ProEvents/FAM 7-a-side Friendly Tournament, 18th June 2011

Arsenal Malaysia...

ProEvents, who are celebrating their 10 year anniversary, together with FAM, organized a 7-a-side friendly tournament in light of the Chelsea, Liverpool & Arsenal tour this coming July.

Teams that participated - FAM, Sportswriters Association Malaysia (SAM), Liverpool Supporters Club, Chelsea Supporters Club and Arsenal Malaysia.

Most of our guys came early...

We tried to get our best available players for this event. A few couldn't make it, but it was still a decent team. I'm honest enough to admit I'm not good enough to be part of this team, but I was in as a backup keeper to Zaidie. Had Shahnaz been free, my name wouldn't be in the list. But I did get playing time as an outfielder, and man, was I out of my league!

Daim's winning goal against SAM...

Zaidie was excellent in this tournament.

My cameo...

We drew with the Liverpool (0-0) and Chelsea (2-2) teams, but beat both FAM (2-1) and SAM (1-0). The team was kind enough to let me play in the second half of the last group game against Chelsea, but in hindsight, I probably shouldn't have. We lost a 2-0 lead.

We finished top after the round robin games. Top 2 teams (Arsenal Malaysia and the Liverpool team) met again in the final. Unfortunately, we lost 0-2.

Azril came down to support...

Top of the league...

...meaning we met Liverpool in the final...

...which we unfortunately lost 0-2...

With some of the supporters who came...Thanks guys!

Prize giving ceremony...

First batch of the Malaysia vs Arsenal tickets printed with Team Malaysia on them...

Captain and President distributing the tickets...

Ticket, car sticker and notebook...

Who wants this?

Arsenal Malaysia 3-2 Chelsea Malaysia, 28th May 2011

Our last game before we close our books for the season is against Chelsea Malaysia. This game was played at Politeknik Shah Alam. Another early kickoff at 4pm. Unfortunately our opponents came fashionably late. Too bad.

Warming up...

Hoohaa.my covered the game...

Good sportmanship by both teams...

Pa'u scored in this game...

Celebrating the great comeback...

"C'mon Am, I'm thirsty too."

They scored 2 goals first before we scored 3 for a great ending to our last game this season. Hope to still be a part of next season's games.

Arsenal Malaysia 6-0 Section 8 FC, 22nd May 2011

Was so very glad to make this game. Arsenal Malaysia did not play for a long time before the game against Ansara Terendak, which I unfortunately missed. Was really bummed because a lot of my friends are playing for Ansara Terendak.

Amazing scoreline right? To be fair, our opposition played with 9 players, then 10, then 9 again. Unfortunate, but not our fault.

Game was played at SMS (Stor Menyimpan Senjata) Polis, TTDI Jaya. Really good venue for Arsenal to play at, don't you think? Get it? Senjata? Arsenal?

Ball picker...

Faz celebrating his goal...

No, I didn't hit him...

Hanging out after the game...

The game was supposed to be played at Stadium Matsushita, but we were then told that pitch was in poor condition. And the kickoff time was changed to 4pm. Actually, if the weather's not too hot, 4pm is a good time to kick off. More time for drinks after the game.

Credit to Izzat for arranging the game.