Dear All,
I messed up with my numbering, I thought I had done 7 for the month but turns out I did 8. So this one will be a bumper final one of the month issue!
Well I played my first competitive game for Soccer (after all I do play for a US company) and it was tough. I was running late and got lost on the way so I missed the warm up before the game, and so I was on the sub-bench, however to be honest I expected to be on the sub bench, as the starting defence is quite strong, so its hard to break into, anyway I was warming up on the sidelines, and the right midfielder felt tired, so I was told to come on for him, I was shitting myself, as you need a lot of pace to be in midfield generally or at least stamina, and as im on the right I need extra pace, anyway as I now have a natural instinct to defend, I was playing more of a right-wing back. My first few touches were ok, a ill shaky but ok. Each half was 30 mins, and I came on around 20-25mins of the first half. At halftime I told the manager, that I think I should go back as sub and wait for a defender to come off, but he told me im doing fine and to stay on. So with a lil confidence boost I started the second half, we were losing 1-0 at this point, (the scored when I wasn't on the pitch!) however I intercepted a pass in the middle of the pitch and it fell to one of our players who put through another of our players and we scored to go 1-1. Then we got another shortly after to make it 2-1. Then what I feel my best moment of the game came, the right back passed it to me, and I flicked it up and there was a guy coming to me on my side and from behind, and I flicked it over their head to our striker who was pretty much on his own with the goalkeeper, but he missed it, if it had gone in I would have been a legend! Made me so frustrated how my performance really does correlate with the rest of the team, like the saying their is no I in team. Anyway I played the whole of the second half, and we conceded 2 late goals, and lost the game 3-2, I have to say that they deserved it, as they did out-play us for most of the first half, and had more chances on goal. I spoke to the manager, saying next time I preferred to go Centre back or right back as I don't have the energy for mid-field not just yet anyway! Oh and i forgot something else, in the game some guy did a high tackle on me, and because im so used to playing 'ghettoo/street' football i jus played on, but the Ref blew his whistle for a foul, i forgot about the whole ref thing, but made me realise next time im going to be like Didlier Nigobra and jus fall all over the pitch when i get tackeled, what a difference the ref makes! I played football on sunday as well, in training, and i had a awesome game, i havent scored many goals for a long time, and i seriously lacked belief in my scoring ability but i was back to my glorious best, especially as i intercepted a ball and scored from my own half! I still wouldnt want to play in attack jus yet, but with the game against Shell tonight, u never know!
So the world of current affairs, well I have been telling people I would talk about it and I will but not as in depth as I would like to, as its quite old now. Well its the whole Somalia and Ethiopian battle against the Islamists, I think its ridiculous how a make-shift government that only exists because of western backing, allows a army from another country and destroy its own citizens. The attacks on the Islamists also largely hit civilian areas, when will the US learn, their PR (check out the BBC world poll) is getting destroyed and because they get involved in things that are clearly their biggest problem. To be honest im not really on the side of the Islamists as from some reports it seemed like they were the Taliban, and after learning of how oppressive they were I began to dislike them, In a ideal world the militants from both sides, the Ethiopians and the islamists or taleban and us army destroy each other, and allow all the chilled out people of the world, so jus enjoy their lives, because as long as one is dominant the world will not be safe.
It feels like the West or US is winning its battle with Islamic Militancy, from what I read, In the South of the Philippines, the group Abu Sayyaf, is being destroyed with philipeno troops backed by US ones, the Islamists retreated, The Lebanese government is trying to win back control of Hezbollah, The Fatah Party is over-riding Hamas right to govern, and Pakistan is attacking the Mountain areas to sort it all out. It seems like apart from Iraq, American is achieving its aims, and whilst American concentrates on all this, it allows China, Russia and India to become rival superpowers, China managed to achieve over 10% economic growth this year,and will soon have more internet users than USA, its clear that they will be a superpower. As with Russia with its vast energy supplies and the ever increasing dependency on it by the EU and Asia means Russia will generate vast sums of money and therefore increase its military mite especially considering the history it has with China and especially with USA. India is more difficult to assess, i mean they have frosty relations with China that is only starting to warm up, they do have good releation with USA and especially Russia, however due to its mixed relgious populoution, and extreme poverty, disputes with Pakistan, I dont think India will be able to compete with the other three but play a role like that of Japan, or UK,France,Germany and potentially Brazil. Its intresting how population sizes are becoming increasingly important, Brazil the most populous country in South America, Germany in the EU, then China,India and USA with the largest populations in that order, you would think though those countries have more workers, they still have to provide and pay more people. I think the only country really to adapt to large populations and achieve quality of life significantly is China, where its helped move around 300-400 million people out of poverty over the last 20 years. Its a phenomenal stat, and something they should be proud of.
There has been continuing fighting over the weekend between Hamas and Fatah, which is jus plain ridiciulous, i mean its not like they have enough to worry about yet fighting amonst each other, it jus saddens me sectarian violence, be in it Iraq, Ireland, Turkey or Palestine. Its a shame when people who would normally consider themselves brothers or sisters, end up killing each other because of the differences between em, its such a shame and i really dont want to go into it as its really upsetting.
Aneway im off now, got to get ready for the big game, however I will be back very soon(i promise!)
Adios
Asif
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