Thursday, July 31, 2008

1st Youth League match

As we've mentioned in the previous post that Team Republic's women soccer team was up against their sparring counterparts, U-19. Last night, they were decked out in their 2nd blue strip while Team Republic was decked out in their new green tops with black shorts and black socks.

The team got defeated in their first match, losing 0-6 but nevertheless, the Team Republic fighting spirit will never cease! Next up, the team faces Sporting Westlake FC.

Kick off time: 5pm
Venue:
Team Republic's Astro Turf @ Sports Complex

Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Let the Heat burn!

Remember the Youth League? Today the team will be having their very first Youth League match up against the U-19 team.

Kick off time: 7pm
Venue: Team Republic's Astro Turf @ Sports Complex

The team will be geared up in their school colors of Green top and white shorts while the U-19s will be geared in their usual red and white attire! It's about an hour and 10 minutes before the match...!

More to come...

Monday, July 28, 2008

Off to the hoops and rings!

Just right after training last Friday, the team went to catch their fellow Team Republic Women's Basketball team in their finals for the POL-ITE! It was down to win it or get third. The Women's basketball team faced off with the strong ITE and came back 3 times to equalize the score, it was whoa, just fantastic and indeed, the Team Republic fight-back spirit. It was a very highly anticipated game, with plenty of free throws given, plenty of fouls and plenty of non-stop cheering and blowing of air-horns from fans from both sides. One could have gone deaf with those loud air-horns!

The soccer girls definitely took time out to watch and cheer on their fellow counterparts, hoping they'd retain the title and win it on home ground but unfortunately, they fell short and lost by 4 points. So this year's champion is ITE and Team Republic's women basketball team finished 3rd.

Here we see Jacqueline of Team Republic in blue up against her opponent.

Once again,

Congratulations to the team for putting up such a good fight and show for the match!
The team with Guest-of-Honor Mr Ang and their dear Advisor, Mr Gary Su on the right.

Monday, July 14, 2008

Friendlies and rest

Today marks the 2nd day of the 3 and a half days of break from training for the team.

They had a friendly last Saturday against one of the better ITE teams, ITE Simei and lost out 1-4. Shasha got the equalizing goal in the 21st minute before ITE Simei replied within minutes and added in another 2, 1 coming in in the latter first half and the last one in the second half. Team Republic had many chances and were close on many occasions but were just unfortunate. But nonetheless, the team's play is definitely getting better as the weeks go by. Most players will still be rotated around to play in various positions as coach Faz is trying to get each player to be versatile.

As for this week, training for the team will resume only on Wednesday and below is the schedule for the week:

Wednesday & Friday: Training
Saturday : Friendly with NTU, 1600h.

Also, the team will be participating in their first ever major tournament (other than the annual POL-ITE) , the Women's Youth League in the latter part of this month, about 2 weeks from now! First up, they will be facing the 'B' team of Arion Women FC on the 26th July over at Ngee Ann Polytechnic.

Let's hope this tournament will help the team in preparation for their annual POL-ITE as the team aims to finish top 3 this time!