Looking for a light

Just back from day 1 of camp, today has been a realli tiring day, in more ways than one. Lots of the girls were not doing too well, wat with pains and headaches and sprains and all dat, hope the sports psyche course I'm taking soon will teach me more about this, cos I realli think its more mental than anything. She Fong went totally psycho on me too. Sheesh.

Training was fine, I think quite well paced, and I'm glad that most of the girls are showing improvement in their ball control. But to me more than anything else seeing the girls studying and eating dinner together is priceless. And moments ago, had a great surprise when TX msged me and asked me what she should improve on. It realli is a coaches pleasure when these things happen, its just as great as scoring a goal and winning a match.

Had a great talk with the girls during dinner, about certain school stuff which I shan't say here JUST IN CASE. But I'm sad at the situation, not taking any sides, but I realli understood how the girls felt at this issue, cos I felt the same when I first entered VJ, only to a different party, just dat now, the tables have turned, and something which I have always treasured and protected is no longer what it used to be. Sound so cryptic rite? Well lets just leave it at that then.

Tom is gonna be another realli shag day for me, what wif a fully slotted lunch period which will not give me any respite from the camp. Sigh. But realli lar, people sometimes ask me why the heck I'm doing all this, and for nothing? Well its never for nothing.

Sure money is spent getting to and fro school and time is spent teaching stuff on the field. But when Wai Yen said to me today, that she could feel the team unity and that training was fun again, I smiled to myself, knowing that as tired as I feel now, and all the dollars and minutes I have spent wif the team has been worth it.

I think this goes for anything else in life, such as the family I have and the r'ship I share wif Uni, no matter how hard things are, when something even minutely good happens, I think to myself that its all worth it.

To the girls reading this, this is the current standings after tabulation.

After Run

Cruyff - 100
Charlton - 70
Garrincha - 60 + 50 bonus
Pele - 55

Garrincha wins an extra 50 pts for coming in first as a team!

After Small Sided Games (Cumulative)

Garrincha - 120 pts
Cruyff - 110 pts
Pele - 85 pts
Charlton - 80 pts

Its so close! And more points up for grabs tom! Realli a lot lot more.

Tired but fulfilled.

Out.

posted by Me @ 10:38 PM