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Developments
My
First Team
My elder brothers and I set up our first team, Cilvence,
when I was at the age of 13, with the use of their old team name
and red shirts.
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Teams in Transitional Period
After a few years, we set up another team under the same name
but with new yellow shirts. Unfortunately, the
team was dismissed after three years.
With our endeavour in football, we continued forming new teams
thereafter. A stable squad could not be established during that
period because individual members were not committed enough. Instead
of making uniform for games, we just asked individual players
to put on their own red shirts, the colour of
our favourite teams, e.g. Liverpool, Manchester United, Nottingham
Forest, Arsenal, etc.
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Old
Team
With the introduction of various
young players, currently the core team members, a new and better
team was set up in 1993. There was no formal name for the team,
and they just called it Gary's Team, and
we used the white Parma shirts with our own names
printed on the back of the shirt. We also bought blue shirts for the use in away games one year after the team established.
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In 2006, I decided to re-build
my team and so I made a big change to the squad. The "no
show" players were eliminated and I introduced good quality
players from other teams. Also, I've moved back to the goal line
and I always play in other positions at the last 15 minutes of
each game. Our team name remains as Gary's Team, and we used the white England shirts.
Since the establishment, we have marked a record of 9 wins in a row in January 2009.
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Team
members
The composition of
the team is a mix of my friends, classmates, colleagues and relatives.
So, in addition to enjoying football games, we also consider football
games are some form of social gathering opportunity. We also have
foreign players, mostly from the UK, and they can always improve
our squad and performance. The squad's members have been
kept changing due to the retirement of players and the departure
of foreign players.
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Competitions
To
avoid vigorous games and injuries, my team prefers to play friendly
matches. However, having introduced ambitious players, we joined
two football competitions few years ago and, fortunately,
we won the second runners-up in
one of the competitions.
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