U-13 DELHI DYNAMOS YOUTH CHAMPIONS CUP

At a pleasant morning, 7 players from our team, Gurgaon Gladiators set off to Ghitorni to a farmhouse sports center, where we would be participating in our second tournament the previous one which we were victors of. Now this would be more challenging, after this being U-13, and players from Delhi were also set to participate, and suddenly the competition had just stiffened. We saw the players arrive, and they looked much taller and stronger than us, and from that moment, we knew we were infor a tough fight this time. The first opponent we beat 2-0, and we dominated throughout with two goals from me and we owned with great plays and we split holes in their defence, but the keeper just held them in the game. Next, we had a team that was quite bigger than us, and it was an arduous match. We put all our efforts into it. We were 1 down for some time, but we equalised and were ecstatic that we held them to a draw. The next match was against a team that had a quant name called cheeseburgers, and it was another match where we had a draw, this time both sides with no goals. After the group stages, we were all biting our nails who qualified for the final. We did, and against cheeseburgers once again. Their keeper was a wall and highly skilled, as we could get a shot  past him. But our keeper was equally rock solid, with some astonishing diving saves and speedy reflexes. Again, it ended 0-0. But this time, it was down to penalties. Here's what happened. The opposition scored and we missed, they missed and so did we. Then they missed and it was my turn. I had to scored, or we had lost. The pressure was mad. At that moment, my heart was racing but I converted the spot-kick to keep us in the game. Now it was time for Sudden Death. Our keeper saved it, and it was his chance for the penalty. If he scored, we would have won our second tournament as Gurgaon Gladiators. And luckily we did. He hammered it past the goalie, and we burst into joy. We got handed out our prizes, and we had been crowned champions once again. And we were even more over the moon, after all it was under-13 and our team was fully 11. Man, what a tiring day. But it was worth it, as the second trophy was handed to us