April 10th, 2008 — Next Matches
The The A team face their biggest battle of the season this weekend as they take on the not so mighty Vikings. The A’s have looked a much stronger outfit this second half season, however, the Vikings are much improved too. Despite the improvement though, the Vikings are still firmly slotted in the relegation zone and defeat to our A’s will almost surely guarantee their departure from top flight football. Victory for the A’s will mean that only a natural disaster of titanic proportions will see them relegated from the Premier League. The A’s currently lie 6 points clear of the Vikings, and a win on Sunday will make it a whopping 9 points! For a team that doesn’t have 9 points after 15 games, the Vikings will surely find it too much to make up that ground in the final handful of games.
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April 10th, 2008 — Match Reports
It’s been a long time in the waiting…
The Summer palace game saw some of our best football yet. Defence, Midfield and Attack combined well and we dominated all over the pitch. It was one of the few matches this season where we were able to play the ball back and through the defence. Our tight formation meant we were able to control the game all over the pitch, deny the opposition space and back each other up.
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March 25th, 2008 — Next Matches
B Team: Match this Saturday 29/3/08 vs Summer Palace at 15:00, Dulwich College (near airport expressway) Transport details and meet times to follow. Those going direct, meet at pitch at 14:00. It’s the same place we played the Summer Fives Tournament.
March 25th, 2008 — Match Reports
The game started well with Barbarians taking the upperhand. Phil Heggli recently back from a tour of Bangladesh was drafted into defence. It was his quick freekick from deep in our own half that put Claudius Hildebrand through on goal for the opener. 1-0. Andrew Evans, marauding on the left wing, provided the second with a clean clinical strike. 2-0. The first of our tough tackling anchor men to score was Samy, charging through the defence and beating the keeper to the ball. He finished with a delicate chip then clattered with the keeper. 3-0. Shorlty before half time, re-organization at the back put an end to Thumb Korea’s wing play. The half time talk was focused on defending well and keeping the clean sheet.
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March 19th, 2008 — Next Matches
Match this Sunday vs Renda FC Opposition changed to Thumb Korea at 12:00, SiDe Gong Yuan (near Lido).
Meet in Frank’s Place at 10:15 for squad discussion and tactics…
Or go direct to pitch at 11:00. Warm up for first eleven starts at 11:15
March 19th, 2008 — Match Reports
An interesting encounter that saw us pegged against our closest rivals this season. They now sit 4 points ahead of us and still have the Beijing Rockers game which will give them a 6-0 victory. We won’t meet them again this season, but we can still beat them in the table. Our current position puts us above Celtics and Renda with Azzuri reachable and Italy 10 points clear. Our objective this season should be first to retain our current position, then to beat Azzuri on the table, our super objective is to finish above Italy in the top four. If we all pull together and play our best, I believe these objectives are attainable.
The game started well with the teams evenly matched for the most part. A defensive error lead to the first opportunity but nobody could stop the pace of the Azzuri forward who rounded a number of defenders before finishing from an impossible angle.
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March 16th, 2008 — Uncategorized
www.beijingbarbarians.com
To keep up with the ever more ambitious plans of the Beijing Barbarians football Club, it seemed necessary to renew the website, freshen up the outlook and add up-to-date tools.
The main new features are the BLOG, which will be used to publish match reports and the Wiki, which will provide a variety of information (for external as well as for internal use).
Important is that many more people contribute to the maintenance of this website. The Barbarians have grow out to a real community and are about much more than playing an 11-a-side match every week.
Players and others will have the ability to upload pictures, write articles, publish events, … And for the future, there will be a page where players have to sign in and confirm their presence for next match.
The most basic contribution, to start with, would be for all of you to now and then write a little comment in our Blog!
March 15th, 2008 — News
Last weekend saw the annual Barbs derby, and it seems that each year the two teams get closer and closer together in terms of quality. However, I am happy to see that the game was played in the best possible spirit and those that went to the Japanese after had a great time.
There have been several changes in how the Club is being run….
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March 9th, 2008 — News
Having a football team in Beijing is much more than playing the ’soccer’ game.
This blog will be used for publishing many stories and receiving a lot of comments, but in the first place we will ask the team captains/managers to write down here the match reports.
