21/03/09 - On that particular day.....

The National team prospects has a friendly game with the Kensei last Saturday at Kensei's home field in Jerudong. It was a game that I should forget fast. The coach was really upset because I displayed bad plays, well I caught the ball but I threw bad. Well my reason that day was initially because I was wearing my new adidas metal cleats. I was wearing it at first was to break in the shoes, unlucky for me I didnt have time to change it before the warm-up play. As I'm not used to wearing one, my footwork was really changed as we were playing on grass diamond.

As I was driving home, alone, I was saying to myself that I should forget that game fast, instead my mind just wandering, wanted to analyis what actually went wrong, apart from that I'm not used to wear metal cleats. Well I thought I found some mistakes.

One was, I wasn't respect the opposing team enough. Don't get me wrong, what I meant was I did respect them but less than I respected my team, not because I was playing with the national team prospects, but because we trained hard everyday. I always reminded myself that I am not supposed to over respecting the opponent/s, but on that particular day, I didn't respect them enough. My mental part of the game wasnt ready, and I was not aware of that.

My second mistake was, I think because I tried very hard to impress the coach and my team mates. Well I think I've mentioned this in my previous post. I should have tried hard to impress myself more than others. I always did this mistake, which will always affected me, my game and my team mates, and on that particular day, the coach was very upset and the whole team were bombarded by the coach. A team mate tried to convince me that it wasnt entirely my fault, some of us did some or less mistakes too, but that wont cheer me up, because I knew that I didnt play well on that particular day.

For the Kensei, they played that well that day, and one particular guy that caught my intention was this guy that I knew, one of the infielders. He played well and I think he has improved his skills. I dont want to mention name here, I just hope he knew, and would like to congratulate him, and if he work/train hard, he will be a much more better player. By saying that, it doesnt mean that I'm saying I am better than him, if I do. I wont go training, but I was really impressed with his improvents.

We won that game actually, but it was really a game that I should forget and should remember those things that I learned on that particular day.