Guld i GT-cupen!

For the second time this year Azalea -93 girls brought home the gold medal in a big tournament, GT-cupen. The Sunday afternoon final result against Eriksberg was 4-1. That proved that latest result 3-0 certainly was not just a lucky accident.






Totto was chosen the game's best player, cool!







Read an interview with Agnes, captain and goal keeper here.



Irma's mom Lena served awsome chocolate cake for celebration.





Photo: Bibbi Forsman

Read all cup results here.

finally!

Photo: Bibbi Forsman

To win over Eriksberg seemed for a long time impossible, like a jinx. That changed totally on Tuesday, we scored 3 goals the first 20 minutes, the final result of the game. Parents were equally happy.

Majvallen is a nice field, centrally located in Göteborg on the edge of the huge park Slottskogen. This is also the new address for Azalea since the old club house was sold earlier this year.

Improved results

Photo: Bibbi Forsman

Results improved after the slow season start, for the latest three games 6-0, 18-0 and 5-0. To follow results in the series, girls 16 click here and and girls 15 here. Right now we are leading and in third place, but there are still many games to e played.

This was a nice late summer evening at Slottskogsvallen, last Wednesday.

celebrating ullevi

Photo: Cornelia F.

The sports arena Ullevi celebrates 50 years this year. Last Wednesday the Swedish and French National men's teams played a friendly game as part of the jubilee. Azalea BK was invited to manifest youth soccer along with other clubs. It was well worth a little rain and even if Sweden lost 2-3 it was a fun match to watch.

Azalea player in the Swedish National Team!

Photo: Per Schillander

Our very own Sofia H. will attend the next training camp for the girls 15 Swedish National team in September. She will be the only Göteborg player. Sofia has been an Azalea player since 2000 and we are so very, very proud of her!

F-93 jubilee

August 16 was a day to celebrate, exactly eight years since the first F-93 training. This is one of the earliest photos in the web archive. 2001, match against Mossen.

A new season started

We played our first series game for the season last week. Qviding beat us. Maybe we were more like happy house cats than hungry lions, after the successful USA CUP adventure. We had better focus the second half and there will be other chances to fight.



Clever spectators created a nice shelter from the soft rain.



Photo Bibbi Forsman

Great cookies is some comfort after a lost game (and bananas). All parents take turns keeping the "fikabord" filled for the home games. "Apelsinplan" has been our home field this season. The grass is as green as it can be here, perfect.

Norwegian/Swedish jokes

Click here to read about how our dear neighbours make fun of us (USA Cup blog post). Exactly the same jokes are told the other way around :)

E.R. special

Here are the photos we didn't dare show moms and dads at home before they could see for themselves all girls are fine:



We happened to be the USA Cup's medical center's most treated team 2008. The staff at the center were incredibly caring and helpful. They took care of knees, feet, stomachs and heads as well as heat stroke, an infected spider bite and an asthma attack. We are all fine now!






This is the board used to keep track of and direct the ambulance cars to different fields. Field L2 "the Swedish field" had visits twice.







Photo: Bibbi Forsman and Pia Dybeck

Record for one day: three pair of crutches for one knee and two feet.

Record for one match: team Passion's quarter final with four players from our team and three from the other. Hope they are all fine too!

Being treated was free, but x-ray, crutches and medicines we had to pay for. Nearest pharmacy most conveniently located at Super Target, where we hang out for lunch anyway.