Just about a week back, I was on cloud nine. Was made the captain of the first ever Capgemini football team in the weirdest of circumstances. And to put the icing on the cake, scored the first ever goal for capgemini and ended the match with a hattrick. But afsoos ki baat hain ki we ended up conceding four second half goals and drawing against an IBM team that didn’t look half as good as us. But still I had a feel, that our team had finally arrived on the corporate scene and greatness awaited us. Hehe.. but I was mistaken or rather I can say that my conclusion was premature and thoughtless and reality beckoned us not too far away.
Two more matches to go. Win one of them and we are thru to the next round. Sounded very simple. No fuss whatsoever. But our wicked yet practical minds were taking us on a different route. We were overconfident or ignorant or god knows what, we thought we’d walk thru our 1st match against Sankalpa and so a lot of analysis were being made throughout the week as to where we’ll finish in our group etc etc… so we came up with a plan to play badly in the second match of the day, lose it and finish 2nd or 3rd in the group so that we get easier opponents in the next round.
Hehe… but life aint that simple. We lost our 1st match to Sankalpa software( funny name for an IT firma) by the odd goal in three, that too the goal coming off a penalty before the start of the game because the opponents turned up late to the ground. Pathetic performance. Especially by the captain, who saw the best and the worst of his games in his 1st two corporate matches.
So now just one way out. Beat Samsung next, or go home losers. And that’s exactly what happened. Though it was a much improved matured performance, we still lacked The FITNESS The EXPERIENCE The COMPOSURE to pull off a win. And the end result the same as previous with identical scoreline. Capgemini had come and gone in a flash, nobody even noticed them. Time to pack up and say goodbye to the 1st tour without even getting to play on the final day of the event. As the captain always says “Its all in the Game”. Time to move on and look ahead and play better ball next time around.
Two defeat’s in a day were heartbreaking enough, but the third one literally killed me off. Never expected Arsenal to get run over that badly at Old Trafford. 4-0 was too much of a drubbing to digest. Might be the injury worries, or the champion’s league at the back of their minds. Whatever it was, it all went awfully wrong for Wenger and his boys. But have to accept it did hurt more that finishing at the bottom of the table leading my company team. That always gets me to think. Why do I give so much importance to someone else’s playing football than to my game. I might never be able to answer that.
But at the end of the day, I know I’l get another chance to lead my team sooner that later when lots of things can be set right.
And I also know that we’l get another shot soon to break that cocky Nani’s legs since we are going to Oldtrafford again in two months time.
So will be waiting to see who celebrates first.
Sandy the Capgemini Captain, or Sandy the Gunner. That only time will tell.
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