Round 11 vs Central Utd

Hi, I'll update quickly on the today's game.

We smashed them again in the second round, who had come on 3rd place in ladder before took on us. This team we took on is the richest team in the league and they have so many quality players from Auckland city who is one of the most greatest club in NZ. I think it's the only club in Oceania Japanese soccer fans recognize who they are.

These two teams(Central and Auckland city) have known well each other since ages ago, so Central can import most of players from them. In addition, Auckland city is suppose to be a club in Club world Cup held in Japan in the end of this year as a representative club of Oceania region.
They(central) have some imported players from Spain cuz the coach comes from there.

Anyway, we beated them and we could really dominate the whole game to the end. I think the reason of the win's caused by our combinaton football, which is to alway play as a group on the field. A strong team-work is more important part than individual part in this world.









　さっと試合結果を更新。

　またまたまたまた勝ちました。１－０！！相手は３位のチーム。といってもポイント差は試合前で「９」。今日勝って「１２」になりました。笑
　３位のチームと勝ち点差がこれだけあるということは今どれだけ独走状態かわかると思います。笑

　相手のチームには、今年末に日本であるクラブＷ杯（トヨタカップ）にオセアニア代表でAuckland city FCが出場しますが、その所属選手が半分以上いるチーム。ＮＺ代表も２，３人います。（この前AustraliaとMexicoのフル代表とやったみたい。）
　スペイン人も補強してましたね。うまかった！

　けど終始押し気味に試合を進めて、勝ちきりました。

　いやぁほんま強い！おれも早くあの輪に加わりたいです！復帰は来月初めを目指してます。さぁ明日も追い込むぞぉ！！

Round 10 vs East Coast Bays n Chatham Cup First Round

Hi, bro.

What are you up to now??

We had two important games in last 3 days. One of two was the minor league competition and the other one was the cup tournament launched from today which was the first round for us.
This cup competition has just got started for us. The format of the competition is a tournament in tandem with the normal league, so the cup is finished when we are defeated.
This is a really huge tournament as any teams all over the country who have affiliated with the football association of NZ can compete in the competition.
Its format is similar to such as the Emperor Cup in Japan and FA Cup in England.

Anyway we won these games, but the cup game was not good game for us held today. Our side was so poor, missed too many chances in crossfire to score. I think the reason came from fatigue of each players, but that was a monotonous game.

Last year, our team made through the final for the cup tournament apparently, and also of course we are aiming to get back to the spot and win the league title.

We are so hungry for this two title in the season. I beleave we also have so much potential to make the goals!!　



　ども！！

　ＮＺは先週の土曜から今日まで３連休でした。そしてそのうち試合が２試合”中二日はきついでしょ。けどやらざるをえません。
　ていうのも、今週からカップ戦もリーグと平行されるように行われます。今日がその１回戦（１回戦はシードだったので実質２回戦）でした。相手は２つ下のリーグのチーム。結果は疲れもあったのか噛み合わず、２－１の辛勝でした。
　その前の先週のリーグ戦は６－２の快勝やっただけに、格下に大苦戦。サッカーってわからないスポーツです。

　このカップ戦はトーナメント方式なので負ければ終了。なので勝てばいいんですけどね。カップ戦の規模も非常に大きく、ＮＺのサッカー協会に加入してるクラブがすべて参加して行われます。規模は違うけど日本の天皇杯みたいなモンです。

　実は去年、うちのチームは決勝まで行ったみたい。まぁ負けたらしいが。。笑

　うちはリーグ開幕前の段階で、チームミーティング時にリーグとカップ戦の２冠が目標と口酸っぱく言われてきた。リーグは首位なんで、カップ戦も取れれば最高やね。
　自分はまだ怪我が思わしくなく観戦。もうちょいかかるなぁ・・・。

Rehabilitation

Hi, how are you??

Sorry to procrastinate about the answer of why I haven't played since two weeks ago on last entry.
It's a groin injury what we called Osteitis Pubis which is inflammation of the joint where the pubic bone meets at the front of my pelvis.
Honestly, I've been with this pain since just a year ago when I wan playing in Australia. I think when I first felt the pain on my groins, I didn't completely stop playing because I was in the season at that time, though it's the biggest reason I got this.

In fact, I went back to Japan once last September for a couple of months to have a treatment for it, but I also kept training hard while I was looking after the injury because a physio told me I could train as usual, that's the way we treat something like that, but it resulted in such a bad consequence like this... I mean, the treatment in Japan was no point obviously.
And I had to fly back to New Zealand with it unfortunately and of course I couldn't take any spell for the treatment while I was in Palmerston North. In addition, the new season got started in Auckland as soon as I moved in. Actually, I wanted to keep playing for the team now to the end of the season which is the end of August, but I felt like it was aggregated badly around last month as I felt an intense pain on my both groins when I kicked a ball.
On that day, I drove home with one of my teammate after training and he told me I'd better take some rest until it will be fully recovered.

After that, I thought myself and decided to stop playing completely for care.

I've of course itched to play again, but need to be patience otherwise it can reoccur soon. Our team physio recommended me to rest which is the best form of treatment for this injury.
After come-back, I'll be able to play with a top form and have to be the best player in the team!! I can be for sure!!





前回は先延ばしにしてすみませんでしたぁん！！

　っていうのもまぁ怪我やね！知ってる人もいるかと思うけど、股関節炎です。もうこいつとは丸１年以上の付き合いで、去年日本帰ったときもこいつを治療したくて帰ったんやけど、練習も平行してやってたからちょっとマシになった程度でニュージーランドへ。
　「やばいなぁ。」と思いつつもまだ我慢してたらできる痛みやったから続けてた。ＮＺ来てから、トライアルから始まって登録してその後もなかなか休む時間がなくて、特に左足で蹴るときは激痛やったけど、右足はなんとか使えたので。

　てなことで、オークランドに移ってきてまた新たなシーズンがすぐに始まり、これ終われば休もうなんて考えてたけど甘かった。そこまで耐えてくれなかったね。

　休む前は両足に痛みがきて、ロングキックなんか蹴ろうもんならそりゃ大変。毎回練習のあった夜は疼痛で寝つき悪いし、けどそれでも本当はシーズン最後まで続けようと思ってた。怪我人も多いし、お金も多少なりともらってるから。
　ただ、ある時の練習の帰りに、チームメートの一人から一言。「自分のためにも休んだ方いいと思う」って言われてなんかそこでいきなり気持ちが休むモードに入ってんなぁ。なんでやろ？おっきい決断する時ってこんなもんなの？笑
　
　今はすっきりしてるし、休んでることに後悔はない。むしろプラスに捉えてるし、復帰したら見とけよとおもてる。実際、チームは首位やし周りの選手もみなうまいし、ＮＺでは有名な選手も多い。むしろ今思えばあのコンディションで後半からでも試合出れてたのがビックリなくらい。
　復帰まで２～３か月！！たぶん。笑　なんとかシーズン終盤には万全で戻りたい！万全ならチーム内の競争に勝てる自信はあるし、今は耐えてパワーためときます！！
　

Round 9 vs Hamilton W/drs AFC

Hi, guys!!

We got a dissapointing game on last Saturday recorded our first loss of the season at home. their opening goal kept puttingus on the pressure to the end and stunned us as we cut our own throat.
The goal was like a present from us to them as we made a crucial mistake in the dangerous area to be scored. But we can't blame anyone for the scene. I think we might have been slipping into complacency unconsciously before the game.

We have to shake up ourselves and take the helm of the winning road again.

However, the night after the game, we had a team party had already planned at club house and a rock band that one of my teammate commits was invited us and performed well, but I was thinking that 'we lost the game today though...'

Anyway, I bet u we will recoup for the loss at next round for sure!!





　負けたーーー！！！！！！

　今季初黒星！！前期を全勝で終われず。しかも負けたのは下位チーム。

　上位のライバルに３連勝して、下位に取りこぼす。しかも試合内容も完全にこっちのペースでシュート何本打ったか・・・。前半にうちのミスから一発で失点。あとは亀の甲羅のように下がって守りきられました。負けるときはこんなもんなんかなぁっていう試合。
　みな落ち込んでると思いきや、その晩はクラブハウスでうちのチームメートがプライベートでバンドを組んでてそのライブ！！笑
　
　あと、自分はこの試合と前回の試合は出場していません。てか練習もできてません。いつかは来るだろうとおもてましたが理由はまた書きます。まぁ辛いときですが我慢ですね！



　
　


　
　

　

Round 8 vs Waitakere city FC

Hi,

We could keep the league's top side after beated 10-man opposite side 3-1!!
This game, we gave a gift of the first goal to Waitakere city with a sixth minute opener, but we got a equalizer just before went to halftime. As a rsult, That was pretty important goal for our side to secure the victory because we could restart the game from even and too much mistakes done in the first half was offset by the effective goal.

I think That's the biggest turning point to beat them.

And we struck another two goals to kill the game off and we showed them off a proof who is the currently best team in the league.




試合結果！！

　３－１でまたまた勝利。今季ひさびさに先制されてちょっとヒヤッとしたけど前半終了間際に同点にできたのがでかかったね。
　相手は夏にある１部リーグの「ワイタケレ」でもプレーしてる選手が中心で構成されてる良いチームなだけに勝てたのは大きい。
　
　次節でリーグの半分が終わります。前半戦全勝目指してやっていくだけです！！

Round 6 n 7 vs Three Kings Utd n East Coast Bays

Hi, guys!!

My team has been so strong through this season so far!! We got 21 points in 7 games, meanwhile we haven't dropped any points in the competition. The runner-up have also got 13 points in 7 games, but they are not good enough to catch up with us regarding the bench strength and fortune for a win.

We got two of them for sure and also we beated the runner-up by 2-0 on last game. That game was the most important game for us to win the league title, but we were suppose to lose one of the good defender for suspension from the last game which he got a red card. That was a obviously silly card, anyway..

That's why even if we had had a drew with them, it would have been a benchmark for us because there was still some difference to the team.
We ended up making a clean-sheet in the game, 2-0!!

We are in the pink now!!



　


　ども。試合更新遅れました。って誰も待ってない？？笑

　先週と昨日は、２，３位のチームとの直接対決（ちなみにうちが１位！）だったんですが、なんとこれを２連勝で粉砕！！７戦無敗というか７連勝で勝ち点２１。２位が今勝ち点１３なんでだいぶ差がついてしまってます。

　肝心のわたくしはというと、後半から途中出場ってのが定番化してきてるね。全然負けへんからメンバー全くいじってくれないんでそれが悩みかな。笑

　けどほんまに強い。運もあるし、層も厚いし、昨日の試合もうちのセンターバックが前々節でレッド食らって出場停止やってんけど、２－０で完封したし、やっぱ現代はポリバレントな選手が重宝されますわ。

　やったるぞぃ！！

Round 5 vs Metro FC

Hi, good day, everyone.

We had a only one night game in this season on Friday night at 7pm kick off. It was also a first trip to away side for us in the season. We had been winning 4 home games in a row so far before the game on this Friday, so w were being a bit nervous just before kick off and I felt that everybody was something funny like we seemed to be really hard to concentrate on the game because we got a different routine at away side.

However, we could smash them earier than I expected with 4-1 result. I also played for last 25mins in left wing. I was chasing a ball as hard as I could as I was told by coach, but I should have gone more aggresive to get a score. I really regret about it.

The next game at home agaist second top team on the table would be the most important game for us to win the league title. We might be struggling in the game to dominate, so we have to make sure making a good preparation in the training in next week.





　どうも！

　今週は金曜の夜に今シーズン唯一のナイトゲームで、しかも初のアウェイでの試合。

　今年はホームの試合が開幕から４戦続く変則日程でしたが、ここで負けたら内弁慶になってしまう感がある大事な試合でした。
　しかし快勝！！４－１！！

　これで開幕から負けなしの５連勝で首位キープです。自分も徐々に出場時間が延び始め、信頼も少しずつ得れていると感じてます。チームが調子良いとなかなかメンバー入れ替えてくれないので、チャンスを待ちます。
　来週は現在２位のチームと首位攻防戦！！絶対勝ちますよ！！！

　

Round 3 n 4 vs Onehanga sports n Melville

This is a guick update for the results during Easter holiday.

We had two games with more competitive teams than we've ever played against in this season, but fortunately we defeated the both teams 3-0 and 4-1 by our hard work on the park.
I went on the pitch in second half on both days, but I couldn't make a deep impression to coaches to get a starting spot back for the next game.
Anyway, I'm really happy with these good results because we are now in the top of the table with a maximum point we can get!!





この前のイースターホリデーの間に２試合（中２日）ありました。

　結果は３－０と４－１で勝利。これで開幕からリーグ唯一の４連勝で単独首位！！

　自分は両方とも後半から途中出場でした。今はチームが調子いいので我慢。少ない時間で得点なり何か目に見えるインパクトを残さないといけない！！これを超えればまた成長できると信じてやっていきます！！

　

Bay Olympic SC

Hi, Guys.

Sorry for a late update on my soccer club.

The club is 'Bay Olmypic SC' belongs to Auckland soccer league that is the most competitive league in winter season in NZ.
Actually, I went and join some training sessions for other teams to find who is the best team for me to play for because I didn't wanna regret about my decision. So on that point, I thought this team would be perfect for me because I felt that they tried to work together as hard as posssible for the team and also looked like having a strong team spirit.

At one team meeting, on one day, I joined it and listened to what they were saying at. Every single person were considering seriously on what's the team goal for a whole season, what should we try to do for a win and something like that during about two hours. Everything was to win the league title. That was exactly what I wanted against a team.

I don't really mind even if I can't play constantly in a game because there must be definitely a competition there at high level in this team. It must prompt me to develop myself for sure. I also believe this is the best way to be a better player in short term.
As a matter of course, I have to definitely win the competition and get a starting spot at the end.

And we also receive a lots of help and backup support from the club - for example we are alway provided a light food and some finger foods before game and after training, we can take a cold bath as a recovery session and a hot shower. I know these are tiny things for us, but it helps us a lot.

I have to tell you what is our team goal for this season that is to hold up a trophy after win the league!!






どうも。

　遅くなりましたが、今日は所属チームをご紹介。名前は「Bay olympic」というチームでオークランド地域リーグの１部に所属するクラブ。
　このリーグは今の時期、ＮＺで行われているリーグでは一番レベルが高いリーグ。
　いくつかチームを決める前に他のチームにも練習参加さしてもらったけど、ここが一番練習環境としてしっかりしていたし、何より選手・コーチ全員が優勝に向けて団結していたのが自分にとっては大きかった。
　
　そこで練習参加し、２回目くらいにサインできました。
　
　試合に出るのはもちろんやけど、そこに競争がなければうまくはならないし、例え試合に毎試合出れなくても少しでもレベルの高いところでやりたかったっていうのがあるので選びました。
　今２試合で２連勝して現在首位。まだまだ序盤やけど、前節は８－１で蹴散らしたし自分の判断は間違ってなかったと思ってます。

　このチームはワイタケレUtdともつながりがあるので、活躍できればそこに入団できるチャンスもあると思うし、まだレギュラーは確保できてないけど絶対取ります！！強奪してやります！！！
　
　激しい練習後には必ず簡易の水風呂（疲労回復の為らしいが..）にほり込まれたり、試合前には軽食なども用意してくれたり、チームミーティングが頻繁にあったり（チームパーティもよくある）と、少々出来事が多すぎて「またか..」と思うくらいですが。笑　けどすべては勝つために時間とお金を使ってくれている。

　目指すはリーグ制覇！！やってやります！！！

Round 2 vs Forest Hill Milford

試合速報！！

　今週の試合は、８－１で大勝！！向こうは退場者を２人も出して全く試合にならなかった。同じリーグやけど、結構差があったように思う。
　これで暫定首位です。

　自分は後半、左ＷＧで出場しました。３点くらい決めれるチャンスあったけど、決めれないのが今の実力なんでしょう。
　
　チームは絶好調なんで、負けずにアピールしていきます！！



We smashed at this round by majority of 8 against 1 over Forest Hill sitting on the bottom of the table. They got two crucial red cards in the middle of the game after we scored a couple of goal, and they spoiled the game by themselves.

They were one of the worst team I've ever played agaist for sure because I didn't think they were playing proper football on the park. There is no tactics, no team's goal, even no organisation in their team. The more goals they conceded, the less accuracy and concetration they had. As the result, we could score as many goals as we could. If we had focused on more scoring goal, we could have made more than 10 goals.

Anyway, That was the best game we had so far!! I'm pretty happy!!



　

Round 1 vs Central Utd

Hi, how's going??

Finally, our first game of the 2011 season was kicked off last weekend, and we made a fine start with a dramatic 3-2 victory over Central Utd who is one of the best team in the competition.
I played as one of a central midfielder as a starting line-up with 4-3-3 formation. However, we were obviously a lot nervous that the other side because they had already finished off their first game the week before. This should have been a huge disadvantage for our side. In fact, we were really struggling to control a ball at all situations in first half. It's no exception for me. we ended up 2 points behind in fisrt half.

On the other hand, we could gradually control the game with recovering our composure. We continued to control posession with good movements dominating on all sides. Eventually, we had many chances to recoup a disastrous first half performance and we score 2 goals back by 60mins and we added another important goal afterward.

Unfortunately, I wasn't in second half. I had already been substituded at half time break as I committed nothing in the game. I was so disappointed myself and the coach's decision.
To be honest, I wanted to play a bit more as I'm pretty sure that I'll be getting better that first half I played, but it couldn't help.

I need to change my mind positively for the next game, and start again!!






どうもです。

　いやぁ悔しい！悔しい！！悔しい！！！報告が遅れたのは整理する時間が欲しかったからです。すみません。けどもう切り替わってます、リーグは続いていく、取り返すチャンスは必ずくる！！
　
　結果は３－２で勝ち！！って勝ってんのかいっ！ってツッコミ入れた人多いはず。

　そして自分もスタメンで４－３－３の中盤で出場。結果はよかったけど、自分はまだまだこのチームにフィットしてないのかなと思った。
　これがこのチームでやる自分自身３試合目。しかもコンビを組んだ中盤の選手とは初めて試合でプレーした。

　う～ん、やれる自信はあったんやけど、まだまだ課題は多いし、自分のヘタクソさにヘドが出ました。

　あんまり内容濃く書くとまたイライラしちゃうんで、ここらでやめときます。

　とりあえずこのチームはほんまに思ってた通り良いチームでした。悪いながらも勝ちきれたからね。
　また自分も明日の練習からしっかりやっていきます！！

First round preview

Hi, everybody!!

Finally, Our first match of the season will be kicked off tomorrow midday.

This will be a must win game for the team and myself for sure because we trained as hard as we can for tomorrow through the pre-season period.
The opponent we'll take on had already had one game last weekend and they smashed 5-0 over the rival.
They must be one of the best team in the competiton, but I'm pretty sure that we are as good team as them or more better.

Yesterday night, after training, the starting line-up was announced by coach
and I got one of 11 spots as a mid-fielder.
To be honest, I didn't expect it because I poped in the team in the end of pre-season, which means that I didn't have many oppotunities to make an appeal to the coach in games.

Anyway, I was chosen as a representative player from the team. I also have to seize this opportunity definitely for the future.

MUST WIN!!






どうもです。

　明日はとうとう開幕戦です。ここから９月までまたシーズンの始まり。

　相手はすでに先週１試合消化してます。しかも５－０というスコアで勝ったみたい。優勝候補とも言われてます。ちなみにリーグ運営側からの評価で、自分らは"outsider"いわゆるダークホースみたいです。ほんま失礼な話です。

　そして昨日の練習終わりにスタメン発表！！
　
　そして中盤でスタメンＧＥＴ！！！！！！！！！！色々チーム事情が重なったこともあるけど、プレシーズン途中加入で正直開幕数試合は厳しいと思っていたので、驚きと興奮。
　明日は自分にとってもチームにとってもほんまに大きな試合になります。

　良いプレーはもちろん、絶対勝たないといけない！！

　勝つ！！！！！！！

　
ニュージーランドでサッカー挑戦したい方コチラ　→　ＮＺサッカー挑戦

A quick update about the first game of season.

The game in this weekend is postponed to maybe end of season after rescheduled. The reason why the game was canceled is so stupid. AFF couldn't secure any park to play by the game day.
I've never heard such a ridiculous stuff in my life. I was so disaponinted about this because I had been really looking forward to the game. But even if I critisize what they have done for us so far, I know anything doesn't change.

What I have to do is make adequate preparation for the game of next weekend, which would be our first game of the season.

Anyway, we were provided team gears, which are like team shirts, jacket, pants and bag. These items are suppose to be used when we move to a game site as a team.
My number is 15, but I think I should have chosen a better number like 7 or 10... haha.






　どうもです！！

　今週末の開幕戦についてちょっとお知らせ！！っていうか試合が延期になりました。（ガーーン。。）笑
　
　今日の練習前に監督から話があったんやけど、理由聞いてびっくり。「試合会場がない」！！んなアホな！？あるにはあるらしいが、ピッチ状態がひどいらしく、とても公平な試合になるとは思えないとうちの監督が抗議したみたい。
　楽しみにしてただけにほんま残念。

　あと、今日はチームの移動着一式が支給されました。試合に行く際、チームウェアに身を包んで行くためです。カバンなどももらいました。
　せっかくやる気満々やったのに。。。

　来週末の開幕試合に向けて気持ち切り替えていきます！！

Inner muscle training

Hello, how are you??

Do you have a routine work to do like before go to bed or after work something like that. I of cource have it and do it every single day. That's what we call 'Inner muscle training', which strengthen the core of the body done by most of top footballer in the world.
The leading player to emerge is Yuto Nagatomo who belongs to Inter Milan in serie-A.
I watched some videoes on Youtube that he had worked hard with his own training at home every single day since he became a professional soccer player. Those video clips definitely inspired me to do this like him.

As a matter of course, it's not that easy thing to keep doing everyday because there is a busy day, a tiring day or the day doesn't feel motivated in daily life. At that time, I always encourage myself in some ways to do the training.
Anyway, most important thing is to keep doing it everyday. It would turn into confident to youself and obtain a athlete figure. It also gives you another positive affect in daily training, I think.

Another important thing is not to work hard at the begining of the training. If you do so, you should be getting harder to maintain the workload, so you need to do fine-tuning it by yourself and you should know the amount which you can do. As a result, you can increase the amount gradually, if you can keep doing it.








どうもです！！

　最近トレーニングの一環で毎日続けていることがあります。それは流行りの「体幹トレーニング」。体の内側の筋肉や中心の部分（特に腹筋周り）を鍛えることで、重心の安定につながったり、ブレない体作りの為のトレーニングで、まぁ簡単にいうと筋トレですね。
　毎日欠かさず、このトレーニングに３０～４０分ほどかけてやってます。練習がある日は、終わった後や始まる前にやりますし、休みの日もシャワー浴びる前にやります。

　もちろん、毎回毎回体を追い込むのはきついけど、毎日続けるのが重要やと思う。もう続けて１か月ほど経ちますが、練習がきつい日、忙しい日、気分が乗らない日なんかもあるけど、自分に問いかけて続けてます。
　やっぱり続けていると体つきも変わってくるし、その変化がまた自分にモチベーションを与えてくれる。

　大事なのは、始めた直後に追い込みすぎないこと。そうするとそれが毎日の最低ノルマになってしまうから続けるのが難しくなる。そこは自分で調整して、最初は続けられる量を確実にこなす。時間が経てば鍛えられて、回数も序々に増やしていける。

　通常の練習でも、「練習外で自分は毎日これだけやってるんだ」という自信がつくし、それが良いプレーにつながる。毎日やることで色んなプラス要素が生まれるんじゃないかと最近実感してます。

　今週いよいよ冬のシーズン開幕！！やるしかないです！！！

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vs Waitakere United

Hi, everybody.

I've just got home from game tonight, which took on one of the best team in NZ, Waitakere FC, who is a regular team for Club World Cup called Toyota Cup as an Oceanian champion.
They are still in the season facing play-off at the moment, and the season in our side hasn't started yet, but it's just around the corner.

Anyway, we got a chance to play seriously with this great team tonight fortunately because we are also one of the best team in the league, so they gave us a offer to play as a training match during season to turn up their side.
We were also look forward to playing with them to measure how much can we play as usual.

I came on the pitch at the begining of second half as a mid-fielder. I was honestly nervous before came on, but I think I could play with confident.
Actually we were winning by 3-0 until 60mins's gone, which means that we played excellent, we were obviously dominating the game, but they recouped three goals straight away due to a decrease of movement, means facing fitness problem.
As a result, we got a draw wih them by 3-3. It must result from fitness and lack of communication.
personally, I got some challenges from the game, which is possitive things for me.
Each players in Waitakere side was pretty fast and so quick, especially acceleration between first five meters were formidable. Once I made a wrong decision on the park, I couldn't catch them.

But I was really happy to play with them and that was so fun.

I had an enjoyable game after a long term.






　どうもです。

　今さっき練習試合から帰宅したとこです。相手は今シーズンのＮＺ１部リーグ覇者の「ワイタケレUNITED」！！ＮＺで常に１・２を争う強豪で、トヨタカップ（オセアニア代表）の常連です。向こうはシーズン中（プレーオフ）、こっちはシーズン開幕直前（プレシーズン）の中で練習試合が組まれました。
　
　自分は、後半開始してすぐＭＦとしてプレー。結果からいうと３－３のドローでした。実は自分のチームも結構いいチームらしいのですが、まさかここまで接戦になるとは思わなかったです。笑

　後半途中まで３－０で勝ってましたからね。しかもメンバーもほぼベストやったらしいのでチームとして自信になったのではないかなと。最後は向こうの意地とスーパーゴールなどで自力を発揮された感はありましたが、自分としてもまた一味違うレベルのチームとやれたのは良い経験でした。
　やっぱり今までやってきたチームとはスピード・判断・一瞬のキレが違いましたね。　一歩遅れるともう向こうは５ｍ先ですから。笑　とりあえず早い！！

　まだ加入して２週間ほどですし、まだまだチームとして戦術面や仲間の特徴・連係面でも課題はありましたし、何より試合勘を試合中に必死に取り戻そうとしてました。

　守備面での遅れ、１対１での対応など、あっさり抜かれる場面もあったし、取れる場面を取りきれなかったり、プレーの判断も遅かったりと課題は山ほどありますが、この相手だからこそ見つかったんだと思います。

　チーム内のポジション争いは厳しいですが、本当に良いチームメートがここにはたくさんいるので、そこで信頼を得れるようにやっていくしかないです。

　いやぁ、ひさびさに試合を楽しめました。

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