Catholic High School meets Victoria School in the semi-final today, of which the winner will proceed to face Northland Secondary School on Friday after their 4-1 win over Coral Secondary School in the earlier match. The boys needed no further reminding of the magnitude of today’s game and having prepared well, they were all confident and raring to go. Victoria School had qualified by virtue of their superior goal difference from the quarter-finals and they will definitely be a tough and worthy opponent.
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Both ‘B’ and ‘C’ Division will be taking part in their first ever inter-school tournament.
But when a Barcelona player wins the ball, he doesn’t try for a splitting pass. The club’s attitude is: he has won the ball, that’s a wonderful achievement, and he doesn’t need to do anything else special. All he should do is slot the ball simply to the nearest teammate. Barcelona’s logic is that in winning the ball, the guy has typically forfeited his vision of the field. So he is the worst-placed player to hit a telling ball.
Even this man’s claim that “I knew about football, I could do the on-pitch things” is dubious. Does Rijkaard, or Diego Maradona, know more about football than Jose Mourinho, whose total experience as a player was a few minutes in Belenenses reserves? Did Keane’s knack for geeing up teammates on the field translate once he had become a jockey?