Glitz 2008

On the 21st May 2008, Republic Polytechnic hosted their very own annual Glitz Awards (which is also known as the Sports Awards) at their very own Theatre of Dreams, the Sports Complex.

Among the list of the night's awardees were 8 of Team Republic's Women Soccer players who were awarded Meritorious Silver, Certificate of Merit and Sports for Good respectively:

Meritorious Silver:
Irna
Dilys
Marjory

Certificate of Merit:
Bernice
Iffa
Ili
Catherine
Nas

RP 'Sports for Good':
Dilys

Also, Marjory was one of the 5 nominees for Female Captain of the Year and in the event, she was crowned Female Captain of the Year! Not to forget the team's 3 coaches who were also awarded for their efforts. Namely Faz, Ahad and Razali, who took much patience in grooming the team!

A team photo for the Glitz Awards night:

and did we mention that "Mcfly" was among us during that night? Well, yes, indeed, they were among us in their all-black and white suit HOWEVER, they are the female version of Mcfly! Perhaps soon, someday they will become the 2nd generation of Mcfly and make it big!

There they are, the "Mcfly"!

So once again, a huge Congratulations to all award winners and hopefully the team soon gets onto the list of Team of The Year for next year's Glitz!

With thanks to Farhana for the photos from the event :)

Hi Monika Staab!

Earlier this evening, the team had an hour and a half of soccer clinic held by the 2007 WWC's Champions, Germany's ex coach, Monika Staab. She is currently working with FIFA, traveling around to do a global development for women's soccer. She's currently here in Singapore, working with the Football Association here to assist in their development in the women's soccer as well. More of her profile can be found here. Though it was quite a brief session, the team sure have enjoyed the fun session. There was the see-who-can-grab-the-most-number-of-bibs game while each move around with their own ball which was the one where everyone enjoyed the most. The session ended with some overlap shooting and a 4 v 4.

It sure is a good session for the team as well, working back on their basics, which is what a football player needs. Being equipped with the basics for football is the most essential for anyone who wants to play football.

So, as per usual, the team had a team photo together with Monika before she left:
Once again, Thank You Monika for the fun session!

Against the Law

What a way to break the Law under a scorching Sunday afternoon!

If you thought the team really did break some law, you've been fooled! Truth is, the team had a friendly against team Law Society just yesterday, winning it 5-2! The goals came in from four players namely - Yatie who grabbed 2, Shasha, Yi Wen and Bernice. It's good to have the goals pouring in from the midfielders, eh?

It sure was an emphatic win for the team, having won by such a scoreline for the very first time (since the last match of POL-ITE 2007, thrashing newcomers SP 4-1). Despite the fact that it was played on bad combination of bad ground and hot sun, they managed to pull it altogether and make a big win for themselves! The team is sure great, even under the sun! Not to mention that the team has been already training on artificial grass for about a couple of weeks now...

Next up, the team will be having a try-out session come 30th April, Wednesday. Let's see if there will be some good talent spotted!

SLA Fiesta: Pictures Time!

As mentioned, here's how the booth looks like! Half of the soccer field, with all the drawn-up soccer balls, the couple soccer player on each side of the post..

Well, so far into the 2nd day of the SLA Fiesta event, the sport itself has collected a number of guys' name (needless to say) and a few girls' name.




For each girl that comes to the booth to check out the sport group or comes to sign up, they are given a little gift that is kindly and carefully made by the team. Last year was candies and an info-flyer but this year's one is smaller but more interesting! They are given a cloth-peg, in the colors of Republic Polytechnic, together with a drawn up soccer ball and lastly, a small little info piece that is clipped onto it!

It has definitely taken plenty of sacrificed hours from some of the team to do up all this cute little souvenirs but let's hope that it is not thrown away down the bin!

SLA Fiesta

The new year and new term has begun and in recent weeks, the girls have been preparing for the SLA Fiesta, also known as the Student-Life Activities Fiesta. Each Sports/Interest Group are given a booth and they can do whatever they like to their booth, so as to attract the new students to join them.

As for the Soccer girls, they've done up half a soccer field in their booth with the green fragile crease paper for the grass, some cardboard to make up the corner flag poles and goal posts and also raffia strings to make up the goal net! On top of that, to finish it off, the team added some drawn-up soccer balls and a couple soccer player that was placed on the panel as well. It sure did impress some audience though!

More pictures to come!