It was a poor start for the Barbarians All-Stars in the first week of ClubFootball’s final 5-a-side tournament of 2008. With two key players pulling out at the last minute and one no-show (that would be you, Adam), we were left with just 4 players at kickoff. Fortunately, at the last minute we were able to get Nega (who plays 11s with Afrika Utd. but isn’t currently in the CF league) to come over from the Side Park 11s pitch and fill in at forward.

With the odds stacked against us, we put together two solid performances. In both matches, we kept the score low and created quite a few opportunities on goal but simply couldn’t get any breaks. In the end we lost 2-0 to France and 3-1 to Azzurri.

Lineup: Andrey, Bujar, Dave, Keith, Nega