Last weekend was the Office Depot Cup Final. It was really hard to get to it. I remember that I stopped updating you on the tournament during the pase couple of weeks so that is what I am going to do first, tell you about how we got to the final. After that, I will tell you about the Final Game and how we got to win the tournament.

We managed to get a second place in the first stage of the tournament, the League Table stage we could say. Our goal for the first stage was for us to get either the first or second place in the table. Because if we managed to do that, we would play in the semifinal the teams that didn’t get a higher table finish in the first stage. So we would have more advantage because that would mean that the other team was not so good and we would play the first game at their field.

We got a second place in the League Table after all of the games. Now it was time for us to play the semifinal against Achik, the team that we tied against 3 to 3 in one of the first games. There were going to be 2 games in the semifinal, the 1st leg and the 2nd leg. How that works is that the first game was going to be in their field, but since they didn’t have a place to play when the game was happening, we played at Sporta so we had more advantage that we already had because it was our field.

I cannot describe you very well the 1st leg because I didn’t play the game, I was unable to play. But the result that we got was a 3 to 1 in our favor. But I was ready for the 2nd leg and I played it.They had to score 4 goals to get to the final and we have never lost by 4 goals. The first time was a really hard part because we weren’t playing to our 100%. We started winning 1 to 0 very early in the game but then when the first half was ending Achik scored one goal, so we were 1 to 1.

Then in the second time we were totally better than them. We couldn’t be playing better or more concentrated on winning and getting to the final. The final result was 5 to 1, meaning that the total result was 8 to 2. For us it was a very good game against a team that we couldn’t win against in the start of the season but now we where a lot better. But we knew that there was one more game that we had to play the same way for us to be champions. Around 5 days before the game we went to watch the other semifinal in which Camperonix was playing Comunicaciones. Camperonix was the team that got the first place in the League Table and Comunicaciones got the last place to get to the other round, fourth place. Camperonix won but we learned and saw most of the tactics that they use.

The final was going to take place at Sporta. So it was our field and there was no other better way for us to win the tournament against Camperonix. The game ended and the final result was 2 to 1 in our favor. It was a really hard game because in the final minutes when we were winning they went with everything that they had left to try to score a goal to get the game to extra time. But we managed to control them and won the game. I was not so happy in some time of the second time because I slipped while doing a penalty and missed but then I managed to forget it and play a lot better. The best thing was that we ended up being CHAMPIONS of the tournament!

Here are a couple of pictures: