Oct 17, 2013

Its really true that we beat KOREA?

One of the rare occasions when Indonesia beat Korea on football. It happened on Saturday (October 12) when skipper Evan Dimas scored all Indonesia’s goals as they beat Korea Republic 3-2 at Gelora Bung Karno stadium, Jakarta, and qualified for the AFC Under 19th years old Championship 2014.
Indonesia finished their qualifying Group G campaign with a perfect record from all their three games while Korea Republic managed to get six points from as many games and sat second in the four-team table.
The leaders of the nine qualifying groups and six best runners-up along with the competition’s hosts Myanmar will compete in the 16-sided tournament in October next year (2014). Indonesia had a dramatic end to their campaign as they overcame South Korea 3-2 in a tense final Group G match to emerge as group winners. They had earlier defeated Laos 4-0 and Philippines 2-0. Its rare occasion, so I've wrote on here  to describe how we've been waiting this moments for many years.

Oct 7, 2013

Belajar dari Garuda Muda

The Result of Asian Football Federation (AFF) Under 19th (U-19) or AFFU19: Indonesia are Champions after Winning Sudden-Death Shoot Out, defeat Vietnam. I have wrote it on http://olahraga.kompasiana.com/bola/2013/09/23/belajar-dari-garuda-muda-part-kesekian--595097.html -the title is "Belajar dari Garuda Muda" (Lesson learned from Young Garuda). Check it out

"Belajar dari garuda Muda (Part Kesekian)". Ketika penendang penalti pertama Vietnam dengan jumawa menendang kembali bola yang muntah dari golnya yang mantul ke gawang, saya jadi yakin. Yakin bahwa mereka yang –katakanlah- sombong akan kalah, dan mereka yang rendah hati akan menang. Ini seperti kejadian saat Markis Kido/ Hendra Setiawan meraih emas Olimpiade Beijing tahun 2008. Di set pertama Cai Yun/ Fu Haifeng yang menang, dan satu yang sangat terekam di pikiranku adalah ketika Cai/ Fu melepaskan emosi kepercayaan terlalu tinggi dengan meninju ke udara ke arah penonton –atau apalah namanya yang mengindikasikan kesombongan itu. Selengkapnya di sini