Premi Kappa - Giocatori UE / Kappa Prizes - EU Players

I seguenti giocatori sono invitati a mandarmi una email per il ritiro dei codici validi per il ritiro di premi Kappa presso il sito http://www.kappastore.com/ .
Per verificare che siate effettivamente voi, vi prego di confermare tramite commento su questo messaggio l'avvenuto invio della email.
Chi non fosse interessato ai buoni sconto Kappa è pregato di segnalarmelo sempre tramite email, in modo che i codici non siano sprecati e possano essere distribuiti tra chi è interessato.
Insieme ai codici riceverete le istruzioni per attivarli.
Grazie per la collaborazione.

The following players are invited to send me an email message to get the codes for activating the discount tickets on the Kappa store at http://www.kappastore.com/uk/home.asp .
To verify that the email message is yours, i ask you to confirm here (comment) that you sent me the message.
Who is not interested in receiving the Kappa discount tickets is kindly asked to write this in the email message, so that we won't waste any and they can be shared among the people interested.
With the codes, you will receive the instructions to activate them.
Thank you for your collaboration.

Darian Bonetto
Javier Pastorelli
Felicemagnini Babii
Mola Eales
Radu Lubitsch
Zyl Sewell
Johnston Waechter

Email: swannstenvaag@yahoo.it

Some offensive attacks.

Here are some attacks used against us by Verona and Koln.
I'm posting this so other teams can prepare ahead of time
and hopefully make tougher competition.

I would rather play a good team and lose
than play a poor team and win easily.

IMPORTANT - FOR NON-EU PLAYERS

I kindly ask your attention, NON-EU players.
There is a problem with the Kappa online store: it sends the stuff to EU only.
I am trying to find a solution to this problem, so here's what you have to do:

Cyndee Shepherd - 38 euros
Beavis Beckham - 38 euros
Carl Susa - 25 euros
Nic Renegade - 25 euros

Go to http://www.kappastore.com/uk/home.asp and look for some stuff you like, within the cost indicated near your name in the list above. Choose the item(s) and your size, and write everything in an email message, adding the link to the item page in the site. Please don't forget the size.
Add your real name and surname, address and so on, so that I will be able to send you the stuff as soon as i receive it at my home.
Send the email message to swannstenvaag@yahoo.it as soon as you can, within this week, please. I can't check for my email so often, then I hope to find all of your messages when I look for them. I'll make just one order for all of you non-EU players so it's important that i receive all of your four email messages as soon as possible. I'll have to pay some shipping costs to send the stuff to all of you, so what i thought to do is to "buy" a part of your discount tickets and use this money for shipping costs. I hope you agree.

If the people concerned don't read this, please any team member warn them.

All EU players, instead, will have their own codes to make their orders by themselves soon.

SNN 4 - Verona 5 May 2008

Again a very close game against Verona.
And again, early in the game, we were taken by the surprise
of playing against a good passing team.
We fell behind quickly to a score of 1-4
(I believe that was the score at half time.)
But our defense adapted well and held Verona to 1 goal in the
second half while we scored 3.
We did very well at intercepting passes and defending near the goal.
I wish we could have played a third half !

Verona's winning strategy was to stop Zyl (he was complaining
about too many players on him), however I think this could have
been overcome with passing to open players.
They did this the first time we played them too.
We should have trained for this !
We need to have pre-planned offensive attacks like
Verona and Koln.
We saw what happened when 3 good-passing and tactics players
from Koln played for Milan against Verona.
Most defenses are not accustomed to defending against
a well-organized attack. (the weakness of the tackling
animation. makes it even more difficult.)

One thing I did NOT notice in this game was the use of the
look-down dribble.
That may be a partial explanation of the low score.
The game was more enjoyable.
I find playing against players who use this kind of dribbling
frustrating and aggravating.
It's not practical to have a rule against it but I think players
can be shamed into not using it.
If you see someone using this dribble to drive through defenders,
shout it out to everyone.

No fear, I'm not back yet!

Hi all,
yes I am alive, and I am writing this post in English so that most of you can understand it.
I didn't forget about all of you, and I miss most of you, anyway these weeks I am not really able to be there with you on SL.
I started having internet connection troubles, then I took the chance and thought that I really had to use my time to finish my exams (I did it!); now I am breathless because of the thesis for some time yet.
I won't hide I am glad I took back much time for myself, for my duties and things I had to do. Staying away from the web for a while has been salubrious, I guess, and not having connection at home helped me to use better my time.

Now I am here on our Blog - and not on SL or on secondfootball - because i just want to greet you, the team, the people i used to "meet" almost everyday. I don't care a bit about lots of people "elsewhere" - probably most of them don't even deserve one word from me. I wonder if somebody "there" now misses me or maybe gloats for my absence, anyway i still don't miss one single minute of my time spent with certain people (if any not-team-member is reading this, hey, you know well whether you are among that "certain people" or not, so stop complaining if it's not the case).

The only one reason that held me back in SL lately was the attachment to my team members. I won't dare to call you friends, because in my opinion it's not the right word to use when you never met a person. Anyway, I really care about you and I feel a little guilty for being far so long, but that's it. I heard that Tarcisio made a great job playing the role of the Boss in the meanwhile, and I feel really lucky having him there. I also know that others helped and keep helping him, and i want to thank every single person about that.

Moving on to "technical matters", if somebody ever wondered where the L$ (not the Kappa stuff) written on your contracts are (Tarcisio, did you pay out of your pocket, maybe playing as an escort night-time?), i want to assure that when I come back to SL I'll pay my dues, before the contracts end for sure, so that I'll respect all of them.

What else? One thing. That could seem dull but - who cares. I want you to remember that yes, you're playing a game, you're having some fun in front of your monitor, but the most of you are a group of people which met many months ago and keeps meeting for playing together. I want you to take this in mind. You can win and you can lose the games, you can have fun today or get angry for something, but my opinion is that the most important thing is the time shared together. It's precious, and I don't want anybody to waste too much time in silly matters. Ok, probably silly matters are the spice which keeps the thing alive, but I'd like you to enjoy your time in SNN, enjoy the company of your teammates, because every single person here is special in his own way. Try to ride over little troubles and aim to enjoy your time together. This is the real victory.

Ciao,

Swann

Team Training

We MUST have at least one long practice session with all team players
before our next game with Verona.

Individual training is good but organized team training wins games.

I have added 3 new blogs on the other site.

SNN - Palermo 14-5 (6-1)

A game dominated by SNN from the beggining to the final, with good organization from our team, especially good interceptions and good finishing from our attackers. I want to congratulate all players and I am truly glad on how we played, certainly the most relaxing and well managed game so far. Now we must concentrate on the important Verona game ahead of us and I expect to see players training all week!

Goals: Zyl 8, Felice 2, Radu, Tarcisio, AG 2

Ringers !

Milan 13 - Verona 10
(Game is under protest and may be replayed)

We knew something fishy was going on as we heard the scores
come in of the Milan-Verona match. How could the bottom team
in the standings win over the top team?

It seems that 3 players from Koln played for Milan under
different names (I think), bringing their passing tactics with them.
Koln is the best passing team that we have played and I think that
Verona had the same problem we had: they simply have not had
much experience playing against such good passing tactics and did
not have time to adjust their defenses to counter these attacks.
I did not witness the game, but I think this is a reasonable assumption.

Are good passing tactics and skills the biggest difference
between first and last place teams?

I think yes.

There were also accusations of cheating by using some kind of blocker.
See SecondFootball.com forums for more information.

We have lost 3 recent friendlys to the best passing teams;
Stuttgart, Koln and Verona.

We will lose again if we do not train to counter attacks like this.

I will draw graphs on the other blog of the attacks used against
us and suggestions to help defenses counter them.

Or do you think maybe I should put them in this blog for everyone to see?
Everyone knows what tactics are used as they play these teams,
it's no secret after the fact.
It would be helpful to everyone if they knew ahead of time.

What do you think?

! ! ! HEY ! ! !

I just found out a couple of days ago that tackling is easier with a smaller avatar.
And I found out today that this was discussed in the Italian forum of secondfootball.com
a week or two ago.

Someone should have informed the team on this page.

In Sundays loss against Perugia I had several balls ghost through me and
probably through others who did not know about the smaller avatars.

We lost by one goal.

Go figure.