Big congratulations to the Saigon Hotshots for winning this year’s Open Tournament of the Far East Football Tournament in the penalty shootouts. Well done to the Bayon Wanderers for reaching the final! A detailed post of the tournament experience will be shared soon!
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This year will take place the 36th edition of the International Far East Football Tournament (far-east-tournament.com) also known as GAS tournament (German All Stars Tournament ( gasbkk.com ) as its organised by the German All Stars Bangkok, this year’s event marks a special celebration as it’s the club’s 50th year anniversary since it’s inauguration in 1968.
On the weekend of April 21st and 22nd 2018, a total of 46 teams will join to compete in three competitions. Once again, the tournament runs at full capacity with several teams on the waiting list.
The International Far East Football Tournament has undoubtedly become the highlight in the international football calendar in Thailand and throughout Asia. Next to teams from Thailand, the German All Stars are happy to welcome friends from Singapore, China, UAE, Malaysia, France, England, Switzerland, Vietnam, Africa and many more. It’s also great to see that the majority of teams have participated for many years and visit us again in 2018. At the same time, we’re happy to meet new teams competing in the tournament for the first time.
Every year, the official opening of the event takes place at the Captain’s Dinner on Friday night before the tournament. All team captains plus another team member per team are invited to join the Captain’s Dinner at 7pm on Friday, 20 April 2018 at a Deutsches Eck on Sukhumvit Soi 20. The team captains are invited to join a full buffet with German delicacies including imported brewed specialties (not more than two reps per team).
We arranged that also all other team members are invited to join the captain’s dinner at the outside terrace where they can follow the drawing of teams via live video screen. Expenses have to be covered by the participants themselves, but special prices for German beers are offered
| TEAMS | COUNTRY |
| German All Stars Bangkok | Bangkok |
|
SAIGON HOTSHOTS
|
Vietnam |
| Farangutan FC | Thailand |
| SWISS FC Singapur | Singapore |
| Steinert S.C. | Germany |
| Scandinavian Vikings | Thailand |
| Saigon Saints | Vietnam |
| Bayon Wanderers FC | Cambodia |
| Forbidden City FC | China |
| Hanoi Capitals | Vietnam |
| Redstar FC | Vietnam |
| German All Stars Singapore | Singapore |
| Wanchai Spartans | Hong Kong |
| Beijing Rockets Football Club | China |
| B52 Carnegies FC | Taipei |
| pl | Member | sp | T | TD | pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
SAIGON HOTSHOTS
|
4 | 10: 2 | 8 | 10 |
| 2 |
German All Stars Bangkok
|
4 | 12: 3 | 9 | 8 |
| 3 |
Redstar FC
|
4 | 5: 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 |
B52 Carnegie’s FC
|
4 | 3: 4 | -1 | 3 |
| 5 |
Wanchai Spartans
|
4 | 1:20 | -19 | 0 |
| No. | F | beginning | Gr | game | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 2 | 21.4. 09:00 | A |
German All Stars Bangkok
|
1 : 1 | |
| 13 | 1 | 21.4. 12:00 | A |
Wanchai Spartans
|
0 : 6 | |
| 20 | 2 | 21.4. 13:30 | A |
Redstar FC
|
1 : 2 | |
| 26 | 2 | 21.4. 15:00 | A |
SAIGON HOTSHOTS
|
B52 Carnegie’s FC
|
1 : 0 |
| No. | F | beginning | game | Result | nV | nE | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| pl | Member |
|---|---|
| CHAMPION | SAIGON HOTSHOTS |
| 2 | Bayon Wanderers |
| 3 | Farangutan FC |
| 4 | Forbidden City FC |
| 5 | German All Stars Bangkok |
| 6 | Hanoi Capitals |
| 7 | Redstar |
| 8th | Beijing Rockets Football |
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Training with Saigon hotshots lads and enjoying some fresh “Chelas” afterwards Papagayo.
Location: Santiago de Bernabeu (PLA)
Spectators: 30,958
Match day and this time there is no turning back, the season is starting for real! Few weeks of rainy trainings, friendlies and a good amount of towers down at Sports bar have prepared the team for a good start against the former club of our manager Leo, surely a special game for him.
Overcoming the emotion of the first match, the team focus is intense from the 1st steps during the warm-up and up to the final and now famous Roar “Ahou Ahou Ahou” screamed alongside the public, which attends massively for this opening.
The game starts with pace and with a high team pressure from the team putting their defense into despair. Barely 13’ into the game when a good combination Dom-Clem-Kevin leads into a clinical finish from our #9. Game on. With as much as 80% of possession in the first half, Hotshot is outrageously dominating the game and waves keep coming at the opponents, both from the wings and through the center, from left to right, from top to toe, here and there and so on, they are lost and so am I. The promising association between our #10 and #9 is just too smooth and in a blink of an eye, 2nd, 3rd, 4th goal, 40’ minute, game over, half time. The public just could not believe it, who would have expected such a great start? We certainly did.
Second half starts and it’s about to get ugly but we don’t know that. While we expect a remake of the first half, Hotshots starts to play Arsenal-like and that’s no good, sorry Joe. 17 shots on target, 11 on keeper, and 2 impossible misses. But impossible is not Hotshots and Baptiste, not the fastest but often at the right place at the right time draws the first fire of the second half, 5-0. While our team is slowly stretching and stretching lines, a thunder strike flashes: A screamer of a free-kick by Clem, to be shown in all academies, starting with Fox Football. End of the show, the last 20 minutes are desolation, looks more like Kabbadi than football, the supporters start to leave, but who cares?
Final blow, this is the first win of a great season ahead, a solid collective performance from 16 players which sets us on the right foot for the first big game of the season against RAIDERS next Saturday. The game starts tomorrow at training, see you there!
Clement Lemaire – Mon, Sep 25
