end of the first round of games, and start playing to go back to first division.

We also have to notice that even if we are grown men and have two Swedish in the team, Santa Claus brought us some nice gears, and we can almost look like a real team now!

Joking aside, again, best wishes for 2012, and see you on the pitch really soon!

January Training

We are still waiting for the Handball association to give us a pitch for training.

Anyway, we will have a training at Hu Fa Kuang Sports Centre at City University on Tuesday 17th, from 8.30pm to 10.30pm.

Check out this link to get there.

See you all there!