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Match Report – 8 Dec 2016 – Grand Final

December 13, 2016match reportkondo

Nannas 1 VS Dery 5
Att: ANDY, GILLA, GUIDO, JIM, KONDO, RHIAN, TAO
Coach: TH, DC

“What is a Nanna?” This topic has been discussed over years as a part of the quest, “Brownfullness” AKA an ultimate elixir for our longevity.

I had a good realization when the most “life experienced” wise AW threw the great key word “Spine fullness” in the flurry Story.

We have to ask ourselves again “How full is your spine?” “how full is your Brownfullness ?”

This week had quite interesting change to my mental and physical condition. I must say that excitement of grand final looked after the mental side. However the change of physical is more interesting. I did not meet tantric twins but I know the practice. I deliberately filled up my spine as much as I can to experiment this method works. It was a long memorable week to face the grand final show down.

On the final day, I was in quite pumped place with calm mind set. I was literary feeling high, positive, strong, sharp, focused, a bit taller, biting hard, holding tight, eating well, sleeping well and XXX hard. This made me at least a year younger. I felt my spine was full of brown juice and I haven’t felt this good long time… This is better than multi orgasmic experience without ejaculation. may be I look a bit dangerous if i live like this everyday.

The game started good with full energy and we played good. Just other team had better passing and etc and we got a bit frustrated second half to keep all together. Big Kudos to all team brought us to grand final stage and my new realization scheme. It has been too long to be in this grand final chat. The result was second but we remember the taste of the grand final again. Unfortunately it was not followed by massive winning, warehouse ping pong with slow cooked dinner this time but hey lets do it again soon.

Fill up your spine with Brownfullness brother Nannas! 2017 is near us!!

Kondo

Match Report 2015_02_12

February 23, 2015Uncategorizedkondo

vs FC Dalles (1-2)
CB, DC, CG, RH, TH(Coaching)TW, AW, TK1 (MOM)

Brunswick again. It is good to be back in here. Something feels right in this building. The poster of Kendo has been upgraded. It must be running very strong here. I hope more of young Aussies lean the beauty of Japanese sword fight and the spirits.

The night was one of the very warm summer night. Humidity is high as East Asia and almost all Nannas were on bike.
We were super 7. In good shape and in the good mood.

The opponent did not have enough player and Phil joined to save them. Ref offered us 2 points at the start because opponent was late and under numbered. What can we say! honorable Nannas never accept this type of offer 🙂 so the score started as 0-0

The game was very even. CB and DC had great pass works and got the goal really close. RH and TW were taking good control in the middle field. AW brought up the ball from side line many time and had very beautiful shot close to the goal. We just did not have good open space to score the goal. In fact, the defence of the opposition was tight and did right thing to block us out.

The first half, we had better opportunities to kick goals than other team and dominating the field but we somehow could not get score. The opposition had 2 goals. One was own goal and Phil’s cheeky heal kick from close. I must say these goals were just unlucky thing. The lucky thing was I received a great pass in front of opposition’s goal last half. No hustle from defense so I had a second to watch the goalie and gave him a quick faint move. He jumped to right. So I kicked the ball to the left corner to get easy target.

I have learnt 2 most basic things from this. To hit the target, the most important thing is not the skill of shooting but the skill to get close to your high score range. FBI does not carry many bullets for this reason. I know a goalie recently did hattrick, If you practice scoring goals long enough, you can archive it one day soon.

Another big thing is “It is very easy to kick a ball without having nasty hustle from defenders.” You are right. Imagine how easy this could be done from close range. No one is giving you elbows.

All I mean is “We never ever give this most luxurious sweet moments to oppositions.” We lose score when the defense is one step slower, when the defense can not keep up stopping simple counter attack.

The Union hotel was awesome. Good beer and food.

Match Report 02 05 13

May 20, 2013match reportkondo

CB, TH, AW, JH, GF, RH(MOM), TK(MOM)

Anger produces an instantaneous surge, which causes your eyes wide open, blood pressure to elevate and your heart to get excited. Let’s get our hairs on the back of neck stand up. We are ready for action. We’re born with a capacity for anger. Anger isn’t something that has to be learned or earned, like other such such ship. It is blasting 50 Cal. Just need better control like someone started to use telescopic sight on top of it at Falkland Crisis. Charge the anger till the time you release.

Match Report 2013.2.18

March 6, 2013Uncategorizedkondo

9-2 v Ozpspurs with 2 ref

CB (1) DC, RH, JH(1?), AW, TH, TK(M)
2 ref support unbeatable? No. We are truly matching up the performance first half. The score was 2-1 at half time.
Great pass works and good quick foot work. When we lost the 4th goal, all balance was changed and we could not keep up…

I am not sure this 2 ref support happens again but we need to have a tactics. We should have different style to fight against different teams. Any call anyone??
Japanese soldiers had good lucks by the Banzai charge but it did not work in front of heavy machine guns at WW2. It is time to update our fighting technique.

Korean BBQ combo D at Wooga was fantastic.

Match Report 2013.2.14

February 22, 2013match reportkondo

5-5 v Blue Steel

DC(1), RH(2), GF, JH(2), AW, TW, TK(M)

Fear. When the fear crawls up to your ear. What is your action?

You may feel some fear when you see a man with a knife who you don’t know resting beside your bed when you wake up. You may feel some fear when you suddenly see zombies 10m away in dark. You may feel some fear in unfamiliar combat you don’t feel good about.

We know what to do before the negative conditions drive us to uncertainty, fear, panic. We always manage this well and we love this moments as there are no script writers, no excuse, no time to wait, no time to say words. So we just perform twice more accurate, 0.9 – 1.3 times faster how ever you feel comfortable.

Nannas was leading the game. The score was 5-2. 2 minutes to go. Lost 3 goals. The score was 5-5 at the end.

Thinking about the next game against this team? Yes me too. I remember the last 2 min.

PS. great goal the Nannas.

Match Report 2012.12.20

January 6, 2013Uncategorizedkondo

Nannas 0 Vs Vagabundos 5

AW, JH, GF, RH, TH1, TK(G MOM)

End of the year game. First game in the new season. Everyone just started Xmas holiday. Excitements for the end of the year break. Some of the Nannas were already vacation. Just before the end of Maya calendar. Venus is alined and empowering the human harmony. Stars shining. Busiest month in the life for everybody. Many Xmas parties already. The chance to go to the top of the ladder. Sense of the fresh start. Hope of miracles happen. Thinking all games have played. Thinking the years we spent. Looking the book documented the spirits of Nannas. Imagining all game we will play in the future. It was certainly best year for Nannas.

See you in 2013. Heading to Mimosa Rocks today

Match Report 2012.11.29

December 18, 2012Uncategorizedkondo

Nannas 5 Vs Pornstars 10

AW, DC2, JH, GF, RH, TH1, TW1, TK(G MOM)

Early and hot. It was reported as the deadly hottest day in November last 100 years. It went around 42 degrees. The traffic rage was reported as 140%. Certainly we loved the 6pm game.
Brain damage from a fever will not occur unless the fever is over 42C for an extended period of time. I wonder how long it is. I am not sure about my brain function but I want to be sure of the functions of my ball.

We had a best intention for the game. like we do for the finals. Really committed Nannas were on the field before 6pm for the warm up and we chased the opponent like hounds.

The result was loss but we had great speedy goals supported by magic pass works. We simply just needed more of them. I felt that the game was even first half. They gradually scored more than us and we had few slow defenses to let the guys in. We ended this season at the bottom of the ladder. We recharge our batteries and come back as the old lion riding on stallion.

Unfortunately, I missed the beach beer burger bonX session after this. Wait for the picture from the other Nannas.

MATCH REPORT 20th Sep 2012

September 27, 2012Uncategorizedkondo

THE NANNAS vs To be updated

2 : 5

CB1, JH, GF, RH, TH1, TK(Mom GK)

Well well well. This pitch of debney park reminds some kind of jail or caged place for the fight.
So we perform well at this place always as it has our flavor. The game started our lead. CB and TH pushed long goal in and the score ended 2-1.

Somehow we lost 2 goals quickly at the start of the second half. It was such a tough time for myself. I felt like a 2 knock down just happened after the winning round. We stood up well but could not get more score after. It was a really good game for the passing and communicating. We had some positive feeling even we lost the game.

The cook was CB. He took us to Laksa King then all of us had different kind of laksa noodles. Everyone was very satisfied by the performance of the place. Probably all gave highest 6 points.
It was some kind of strange good night after the loss. Strange. I was lucky this was not the cage fight uses other things.

Victory is only way to survive this world.

MATCH REPORT 6th Sep 2012

September 13, 2012Uncategorizedkondo

THE NANNAS vs Tom and Jerry

4 : 6

DC1, CG, GF1, RH, TW1, TK1

Nannas were running well.

So much running this evening. It was like the cartoon show I liked when I was a kid.

In the reality, a mice can’t beat a cat but is it true??
Some books say that fighting ability of a cat is equal to a mankind. Because cats bring better aggressive instinct.

Is it true? This sounds right to me. Possibly.. If we know how to use everything we have, we can kick any ass really.

However I liked the friendship of the cat and the mice showing their love through the violence. Real friendship is always tough. There is a myth related to the last episode of the program in my country. It goes like this “The mice challenged a slow looking cat after his best enemy cat passed away. He thought he can use same tricks to beat up the cat but non of the tricks worked. The mice finally noticed that his best enemy’s friendship in the slow cat’s jaw…

Don’t tell this to fans..

We were holding the balls well and matching up the speed and tightness against this young skilled team. We missed to stop several strikes as they were always moving to find the spot. We do remember this for the next game. The last half was even better than first half. Tighter mark next game gentlemen.

Great goal GF!

Match report part III –

July 18, 2012Uncategorizedkondo

3-4 v Pornstars

GF (2 MOM), DC (MOM), TK (MOM), CG, JH (1),TH, AW

It was a great game to be noted. Nannas was leading the game till last 5 min against this known outlaw p gangs. The score was 3-2. Our solid 3 goals were giving us time to breath and space to play.

Only problem was they got a header goal just 20cm in front of me. Holy shit, I should have moved a second faster and smashed the head and punched the ball. That was the moment when a sniper find the enemy sniper pointing you corner of his sight or a boxer receiving KO hook when he missed the uppercut. This changed all story of the night.

Team, thanks for the MOM…

Lesson from this for me was “when you strike, fucking strike extra hard”

Team Photo 120315

March 29, 2012Uncategorizedkondo

Match Report 20120315

March 22, 2012Uncategorizedkondo

Result: Vaga 10, Nannas 1
Attendees: CB, DC, AW, GF, RH, TK (MOM)
Goals: RH 1

It is time to enter the 36th chamber of Shaolin again. Analyse what you have and what you don’t have. We can forget all our past, broken heart, solitude, bad habits and old glories. Get calm and look around. Are we ready for the drill?

Now, you can see a big mountain next to yours. How can you get there? Can you get the top? What is your way? Any tactics? Plans? Advise? The enemy is in front of you. You know they do not wait your turn. You know Banzai charge does not work anymore. You know snipers do not pull the triggers till the last moments. You get them or they get you. We decide all on the court. You take a big breath even when you get the ball. Look around. Your body knows what need to be done. You feel moving millisecond slower because everything is under control. You make it happen as you imagined. You know what will happen next because you have the ball on your foot. To get the top of the mountain, we sometime climb down if it is necessarily. We go back to basic lessons and create the killer moves.

Team Photo 111208 Final

December 15, 2011Uncategorizedkondo

The coach of the night

The Team

Match Report 111110

November 24, 2011Uncategorizedkondo

2-4 vs St. Kilda, Wesley, 7.20pm

AW, CB, GF, CG (gk) , JH, RH, TH,TW 1, TK 1
mom TK

This was a part of the spiritual experience before the 11,11,11. I was excited about the13 Cristal Skulls were going to meet up next day to change the world.

Well two weeks since now… any thing good happened? A lot of thing has happened in my life. some ordinary. some of them are beyond the imagination. News about life and death..

This night was bit rough. I felt like all players were hungry animals waiting for the time to eat.
The game started evenly. I was not aware that they are the top team but certainly we matched up the skill and the speed. Their good pass works made a little difference but we were playing in good shape.

last few min they squeezed few goals but victory will be ours next time.

After the game, JH took us to check Korean BBQ + Special chicken and called “we should consider the quality and quantity of the meat in the vote.” I totally agree. Indeed we should judge the cook by this.

grrh.

Match Report 111013

October 20, 2011Uncategorizedkondo

5-5 vs Hampton St Fc, Wesley, 9.20pm

DC, GF, CG (gk) 1, RH1, TH, TK 1,TW2
mom TK

Well, we started really well in the best form. Most importantly, we were passing well, keeping the ball at the front, running back quick and defending as a wall.
As the result, we have got few goals quickly. It started by my lucky goal then followed by RH’s the most beautiful heal kick goal, CG’s magic tomahawk goal, TW’s lightning goals.

At the start of the second half, everyone must felt really good what we were doing. So all went super tight until last 4 minutes.
How could we loose 4 goals in 4 minutes? Hey, It was matter of focusing. No communication and no tactics. The score was draw but there was a heavy feeling.
A big kudos for CG stopped at least 8 goals. One of the location manager of Wesley kept saying we should buy a case of beer for him.

Instead of buying the case, we went to a bar then CG and myself were rejected by the door bitch. so my report ends here.. what happened after the night.. I hope everyone is still alive..

Team Photo 110901

September 22, 2011team photokondo

Match Report 20110609

June 22, 2011Uncategorizedkondo

Loss to Hampton St Fc
0-8

CB, RH, TW, Brendan, TK

The traffic was really bad again this evening. All drivers were blasting the horns led by their frustration and the cold dry wind was blowing to take the last warmth from everyone’s heart. It was like a night something bad may happen. I saw a lot of kids trying to get help on the street. Some of them were screaming. Some of them were crying. I could not do anything. I could not save anyone. It was a strange night.

kudos for TW kicked a beautiful goal. The ball hit the net hard but ref canceled the goal because one of us was kicking the other team same time.

MATCH REPORT 20110602 Part1/4

June 9, 2011Uncategorizedkondo

CB 2, CG, RH, AW, TH, JH 2, TK, DC(coach)
COOK CG

Nannas vs Pornstars

Won 5 – 4
History is a strange thing. It sometimes does not tell the truth. We know about that. We know our text books do not tell the truth of your country. Never mind. Someone must love making a complicated things. We have to like the fact people write things for fun.

OK lets’ find out what happened this night. Fortunately, we have 4 nannas voted as the witness. The 4 way MOM confused the APISC a little bit but see how it goes.

Story
This night was started as edgy. The traffic was bad. Too many things had to be done for the charity GIG. I know I won’t be able to sleep next day and night. So I was a bit everywhere and nicely frustrated for the run.

Only things I could think in the game were “Run and pass then run to get the pass. Mark up and never let the person go through” This made me really simple. It worked. It seemed that all Nannas were doing own job well this night. The simplicity made the night. JH- long range shoot 2 goals (one was touching the top of the goal post), CB – running and squeezing in (2 goals), DC – yelling and directing, AW- accurate back door pass, TH- Hell defence, CG – jumping catch, RH- amazing head + leading the game. When everyone does good work in own area. It works. Hey 4 way MOM shows the co-operated result. right?

Team Photo 20110428

May 5, 2011Uncategorizedkondo

Team photo 110210

February 17, 2011Uncategorizedkondo

Match Report 20101223

January 6, 2011match reportkondo

Game: NANNAS vs V J F.C

Win 4:2

CB, DC(1), JH(1), CG, TH, AW, TW(1), TK(MOM)

This opponent is fresh and fast. They have very good foot skills to bring up the ball to the front.
So the game became intense from the beginning. Both of us had quite few shots and somehow we ended up losing two goals quickly.

The pressure was on. As we were chasing, the 4 magic goals saved our life the night.
Our first break through was TW. When I was surrounded by their defense in deep front with the ball, he was running behind me like a cavalry penetrates anything he wants. I sent the ball back to him as soon as I saw and he scored beautiful one.

Our soul was lifted by this goal. The second one was followed by DC’s back heal kick. This trick kick was shot from out side of the penalty line. It was looked like he was just turning around so that the goalie could not stop even it went through between his legs.

The third goal was the our favorite goalie goal. CG did this again as everyone expected. The score reached 3:2 at the mid second half. This goal changed the mental balance of the game significantly.

The fourth one was launched from far back of the penalty line by JH. The trusted main cannon blasted everything a second before the whistle.

It was a good game and a nice way to finish the end of 2010.

A Happy New Year brother Nannas!

Team photo 101125

November 30, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

Team Photo 100826

September 2, 2010team photokondo

Match Report 100826

September 2, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

vs Platini
Won for the game (FF) The practice game 4-7
CB(1), DC(2), TH (Coach), TW(1), JH, AW, TK(Goalie Mom)

Hearing one and knowing ten, we are back in Wesley.

We are in a new division in the new season. The Div is called 2/3.
What is going on!!? I noticed that the world became a little crazier after the weekend…
However, there are lots of old best enemies to test out our new skills and new strategies which we gained in the man weekend (except brain memory)
Now we play smarter as a unit.

The first impression was the improvement of the pass works. I can see all of us are focusing on finding space, creating space, trusting the team more than before and positioning ourselves right way. As we often having the shots from far back of the penalty area, this new strategy is the way of the victory. We score goals because we have good fire power. But we understand that it is not good enough to win.

I witnessed that there are so many beautiful cross passes and quick one two passes. Some of them looked like a Toss juggling. It worked beautifully as you just felt or imagined. We had a great test run this night. The downside of the new style is “We are not used to run back to the defence position from this practice”.

We might need to add Aikido’s most deadly technique “The defence is to deflect the enemy’s power then create the chance to attack” + The second last person from back needs to position better to stop the counter attacks. I do not know how? This could be our next challenge.

My personal quest “Where is best table BBQ for Nannas?” still continue. We went to a Korean BBQ near Brown ally and Goldfinger. The striker loved the Soju and had a happy time.

Team Photo 100610

June 23, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

Team Photo 100603 a
How is the taste?

Silence…
Thanks Andy.

Team Photo 100520

June 2, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

Team Photo 100520

Team Photo 100513

May 20, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

100429 6days after kissing the floor

May 4, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

MATCH REPORT 100408

April 14, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

Game: NANNAS vs Hyderoos

Lost 4:8

CB(1), DC(1), JH(1), CG, RH, TH, AW, TW(1), TK(g)(MOM)

We faced the Hyderoos this week and I am reporting about them again. Mmm.. We need good win against this team.
However, you remember their name, how they attack and how they defend themselves.

They have the good strategy to attack as two-man cell. the two men were often moving close enough to cover each other and scored quite few goals this night.
This worked well in their counter situations. I say their defense was deep so that they were sometime vulnerable for our quick solo attacks but kept their defense line at the back tight. We need some strategy to break through this.

Anyway, the game was conducted by the crazy 8 and I witnessed the beautiful long goals and the dribble goals.
I do not have best tactics to beat them but I bet you do. I have to say we will be a bit different next time.
here is the special mention for Gilla. Thanks for coming to see the game at the last minutes. It was great to spend time at Belgium beer cafe before the massive weekend.

…

I have an announcement that we have been fighting together almost last one decade and we had the celebration event 10th April 2010. (Wait the pictures to be uploaded)
Thank you very much my brother Nannas. We have fought together, challenged together, tried our best together to win the games. It is my honor to share these moments with you.

MATCH REPORT 100225

March 3, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

Game: NANNAS vs Esperanza

Lost 1:4

DC, RH, TH, AW, TW(1), TK(MOM)

The night was started from watching a motivational video clip brought by the coach.

The video was probably created somewhere in Europe with a most deluxe TV show stage with many of frying cams.
There was a really toll man in black tuxedo at the middle of the big band, singing smooth and well. We were wondering who is the guy… then some one screamed “He must be Dolph Lundgren!”
Yes, Ivan Drago is now singer. I could not believe what I saw but I should have known that the Karate champion who entered MIT should be able to do other things. He is well known actor. of cource He can sing well and dance well.

What impressed me most was that he moved to the side of the stage in the middle of the show. then he started chopping wood plates and massive ice slates by his hand. Go Dolph! All of them are in the total choreographed way. Now I can believe he is Ivan Drago. Who else can chop the things without tools? Mmm.. his Karate chops shivers me.

I think the point is that we should play the game like “float like butterfly sting like bee” … may be no… it is from by Muhammad Ali…..
Well, we should have some accents or contrast in our show. We should try some innovative skills and tricky moves at the start then finishing off by the good old most reliable signature attacks. 　

Anyway, the game was against the Esperanza which is now our nemesis from the last division. Remember that we are getting better and better against this fast paced team. The special mention for the captain to sacrifice his leg to keep us brown. We will see the better result next time. It was a great goal TW. I liked the way he scored the goal real quick just after we lost a goal.

AW took us to the fancy Mexican bar in the city. Very tasty beers and nice food!

MATCH REPORT 100218

February 24, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

Game: NANNAS vs Hyderoos

Lost 4:6

JH(1), CG(2), RH, TH, AW, TW, TK(1)(MOM)

Not one but two goalie goals. (quoting from funky nanna)
This happens so often recently. I have been wondering how we play our games?? Do we play some kind of new long range scoring soccer?
Are we trying to get some lucky goals? The answer is No…

It only happens when our dedication, the concentration and the pressure are grater than the opponent’s one. The energy suppresses the whole court and you feel the strong wind is blowing you from your back. We played the first half very well in Nannas way.

Good old Hyderoos which has been staying in this division is not ranked as low. They are tough and some of them have good foot skills to dominate the middle court. We challenged them the last half but the energy was not same as the first half.

You remember that we were fighting against them so many times at the time. We had good wins and bad loss. They have got a little better control this time but it would not be same in the next game. DWS Fc, The Annuals, Hyderoos are great measurement for our dedication and concentration.

Take a deep breath…hold the feeling… release it at the next game.

100204 Team Photo at Prudence

February 10, 2010Uncategorizedkondo

100204 Team Photo at Prudence

Match Report 091119

November 24, 2009Uncategorizedkondo

0-0 FF F.C
TH, RH, CB, DC, JH, AW, TW, TK

It was late one 10:40 but F.C did not turn up…. Nannas needed a practice.

A team from top division + a skilled ref (as they were only 4) suggested to play a game against us.
We were fully prepared for the end of the season madness and ready to take down any team so we accepted the offer.

Few things I can report are that Nannas had great skills to take the opponent’s balls in 1 on 1 situation. Plus, we had a couple of nicest fast goals supported by double cross passes. The first half was tough but I saw the best goals based on our team work at the second half.

The golden combination (2 pass + 1 goal made by 3 nannas) must be the key to get more scores regardless who against us.

Match Report 091029

November 4, 2009Uncategorizedkondo

3-1 loss VS Esperanza
TH, RH, CB(1), DC, CG (GK MOM), JH, AW, TW(MOM), TK(MOM)

Every possible Nannas in Town turned up to secure the position. Yep we were at the top of the ladder. The night, we faced the team, the second of the ladder. So it started very tight as you can imagine.

The opponent had a great power. They were running well, shooting well, goalie throwing the ball deep and taking the good lucks. The first half, CB got a long solid goal at the beginning and secured our lead. So it was good start even the score ended up 1-1. The second half, the opponent was chasing us like a hell hound then we had some defensive moments. CG saved quite few goals (jumping one hand slap etc) and they squeezed in 2 goals while we were trying to shift the offensive form.

You know all Nannas, we are still at the top of the ladder and win this week. then a week after, we will play against Esperanza again.

MATCH REPORT 090827

September 2, 2009Uncategorizedkondo

Match Report 090716

July 22, 2009Uncategorizedkondo

vs D W S Fc
4-6 loss
DC 2, JH 1, RH, TW, TK 1 (GK MOM)

The tight five. What has happened after the annual poker night? Are you there?

Where is your anger? where is your focus? Where is your commitment? The victory needs all of your dedications. This night was again sweet and bitter. The night was originally organised as limited nannas special dinner out by the striker. Did the limitation break your heart? NOoooo. Nannas will 100% take care all of us as an unit in any circumstance. whoever gets a table, he gets a table for all of us. I trust that Nannas never ever waste the other Nanna’s ammunitions. (except Poker nights) It is very clear. I am sure that it will come with great unexpected deals plus the taste of victory in next time. We can not get the taste of the victory without your attendance. OK now I am back to the game report .

I think that the opponent is new face. They are fast and strong. The style of the players reminds me our style bit… The difference was that we have better firepower. Well why did we loose? That was the mystery. The game started from a loss of the goal again. We had good comeback at the first half. I scored first goal from my goalie throwing. Tao was running amazing tight even he had cold. Very sharp pass from Jim to Dan and his solid goal. then magic long range goal of Jim. We did well and score was 3-3 at the middle.

We had a lot of great cross passes to the sweet spots (just in front of the goal). We had a lot of shots. Captain’s heading shot was only 2inch away from the goal. Ah It was a good close game. All of us tried to grub the winning. So tight and focused. We were almost there.

Anyway, I have a big announcement for this night. I have got the first MOM from the new MOM voter! Have you seen that? You will see that soon. A massive respect for our Captain.
It is an extraordinary art piece.

Match Report 090716

July 22, 2009Uncategorizedkondo

vs D W S Fc
4-6 loss
DC 2, JH 1, RH, TW, TK 1 (GK MOM)

The tight five. What has happened after the annual poker night? Are you there?

Match Report 090702

July 8, 2009Uncategorizedkondo

vs
3-3 draw to Vagabundos Da Praia
CB, DC 1, JH 1, RH, TH, AW, TW1, TK (GK MOM)

This draw was tough.

The night started good happy vibe. All Nannas came up with the smiley face “What could happen in this week end? Well, anything could happen! “. It was for the coming up Nannas annual poker event and the glory. The 8 attendance were very organised and willing to this game and the game at the weekend.

The game started from a loss of the goal. Even the opponent was leading a score entire game, we were playing in the front and giving a lot of shots. We had quite few great cross passes, good long kicks and bad long kicks. The night seemed all player were not managing their positions well so that we call it sloppy 8. I think that we will need to fix the position better when we have the sloppy 8 next time. Even tho we were chasing the score up, we played in the front and middle well and there were greatest moments in the game. The long range kicker JH had the sharp sidewinder goal in the first half. Then we came tight again at the last half. The striker DC scored a solid goal to lift us up. Then TW kicked beautiful goal from the distance around last 1-2min.

I felt so good when we got the last goal to be draw but the feeling after the game was bitter and sour. I will read C.O.D.E and you will read the C.O.D.E. I know we could have another winning goal in last 15 sec like the game in mid May. We should remember the game we played against them.

Ps. We had nice hot chips and beer at Argy Bargy in Balaclava with smooth tunes from Mr Gilla. All we discussed was coming up poker night. Bitter and sweet …

match report 090528

June 2, 2009Uncategorizedkondo

Score: 5-4
AW, CB(2), DC(2), JH(1), TH, TW, TK(GK mom)

The mighty fighting Nannas is back. repeat Nannas is back again!
We did well against the skilled opponent this night.

The first half:
The game started CB’s first goal. I have special/best mention to his dedication which I will talk later.

Everything was happening very speedy but smoothly for us. We were leading the game as TW and JH was dominating the center area,
AW was passing so many great balls to stay us in offense side, TH was keeping us tighter than ever. There were a lot of comments from the coach to everyone this night.

OK, our second goal just happened in the middle of first half. After overthrowing my ball, TW picked it up quickly from their defense and passed it to DC then the striker kicked it in the top of the corner. All happened in 4 seconds. It was beautiful.

The opponent was chasing us tight. I saved a couple of good goals but the score came to 2-2.

The second half:
It turned out as unexpected heat after losing 2 goal. At the first 10 minutes, both side kept shooting a lot of goals and they scored 2 in row. The score went down to 2-4. This was bad. We were in the position to recover 3 goals without losing anything in 8 min. I know it was not the first time for us to be in the position. All of soccer players know how tight it could be…

Then our third goal brought the hope to us. After defensing their conner kicks and more goals (special mention to CB to stop 2 crucial moments here ), the combination of TW and DC scored a long “AIM-9 sidewinder” style goal to the end of the left conner. 2 defenses and the goalie could not move.

Following that JH had another powerful long goal which penetrated the double handed block of the goalie. The ball pushed out the hands and hit his arm & shoulder then bounced into the goal. It was memorable goal.

As you can imagine after 4-4, all went very exciting!! At the end, CB finished off the heat by scoring the goal just 15 seconds before the game finished. It was nice smile CB!!

After the match:
JH took us to our old prudence bar. It was happy night talking about the coming up beachbox heat

MatchReport 090409 (4 of 4)

April 15, 2009Uncategorizedkondo

6-8 Vs Los Pitufos

4 reports and a picture are up! This looks beautiful. Don’t you think? AND It was awesome news Tao. Moving into northside! It will be the party time again. I really liked the tone you called us (good 8 years ago) as “Welcome party animals” when we stepped into your house in ST Kilda (with boxes of Beverage).

This Easter weekend started so messy as all of us mentioned. The opponent missing 1 and ref was ten min late + allowing opponent to add player.

So the game started in chaos but I did have a good feeling as I like the feeling “storm in a tea cup” and curious to see how this combination works. At the first half, both of the teams started sloppy but as you can see the numbers of the goals, there were a lot of good kicks happening in both end.

special mentions:
I saw Tao’s first goal stuck in the right edge of the Goal from 5m away. Unstoppable goal. I want to see it in every game.
Gilla was obviously performed as the best stopper. Pitufos had good skills of goals but it did not work for him. He saved at least 3 unreal goals and even scored our goal (not surprised).
James conducted our moves and dominated the field so many moments. Sharps pass and tight diffence.
Guido shown us the great Brazilian maneuvers to bring the balls always in the front.

I think that the game was very even. Unfortunately the opposition had 2 more at the last few minutes so we will fire more goals in the next game. I remember that all of us talking about “MORE SHOTS” in every half time.

Play aggressive for the semi final. Best run!