India to play at last (day 14)

Oh, it is just like I have been through in various previous championships, the team performance should work to their maximum perfomance at the end of the tournament. We had some good days, with maybe the first half against Macau as the top.

Still between basket and korf, but the ball starts to be a known friend. Various action seem to be chaotic but are all based on the restriction the rules apply to the game. Players start to grow during our daily training sessions. We have to play, gain experience, but I am so glad we started this roadtrip.

Breakfast - relax - team meeting and departure to the venue. Players are exited, to give their last day some glance with a new chance against India. No nerves, just fun.

And we started without our main scoring player and captain Jeff, some fever left him at his hotel room. But we knew that other players would step up and the team by the hand.

A good start with iron Tyron brought a quick 2-0 lead. India though was the beter team. More forced our defenders to go backwards. Through 10 running in shots and deflicting penalty shots India took a deserved 14-7 half-time lead.

The second half we started to focus on our scoring and we managed to score a record 17 points.

We finished 6th just one spot behind the second biggest (korfball) nation, proud to showed our pride, the tiger cubs just delivered its first growl. We are going to release this animal back and it will grow up and growl again. Will it ever be the king of the Asian forest......? Time will tell.

Of course party, selfies and happy faces, Jeff has to be proud that captain Jessel took so much care of the team today.

Thank you staff for bringing this team to the Championships.

Tomorrow we have the final two matches to decide the medals. Tonight a goodbye to Hsinchu by night. Sunday evening I fly back to Amsterdam.