The last time I watched a soccer match at the stadium was before I got married! Me and hubby used to go to a lot of matches, him being a soccer fanatic. Hubby used to be a very good soccer player, before his knee started to give him trouble a few years back. He was captain of the soccer team during his poly days and he also played during his NIE days and I was always at the soccer field whenever he plays. Whenever he scores a goal, he would run around the field in delight and wave at me :)
At one point when he was younger he even dreamt of making it big at national level. But his knee problems gave him nothing but disappointment. Thus Hubby has dreams of Kyle making it big in soccer and achieving what he could not do. I on the other hand do not really wish for Kyle to be overly serious about soccer. I watched too many injuries inflicted on Hubby whenever he played soccer and I do not wish for my son to go through that. Example of Hubby's injuries: head injury which requires stitches and knee injury which required surgery and metal inplantation!!
Kyle does show promising soccer skills since young. He could dribble and kick balls using either leg. He delivers very powerful kicks which always make Hubby's face light up. I do not mind Kyle taking it up as a CCA in school but not on a serious basis please!! Hmm...how about violin or piano dear? I can see Hubby's eyes rolling already!
Well anyway, we got tickets to watch the Singapore/Vietnam match last Sun on 21st Dec so we decided to bring the kids along. It is a 1st time experience for them and believe me, nothing beats the atmosphere of being in a stadium packed with 50000 soccer-mad die-hard fans.
On the way there
Sea of Red
Excited Us!
People were dancing and singing. We were seated right in front nearby to the Diehard Fan Club so it was really noisy and happening. At one point during the match, Kyle was quite scared because everyone was shouting and calling the players and referees all the vulgarities they could think of! I instinctively covered their ears!
The kids joined in the Ole Ole song, did the Kallang Roar and waved their Singapore balloons!
Singapore's loss did not damper our mood much as we were happy the kids had fun.
We are already thinking of the next match to go :)
