HORNET FC

Sunday, May 21, 2006

Match report for 1st friendly match

Date: 21/05/06
Time: 9am
Location: Xinmin Secondary School
Opponent: Kelvin's team

Score: Hornet FC 3-3 Kelvin's team

Finally after weeks of recuitment, Hornet FC is formed and today is the 1st offical match. Hornet FC found it hard to settle into the game in the first 10 minutes as it is the 1st time everyone play together. During this period of time, the opponent created plenty of chances but found Amin and Caiyuan’s partnership in the central defence hard to break down. In the 20th, Amin took a free kick from 30m out that just went over the bar. In the 26th minute, Ah Seng broke the offside trap and cut back to Yusrizal only to find his shot stopped on the line by the defender. Ti Siang conceded a penalty after he came on for Amin in the 28th minute. The opponent sends Eugene the wrong way and Hornet FC was down 0-1. 1 minute later, Kenny had a great opportunity to equalized when his bicycle kick following a cross by Yusrizal was cleared by a defender. Ah Seng broke the offside trap again in the 37th minute and squared the ball to Seow Chuan to equalize for Hornet FC.

1-all was the score at halftime.

Hornet FC started the 2nd half with 3-5-1-1 formation with Ruiqiang and Weiqiang leading the attack. In the 47th minute, Weiqiang passed to Ruiqiang and he dribbled past 3 defenders only to sent the ball narrowly wide. In the 48th minute, Chee Huang conceded a free kick just outside the box. Boon Chen was caught out of position and Hornet FC was down 2-1. 1 minute later, with a quick pass from Yusrizal, Ruiqiang dribbled past a defender and the goalkeeper to equalize for Hornet FC. Yusrizal had a chance to give Hornet FC the lead but he could only sent his shot narrowly over the bar with only the goalkeeper to beat. By this time, Hornet FC is controlling the match and had created a lot of chances. In the 55th minute, a cross by Amin was touched down perfectly by Weiqiang and he squeezed the ball past the goalkeeper to let Hornet FC take the lead. A minute later, Weiqiang had another great shot that was denied by the goalkeeper. Amin had long-range effort that jus went narrowly wide the right hand post. 5 minutes later, Ruiqiang sent a shot jus wide following a throw-in by Weiqiang. Elwen had a chance to extend the lead when his shot was wonderfully saved by the keeper who was at full stretch. With 3 minutes left on the clock, victory was denied for Hornet FC. Ah Boy was controlling the ball outside the penalty box when 2 opponents sandwiched him. Instead of blowing for a foul, the referee waved play-on and Boon Chen rushed out of his goal to tackle the ball. The referee blew a foul and it’s another penalty. The opponent sent Boon Chen the wrong way and the score line read 3-3 till the final whistle. At the end of the day, it was a great game for both team.

After match thoughts:
It was a good result for Hornet FC considering the fact that everyone is playing together the 1st time. Well done Hornets!!!!!!! Points to take note is that strikers are to link are to link up more with the midfielders and the defenders must communicate with each other more.

Let's continue to fight hard and get our 1st win the next match. Cheers!!!!!!!

HORNET FC 3:32 PM

About Us

HORNET FC
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Hornet FC was formed on Labour Day, 1st May 2006 by Ruiqiang and Amin. Our idea is to get our enthusiastic friends and cousins together and get a good run-out on the field. We had wanted to play soccer regularly but there is no one to start the team, so Ruiqiang and Amin took the initiative in gathering people. At the same time, Amateur Football League (AFL) is recruiting teams to join their league. We were all looking forward to play well in the league. Our target for the season was a mid-table finish as we were a much newer team compared to most of the teams in the league that have great histories.

Our logo is a Hornet with a football, which was designed by Dominic Ang who was a designer. We chose Hornet is because of the aggressiveness the Hornet have and Hornet is a hardworking creature too. These are the things that we want our team to be, aggressive and hardworking. On our jersey, as we are a self-sponsored and non-profitable organization, we tried to get the cheapest but yet good quality type. We went to a lot of shops around Queensway shopping center and Peninsular Plaza to choose and finally, we decided on KELME Gold and White.

With everything in place, we were very excited on playing in the league. During the duration of the league, we were glad to recruit 2 former national under 18âs players, Hazmi and Ruzaini, and with their help, we managed to meet our target of a mid-table finish. At the end of the season, some players began to leave the team. Ruiqiang and Amin had to recruit new players in to replace those that had left. We managed to recruit some former NYPâs friends and some of Ruiqiangâs colleagues in camp. Till date, we have 18 players and we were looking forward to next AFL season.

Nationalwide Championship SUN, Morning League 2006
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Players Profile

No.	Name
Goalkeeper
1	Haikal
Defender
8	Nazdi
13	Arzme
18	JiaXin
69	Ruzaini
10	Amin
24	Mirza
Midfielder
9	Riduwan
11	Shawn Kuah
12	Yusrizal
13	Akram
14	Frankie
16	Hazmi
20	Kenneth Chag
23	Jeremy Loh
25	WeiDa
28	Glen Loh
Forward
4	Shyan
7	Liu Weiqiang
17	Liu Ruiqiang

Photo Gallery

Chuan Seng crossing from the right

Razali in action

Goal or Miss??

Ruiqiang celebrating after a goal

Chuan Seng taking the corner

Nearly a goal by Seow Chuan

A mini arguement between the players

Launching a counter attack

League Fixtures
Nationwide Championship 2007 Sunday, Morning League

January 2007
Date	Home	Score	Away
Sun Jan 28	Hornet Football Club	pp	Mean Machine FC
February 2007
Sun Feb 4	Hornet Football Club	2:1	Tusser Ranger Football Club
Sun Feb 11	Hornet Football Club	3:2	Mean Machine FC
Sun Feb 25	Hornet Football Club	1:4	Sunday Football Club
March 2007
Sun Mar 4	Hornet Football Club	2:4	North East Rangers Football Club
Sun Mar 11	Team Sofeene Football Club	-	Hornet Football Club
Sun Mar 18	Hornet Football Club	-	HME United Football Club
Sun Mar 25	Sunday Football Club	-	Hornet Football Club
April 2007
Sun Apr 1	Tusser Ranger Football Club	-	Hornet Football Club
Sun Apr 8	Hornet Football Club	-	AC United Football Club
Sun Apr 22	North East Rangers Football Club	-	Hornet Football Club
Sun Apr 29	Hornet Football Club	-	Team Sofeene Football Club

For Complete League Standing click here

Team	Pld	Pts
Sunday FC	5	12
NE Burghley FC	4	9
Team Sofeene	3	7
Hornet FC	4	6
HME United	2	1
Mean Machines FC	3	1
AC United FC	3	1
Tusser Ranger FC	2	0