Futsal
29th November 2008. Futsal Tournament organized by the Malaysian students in Nuremberg, Germany. 20 Teams participated, fighting for 1 title. The winner was, surprise!... team KAHN.
Girls Day Out was held somewhere nearby, on the same day. Everything has a cause and effect. The effect: An unlimited supply of sausages at our event. A staggering 3 ladies came, 2 of them were married, the status of the the other one was unknown - Single, Not Available, It's Complicated, Pending - can't tell for sure.
Team Aalen Legends played awesomely well, that was before they all ate the 4 euros Turkish Rice with 1 whole chicken leg. After that, it's suffice to say, they got massacred. Blame the chicken. Team KAHN got lucky this time :)
This is a short entry with short descriptions of the event which was made short for team Aalen Legends by the chicken.
There is a repetitive nature in sports, swimmers and runners doing rounds till they reach the finish line. Jumpers taking turns to jump and footballers kicking and stopping the ball. A few things that i saw repetitively on the previous day :)
-Tying shoes-
-Drop like it's hot-
-Swimming-
A lot of players fell that day, either due to the slippery floor or collision between players. Either way, the players showed us how to play with honour. Everytime a player falls, another will offer a hand to pick him up, despite being a stranger to each other.
I manage to record one incident, where bruno silva presumably hit the guy unintentionally, but it was so hard that the poor dude hit the wall. But bruno, being a gentleman, helped the guy up.
At the end, bruno silva earned a few karma points, scored one goal and Aalen Legends won against the Nike®-dude's team :)
The futsal hall lack one important feature, space for spectators and photographers. No matter where you sit in the hall, chances are, the ball is gonna hit you hard!!! I tried barricading myself behind one of the goal post. Even with all my efforts to shield myself, i got hit 3 times. I grew a new level of appreciation towards football/soccer photographers since then :)
-ball gymnast-
-Team Aalen-
All of the shots in this entry(except for the one above and below)was taken with a Canon 400D + 70-200mm f/4 lens, belonging to this fellow:
He asked me to take pictures of the game as a favor, because he was playing for one the teams. But he managed to take a few shots while i was absent, below are a couple from him :)
-Wrong Goal-
Somehow, his shots were far better than mine, arghhhh - dimming with low self-esteem. Final image of the entry, a personal favourite of mine. It's a rare thing that any of my images includes expression or emotion, so this will be among the handful :)
-Heads over Heels-
Expression of the spectators on the bench after witnessing a guy who fell in front of them and another guy who got a side kick from the previous guy :)
To wrap up, i would just like to congratulate the tournament grand winner, team KAHN and also thanks to the organizers, for making the event possible :) you guys did awesome.
p/s: 1)all images were edited in Adobe Lightroom, yea, no Photoshop
2)just in case anyone is offended by this post, i am sorry. Please contact me if you want any of your images to be removed, thanks :)
