Stunning Performance by The Football team in Corporate Olympiad

It was a wonderful day for us in Corporate Olympiad. We played Three games on Sunday. All the three matches were exciting. In the Quarter finals we played against Intelenet. In the first half itself we put a goal from the corner. It was an excellent heading by Ratti. And Intelenet didn't come back.

We had the Semi's against Ajuba. It was the match of the tournament for us. In the first half we got a goal. It was a mistake by the back and the goal was scored easily. Our team members were totally down and at one point of time Babu was walking with his head down in the mid-field. We were encouraging/shouting from outside. Ajuba were unlucky. Their shots hit the bar twice.

There comes the turning point for us from Jagan. He tackled three defenders and made the first goal. It was really great come back for us. Then every one got the enthusiasm and the game changed. Ajuba defenders were surprised about our comeback. Babu steal a ball from Ajuba (miss pass) and hit it from top of the box. The goal keeper d no answer for it. We won the game with 2-1 margin.

The final was between Cognisant and us. We lost to them last year in Sevens. This time we wanted to win them. They were attacking us from the beginning. The ball was there in our half most of the time. We got a first chance in the first half and Babu converted it. We were leading 1-0 in the first half.

Then the game become very hot. Everyone played a rough game. Especially they played a tactics of pulling the shirts. We never played such game in our internal tournament. It provoked our players many times. We got three Yellow card. All the three because of their provoking game either shoulder push(without having the ball) or pulling the T-shirt.

Rajaram made few excellent stops and our defense was exceptionally good. Almost everyone contributed. It was a wonderful evening and I had an exciting moment after 20 years (Ties Football finals in REC Trichy 1987 Feb, where we-ACCET won the Gold).