PIALA RESIDEN SAMARAHAN 2011

Our Team K2015 came out joint 3rd/4th in the recent Piala Residen Samarahan 2011 held in Asajaya on 30 October 2011. In the 1st round played on a round-robin system, we lost to Johan FC 0-1 but we managed to beat the eventual champions Khatulistiwa FC 2-1 to edge out Johan FC on goal difference to make the semi-finals. However, in the semi-finals, we were beaten by KSK Asajaya 0-2. I guess it was expecting too much of our boys to win that match and make the final considering we only had 4 senior players in the squad while the rest were 16 years and below.

Anyway, joint 3rd/4th is a good place to be. It can be seen that our boys are slowly maturing but there are still a few who would need to be spoken to. These are players who have not shown much improvement over the year and if they don't change their attitude, they could drag the team down with them. Overall, I am proud to say that we are on track with our KICKALOB DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE with this team.

BORNEO INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL CUP 2011

vs Football Regional West (Australia) drew 1-1

vs Spartans FC (Kuala Lumpur) won 2-0

vs KK Rovers (Sabah) won 1-0

vs Ty Sports Academy (Korea) drew 1-1

vs Soccerkix Academy (Labuan) won 3-2 (penalties)

We have achieved our target of finishing in the top 4 in this tournament by placing 3^rd. It was a tournament of the highest quality which, according to the tournament organizers, was better participated than last year. We could see that Kickalob have managed to close the gap in playing standard with the other teams. We even managed to hold the repeat champions Ty Sports Academy from Korea to a draw. We had to beat the Koreans to gain top spot in our group but they scored against us 4 minutes from time to gain that precious point to top our group. It was rather unfortunate that the tournament does not have crossover semi-finals; the players were confident that we could go all the way to win the tournament!! Players who received special mention - Syazani, Faez, Fiffy, Alexs, Shahrol, Zuhairi.

The most important improvement was our ability to instill into our players the spirit of “Agi Idup, Agi Ngelaban” which was missing in last year’s tournament. Our team received plenty of compliments and praises from the other teams for the fighting spirit and positional commitment of each of our players. Nevertheless, there is still a lot of work to be done in order for us to further close that gap. We cannot be complacent with what we have achieved and the work must continue vigorously with undivided commitment from our coaches, players and their parents.

We must be proud of this achievement because our U16 squad is made up predominantly of players 15 years in below. People may question why we should be proud of 3rd place; to me, it's not so much as getting 3rd place but more because of the way we achieved it:

* our players were more cohesive in attacking and denfending

* our players were not intimidated by our opponents' size and style of play

* our players were full of the "agi idup, agi ngelaban" fighting spirit

* our players were able to execute our game plans despite being overcome by fatigue (they played 5 matches in 3 days)

* our players showed more maturity (compared to last year) in the way they approach each match

Because of this, we should be going to Kota Kinabalu next year with a more matured squad.

We would like to thank those who had made our trip possible – YB Abdul Karim Rahman Hamzah, YB Sharifah Hasheedah, CMS Cement Sdn Bhd, Sarawak Energy Bhd, SAS Properties Sdn Bhd, Football Association of Sarawak, Harwood Timber Sdn Bhd, Persatuan Bolasepak Bahagian Samarahan, Encik Heidle Heli, Encik Razali Dolhan, Akjaemura Jaya Sdn Bhd, Sri Andaman Q Sdn Bhd and a few other anonymous sponsors. Without their financial support, we would not have been able to participate in this tournament which is the yardstick of our Project 2015 squad. Last but not least, the highest appreciation is in order for our coaches who have given their highest commitment to Kickalob’s vision. Our coaches – Awang Azami, Rosli Akup, Saiful Bahri Beli, Syazwan Heikle Bakry – have done this over the past 3 years on a voluntary basis and this must be applauded.

TEAM K16 2011 BORNEO CUP SQUAD

Abdul Rahman Ismail
Alexs Watson Sia
Amirul Shafizan Mohamad Safri
Badrul Azhar Adenan
Derick Tsai Kien Cheng
Felister Lester Ranum
Hafizulhisyam Roslee
Halizan Sapian
Izzat Al-Haqeem Khairul Azizi
Mohammad Faez Sapari
Mohammad Firdaus Jeffery
Mohammad Zuhairi Zul Azmi
Mohd Nastika Fiffy Seli
Mohd Shahrol Haqimi Sarbini
Nur Azri Jaffri
Nurhirman Toni
Shafiezul Iqma Ismail
Syazani Zakaris Brahim
Wan Muhammad Nur Azhar Wan Ahmad

BORNEO INTERNATIONAL FOOTBALL CUP 2011 - GROUPINGS AND FIXTURES

Our Team K16 will be taking part in this year's Borneo International Football Cup in Kota Kinabalu from 25-28 September 2011. There will be 10 teams in this tournament which will be divided into 2 groups:

GROUP A
Adelaide Olympic (Australia)
Kinabalu International School (Sabah)
KK United (Sabah)
Soccerkix Academy (Labuan)
Subang Jaya FC (Selangor)
GROUP B
Football West Regional (Australia)
Kickalob Football Club (Sarawak)
KK Rovers (Sabah)
Spartans FC (Kuala Lumpur)
TY Sports Academy (South Korea)

Our fixtures will be as follows:
25 September vs Football West Regional (3:30pm)
26 September vs Spartans FC (11:00am)
26 September vs KK Rovers (3:00pm)
27 September vs TY Sports Academy (11:00am)

JU CELEBRATES HER 41ST BIRTHDAY

PIALA DATUK BANDAR 2011

Congratulations to both of our Team K12 and Team K14 for their participation in the recent Piala Datuk Bandar 2011. Although we did not win the title, we must be proud of our achievement as we fielded our very own home-grown players. It irks me very much that even for age group tournaments such as this one, there are some teams which would rather aim for status and ego-fulfilling achievements by "using" players from all over. It defeats the purpose of football development whereby we are supposed to provide opportunities for players to grow and learn. There will be some people who will say that I am a sore loser but the fact remains that in football development, winning must be made a secondary objective.

Congratulations also to our Derick Tsai who won the Bronze Star Award for being the 3rd best player in the tournament. This award was judged based on accumulative points given by coaches and match officials after every match so Derick won this based of merit and not favouritism from the Organisers of which I was the Tournament Director.

TERM ASSESSMENT 02/11

Medals and Achievement Certificates were handed out last weekend to our Kickies who underwent Term Assessment 02/11.

GOLDEN KICKIES 02/11
Awang Mohd Faliq Aimi Awang Ghazali
Muhammad Amir Asmain Ismail
Muhammad Nur Asyraaf Mohamad Toni
Nor Hakimi Jeffery
Wilbert Lowren Murish

SILVER KICKIES 02/11
Abdul Haziq Ahmad Zaidi
Abdul Rahman Ismawi
Awang Harrith Daniel Awang Zainurin
Iqmal Hafiz Awg Azami
Mohd Iman Nafiz Fong

BRONZE KICKIES 02/11
Afiq Fikri Zaki @ Deco
Awang Asyraaf Afi A Ismail Nazarrudin
Mohamad Irfan Syahmi Irwanddy
Mohammad Faez Sapari
Nurhirman Toni

CHANGES IN SESSION DATES

Please take note of the changes in our session dates. We have had to do this to accommodate our involvement in Pertandingan Bolasepak Samarahan 2011 and also the upcoming Pertandingan Bolasepak Remaja Piala Datuk Bandar 2011 (for our Team K14 and Team K12) which is scheduled for 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th July 2011 at Jubilee Ground in Kuching.

LIGA BOLASEPAK SAMARAHAN 2011 - FINAL UPDATE

The youngest team in the tournament with an average age of 15.8 years old - our Team K2015 - was placed 7th out of 11 teams in the Liga Bolasepak Samarahan 2011 which had its final match last weekend. Coach Awang Ismail was at Stadium Mini Samarahan to collect our prize together with my daughter, Kateja Aba.
Next will be the Piala FA which will kick-off this weekend. Our Team K2015 will be up against the league champions, Khatulistiwa, at Stadium Mini Asajaya.

MANCHESTER UNITED PREMIER CUP 2011

Our Team K15 won the Fairplay Award at the recent MUPC 2011. Although we started off strongly in the group stages, we lost in the quarter-final against SMK Gedong. It was a heart-breaking loss to all our coaches because we did not play to our potential like we did in the preliminary rounds where we beat SMK Batu Lintang and Saberkas Kudei by 3-0 margins and in Round 2 where we defeated SMK Lake (from Bau) by penalty kicks.

All of us were, and still are, dumbfounded as to what went wrong (look at the coaches' faces in the photo!!) . To be honest, we were all so confident that we would reach final. Players were not playing to instructions, players were ball-watching, players were not communicating, players were not confident on the ball, there were no crosses into the box, there were no shots on goal, etc, etc, etc, etc, etc.. It was a game we lost and not a game that SMK Gedong won. We handed it to them on a silver platter.

What good is it if we were only primed to win Fairplay awards, right??

LIGA BOLASEPAK SAMARAHAN 2011

Our Team K2015 secured their first point of the tournament by holding Khatulistiwa FC 3-3 in last week's fixture. Although still rooted at the bottom of the table, gaining this 1 point is a big step towards achieving our Project 2015 objective. Never ever forget that the average age of our players is 15 years of age!!

Next match will be against Johan FC this Saturday (14 May 2011) at Stadium Mini Samarahan.

LIGA BOLASEPAK SAMARAHAN 2011

Our Team K2015 lost to Sokanjaya FC 2-5 last weekend which keep our team rooted at the bottom of the standings. What was disappointing was the fact that 6 of our 1st 11 players did not bother to show up for the match without giving any reason whatsoever. We could have won the match if we had fielded our strongest team. Not an excuse for losing because at the end of the day, our opponents were years ahead of our U15 players in terms of playing experience. Despite that, we led them twice during the match!!

The absence of some players have forced Kickalob to take drastic action against these players by dropping them, not only from the team but kick them out of Kickalob totally. Their action tantamounts to gross indiscipline and they placed self-interests above that of our Academy which is a no-no!!

Next match will be this Saturday against Khatulistiwa (2nd in the standings at the moment) at Stadium Mini Samarahan.

LIGA SAMARAHAN 2011 UPDATE

Our Team K2015 lost 0-2 to KSK Asajaya last weekend. Debuts were given to Faez Sapari, Nurhirman Toni and Desmond and I believe our coaches wished that these 3 players were given their debuts in earlier matches.

It can be seen that our Project K2015 boys (those under-15) have shown improvements in facing adversity during matches. Nevertheless, there is still a need to learn to make quick decisions when on the ball. We must also sharpen our learning curve which means that the coaches cannot be teaching our players the same thing over and over again. Our players cannot spend too much time trying to grasp what is being taught and apply them on the pitch. Time and tide does not wait for anyone and the same applies to our K2015 players.

Next match is against Sokanjaya FC (3rd in the table) at Stadium Mini Serian on Saturday (30 April 2011).

LIGA SAMARAHAN 2011 UPDATE

Our Team K2015's next match will be this Sunday (24 April 2011) at Stadium Mini Samarahan against KSK Asajaya, one of the high-riding teams in the league. After a long rest due to technical problems faced by the organisers, we will be playing our 3rd game of the league with continued confidence. I just hope that our boys have improved their fitness through the current inter-school tournaments held over the past 3 weeks.

CHAMPIONS OF YAYASAN SARAWAK FOOTBALL CLUB ACADEMY INVITATIONAL TOURNAMENT

Our Team K12 emerged Champions of an invitational tournament organised by Yayasan Sarawak at the launching of Yayasan Sarawak Football Club Academy on 27 March 2011. In the preliminary round, we drew 0-0 with Yayasan Sarawak A, drew 0-0 with SK Madrasah and won 1-0 against SK Bandar Baru Samariang. In the semi-final, we blanked Akademi Sadong Jaya 4-0. In the final, we beat Yayasan Sarawak A 4-3 on penalties.

Although it was reported in a local daily that K12 "bernasib baik" winning the tournament, I beg to differ and say luck had nothing to do with it. It was hard work, focus and determination on our K12 part. And allow me to add that we managed to achieve this feat despite having 2 of our key players "pinched" by another team at the last minute!!

Well done to our players and Coach Rosli and Coach Saiful. This was no easy feat considering it was played at Yayasan Sarawak's ground and there were tons of their supporters at the field!

TERM 01/11 ASSESSMENT RESULTS

TOP GOLDEN KICKIE 01/11
Abdul Rahman Ismawi proudly displaying his medal with Coach Saiful

GOLDEN KICKIE AWARD
Abdul Rahman Ismawi
Awang Asyraaf Afi A Ismail Nazarrudin
Awang Muhammad Faiz Hazziq Awg Fathi
Mohammad Zuhairi Zul Azmi
Wilbert Lowren Murish

SPECIAL MENTION AWARD
Derick Tsai Kien Cheng
Felister Lester Ranum
Muhamad Amir Asmain Ismail
Syazani Zakaris Brahim
Watson Payrie Stephen

BRONZE MENTION AWARD
Affiz Zafri Mustaffa Kamil
Awang Harrith Daniel Awang Zainurin
Iqmal Hafiz Awang Azami
Joseph Richard Wenda
Mohd Azim Mohd Amin

K2015 LOST AGAIN BUT .....................

Our K2015 lost 1-2 against Sadong Jaya last Sunday in Serian.

Despite the loss, there were many positives that came out of the game and I believe we can only get better with the matches to come. Never forget the fact that we are playing in this tournament for exposure; definitely we would like to win (who doesn't, right?!?) but that is secondary. We have a 6-year program for our boys and this is part of the training program. Our coaches are more focused on the performance our U15 players in K2015 than the team in general. We are monitoring the progress of the boys from match-to-match so that mistakes they make are rectified before the next match. This is the only way to effectively learn to play better....they must make mistakes to learn!

K2015 will have the next 2 weeks off. Will keep you updated.

KICKALOB K2015 LOST OUR FIRST MATCH

Our Team Kickalob K2015 lost 1-3 to UNIMAS at Stadium Mini Samarahan last Sunday. It was the 1st match for both teams. Our team put up a gallant performance although it was quite glaring that UNIMAS edged us where experience was concerned. It was a valuable learning experience for our K16 boys and I personally believe that our team will be able to play much better in the matches to come.

Next match is this Sunday at UNIMAS where we will be playing against Sadong Jaya.

LIGA SAMARAHAN 2011

Team Kickalob K2015 will be playing our first match tn Liga Samarahan 2011 this Sunday (20.02.11) at Stadium Mini Samarahan against UNIMAS. Kick-off at 4:15pm.

LIGA SAMARAHAN 2011

As part of our KICKALOB DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE ROADMAP 2015, our U16 squad will be taking part in Liga Samarahan 2011 which is scheduled to start on 12 February 2011. Our team will be strengthened by 7 experienced players while the rest will be made up of our U16 players. This will give our Kickies the necessary exposure and experience as part of their character-building training.

The Team Managers Meeting will be held on 7 February 2011 where the fixtures will be finalised. Will post the fixtures as soon as it is made available.

UPDATE

I am sure it's not too late to wish everyone a very Happy and Prosperous Rabbit New Year.

We will be into our fifth session for this new term come next Saturday. For this term, we have a total of 98 Kickies. There are quite a number of new Kickies but there are also some who have decided to stay away.

Anyway, we have also roped in 2 new coaches - Coach Hassan and Coach Zulkeply. Both of them have state-level playing experience so we are fortunate to be able to rope them into Kickalob.

GOLDEN KICKIE AWARDS FOR TERM 04/10

MOHAMMAD IRFAN FITRI MOHAMMAD IRWAN
OUR TOP KICKIE FOR TERM 04/10

GOLDEN KICKIE AWARD 04/10 RECIPIENTS
(from left) Felister Lester Ranum, Wilbert Lowren Murish, Mohamad Irfan Fitri Mohammad Irwan, Joseph Richardo Wenda, Watson Stephen Payrie


SPECIAL MENTION AWARD
Awang Muhammad Faiz Awang Fathi
Faiz Nurhan Jeman
Iqmal Hafiz Awg Azami
Nurhirman Toni
Muhammad Hazeem Syazwan Daud

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE NEW SEASON

Our academy starts its new season this Saturday and I can't wait to see our Kickies again. There have been many enquiries about Kickalob but we'll just have to wait and see on Saturday how many new Kickies we are going to welcome into Kickalob.

Tomorrow night, we coaches will be having our meeting to decide on the plans we are lining up for 2011. I am hoping to see a few new faces on our coaching panel since the number that we have now is insufficient to effectively carry out our coaching duties. As for our 2011 plans, you will just have to wait till after the meeting tomorrow night.

But one thing that I can tell you is that we will be implementing a RM50 Registration Fee for all old and new Kickies starting this term. This is in line with our registration with Suruhanjaya Sukan Malaysia where our Kickies have to register as members of Kickalob Football Club. However, it must be noted that his Registration Fee will be forfeited if the Kickie skips 2 consecutive terms where his/her membership will automatically cease.

Will keep you updated on further developments.