Here comes the festive!

It's been a month of fasting for all musilms out there and finally, come tomorrow, it is the day where they get to fast no more!

Today or rather these 2 weeks mark the preparations for the great festive, where there is family and friends visiting from house to house, collection and the giving of green packets take place. Not to forget the baking and cooking of all the yummilcious food and cookies and kuihs to feed the mouth/s! All that delicious water-dripping food...

This whole upcoming October month will definitely be a very hectic month for the team, while they have 2 days off training for festive celebration or (just break time for the non-musilms). On Friday, the team resumes training for usual preparation for their last Youth League match the following day against Kaki Bukit, before calling it a day for their first ever Youth League participation. Come 13th October will be the annual POL-ITE games involving all polytechnics and 1 combined Institute Technical Education school.

While it has been a year since the last POL-ITE where the team finished fourth, the team is ever more more determined this time round to deliver a medal! It's time to show what the team is made of this 2nd time around!

In the mean time, Team Republic Women's Soccer Team blog would like to wish all musilms out there a Selamat Hari Raya in advance!

Updates and (Academic) Updates

Update scores from the Youth League:

• Team Republic 0 - 7 NYP Graduate Alumni
  
• Team Republic 0 - 6 Singapore American School 'A'
  
• Team Republic 0 - 4 Singapore American School 'B'

Definitely not looking very ideal but with that being said, this is Team Republic's first ever participation the Youth League, which makes it their first ever major competition. There is much more to build up on and learn on the way, so let's go Team Republic!

Off the field, congratulations to both Celine and Dilys for making the honors roll! Well done to both and continue to strive in your results!

Team Republic will face Ang Mo Kio United 'B' in their next match come 13th September at their very own astro turf, 1930h.

Over here, Aileen takes on an SAS 'A' player in the recent game on 30th August.

Pesta Sukan 2008

The team took part in the annual Pesta Sukan 7 a side for the 2nd year running just yesterday. As per usual, the venue took place over at Singapore American School.

The team did pretty well and delivered satisfying results though they were just short of a placing to qualify to the next round. They were grouped with their league rivals and here are the results:

• Sporting Westlake 1 - 1 Republic Polytechnic
• SAS 'A' 0 - 0 Republic Polytechnic
• NTU 3 - 0 Republic Polytechnic
• SAS 'C' 0 - 1 Republic Polytechnic

Well done, Team Republic. Indeed, they have shown some great games there, holding a draw against Sporting Westlake and SAS 'A'. Congratulations to Shasha who grabbed both goals for Team Republic!

Also congratulations to 2007/2008 Premier League champions, Young Women who once again grabbed the title of this year's Pesta Sukan!

and...It's a draw

The team managed to get a point off the game against re-named team Ngee Ann Arion. They were previously known as Ngee Ann Polytechnic but has since revamped the team name. After 90 minutes, the score was at 0-0. This is a good start for the team as they now have a point for themselves!

Let's get the good start going!

Youth League: Updates

Here are the scores from the previous games:

Sporting Westlake 8
Republic Polytechnic 0

National University of Singapore 2
Republic Polytechnic 0


The team did put up a good fight against NUS and could almost put the score to just 1-0 but was unfortunate to have them adding the 2nd goal at the last minute.

Today, the team travels to Clementi Stadium to play their POL-ITE opponent, Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Faz said, "This is like a POL-ITE preview!"

Indeed, a preview and let's go, Team Republic!