Men, Yong
Song, Wei
Zhang, Wei
Zou, Hao
Kells Park, 2:00pm, Saturday, 10/28
(rain date: 2:00pm, Sunday, 10/29)
UD Chinese Soccer team was set up in the summer 1991. LIU Jinzhi, YU Feng, HU Kai, QI Lei and LI Tong were/are captains. We played 11 home games, and won all except the last one (played last Sunday 8/22, lost to Baltimore team 7:5).
The soccer team has a tradition - a game each year between new students and old students. This year the game will be played between a team called Two-ends and another called Middle. The first team is made up by new students and very old students. The other team consists of students coming between 8/1991 and 8/1993. Everyone is invited to watch the game. Soda, chips, and fruits will be served at the game site. This game is sponsored in part by the Chinese Students and Scholars Association at UD. Please pass this news to all other Chinese. Soccer team also invites all interested players to join it.
Note below that the team Middle is very strong, though there are only 11 regular players there. However, there are many new students will join team Two-ends. If you play a little soccer, please let me (szhang@udel.edu) know. Also there is a net for soccer team. Many ladies joined the net too to listen news there. It is an active mail list. Lots of fun messages posted there. We welcome all to join us. The soccer team needs cheerleader ladies (U Penn, U Michigan, and many other soccer teams always have a large band of cheer ladys with them when playing real games).
This will be third bilateral consecutive game from this summer. Some people suggested regular games between the two teams every other week, but we did not play that much mainly because of the hour and a half drive. The teams tied at 1-1 in the first two games, with each winning at home. In the tournament this summer at Penn. State University, we defeated UMBC by 3-0 in our division. However, in another tournament in Richmond, VA, which UD did not take part in, UMBC played pretty well to become the first runner-up with two new key players. Some players of UD will be absent tomorrow due to various reasons, like bride or something. So this will be a tough game.
This is the first game in this summer. We'd like to play some tournaments like we did in last several years. And we believe with pressure of preparing for the tournaments, we can recover and develop our skill and organization greatly. So far there we did not get any tournament information from nearby (within 5 hour driving). We are looking forward to that.
The following is a report from our captain about the game (missed).
The first ever national grand championship will be held at Columbus, Ohio (Ohio State Campus), in 09/28-29 weekend. An e-mail list has been set up to be grand@cauchy.math.udel.edu. People can join the list by sending a message to chinese@cauchy.math.udel.edu with subject: signon grand.
Udsoccer will not take part in this tournament due to the distance, or lacking enthusiasm. However, some players will play for some other teams individually. At this point of view, udsoccer is not as good as Colombia wild wolf and Baltimore hunter. Many, maybe most of, players in the tournament are currently students. They are as busy as ud-players. And Berkeley is obviously much further away from Columbus, ohio.
For more information, you can contact Mr. Hu Xiong at huxiong@stat.ohio-state.edu or Zhang Shangyou at szhang@math.udel.edu.
The following is the official results from the host, Maryland Hunters
In the past weekend (08/17-08/18), Maryland Hunters Chinese Soccer team hosted the '96 mid-Atlantic Chinese soccer Tournament. Six teams joined the event. They are:
The teams were divided into two groups. Grouping was determined by random on-site draw before the first game. The first and second places in each group would advance to the second day's play-off games. The schedule and results of Day one are as follows:
After the first day, University of Delaware, Maryland Hunters from Group one and Columbia University, Boston Legal Aliens from Group two qualified for the second day's play-off. The results of Day two are as follows:
Semi-final: 9:00AM
Boston Legal Aliens team claimed the championship of the '96 mid-Atlantic Chinese Soccer Tournament. Congratulations to Boston Legal Aliens and all its team members.
Besides the games, the tournament was another big gathering of Chinese soccer lovers and their relatives. Many people met old friends and get to know new ones through the games and the karaoke party. On behalf of the host, the Maryland Hunters, we thank all the teams and individuals for their participation.
Maryland Hunters Chinese Soccer Team
Sorry for my late summary of the tournament in Baltimore over the weekend. I feel that I just recovered both physically and mentally from all the three games we played.
It is fair to say that our team played quite well during the tournament. In the opening game with Maryland Hunters, we defeated the host team by 3:0 (first half: Nie Peng -- 1; second half: Nie Peng -- 1, Chao Han -- 1). We could have scored more if some players did not shoot too wide near the opponent goal. We were in total control of the game, both offense and defense (and mid field). Players from Maryland Hunters seldom had chance to shoot our goal, which was guarded by our new goalier Lan Yun who did an excellent job. Unlike other teams we met later, Maryland Hunters played quite fair, no "little motion" (Xiao3 Dong4 Zhuo4) or other bad techniques which could possible harm our players.
The situation was quite different when we played the second game with New Jersey Stars, which was reasonable since we were tired of the first match and they were fresh. But many players from this team always had some extra "little motion" which our players were not used. Perhaps "gangster soccer" is a better way to define such a game. Even one of our senior player, Jinzhi, who used to calm down our hot temper players, involved a fight with NJS's red-short player. Minutes later, this red-short player came to Jinzhi to apologize! Despite the physical and emotional disadvantages, we defeated New Jersey Stars by 1:0, thanks to Xiao Guo's high kicking goal 10 minutes before the end of the game. Wang Yanong was our goalier in the second half and made several great saves which could be goal for New Jersey team.
After first day's group competition, we were in first place in the group (Maryland Hunters the second, New Jersey Stars the third and out). And as expected, Columbia is the first place in the other group (Boston the second, Virginia the third). For our team and Columbia team, this was quite similar to the situation in Penn State's tournament last year. Will history repeat itself ?
On Sunday morning, after one night rest, we came down to same field where we won two games on previous day to play semifinal game with Boston team. Perhaps we thought too much about how to play with Columbia, we did not make full effort to play with Boston at the beginning. After Boston scored an easy goal in the first two minutes, we started to play seriously. We tied the scored in the before the first halt (Nie Peng's third goal in the tournament). However, we should give credit to Boston team, which drove the longest distance and has the least number of players. Despite our intensifying offense attacks, Boston team never gave up a goal anymore. Boston team also increase the attack, but our substituting goalier Guo Qiao did not allow any ball to pass the goal line.
The game at last went to sudden death overtime. A ball was passed from the right corner to our goal area, goalier Guo Qiao jumped up and caught the ball. But as he landed on the ground, his injury kneel was hurt badly again and the ball was lost on the ground not far away to the goal. Guo Qiao was lying on the ground suffering from the great pain. It was quite obvious that the game should be called to stop, but Maryland referee just let go, as he did for many times during the game when Boston players fault inside the penalty box and other situations. While our players were watching our suffering Guo Qiao, No. 11 of Boston team showed no mercy and came to the ball and kicked into the empty net!
Despite our arguments on the ground that our goalier was injury in the game, the referee stood by his decision: the goal scored by Boston team was valid, our team was out of the final match! Some of our players could not control their emotions and came to the referee to "move hands move legs" (which ruined our team's reputation and should be condemned). I tried to control the situation but failed to stop the fight.
Well, if we took the semifinal game with Boston as serious as the opening game with Maryland, if we had a tactic meeting before semifinal game, ... the result maybe different. But the fact is we lost the game to Boston and Boston defeated Maryland in the final to claim the champion. One thing I learned from the tournament is that we should not take anything for granted, especially for the losing team. Unless we are 3:0 ahead, we should not put less than 100% effort to play. In this tournament, I did not do a good job as the team's captain and I should apologize to all our players.
Life goes on and soccer continues. Tomorrow is still sunshine and we should resume our soccer practices in the afternoon. Let's have fun for playing and talk about how to have more fun in the future tournament.
Last but not least, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the players and their family members for participating and cheering for the game during the tournament. Our team needs such warm hearted support all the time.
Wei Ge
P.S. Boston team's captain just sent an email to all captains of the tournament teams which condemned the fighting of our team with the referee. In order to know how to see the incident from another point of view, I include part of the email here. Please read it and think about what the efforts to other people will be.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------- After all, we also regret and outmost denounce an incident of beating referees that have occurred after Boston scored a sudden death goal against U.of Del.
Whatever the dispute can be in a soccer game, it is wickedly ugly, nakedly uncivilized, that players seek resolution by means of violence. Boston Aliens will, and we propose the rest of you all would, refuse to meet U. of Del. in the future, unless they have shown their manners refined and polished to modern human standard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi folks:
It was nice to get to meet you all. Me and my fellow aliens from Boston hope you all had fun, regardless of the result of your own matches.
Of course, everybody could wish that, had a few little things been different here and there, ( things like: more players for Columbia, less injuries for Boston, no missing penalty kick for NJ Stars, a few less unlucky shots for MD Hunters in the final, cooler & drier weather.... ), for his own team's sake, there could have been a more pleasant result....
It is unfortunate that things don't happen as we wish all the time. But we still could find joy from what we have done.
Profound thanks to all tournament organizers, especially to Mr. You, Liang; Mr. Zhou, Xiaojing; of MD Hunter hosts. They have spent tremendous efforts in organizing this time, and we have all noticed that.
After all, we also regret and outmostly denounce an incident of beating referees that have occurred after Boston scored a sudden death goal against U.of Del.
Whatever the dispute can be in a soccer game, it is wickedly ugly, nakedly uncivilized, that players seek resolution by means of violence. Boston Aliens will, and we propose the rest of you all would, refuse to meet U. of Del. in the future, unless they have shown their manners refined and polished to modern human standard.
We simply have to despise people of violence in a soccer game.
Thanks again, and we hope to see you all soon.
Michael Tang of Boston
Dear captains:
As the current captain of University of Delaware team, I also felt bad about the incident of some of our player hitting the referee and I am here to apologize from our team to the referee: we are sorry for what had happened! As you might know from the our semifinal game, I tried my best to control the situation but things just ran out of control sometimes.
However, I don't think it is appropriate to use this incident to denounce the whole University of Delaware team. Just like it is not appropriate to denounce Boston team because some of their players played dirty tricks and the referee let go which trickled the incident. Should I have to remind you that it was our player who kicked the ball out to stop the game when your player felt down the ground ? Should I have to remind you that it was your player who kicked the "winning" goal while our goalie was suffering great pain and lying down on the ground due to the sudden injury on the kneel ? I personally just don't think your team played civilized and friendly game!
I would like to take this opportunity to thank the organizers for their time and efforts spending on the tournament. Congratulation to Boston Legal Alien Team for the championship. And we, the University of Delaware team, are looking forward to playing civilized and friendly games with all the teams again in the future.
Wei Ge,
Captain of University of Delaware Chinese Team (1996-1997)
Hi, everyone;
Thanks again for your participation of the tournament. We had a lot fun playing and meeting you all and your team members. I think we all see decent sportsmanship from every team although there were some unfortunate incidents during the games. I think we are part of well educated Chinese community in the U.S. which has high quality. We all have the common sense living on harmony. The purpose of this and any other Chinese tournament is always to promote winning spirit, physical fitness and health, brotherhood/friendship and Olympic fair-play through our beloved sports-soccer. The results of any game or incident cannot change the goal. On the other hand, we all condemn bad behavior of anyone in and out our community.
We hope to see you all next time.
IMPORTANT, PLEASE NOTE:
We lost three watches during the tournament. They were used to time the
games and were given to referees from other teams but not returned. They
are TIMEX/IDIGLO; RUMBERG(spelling?) and an unknown brand. Please all
captains ask your team members especially those doing ref. work to see
if they still have these watches. Thanks in advance.
Xiaojing Zhou
Xiaojing Zhou
QSS Group
NOAA/NESDIS
Ph: (301) 763-8211 (O), (410) 418-9467 (H)
Fax: (410) 418-5448 (H)
Email: xzhou@orbit.nesdis.noaa.gov
Hi Everyone.
We (Columbia) would like to take this opportunity to thank the host for their hard work and hospitality. Congratulation to Boston Aliens team. Also, we would like to thank all the captains and players. We had a good time in Baltimore.
There are only two suggestions I would like to make for any future tournaments. First, every player should stay with one team throughout a tournament. This rule has been widely accepted in all the tournament we had attended and I wish everyone team could keep on doing it. Second, we badly need to improve the referee's skill. There were several incidents happened during the games due to referee's mistake and caused unhappiness between two teams. Is it possible to hire some referees from local soccer club for future tournaments? Of course, we need money for that. But, even the organizer could not get sponsors, every team could chip in. This is just a thought. I am looking forward to hearing from you.
Thank you all again. See you all in the next tournament.
Dongming Sun
Columbia University Soccer Team
Addressee: gwei@coastal.udel.edu
Hi there:
I am very happy that I had the chance to play with so many great chinese soccer players, such as yourself and the guy from my hometown, at a place so far away from the place I was born and the place I live now. I strongly believe playing soccer is for fun and friendship. However I also believe in playing within the rules.
I didn't send that message from Boston, and personally I don't agree with some of the language he used. I DO feel hitting the ref. is definitely a wrong thing to do, there is just not reason for doing it. I feel as a team captain, you did your best to control the situation.
As for the so called incident in the game, I don't agree with your assessment that I played a dirty trick in scoring that last goal. I DID nothing illegal in scoring that goal. Every thing I did was within the rules of soccer. After your goalie received our shot, the ball was still in play. I didn't touch him nor did I do anything to cause the injury. When he put the ball down, I reacted on my instinct, that is to kick the ball inside the goal. I feel bad about what happened to your goalie and especially what happened following that, but I did nothing wrong, and nothing can be remotely called dirty. It was just an unfortunate freaky injury, and I am sorry to say this, your goalie is not very familiar with the rules. I was never a dirty player, as people such as your own player Chao Hun, who saw me play for the USTC team, and I am not and will never be one in the future. Playing dirty against the very basic believes of mine in life.
I admire you as a player as well as friend, as I do to many guys on your team. Since my age and new job might not allow me to go to other places to play tournament again, I would be thrilled to play you guys again in Boston. Hopefully this time we can have a good time in and after the game.
Please forward my message to all your players. Thank you very much and it was an honor to play against all of you.
Hongbing
I agree with you fully. Had been in many tournaments before, I had seen some fist fights between players, but this is normal as temper tends to be high in the game time. Referee(s) will have the responsibility to control the situation via punishment(e.g., yellow/red cards). As in most of cases, referee(s) may noy be professional one, and will make mistakes. Every team's captain(s) or leader(s) should address this thoroughly to their players prior o the tournament. Beating referee is unacceptable regardless how valid your reason is. This has been adopted in every sports organization. Our own olympians got screwed by judges many times in Atlanta but you didn't see any one of them to make move to challenge the judge(s). Even the big egoed NBA player had to swallow the penalties put on them because he just headbutted a referee. I agree it gives too much power to the referees but it's the only way to maintain a fair playground at the minimum level.
I would agree with Zhang, Shangyou's point that a kind of ruling committee needs to be established prior to the games. At the minimum, all captains of teams participated in the tournament will be in such a committee, and they should be responsible for their team members' behavior on the field. When such incident, like a fight or a dispute with the referee, the captains from both teams in the game should work together to calm down the situation instead of taking sides. Then it will rely on the ruling committee to resolve any problem issue later, and the game should precede.
I understand to do this will lay quite a big of responsibility on captain(s) of each team, but I think it is an efficient way to make sure the success of any tournament to be held in the future and to prevent/reduce any of the unhappy incident to happen again.
For the benefit of future tournament organizers, how about we draft a basic guidelines on how a tournament can be managed, it will specify codes on how a ruling committee should be formed, what the responsibilities if the captains, and what the punishments are if a team violates the code (such as the team will be banned to participate in tournament for a year, it may sound funny in our level, but if we can get all teams around the country to agree upon this). We certainly have a lot of experienced tournament organizers and participants on this net to contribute their thoughts on this, and I vote for Zhang, Shangyou as our draftee on the guideline.
Thank you for your time,
Tong Zheng
> > Hi,
> As a spectator on the net and a die-hard soccer fan, I just want to > express my personal opinion about the referee-beating incident. I don't > know anything about the incident per se, but I have to say that no matter > what, throwing fists around is always out of line. I think we should > always keep in mind that the main purpose of all the tournaments is to > have fun and promote friendship, competition should come second.
> So, when we get hot on the soccer fields, please try to remind each > other -- don't take the game too seriously. Let's put any bad feelings > behind and have fun!
> Play hard!
> Liu Hui
> U of Michigan
>
Hi Mr. Zhang Shangyou:
Shit, I didn't know there was that much historical resentment between Boston and U.Del.!! Thanks for you history lesson.
Just kidding.
In fact, even if we hold our differences for what had happened, it was merely a dispute from soccer. Let us try to think of us as fellow humans, fellow Chinese, and fellow soccer enthusiasts.
Forget about the insults, the apologies, who did what to whom, who owes this and that to me, my buddies, my ego.
We all love to play soccer, that is what we have in common! And that is what it counts!! We, the Boston Aliens, agree with you on this, that U. Del is a first level team, and we would still like to play a game with you with respect in the future. And you know it, we will again try hard to defeat you.
Peace, guys. Let us not resent. Let us forget and forgive. That way, it is more fun to play soccer.
Regards,
Michael Tang of Boston
If you are an enthusiastic soccer player and think University of Delaware is too far away from soccer action, then you are not alone. Many of our players here in University of Delaware Chinese Soccer Club were in the same mood several years ago when we just came to Newark. The fact is that there has been a Soccer Club here for the last five years and it has been quite active. Currently, we play soccer twice a week, i.e. Wed. from 5:30pm in the field close to the old student center and Sat. from 5:30pm at Kells Park. We would like to welcome you to play with us and have some fun after long hours of study and work. Please call me at the following numbers if you have any questions. Hope to see you in the soccer field.
Wei, Ge
1996-97 Captain of University of Delaware Chinese Soccer Team
Tel:
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1. party time
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From the survey I conducted, Maradona beaten Baggio by a score of 9:1.
Though these two super stars might not play soccer for that high score,
the party day for UDSOCCER is set on Saturday Nov. 30 for certain.
I would like to thank our host Yanong for giving us the choice on party
day (his preferred day is Friday). Party time is set at 6:30pm, OK ?
Please be aware that lateness to the party is not guaranteed to have foods
to eat, contrast to our soccer practice that late comers always have balls
to kick. I don't want to do another survey for exact party time unless
there are more than 10 different voices. Yanong is going to post direction
on the net about how to get to his place (by foot, by boat, by plane, ...)
Now party time and place have been set, let's talk about the most important party contents: food and drink.
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2. party food
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I have said about the rule of potluck party but I would like to repeat
it here: every participant should bring his/her own food to the party
and to share with others. From past experience, party-goers always
have huge stomaches (two or three or four times of their normal size),
especially on that day we may have soccer practice if weather permits.
So make sure to bring ENOUGH food.
I (we?) would also like to see (and eat, of course) a wide variety of good foods at the party. To ensure this, I volunteer to be the food coordinate. I hereby order every participant to inform me what food you want to bring to the party by midnight Tuesday Nov. 26. By doing that, you will have the chance to change your food entry if someone else have already reserved to bring the same item. A big roast turkey with Chinese sauce has been reserved (not by me). Here are some samples of food for the party I could think of:
dumpling (jiao3 zi)
spicy fried noodle (la4 chao3 mian4)
fried rice (chao3 mi3 fan4)
egg rolls (chun1 juan3)
deep-fried bean curd (zha3 dou4 fu4)
roast pork (cha1 shao1 rou4)
fried vegitable (chao3 qin1 cai4)
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3. party drink
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Since we can not make but have to buy drink (especially acolholic drink),
I was thinking that we should buy a large amount of drink together (a keg
or half keg of beer will do) and then share the expense among players, just
like we have spring water during soccer practice. What you guys think ?
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4. party activity
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In addition to the usual party activities such as Ma2 Jiang4 and poker games, is it possible to have other entertament ? I have witnessed a few 'singing stars' in our team, but how could we get Karoke equipment ? Maybe Chao Han should be in charge of that ?
I am still in the recovering process from Saturday's WAR between south and north. So I have excuse for the following bias report (hi, I am from the south anyway).
The soccer practice in Saturday afternoon turned out to be REAL WAR between south and north, just as expected. We could not find good opponent to fight, so we fight each other (dogs bite dog ?). We were trash talking and calling each other's name before the match. South team was referred to Nan2 Man2 (southern barbaric) and north team was referred to Man3 Zou1 Guo2. At first half, despite excellent performance by south team (at least three shots hitting the pole, not count in our practice but could be lethal in a real game), north team was ahead in score (4:1?). Players were devided as:
South team: Xiao Guo,Wenyao,Nie Peng,Qi Lei,Wei Ge,Dajie,Shangyou,Yu Feng North team: Xiaohan,Er Mao,Jianchao,Li Tong,Qingrui,Li Jiao,Ali
Notice that south team have one more player in the first half. But ... Second half, three players from south team had to leave due to other reasons than the loss. Both teams made scores because of larger field with less players. However, north team scored more goals than the south, despite the fact that foreign star player Ali was transfered to south team to make even number of player. In conclusion, north team won the the first south-north battle.
Our family was half of hour late to the party (sorry about that) so I missed the opening ceremony if we ever had. The first thing I noticed was that there were so many people, twenty-three adults and 5 kids, plus 5 later arriving adults (after 9:30pm). To my pleasure, when I walked into Yanong's house, I saw A LOT of food. Someone told me that we could eat for two days, which was true. Well, if everyone is prepared more than he/she could eat, then we sure would be able to feed us twice and more. Thanks to all those players and their spouses for making so much delicious food. After a soccer match, the best thing is to see all these food! For a moment I was thinking that I was in heaven. For later reference, here is the food entries for the party:
Probably due to the guilty feeling of coming late, I tried to catch up with something. Then I made the mistake for chosing Li Jiao as my drinking opponent (another south-north battle). After 8 cups of beer, my head spinned and my eyes blinked. I just idled in the sofa or chair. How come a moment ago I felt I was in heaven and now I was in hell ? I could understand why other big shoots of beer tried to avoid Li Jiao after the party in Shangyou's place in October. From statistic point of view, Li Jiao is the number one drinker in a hundred. And the whole soccer team does not have 30 players. My experience is, don't try to compete with Li Jiao unless you are like Wu3 Song1 who would drink 18 bowls of liquid before fighting the tiger.
The next south-north battle was Gong3 Zhu1. Yanong and Yu Feng represented south, Li Jiao and Qingrui north. I only watched the last three games and south beaten north 2:1 -- the first victory for south of the day! Of course, no north players dared to challenge south players for arm wrestling. You know, at least south team fought, even though the chance for winning is small (like beer drinking). Just mentioning the name of Qi Lei and Shangyou will scare those northern players to death for a match of arm wrestling!
More battles between south and north ? For sure. Soccer rematch (Iron Mike via Holyfield), basketball, volleyball, ping-pong, ...
Party weight watch (all in unit of pound):
It just turned out that the number of pound in net weight gain is the same as the number of dollar for beer. So we will charge one pound per dollar -- just kidding! In fact, I don't know which is a good way to charge for beer and possible soft drinks. How about $2 for every male player and more for heavy drinkers like me and Li Jiao ?
Again, let me take the opportunity to thanks to our host -- Yanong and his family -- for making the party a great success. Thanks also go to all participants who made excellent foods. Special thanks to Xu Ping and his Indonesia friend who came to our party to show their continuing support to soccer our team.
I am looking forward to the next party. Any suggestions concerning about the party are welcome. For instance, Korake to sing and others. Christmas is not too far away ...
From szhang@math.udel.edu Mon Dec 2 12:35:55 1996 To: udsoccer@cauchy.MATH.udel.edu Subject: Sat.'s fun in WAR (more) Content-Length: 2033 X-Lines: 43
Thanks, Wei Jiao, for such a long message! I hope everyone else enjoys the message as much as I DID!
Just to say a few extra words.
1. Though SOUTH team lost the soccer game to North, South team did control the ball and the game most of time. SOUTH lost 0:3 at the very beginning. All those 3 scores came from fast counter-attacks. Well, in fact, one was shot from middle field, one was passed from middle field over two South players and ErMao run faster than those people could turn around to score, the third one was headed in by Ermao from very far away also over South players' shoulder. I would call it an unluck. As Wei Jiao said, South players had three beautiful shots (within 5 yards), but all on the left goal cone.
2. Wei Jiao is right. North has no competition in Ban1 Shou3 Wan3 (wrist wrestling). They did send their two strongest -- Xiao Han and Li Jiao. What was the result?! They are not even qulified. They can't even compete with any of south players! You know, the four south players: Qi Lei, Wei Jiao, Ya Nong, and me, had to do demo show to north players!
3. After Ermao saw the loss of Ban1 Shou3 Wan3, he tried to revenge by challenging me and Wei Jiao a darting game (Fei1 Biao1). Let me remind you, Ermao did not drink any that evening, while Wei Jiao and me were almost drunk to death. We managed very hard to walk downstairs for the game. Due to alcoholic, we could not see well when playing. But we still taugh ErMao a lession and he was scared away from a real game.
4. North team has surrendered to south on a proposed volleyball game.
5. North team hopes a basketball game would be in their favor. What do you think?
6. By the way, a lot of matches were proposed that night - one is a soccer game between oldies (born before 1965) and the rest kids.
7. Li Jiao, Wei Jiao, Xiao Guo, QingRui and me got home safely after the party at almost 4Am -- it is a miracle! Why do I say that?
Enjoy!
Shangyou
Many players of Maryland Hunter are professionals and are over 30 years old, and they have to drive for about an hour to gather for weekly playings. Their enthusiasm is respectable. This year they started the pratice from the week before last. The relationship between Udsoccer and Maryland Hunter is pretty good and we have games every year.
The soccer playing of UDsoccer was almost not interupted in last Winter due to the good weather. In the last three weeks, we had over 15 guys on Saterday afternoons.
-- 3/17/97
Despite the severe thunderstorm at around 3pm on Saturday, the first interstate game between Delaware and Maryland was not canceled, but postponed about an hour.
The game was played in an almost perfectly friendly way, except for a very minor incident at the end. The 'official' result of the game is 4:3 in favor of Maryland. However, if we count the 'pre-game' (about 10 min) when each team had nine players, then the score should be 4:4 tie.
Well, on the offense side, we had many chances to score but ... On the defense side, we were quite solid. But Maryland team were quite lucky to pick up all our defense small mistakes and to score.
Despite the advantage of being a host which had much much more players (about 19) than the guest (10 plus our occationaly foreign guest Ali), it did not seem that we had the physical advantage. One thing to blame is the substitution system, we never have a clear strategy for that. Another thing to blame is the strenth of the training. Those Maryland players did not seem to be tired for the whole game without any subs.
After the friendly game, all Maryland players and family members and some of our players and family members went to Di Yuan for a friendly dinner.
I would like to thank all those who came for the game, especially to Xiao Guo who refereed the pregame and the first half of the game, and to Lan Yun who refereed the second half of the game.
For those who have nothing to do in the Spring Break, I recomemd that you go to DC. In addition to Japanese Yin1 Hua1, there is an exhibition of Chinese Imperial Treasure in the National Gallery of Art (East Wing).
From gwei@coastal.udel.edu Tue May 20 10:14:33 1997
Subject: Final game schedule
Hi all:
From yesterday's lottery result of Night Pick3 and Night Pick4 of
Delaware, we got valid drawing for the tournament. For your
reference, here is the result of Delaware lottery of Pick3 and
Pick4 on May 19, 1997:
Day Pick3 : 428 Day Pick4: 8444
Night Pick3: 609 Night Pick4: 4657
The combination of Day Pick3 and Pick4 is not valid for the drawing.
However, the combination of Night Pick3 and Pick4 is valid, from
which we have:
T1 -- UPenn (6)
T2 -- Delaware (0)
T3 -- NYWW (9)
T4 -- Tsinghua (4)
T5 -- Maryland
The pre-assigned numbers for each team are:
Delaware -- 0 and 1
Maryland -- 2 and 3
Tsinghua -- 4 and 5
UPenn -- 6 and 7
NYWW -- 8 and 9
So we have the final game schedule as:
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starting time | field A | field B
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Saturday (May 24)
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10:00 | NYWW : Maryland |
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11:00 | | UPenn : Delaware
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2:00 | NYWW : Tsinghua |
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5:00 | Delaware : Tsinghua | UPenn : Maryland *
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Sunday (May 25)
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10:00 | Tsinghua : Maryland |
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11:00 | | Delaware : NYWW
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1:30 | UPenn : Tsinghua |
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4:30 | UPenn : NYWW | Delaware : Maryland
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* indicating that game could play earlier if both teams agree.
Here is a rough map to the soccer fields and nearby fast food
restraraunts:
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Wish all of you have a good time in Delaware!
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From gwei@coastal.udel.edu Sun May 25 23:33:38 1997
Subject: Tournament result
Here is result of Delaware Cup 1997 soccer tournament:
Champion: NYWW (New York Wild Wolf), 2 wins 2 ties 0 loss, 8 points
2nd Place: Tsinghua Veterans , 2 wins 1 tie 1 loss, 7 points
3rd place: Delaware , 2 wins 1 tie 1 loss, 7 points
4th place: Maryland Hunters , 1 wins 2 ties 1 loss, 5 points
5th place: UPenn , 0 win 0 tie 4 loss, 0 points
Detailed scores for each game are:
1. NYWW : Maryland 1:1
2. Delaware : UPenn 4:1
3. NYWW : Tsinghua 3:2
4. Tsinghua : Delaware 4:1
5. Maryland : UPenn 4:0
6. Tsinghua : Maryland 0:0
7. Delaware : NYWW 1:1
8. Tsinghua : UPenn 2:0 *
9. NYWW : UPenn 2:0 *
10. Delaware : Maryland 1:0
* indicates games which were not played.
The host team Delaware would like to thank all participating teams
for coming for the tournament and congratulate to the Championship
team -- NYWW!
-- Wei, Ge
Captain of Delaware Team
From gwei@coastal.udel.edu Wed May 28 23:46:28 1997
To: udsoccer@cauchy.MATH.udel.edu
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It was a great soccer tournament on memorial weekend held here in
Glasgow High School. As the current captain, I am really happy
about our team's performance during the tournament, especially
on second day when we were tied, injury and only had very limited
number of players available.
For those who could not attend the full tournament, here is the
game to game summary based on my own observation.
1. UD : UPenn --- 4:1 (half time 0:1)
This is supposed to be an easy game for us. We beated almost the
same UPenn team by the score of 5:3 with minimum power in last
November in Kells Park. However, it did not seem to be so easy
at the first half. Due to many of our own mistakes, UPenn was
able to score the first goal of the game at very beginning and
held the result to half time. I have to admit that I was quite
fructurated at that time. At the crucial moment of the second
half, Nie Peng did it again by scoring the first goal for UD which
electrified the whole team. After losing several sure-scoring-chances,
Chao Han finally scored the second goal from a corner kick. Now
we were relaxed and UPenn was collapsed. Li Tong dribbled the
ball from mid field all the way to the goal area and then Chao
Han scored that goal. The fourth goal was scored by Dajie
(beauterfully passed by Luo Chao from right corner). Thanks god,
I said to myself, we were finally be ourselves at last. Just
image if we lost to UPenn ...
2. UD : Tsinghua --- 1:4 (half time 0:3)
Tsinghua is a new team to most of our players. We knew that
Tsinghua is the champion for last year's grand tournament. We
were told that they played good soccer and would beat any team
they play. However, in the previous game, Tsinghua just lost
to NYWW by 2:3. At the first 10 minutes, Tsinghua lost three
goals to NYWW. Would history repeat itself when UD play
against Tsinghua ?
At the very beginning of the game, we had a very good chance
of scoring. Jinzhi head the ball just yards from the goal line.
Unfortunately, the ball hit Tsinghua goalie's body and bounced
back. Maybe because the bad luck of not scoring, we made several
fatal mistakes at our own goal areas and Tsinghua team cashed
in our mistakes and scored three goals. It looked like that
history repeat itself but in favor of Tsinghua this time.
Most of the players in Tsinghua team are former University Team
players. Their averaging soccer skill level should be higher
than most teams. But skill alone without good physical
condition is not guanranteed to win the game. After losing
three goals, we seemed to wake up and played quite evenly
against Tsinghua team. In second half, Er Mao scored one
goal for UD by passing Tsinghua's defenders. Tsinghua also
scored one goal in a similar way. We also had several
scoring chances but could not make it happened.
3. UD : NYWW --- 1:1 (half time 0:0)
This is the first game on Sunday. We are the host team and are
supposed to have the advantage of the host team -- unlimited
number of players! Just the opposite, only 13 players showed
up. Due to severe injury, Nie Peng could only watch from the
side line. So we only had one sub for the whole game! One the
other side, NYWW team had about 18 players, with 3 fresh players
just arrived on Sunday. Oh, man, our goal area just like a war
zone which was bombed constantly! The ball was flying up and
down and around the goal poll. Luckily, we were successful
by using the strategy of total defense which was discussed
at Saturday night at Shangyou's place. With the help from
God, we were hanging there with 0:0 almost throughout the
game.
All of the 13 players played on Sunday morning would have
permanent memory for the game. I have never seen our team
to be so united, so high spirit and so tough. Qingrui proved
himself to be the bravest player. He was kicked on the leg,
on the chest, but he kept playing without complaining about
the pain. Zou Hao attacked NYWW forward efficiently, stoping
many of their good scoring chances. Li Tong played the left
inner defender and head out as well as kicked out many
dangerous balls passed by NYWW players from the side or
corner kicks. Using his physical advantage, Qi Lei was
able to block the NYWW's offense outside the forbidden
box. He also head out high balls which are supposed
to be advantage to NYWW team in the past. Goalie Shangyou
made many beauterful saves (except one!) which suprised both
NYWW and our teams. John and Jack run back and forth like
two horses without stop, making NYWW players lack of physical
advantage. Er Mao and Xiao Guo controled the balls in the
mid field and organized counterattack. With 3 and 4 NYWW
defenders around, our forward Jinzhi or Zhang Wei (only
one at the game, one sub) charged into enemy zone without
fear, scaring the hell of NYWW team. Standing on side line
with severe injury, Nie Peng is the foundain of spirit support
to all of us in the field.
About 7 minute to the end of the game, we scored the first
goal by an indirect kick. However, two minute later, NYWW
came back by kicking a long ball to the right up corner of
our net. According to goalie Shangyou, he could have knocked
the ball out but he thought it was outside. When he saw
the ball in the net, he was so upset that he kneeled down
on the ground, yelling and banging both hands on the ground!
It was the first time I saw him so emotional. We were so
close to beat NYWW team and become the champion! So close!
But I am really happy for the result of 1:1. Considering
all the factors in that game, NYWW should have won the game
by a big margin. But we proved to the whole Chinese soccer
world that UD is a tough team, could face any strong team.
We sure make a good reputation with this game!
4. UD : Maryland --- 1:0 (half time 1:0)
After the morning game, we made many phone calls to players
who were missing during lunch time. Two players (Qingrui
and John) who played in the morning game could not make it
in the afternoon game against Maryland due to preassignment
and possible exhausion. However, after some phone calls,
we had several fresh players: Xiaohan, Yu Feng and Li Jiao.
We also had Yanong, Chao Han, Nie Peng and Qian Yuan as
cheerleaders, with Nie Peng played at the very end of the
second half. All morning players were quite moved by these
new fresh blood and we knew that we should be able to beat
Maryland with the momentum of the morning game.
As it turned out, both teams were quite even during the
game, depsite the fact that Maryland team recruited several
good players. Our full defense strategy played in the
morning worked quite well in the afternoon. In the middle
of the first half, Er Mao dribbled the ball on left side
from mid field toward bottom line of Maryland side. He
run and stoped, run and stoped. Maryland defenders
followed him closely but were dared not to attack, in
afraid of being passed. Finally, Er Mao stoped and
looked around, Maryland defenders stoped and looked
at the ball. After 10 seconds of no motion, Er Mao
just kicked the ball high and it hit the far goal poll
and in the net! Amazing, absolutely beauterful! We lead
1:0 at the first half!
Maryland increased offense in the second half. They had
a good chance of scoring when their center forward 'Single
Knife' (Dan1 Dao1) to face goalie Shangyou. However, the
ball was stoped by Shangyou (or his body's crucial part).
We finally won the game with 1:0.
Though from the ranking, we are third place team, we actually
tie the points (2 wins 1 tie and 1 loss) with the second place
team Tsinghua. Since we lost to Tsinghua, we were ranked
behind Tsinghua. Both Tsinghua and UD are only 1 point away
from the first place team. Say if Shangyou knocked out the
scoring ball by NYWW, we could be the champion! As the
current captain of the team, I could not ask more about the
briliant performance of our team in the tournament, especially
the second day when we had the disadvantage of less players.
I would like to thank all of the players and cheerleaders
who came to the game and showed your support UD team. Wish
UD team will have better performance and luck in the future.
From szhang@math.udel.edu Wed May 28 02:31:59 1997
To: soccer_net@cauchy.MATH.udel.edu
Subject: Comments on last tournament
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Hi, there. Just some comments on the last Delaware tournament. I thought
some of you may like to know more about it. If not, please accept my apology
for sending you this message. It is just my personal observation.
0. WEI Ge, Delaware's captain did a lot of work to organize this tournament.
For example, renting the fields, hiring the referees (all games were
refereed and linemaned by local commercial soccer club referees), and
ordering the trophies. (By the way, the 2 big trophies and 20 small
trophies are still here. Maybe we can run another tournament next month?)
Definitely, most players, like me, appreciate his hard work as well as
his great talent in soccer!
1. The Columbia team won the championship. The team is still a strongest
one. The player's physical strength is quite remarkable - as always.
Though it tied with Maryland and Delaware teams, Columbia was definitely
dominated both games. Note that, both times, it caught up from behind
to get 1:1.
2. Last year, after the grand tournament, someone (probably Zhang WD of
Columbia) made the comments that TsingHua would claim the championship
if there is another one this year. I did not think so at that time.
But I think it is true now!
TsingHua team is much much stronger than all Chinese team I saw in USA
after I watched more carefully in this tournament, even when the team
missed WEI Ge (the captain and the most key player in Delaware) and a
few other players this time.
As always, the "disadvantageous" team who plays its second game against
a fresh team would dominate the first part of the game. A fully warmed
up Columbia team surprised TsingHua by 3:0 in first 10 minutes or so!
Tsinghua regretted with a 3:2 loss of the game.
Maybe I shouldn't say so. I suggest Tsinghua should not form the
veteran team any more in future tournaments. The team is too strong.
The other reason is that it takes away key players and "dismisses" many
geographic teams. I mean, for example, if Tsinghua team did not
come to this tournament, we probably would have other three teams to
join, they are NJIT, Virginia, and Boston, just a guess.
By the way, thanks to TsingHua's Jin RC for initiating this tournament
(except he made WEI Ge to do too much work, just kidding).
3. Delaware team was the third place, with 2 wins, 1 tie and a badly
4:1 loss to Tsinghua. Well, for the game against Tsinghua, this time
Tsinghua played a back-to-back game, so it repeated the history of its
first game, in first 20 minutes or so, the score was again,
3:0 but in TsingHua's favor this time (the game ended 4:1).
Delaware is pretty old now, lack of new blood. 5 of all its 6 captains
played this tournament (I am not one). However in the Sunday's games,
Delaware had only 12 and 14 players (both time 11 at starting). Though
the team is pretty weak, it almost claimed the tournament champion.
(I was the goalie, and I changed my mind let a ball pass while I
could easily knock the ball down, because Delaware was in lead of
1:0 against Columbia and it was 5 minutes toward the end. I made
a regrettable wrong decision and the score became 1:1).
4. Maryland is quite strong. It has a lot of good (former) players of other
teams. It tied TsingHua 0:0 and Columbia 1:1, won 4:0 against U Penn.
Before its very last game against Delaware, most people believed
Maryland would the champion. But in the very end of the very last game,
it lost to a point to Delaware, and suddenly became 4th place!
By the way, Maryland and Delaware played full 4 games while Columbia and
Tsinghua played only 3, and U Penn 2. (See the reason below).
5. U Penn is a completely new team with many young faces. The team seems
not experienced and lacking of team work. But in a year or two, the
team could resume its glory of 1990-1993. Anyway, it played its first game
with Delaware pretty well, won the first half 1:0. But toward the
end, Delaware came back with a 4:1 win. Though the team lost badly
on the 2 games first day, the team came back the second day preparing
to win some games. But the referee dismissed its game with TsingHua
because many Penn players had no shinguard. Too bad, at that time,
all other three teams, Delaware, Columbia and Maryland went to
lunch. So they could not borrow shinguard, neither know where to
buy. Therefore, they accept 0:2 loss default score for forfeiting
the game with Tsinghua, and for a later game with Columbia. Because
of this, Columbia and Tsinghua left early without taking the trophies
as the last game between Delaware and Maryland was to play late in
afternoon.
Well, the tournament was really fun. I hope all players have enjoyed it
as much as I do. Really, we had two huge fields and all games played
full 90 minutes. I like this format, 5 teams play round-robin in 2 days.
Finally, I was told that Chinese Embassy in DC will help to organize
a soccer tournament around July 1 to celebrate Hong Kong's return.
Hope we will have fun there!
Enjoy!
ShangYou Zhang __ -- \ _ /__
Math Dept, U of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 __/ /- / ___ __
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From guo@coastal.udel.edu Fri May 30 02:23:31 1997
Subject: Re: Thank you, coach
To: Franklily@aol.com
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What can I say. I am moved by the e-mail. i don't think any UDsoccer player
feels good with the question " you just got this many players as the host".
We play soccer for mainly two reasons, for fun and for win. I prefer the
first. In our weekly games, I hate somebody always argue about the
goals. But these two factors are not extinctly separated. In a
tournament, we have more fun if win, and the fun part is to make up the
right strategy and excute it in the field. We have to endure the pain, be
patient on the bench and give ideas when necessary. As QiLei said, it
was not a tournament for WeiGe himself. If you can't make the game, it
is your reponsbility to inform the team of your absence. We play
soccer because we love to and if somebody does not respect other people's
contribution, he does not deserve our respect.
We have strong support from some soccer lovers to make the tournament
successful, as mensioned by wei ge. With this sopport, we were able to
face up with any tough team. I myself feeled exhausted but happy. I am
sorry I sholud do more for the tournament but I didn't. I will try to
come to the field earlier in our practice (please forgive me if I have
a good excuse). Anyway we will keep playing in the future and
hopefully we will have a good time in the summer.
I am still a little bit emotional. Any comments are welcome.
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Lulin Guo
Center for Applied Coastal Research Tel: (302)831-4332 (office)
Dept. of Civil and Environmental Eng. Fax: (302)831-1228
College of Engineering e-mail: guo@coastal.udel.edu
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
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On Thu, 29 May 1997 Franklily@aol.com wrote:
>
> Guys,
>
> Coach makes himself hero again, by his relentless spirit, conquoring power
> and brilliant skill. But he is the organizor, and the only person taking care
> of all chores
> of this tournament. As Shangyou detailed, as everyone in the field is playing
> ball, he has bo idea how everything has been set up by only one person, our
> coach. I would say how those guys put as starters or substitutes could be
> thinking about the games. When they are absent in the field they are supposed
> to be, is there a single
> thought on mind that the team belongs to ourselves rather than coach
> himself?
> The team needs a good captain but more needs a responsible "everybody". I
> feel shamful when only 10 or 11 people scatter in the vast field. I feel
> shameful when questions from other teams come up like "you've got only these
> people, host"? I feel shameful when coach is wandering around the phone for 2
> hours badly waiting for any hope of those people's availability.
> Maybe we are too late or old to gain coach's capability in soccer field. But
> we do have chances to learn from coach, love and dedication.
>
>
> Qi Lei
>
From gwei@coastal.udel.edu Thu May 29 21:53:53 1997
To: udsoccer@cauchy.MATH.udel.edu, Franklily@aol.com
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As response to Qi Lei's email, I just want to say that the tournament
would not be possible without the support of all of our players. I
did my share of the work and was easily noticed because I was in the
spotlight (whose head reflects more light than mine ?).
I should take this opportunity to reveal works done by others who
were less noticed during the two day tournament.
Shangyou not only gave me advises for organizing soccer tournament
but also involved in setting up game schedule, buying trophies,
looking for referee, and on Saturday morning, came earlier (9:30am)
for paining soccer field line and setting up soccer net. Before
our game with Tsinghua team, he drove to store from the field to
buy 6 large boxes of spring water, each box has 6 gallon of water!
I carried one box yesterday and it was, boys, HEAVY! No wonder
Shangyou was so tired when we played against Tsinghua.
The two beauterful game balls and sunblocks was bought by Chao Han,
under very short notice of mine. He also came to the field earlier
on Saturday to help paint the field and set up the net, as he said
in his mail. When the game ball was kicked out in the long wild
grass outside of the fense, it was Chao Han who went there and
recovered the ball.
Li Tong bought Gatorade drinks, Bengay and lineman flags, also under
very short notice of mine. Xiao Guo was responsible for buying 4
boxes of spring water, each of which contains 3 gallons of water.
Jinzhi and Qi Lei also came earlier before the game and helped
painting the field and setting up net.
Despite finals on Tuesday, Er Mao, Zhang Wei and Zou Hao came to
play or or rally for our team for all four games in the tournament.
I have to admit that I chose a bad time for the tournament since
it was in the final week of University of Delaware, the busiest
time for UD students who are taking classes. After the all the
games, I was so exhausted that I could not do anything on Monday.
I hope that Er Mao, Zhang Wei and Zou Hao did not do too bad
on the finals on Tuesday!
Because the absence of one lineman, we needed player to fill in.
Er Mao and John did lineman for half game each between NYWW
and Maryland in the morning. Li Jiao did lineman for the game
between Tsinghua and NYWW while every of our players (including
me) went home or fast food restraraunt for lunch and break.
Since I drove one Tsinghua player to Wilmington bus station
immediately after our game with Tsinghua, I did not know who
did what to clean up the field after the first day of the
tournament, maybe someone can help me for that ?
On Saturday night, there was a strategy meeting in Shangyou's
place. Xiao Guo, Er Mao, Li Tong, Jinzhi, Wenyao, Qi Lei, Zou
Hao, Shangyou and myself (do I miss anyone in the meeting ?
I was two hour late) discussed game plan for Sunday. As it
turned out, this was the most important meeting for our team in
the tournament. We unified our mind and straighted out the
difference, building the foundation for next day's game.
After Sunday morning's game with NYWW, Qi Lei, Li Tong, Zou
Hao, Shangyou and me went to our lucky place -- Shangyou's house
-- again for lunch, rest and making phone calls. Thanks to
Xiaohan's readiness for coming, thanks to Yanong who not
only would come for rally (he was injuried on Saturday)
but also was able to get Yu Feng. All our morning players
felt some kind of release by knowing that we would have
fresh players in the afternoon. And together we did it
again: beating Maryland team in former tournament!
It has been a pleasure year for me to be the captain of
UD team. Now it is time for our team to elect a new captain.
Think about it and let's settle down this Saturday.
From szhang@math.udel.edu Fri May 30 23:00:09 1997
To: guo@coastal.udel.edu, udsoccer@cauchy.math.udel.edu, wli@math.udel.edu
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Well, the old topic is picked up again.
1. For a "major" tournament, especially locally, if one considers
himself is a member, he would come to field if he can no matter
he gets a chance to play or not.
2. I do not agree that everyone should get at least 20 minutes playing
time each game, suggested by Wli. This can never be the case.
Maybe you would recall that I complained once on net for not having
play time. Remember last year, we had a friendly game with Mayrland,
then 2 games with MBA in the next two Saturdays. I was there early
enough so that I played 20 minutes. Then I volunteered off field
to let other people play - but I stayed out all the rest day.
The first game agsint MBA, I played 5-10 minutes, then I was asked
by Lao Wan to be replaced. I said no, as I was a little frustrated.
But still I went off the field after 10 minutes or so and watched
the rest day again. The third Saturday, it was raining or very cold,
again, I played first few minutes, and could not get back to field
again but had no clothe to keep myself warm. Then, I made a complaint
on net when Er Mao announced a third game on the comeing Saturday.
I have been on the field for every game Delaware played except 3 games
at Yale, 1 friendly game when Rutgers visited us and 1 Maryland
visited us, in the past 6 years. How many minutes do I play in
average each game?! If not taking off the games I was the goalie,
I definitely played less than 10 minutes, or even 5 minutes!
By saying so, I would like to say that the captain, or the captain
off field should have the absolute right to decide who can play,
and how long to play!
3. I do agree that we should let as more people to play as possible.
But it should be well organized. In fact, my opinion has always
been that let more bench players play. They will play more
actively as they know their play time might be short. For example,
Liu Qingrui, Jack, Zou Hao and Hu Wenyao were listed as subs in
Wei Ge's table, but to me, they played extremely well in this
tournament.
(Zou Hao was in the field the whole day first day. But he did not
play a single minute. He made a comment "I am more important off
field than in field. So I stayed out". I thought he was right.
But I realized I was wrong after seeing his performance the
second day.)
4. Who has the right to play tournament games? It is a hard question.
Except those players like Dajie and Jinzhi, local players should
be devided into two groups, team members and non-members. Members
should have right to play, while non-members could get privilege
to play.
5. Then the question would be who are members. We never made it clear
before. I suggest whoever the new captain is start the following
new system. Thos who pay $10 or $20 membership would be initial
members. If one is absent without advanced excuse from the
captain for 5 times within half a year, the person is expelled
from the team. He may join the team again after a month and
pay the inital membership again.
6. Finally, I would like to reiterate Wei Ge's comment on the game
against Columbia. Yes, our team was never so united! Everyone
tried his extreme. I was really moved by our team and its spirit.
I was a little worried knowing Qingrui could not play the last
game on Sunday noon. But I did like Sunday morning's game more
as Saturday's games have more people and more mess, less organized.
However, I do appreciate, I believe many others do too, Yu Feng
driving from Rutgers here after Wei Ge's phone at noon.
Well, this message is getting too long, and it seems not to solve
any problem. Sorry about it. I hope we have a friendly, united and
strong team. I hope we have less verbal abuses in future. I don't
mean friendly jokes. I meant those accusing attacks.
Shangyou
From yufeng@UDel.Edu Mon Jun 2 10:12:37 1997
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Congraduation, Er Mao, our seventh captain!!! Unbelievable, we could
stay together so long.
I am really glad to see so many mails this morning, that is the way
leading us to the next ring.
As many of you said already, the time sub stay in field is long-time
debate in our team. I would agree with shangyou (not because I pulled him
out of field before). Winning is the most most fun for us joining any
tournament, which means we have to let those who could secure win stay in
field longer. However, those people should be decided by a
committee purely based on their performance before the game. If you
want to be a starter, come to practice everytime. For guys
like me, lack of practices and also not in shape, could be sub only.
To be a cheer-leader off field is same important as those fighting for
reputation. Don't forget how happy we were when we were laughing on MD
team after we won, nobody discriminated himself as a player or sub, IT IS
A TEAM WORK.
Let's contribute all our thoughts to the team and aim on the next big
event. I am dreaming to win (not day-time dream).
--
YU, Feng
On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Ge Wei wrote:
>
>
> Hi Guys:
>
>
> Thanks to the support from all of you, I finished my one year term
> of captain and was officially retired yesterday (May 31, 1997).
>
> The new captain, for the season of 1997-98 effetive today, has been
> elected. The new captain has been with us since 1994 when our team
> claimed the championship of Mei Dong Cup Soccer Tournament. The
> new captain has been an active memeber of our team and played major
> role in game strategies. The new captain loves soccer so much that
> he played or stayed for four full games in the last tournament, even
> though he had two finals coming ...
>
> The new captain is Er Mao, a well known player in our team. I and
> those who elected him all believe that he will lead our team to a
> high new level.
>
> Last, I would like to say the following: be a responsible player
> and come to pratices and games ON TIME. The thing that annoyed me
> most as the former captain was that coming to the field on proposed
> time and only saw few players there.
>
>
>
> Besh wish.
>
> -- Wei, Ge
>
>
> P.S. The first fire for the new captain is to fire the title
> of coach. So I have no power of a captain and no respect of
> a coach anymore (:<) ...
>
After the Delaware Cup 1997 soccer tournament, there was a discussion
inside the team on the players' responsibility and on the topic of sub.
The following suggestion is one of the few constrcutive advices.
From xiaohan@UDel.Edu Mon Jun 2 12:44:31 1997
To: "YU, Feng"
Cc: Ge Wei , udsoccer@cauchy.MATH.udel.edu
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On Mon, 2 Jun 1997, YU, Feng wrote:
>
> Congraduation, Er Mao, our seventh captain!!! Unbelievable, we could
> stay together so long.
>
Congradulations, Er Mao. And many many thanks to Wei Ge, you did a
terrific job. However, don't feel empty after retiring from your title.
You will be our lifelong coach anyhow, which will sure keep you busy all
the time.:-) Of course, these thanks should also go to all the
captains since this team started. Without their devoting themselves to the
team, we can't grow this mature and stay this long.
> I am really glad to see so many mails this morning, that is the way
> leading us to the next ring.
>
> As many of you said already, the time sub stay in field is long-time
> debate in our team. I would agree with shangyou (not because I pulled him
> out of field before). Winning is the most most fun for us joining any
> tournament, which means we have to let those who could secure win stay in
> field longer. However, those people should be decided by a
> committee purely based on their performance before the game. If you
> want to be a starter, come to practice everytime. For guys
> like me, lack of practices and also not in shape, could be sub only.
> To be a cheer-leader off field is same important as those fighting for
> reputation. Don't forget how happy we were when we were laughing on MD
> team after we won, nobody discriminated himself as a player or sub, IT IS
> A TEAM WORK.
>
As one of the oldest subs of our team, I hope my thoughts could be a help
to this "long time debate". Lan Wan is right. Playing soccer is mostly
for fun which including winning. Yet to be a team, displine is the most
important thing. That is, come to routine practice, report your absence,
listen to captain's and the tournament committee's decisions, and etc.
However, to be more competitive as a team in the future formal
tournament, subs should be given at least equal playing time during the
informal games with Yang2 Gui3 Zi or other "united teams". Hey, scoring
for this kind of game isn't that important, is it? Well, that me put in
this way, we do need to practice our subs, don't we?
It will be very helpful to briefly discuss some strategies before
each game and try to apply them during the game, even for a game between
ourselves. If we practice this more often, a better coordination and
communication among the front, the middle, the back, and the goalie would
be developed, our team will be appearing as a entirety, and importantly,
our subs will know how to perform a mission much much better when they are
a chance to play on the field in the coming tournament.
> Let's contribute all our thoughts to the team and aim on the next big
> event. I am dreaming to win (not day-time dream).
>
>
> --
> YU, Feng
Hi, stop dreaming, go ahead and do it. Am I too hard on you? You need more
practice, believe or not. Hard work is always the key.
Xiaohan
Wei, Ge's charge as the captain was due and Ermao was made the new
one. The former ones are Liu Jinzhi, Yu feng (Lao Wan), Hu Kai, Qi Lei,
Li Tong (Tong zi) and Wei Ge.
From jasong@UDel.Edu Mon Jun 2 15:24:49 1997
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Hi, my dear soccer temates:
Thanks everybody for supporting me as the new captain. My special
thanks go to Wei Ge, our beloved long-time coach and the core of the team,
Wei Jiao did an outstanding job in his term and it's going to a "mission
impossible" for me to do a better job than he did. However, it's really a
pleasure to elected as seventh captain of this glorious team and I am
going to do my best to serve the team.
It's also a big challenge for me to be the captain, since, as you all
know, I'm not a gentleman-style person like Wei Jiao, my big mouth on the
field has caused a lot of problems and I have been on the bad guy list of
our team since I join the team. But people who know me well know that I
didn't mean to hurt anybody's feeling during the game, I just wanted to
win. I'm a straight-forward guy-- I want to speak out whatever I'm
thinking, and I'm a emotional competitor--I hate to lose and winning is
the major fun for me. But I want you to know that I love you guys. I do.
Because I really enjoy the brotherhood among us on and off the field.
It's greatest thing ever happened in my soccer life and I think it's
especially meaningful for us in this country where we don't have so much
fun.
I want to build the mutual respect and understanding bwteen us and
hang up together to have have fun.
I welcome you speak out to me if any of you have any thoughts about me
and the team, especially critics. But I want you to know that I don't
intend to change my basic style because that's who I am.
About the coming tournament in D.C, I think we are going to discuss it
formally during Wednesday and Stureday's practice. Hope we can have most
of our players for the discussion. The team members are also going to be
discussed. This time, we will not have any complaints or excuses about
the timing of the tournament, if we want to participate.
Thanks again.
Ermao
We are going to take part in the "Return Cup" tournament held in D.C.
next month.
Wei Ge will leave Delaware to Columbus, Ohio for a job. However, He will attend the tournament
97 Hong Kong Return Cup Soccer Tournament Schedule
1. Participate Team and Seeding:
The following team registered for the tournament. The seeding is based on
recent tournament (this year and last year) records and head to head match
results. New teams have lower seeding since no record can be found for them.
So here goes:
Seed Team Abbreviation
1 New York Wild Wolf (Columbia University) NYWW
2 TsingHua Veteran TsingHua
3 Wisconsin Eagles Wisc
4 U. of Delaware Del
5 Maryland Hunters Hunter
6 Beida 5.4 Beida
7 North Carolina Panther NC
8 NY Eleven Stars (Buffalo/upstate) NYES
2. Grouping:
Based on the above seeding, 8 teams are split into 4 groups:
Group 1: NYWW, NYES
Group 2: TsingHua, NC
Group 3: Wisc, Beida
Group 4: Del, Hunter
There are still 5 teams left as un-seeded.
Team Abbreviation
U. of Maryland UM
Chinese Embassy D.C CEDC
Chinese Embassy NY CENY
George Washington GW
George Mason/Catholic GMCA
Since we have 13 teams total, there will be one group that has 4 teams
instead 3. Since Maryland Hunters is the host team, and Delaware is pretty
close to DC. Group 4 will have 4 teams and each team will have to play 3
preliminary games instead of 2. Since GW and GMCA are the last two teams to
register, a random drawing will be conducted on field prior to all games
between GW and GMCA to decide which team goes to group 4. So here goes the
complete grouping:
Group 1: NYWW, NYES, UM
Group 2: TsingHua, NC, CENY
Group 3: Wisc, Beida, GW/GMCA
Group 4: Del, Hunter, CEDC, GMCA/GW
After first day's matches, 2 teams from each group will advance to play
in the next round.
3. Tournament Schedule
July 4th, Friday
8:30am Opening Ceremony
All teams MUST BE on field in uniform to participate in the opening
ceremony, one/two envoy (highest ranking officer in Embassy next to the
Ambassador himself), TV stations and newspaper reporters will be on site to
video tape the ceremony.
9:00am
Envoy from the Embassy will perform the ceremonial kick off for the game
between the host team Hunters and the sponsor Chinese Embassy DC team.
9:00am - 6:30pm
All group matches
9:00pm
Dinner Buffet party in a DC restaurant
July 5th, Saturday
8:30am - 12:45pm Quarter Finals
Match 1: Group 1's No. 1 qualifier will have the first right to randomly
draw a team from the second qualifiers from Group 2, 3, and 4.
Match 2: Group 2's No. 1 qualifier will have the second
right to randomly draw a team from the second qualifiers from group 1 and
unselected teams from group 3 and 4.
Match 3: Group 3's No. 1 qualifier will have the third right
to draw for the two left over second qualifiers.
Or pick the team that is not from group 3 and one of the team is from group 3.
Or pick the team from Group 4 if one of the team left is from group 4.
Match 4: Group 4's No. 1 qualifier against the last second
qualifier.
2:30 - 4:00 Simi-finals
Match 1's winner against Match 4's winner
Match 2's winner against Match 3's winner
5:00 - 6:30
Championship game and the third place game
6:30pm
Award ceremony
4. Referees
We are still trying to find outside referees to work one the first day's
games. In case we can't find them (given the budget constraints), we'll need
each team to help work on these games. Please see next section for more
details.
5. First Day Match Schedules:
The schedule is based on the fact we have rented three fields. Each half is
40 minutes (due to hot weather) and half time break is 10 minutes.
9:00am - 10:30 am
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
NYES - UM NC - CENY Hunter - CEDC
Ref: Wisc Ref: Del Ref: TsingHua
Line: Beida Line: GMCA Line: NYWW
GW GW Beida
10:45am - 12:15pm
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
Beida - GW/GMCA No Game Del - GMCA/GW
Ref: NYWW Ref: NYWW
Line: NYES Line: NYES
UM UM
11:45am - 1:15pm
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
No Game CENY - TsingHua No Game
Ref: Hunter
Line: GW/GMCA
Wisc
1:30pm - 3:00pm
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
NYWW - UM Wisc - GW/GMCA Hunter - GMCA/GW
Ref: Beida Ref: CEDC Ref: TsingHua
Line: NC Line: NYES Line: CENY
CENY Del NC
3:15pm - 4:45pm
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
No Game TsingHua - NC Del - CEDC
Ref: Hunter Ref: Beida
Line: GMCA Line: GW
UM UM
3:45pm - 5:15pm
Field 1
NYWW - NYES
Ref: Wisc
Line: Beida
GW
5:00pm - 6:30pm
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
No Game Wisc - Beida No Game
Ref: CENY
Line: UM
NC
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Field 1 Field 2 Field 3
GMCA/GW - CEDC No Game Hunter - Del
Ref: NYWW Ref: CENY
Line: NYES Line: TsingHua
UM NC
If you see some obvious mistakes in the above message or have any questions,
please let us know as soon as possible.
97 Hong Kong Return Cup Soccer Tournament Rule
*** THE RULE BOOK FOR THE 1997 HongKong Return Cup SOCCER TOURNAMENT****
*NOTE* - Official FIFA rule shall be applied during the tournament unless
otherwise stated.
REFEREES
=================
Referees and Linesmen shall be from a third team by assignment when needed. The referee shall:
a. enforce the Laws.
b. refrain from penalising in cases where he is satisfied that, by doing
so, he would be giving an advantage to the offending team.
c. keep a record of the game; act as timekeeper and allow the full or
agreed time, adding thereto all time lost through accident or other
cause.
d. have discretionary power to stop the game for any infringement of the
Laws and to suspend or terminate the game whenever, by reason of the
elements, interference by spectators, or other cause, he deems such
stoppage necessary. In such a case he shall submit a detailed report to
the competent authority, within the stipulated time, and in accordance
with the provisions set up by the National Association under whose
jurisdiction the match was played. Reports will be deemed to be made
when received in the ordinary course of post.
e. from the time he enters the field of play, caution and show a yellow
card to any player guilty of misconduct or ungentlemanly behaviour. In
such cases the referee shall send the name of the offender to the
competent authority, within the stipulated time, and in accordance with
the provisions set up by the national association under whose
jurisdiction the match was played.
f. allow no person other than the players and linemen to enter the field
of play without his permission.
g. stop the game if, in his opinion, a player has been seriously injured;
have the player removed as soon as possible from the field of play, and
immediately resume the game. If a player is slightly injured, the game
shall not be stopped until the ball has ceased to be in play. A player
who is able to go to the touch- or goal- line for attention of any
kind, shall not be treated on the field of play.
h. send off the field of play and show a red card to any player who, in
his opinion, is guilty of violent conduct, serious foul play, the use
of foul or abusive language or who persists in misconduct after having
received a caution.
i. Check if players from both team meet the uniform requirements, mainly
if they wear proper shin guards.
j. Report the result of the game to the organizing committee.
PENALTY
=================
Red card
A player shall be sent off the field of play and shown the red card,
if, in the opinion of the referee, he:
a. is guilty of violent conduct;
b. is guilty of serious foul play;
c. uses foul or abusive language;
d. is guilty of a second offence after having received a
caution.
any player who receives a red card will be suspended for the next game.
Yellow card
any player with following behavior will receive yellow card/warning,
accumulation of warning may result rejection of the player from the game
by referee
a. trash talking
b. threaten the referee or opposite player(s) with future physical assault
c. other fouls involving disproportionate force such as kicking,
tripping, jumping, charging, striking, pushing, holding an opponent or
attempting the above behavior.
Bench behavior
referee has the right to give a yellow card or red card to bench
player(s) of a team if the behavior of the bench is unacceptable. The
organizing committee has the right to suspend a team if uncontrollable
event arises.
GAME related
=================
Uniform & equipment
- each team needs two sets of jersey or shirt, one in light color
and the other in dark color
- each player on the field needs to have a number on his jersey
- each player needs to wear shinguards for his own safety
-the goalkeeper shall wear colors which distinguish him from the other
players and from the referee.
Duration of game
game length is 40 minutes per half with 10 minutes of rest
time in between.
Time consumed by tending a injury player or by substitution shall be
discounted from game time.
Goalie
- goalie can not touch a ball with hand when the ball is kicked back by
his own teammate.
Substitution
The referee needs to be informed on any substitution attempt, and
the substitution can only occur with the permission from the referee or
linesmen,
same player can be substituted many times during a game, there is no
restriction on the number of substitutions to be made during a game.
Late arrival
If a team shows up with less than 8 players after 15 mins into playing
time. They will be considered as forfeiting their game, the score of the
game is 0:2 with the late arriving team as the losing team. When both
team arrive with 8 or more players on time, the referee shall start the
game right away. Players will be allowed to join the game later with
the permission of the referee.
Multiple registration of a player
a player can only register with one team throughout
the tournament, switching from one team to another during the
tournament is not allowed. When a player is caught for violating this
rule, he will be ejected from the tournament immediately and the team he
is playing for will have to play with one less player(= a red card) for
their current game. A second violation of this rule by a team shall
result in the ejection of the entire team from the tournament.
No tournament, no exciting game, just lazy running around.
The schedule of practice was changed to: Sat.: 5:00pm Kell's Park. Tue.: 5:30, SHC.
In the second national grant tournament held in Washington D.C. during July 4 and 5, which is also called Return Cup 97' for the celebration of the returning of Hong Kong, We UDsoccer team was the first runner-up.
We are the only team who played six games in the two-day tournament, three a day. Other teams played no more than four.
On the first day, we beat George Washington 11:0, and then we faced up with the old friend and chanlenger, Maryland Hunter. We lost by 0:3. In the past few years, we only lost to them once and won all the rest in formal tournaments. These two teams are very formiliar to each other and we play at least two games a year. This time they obviously carfully prepared to against us but we did almost nothing specially for them. It is a good lesson at a good time. We changed the strategy and beat them on the second day. The third game on the first day was with the team of Chinese embassy D. C., we won by 6:1 or 7:1. We have to save energy for the next day. We entered the play off as the first runner-up in our group.
I am not in the mood to write a long report, so I just give the results of the play offs. In quarter final, we won over Columbia (New York Wild Wolf) in the penalty kick by 3:1 (0:0 in regular time), and then we defeated Maryland Hunter by 1:0 to enter the final. Tsinghua obtained their second national championship by winning 2:0 in the final.
That's all today. The dinner after the final was good.
12/08/97 The game between UDsoccer and Washington Explorers.
From Jason_Gong@LNOTES3.bankofny.com Mon Dec 8 11:55:08 1997
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Folks:
As usual, I feel responsible to do the official summary for the
game vs. The Washington Explorers on the past Sunday.
First, I would like to thank Jinzhi and the explorers for coming
and playing well. We enjoyed playing with you guys and hope to see
often, here or in D.C..
Though the weather on Sunday was pretty chilly, almost all of our
players showed up for this game which we've expected for a long time.
Our spirit was as high as it always was.
As a new team with veteran players, the Explorers showed good
individual skills but poor integration of strategy and teamwork. On the
other side, we proved that we're a better team though we were a little
bit rusty to play a formal game. We organized better and we're more
comfortable to play at this level of intensity.
We scored two goals in each half by Xiao Guo(1st, wonderful goal!),
Nie Peng(2nd), Jack Niu(3rd and 4th). We had more chances which we
couldn't convert. The explorers got some chances but our goalie was
idling during most of the time.
It's the first time for Jack Niu to play a formal game with
us(Game vs. Merck doesn't count.) and he did a very nice job in the
midfield. I think we realized that he 's going to be a valuable player
for our team.
Our star player, Jianchao, didn't play since he got a cold. But
he ref. the whole game. Thanks, Jianchao. Our Coach didn't make it but
I'm glad that we didn't let him down. We didn't let Jinzhi down also, I
should say. Jinzhi, the first captain of the Delaware team and now
probably the first captain of the Explorers, was and will be always
respected by us. We wish you good career in D.C and good luck when
facing you home team next time.
Thank you all.
BTW. are you guys interested in having a party during holiday season?
I mean the party of our team. Please post any idea to the net?
Ermao
From gewei@email.msn.com Mon Dec 8 12:18:16 1997
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Hi guys:
I was glad to know that UD beated DC by 4:0 in yesterday's
game. Great job, guys! I wish I could be there to watch the
game and see how DC Explorers explored UD and got 4
balls in their backs (how many balls on Jinzhi's back?)
Yesterday afternoon beginning at 3:00pm it was supposed to
be regular soccer practice time here in Ohio. However, I could
not enjoy playing soccer since no one except me showed up
in the empty soccer fields (all four soccer fields). The weather
is not that bad and the field is not that wet. What a bunch of
Ohio bumpkins here whom I played with! Now I am really
homesick, UDSOCCER homesick!
To keep up with your guys, I am going to kick Ohio bumpkins'
asses this afternoon when we play indoor soccer.
Enjoy!
--Wei Ge
From lei_qi@merck.com Mon Dec 8 14:07:26 1997
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Guys,
The game was as wonderful as I expected. The comfortable feeling the
whole team had, coupled with dominant scores, has really scaled out what
competent level we are at. Personally, I think some physical players,
since they joined the team, have lifted the physical intensity of our
team. Ermao, as
a captain and strategic architecturer of the team, is the one giving key
push to the status of the team.
The only thing I have in mind is the image of our team. Although
yesterday's game only had trivial abrasive sparks, I think we probably
need to change the way we think. To be a formal team, image is very
important. Columbia, the best team ever, has consistently held its
diplomatic and rock-hard disciplines.
However, being diplomatic does not mean we should soften our physical
play.
Columbia also sets a good example for us. In the final game of Penn
State,
Columbia had such a ferocious play against us so that our stars were
relentlessly held dumb. But whenever our guys had complaints, they
responded nicely and friendly. Not only did they make full use of their
physical
strength, but also they took advantage of their nice image of being
diplomatic.
Actually, we can see those scenarios in lots of professional games.
Why can't we be more professional-like rather than street-fighter-like?
Lei Qi
AM&S
Merck & Co., Inc.
Phone: 215-652-0275
Fax: 215-652-3499
Next time when he comes back, we hope he can gain something for his body instead of losing. For instance, some hair on the top is good. We'll See.
From Jason.Gong@chase.com Thu Feb 26 09:52:38 1998 X-Lotus-Fromdomain: CHASE To: udsoccer@cauchy.MATH.udel.edu Subject: New Captain!! Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Lines: 35 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Length: 1311 Dear teammates: It's time to start a new season as a new spring is approching. It's also the time to have a new captain for the new season according to the tradition of our team. Last weekend, I asked for the opinion from all of you but I haven't got any feedback or objection yet. After talking to some of our senior players about the potential candidates, I think we've got the 8th captain of Team Delaware, Zou Hao. Zou Hao is one of our key players on the field and one of our strategic planners off the field. He has been with the team since 1995 season, experiencing big tornaments like 96 Baltimore Tornament, 97 Delaware Cup and 97 Hong Kong Return Cup. His contribution to the team is well recoganized. The teammates who have known Zou Hao for a while, including myself, have never doubt his dedication, enthusiasm and excellent managing ability. I'm very confident that he's going to lead our team to the next level. Let's congratulate him and support him without any reservation. Zou Hao's captainship will be effective on March 1st, 1998. I'm going to post my final finance report to the team on this weekend. Here, I want to thank all of the teammates for your support , patience and torlerence during my term. It's been an honor to be the captain of Team Delaware. Yours Ermao From haozou@UDel.Edu Thu Feb 26 12:44:58 1998 To: udsoccer@cauchy.MATH.udel.edu Subject: Thanks Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Lines: 37 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Length: 1711 Well, what to say? I feel so happy, and at the same time, very nervous to be appointed captain of Team Delaware. First of all, I would like to express my sincere thanks to all of you, especially all the "board members", for your trust. There is no doubt that Ermao has led our team to an extremely high level. We are so recognized today in the east coast. So, my job will be tough. But, I can not let our team down! Second, I feel happy because we are getting more and more young/new players. They are so good. Our team never had such a solid base of players with high potentials. It is obvious that they are our hope. Meanwhile, almost all the senior players are still driving long distance to come back, from either Penn or NJ, even Ohio. Xiaosha, Dajie, Laowan, coach, and Qilei are good examples. The most important thing here is that they have shown us all how good our team is. Think about it. It's just amazing! They are all highly respected by all of us. Third, I strongly believe that the vision of our team should be FUN, FRIENDSHIP & COMPETITION. The team and the soccer field bring us lots of additional stuff, which is good, besides our studies, our jobs, and our families. It is just another place to taste the life. Last, just like what Xiaosha has said, we need a strong fighting spirit, which, I think, is the same important as a team-working spirit. I am considering to bring some initiatives to our practice so as to have more fun and better achieve our competition goals. I need suggestions from everyone of you. All right, once again, I am so proud of having such an opportunity to serve our team and each of you. I am looking forward to a wonderful 1998 season. Thank you. Zou Hao