15th May 2012
Konichiwa
from Chiba, Japan. We have had the
World League preliminaries here against the Japanese and the Chinese. The
Chinese are the current World Championship silver medallists, hence can boast
the title of second best in the world…not to us J We
played them with a less than full team – our Captain sat out with illness, and
one of our other players sat out due to injury. So we only had three substitutes, and it was tough. The Chinese launched their attack early
and stormed out to a 6-2 lead. We
changed gears in the second half and nawed away at them until we were 1 goal up
in the last quarter, and didn’t relinquish. Beating the Chinese with a less than a full team was very
pleasing, and a real boost to our confidence! Next up was the Japanese
team. They are a much smaller
team, but can be quite nifty and tricky, so we had to watch out for this. We managed an 18-2 victory, so a very
comfortable win.
It was a
whirlwind trip to Japan – just 4 days. We were able to taste some local
delicacies…tepanyako, Japanese pancake, and of course sushi.
We are now
all looking forward to a relaxing three days off in Singapore.
Sayonara
until next time.
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