Senior Boys and Girls IISSAC Football Round Up
What a season it has been! Three trophies brought home out of a possible four on the table. Both the boys and girls teams retained their titles as the best teams in Bali and the boys also retained their title as reigning IISSAC champions. It is also worth noting that the boys have now remained unbeaten in all games over a two year span which is some achievement! The last time they were defeated was by Wesley when IISSAC was held at Bali.
The trip to Malang was a brilliant occasion in which both the boys and girls represented themselves and their school well, looking very smart in their batik travel shirts. The boys managed to finish the group stage in 2nd place on goal difference and the girls finished in 3rd place after a shocking decision by the referee to award the opposition a penalty for a handball.
All of our players demonstrated great heart to deal with a 5:30 wake-up call the next morning and have their hotel rooms spick and span and no one forgot anything! In the early morning game the girls were robbed of a place in the semi finals by another atrocious refereeing decision. The referee blew the whistle for a foul thus stopping the game but one girl on the opposing SIS team did not hear the whistle and ran through on goal and scored and the referee decided to allow the goal. This was a bitter pill to swallow but to their credit the girls did not wallow in self pity and instead devoted all their remaining energy to supporting the boys.
The boys won their semi final game against the home team Wesley 1-0 in the final 30 seconds of the game with a scrambled goal from Airlangga Putra Dewa.
The final was against BAIS who the boys previously drew 1-1 with in the opening game. The boys did well not to rise to the aggression of the other team who had their centre back sent off for two bookable offences. Our team showed great poise to control the game from start to finish and emerged victorious with goals from Jacob von Harrach and Airlannga again. It was great to see History repeat itself as we walked away with another IISSAC trophy.
Although biased, I must say that our school showed the best support and were the tightest group. Although small in numbers we outshouted and outcheered any opposing team and are clever enough to come up with inventive chants on the spur of the moment rather than relying on stale and monotonous chants. In addition to always shouting out our team line up with the rest of the team screaming the last name we have invented personalized chants for the Manda Kasims (Kolo and Yaya Toure chant) Anya Lorenzen (Les Toreadors by Bizet) and came up with new lyrics to Wonderwall (…I don’t believe that anyone can be as good as us…because we are Bali) and the Yellow Submarine (We all play for a blue and yellow team). It must also be noted that we walked away with 3 of the 4 trophies available for the banquet games showing that we win most things in a variety of events including tissues in the air!
Both boys and girls were in high spirits on the long bus ride back to the airport and everyone arrived back home in Bali tired with eye-sacks. [Thanks for the pun to end on Raihan!]
Girls team: Boys teams
Khalinda Kieft Alex Bang
Kayla Kieft Nabil Dermawan
Eilzabeth Star James Attwood
Sari Manda Kasim Jacob Bolwell
Isabela Walsh Suel Sudiarsana
Adela Aubuchon Michael Kim
Anya Lorenzen Raihan Woodhouse
Bronte Bardetta Jacob von Harrach
Yasmin Bilen Orlando Lorenzini
Lani Manda Kasim Tristan Moies-Delval
Sasha Moore Airlangga Putra Dewa
Natasha Klee Zack Bardetta
Ralisha Woodhouse
Matthew Wood
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