The Varsity Soccer Tournament 2008

A Tournament Characterized by Irony with Many Upsetting Surprises

Mahmoud Ben Halim

It was a tournament which had an ironic ending for the boys and a great ending for the Schutz girls’ team. With a total of four teams for the boys and three teams for the girls, the 2008 ISAC Varsity Soccer tournament was a lot of fun. Schools that participated included SAS, NCBIS from Cairo, NNS from Abu Dhabi, and BBS from Kuwait. The Kuwait team had only boys participating in the event. Both Schutz boys and girls teams school had a lot of spirit and energy and were ready to win.

The Varsity Boys soccer team consisted of Dikran Alexandrian, Mohamed Seif, Khaled El Naggar, Isa Abu El Ella, Osama Oraby, Ahmed Aryoud, Youssed El Akad, Youssef Talaat, Mohamed Seif, Mohamed Zahran, Marawan Zahran, Mahmoud Ben Halim, Huissen Barakat, and Rafik Zaher. The girl soccer team consisted of Aya Kordy, Nawara Hamam, Farida Kira, Farah Kashwa, Hana Kotb, Hana El Amrawy, Shereen El Khazandar, Hoda el Dib, Nada Zaher, Nourhan El Salab, Alaa El Damaty, and Ingy Fahmy.

The tournament went really well for our teams on the first and second days. On the second day, the SAS boys’ team were seeded one and the girls were tied at the second seed. However, on the last day, the boys lost the game against NCBIS bringing them to play against Kuwait for third and fourth place. The match against Kuwait ended in a fight, which resulted in the disqualification of both teams.

The Abu Dhabi team got first place and the NCBIS got second place. Moving on to the girls, SAS got first place, NCBIS got second, and Abu Dhabi got third place. Although the boys’ team got disqualified, they played really well together and tried to achieve a good ranking. It is true that in sports you do not win al the time, but losing is part of an important process to learn to be better.