Humps and lumps, at Chelsea, 25th May 2007
Last Friday, I played for an IBM football team in a Right-to-Play tournament at Stamford Bridge. We represented Ethiopia.
We won the cup.
We won the cup.
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(Pictures above show our team with the Ethiopian flag, then as the winners with the Chelsea cheerleaders, and me and my spare tyre racing away from the opposition).
There were 16 teams in 4 groups. The winners of the groups played a semi final, and then those winners played in the "world cup final".
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Other teams were from Reuters, Vodafone, Xerox, HP, American Express, etc.
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We won our group with: P 6, W 4, D 1, L1, Points 13. Group games were played across the width of the pitch, 7-a-side for 12 minutes straight.
The semis and the final were played 11 a side on the full length pitch. That killed me, even though it was only 8 minutes each half. I could hardly move the next day, but I can retire now and say that I have won the world cup.
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(For IBM readers, there is article on w3: http://w3.ibm.com/news/w3news/top_stories/2007/05/uknews_IBMwincharityworldcup.html)
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