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TOURNOI DE SIXTE 21 MAY 2009
I said for the Charbonniere match that this was the last football match of the season. Well, I was wrong. There were still another 100 or so to go.
Pionsat's next season begins almost as soon as the last match of the previous season ends. The thing that sets everything in motion is an open competition or tournament for 6-a-side teams. This always takes place at Pentecost, which is a public holiday here in France.
There are decent prizes on offer in this tournament, and the remainder of the money goes towards financing the club for the forthcoming season. Running the club isn't cheap and so they need all the help that they can get. And after all, it's the best form of entertainment there is round here on winter Saturday evenings and Sunday afternoons.
You can see that the turnout of spectators was particularly impressive. I don't think I've ever seen so many people at a Pionsat football match before. It's a shame that more people don't make the effort to come and watch the team play.
And you can see how lucky we were with the weather too - at least right at the start. As the day wore on, the story wasn't quite the same, as you will see if you keep right on to the end of the day's entertaiment.
We have to start by getting the priorities right.
The most important source of fundraising for any football club at this level is the Pie Hut. And Pionsat is no exception. The Pie Hut today was very well-patronised as you can see, with even the players joining in the patronising.
They also had a buffet serving hot dogs and chips. Even I was enticed by the smell of chips for once, although they will never ever have decent chips in France until they learn to cut them to a decent thickness and discover malt vinegar and newspaper wrapping.
The way that the tournament is organised, it encourages participation from all kinds of teams at all levels. The teams are placed into pools of four or five and the teams in each pool play each other once. The winners and runners up of each pool go on to compete in a knock-out competition for the championship, and the other teams go on to compete in a knock-out for a consolation prize.
That way, each team is assured of at least 4 games to make sure they get their money's worth and they all have some kind of chance of winning something.
The system occasionally throws up some matches that appear bizarre at first glance. Some teams are clearly well-organised and are obviously regular players for established teams in the Puy de Dome and neighbouring leagues - with one team coming from as far away as Normandy. Other teams are simply here to enjoy themselves and to compete for the pleasure of competing.
Everyone is welcome to compete and there's no sex discrimination. There was one all-girl team and another team that was predominantly female but with a male goalkeeper. There were women scattered around some of the other teams too.
There's no age discrimination either, as you can see. I reckon that that little girl was probably four or five years old and she was getting stuck into the game on a serious basis.
So given the sometimes important difference in level in quality of the teams, how is it arranged that there are no serious and disheartening spannerings of the more "open" teams? The answer to that is that the games in the "pools" are only of four minute duration, and you can't score many goals in four minutes, even if you had no opposition at all.
But don't be misled by the difference in quality of the teams. It's still what you do in a moment that counts.
On one occasion, a little boy in a team (and I'm not sure if it wasn't this lad here) found himself in a really good goalscoring position with just the keeper to beat, and slotted it home in a fashion that would have been a good lesson to some of the players that I've seen in the Puy de Dome League this season.
Now from here on in, I'm not pretending that this will be an account, whether in order or not, of the actual matches. It's just a collection of photos with me adding comments about things that are worth mentioning or that I can remember happening.
But if you were at the tournament or otherwise wish to comment on the pics, please with your remarks and I'll add them to the text. I would particularly like to know the names of the players and the names of the teams.
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In four minutes of open play it was not very often that a match would be decided on goals scored and a great number went on to penalty shootouts.
These are always something of a lottery and quite often don't reflect the balance of play. Having said that however, in cases where there is a great imbalance in play, you wouldn't really need a penalty shootout, even in just four minutes.
We mentioned age discrimination "well, one of us did" - ed a while ago. This applied just as equally at the older end of the spectrum as well as at the younger end.
This goalkeeper could probably give me a couple of years and still be out in front, yet here he was still pushing the penalties wide of the post.
Notice once more Bernard's sartorial elegance as he officiates.
This is a match involving one of the Pionsat teams, with Damien of the 3rd XI in goal.
Damien is more noted for his enthusiasm than his prowess, as he will be the first to admit. He's not having much luck with his penalties today, but then again neither did many of the keepers.
In fact the standard of goalkeeping all round was something of a disappointment. Damien and his opposite number were pretty fair enough as things went, but the majority were clearly in it for reasons other than their skill.
In fact, had I realised this, I would have been up here early on in order to blag my way onto someone's team. It's almost 30 years since I last played seriously in goal (for CSS Burford House v CSS Oak Street in 1980) but I wouldn't mind having another go on an informal basis. This would be the kind of place to do it and to see how I still measure up. I can't create too much of a complete disaster in only four minutes.
Don't stand there looking at it, Damien. Move for it!
And the same to you too!
And as I said earlier, it's an open competition so no question of any discrimination on any grounds whatsoever. Here we have one team of 6 girls playing against a team that was almost exclusively feminine in make-up ..."groan" - ed.
There are many people who ridicule the efforts of ladies football, but this match here would have silenced the knockers. It was definitely one of the more open games of the tournament.
And I've seen many goalkeepers much worse than this girl who was playing in goal for the ladies' team.
She wasn't too keen on diving flat-out on the pitch but she had a safe pair of hands and could handle balls with comparative ease. Her delivery was pretty effective too and she knew how to clear her lines.
Up front they had a lively pair of strikers who knew how to score, as demonstrated in this photo. No doubt about the outcome of this penalty.
In fact the women's team proved to be the undoing of a couple of men during a penalty shootout later on, as we shall see.
Yes, well the ball might be a bit close to her but that's not important. You still have to stop them and it doesn't matter how you do it as long as you do.
And then as long as one of your team mates can whack it into the corner of the net you are in front. And it's the final score that counts in the end.
And if you can make yourself big in the goal then you are always in with a chance of stopping a shot.
But not every time.
And the girl taking the penalty - I saw her play in another match against an organised team of men a little later. And on one occasion in that match she worked her way into a good position in front of goal and finished in a style that would have been the envy of a more than just a couple of players in organised football.
One of the teams that entered the competition was made up of members of the local fire brigade and I recognised all of the players from having seen many of the local teams in action during the course of the season.
In goal was none other than Michael, who keeps goal for Pionsat's 2nd XI these days. Here he manages to push a penalty around the post.
Not so his opposite number who despite going the right way, is comprehensively beaten by a thumping shot.
This time it's Michael's turn to concede a goal. He's sent the wrong way by a well-taken shot.
Now if you want to know what is meant by the phrase "beaten all ends up" then there is no finer example of that than this photograph here. However if we look further on down the page we might even see something that is a much better example of the phrase.
This shot is straight down the middle, anticipating that the goalkeeper is going to move in one direction or the other and not simply stay put on his line.
Michael is quick enough to stop his dive but the ball is hit with such force that he's not able to recover to make the save.
And this attempt seems to be a carbon copy of the previous attempt in every respect.
The player taking the kick is someone I recognise from one of Pionsat's teams but whose name I do not know. His kick is well-directed towards the corner of the net but Michael is quick enough to get down to it and smother it.
No mistake with this kick.
But I was watching this keeper throughout the tournament. He was wearing a Pionsat shirt so he obviously knows people around here and given the circumstances under which the match was being played he looked to be reasonably competent. He certainly seemed to have the rechnique.
It made me wonder why, given Pionsat's goalkeeping crisis, he hadn't been given a try-out in goal. I don't recall seeing him playing and on the evidence of today's showing, I would have liked to have seen him given 90 minutes in a full-size goal.
Max, who seems to be communications officer for the club, asked me to let him have a suitable photo from the event to send off to the local newspaper with his report.
It was a high-quality copy of this pic, saved at 350dpi, that I sent to him. You can see the game going on (it was a lively match between the pompiers and a formal team from Desertines, one of the suburbs of Montlucon) and you can also see a packed grandstand.
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Now this is the match where justice was not only done, it was seen to be done. It's an object lesson in never taking your opponents for granted.
You'll probably recognise the goalkeeper. It's François from St Priest who so distinguished himself in a match against Pionsat the other week.. he, his brother Christophe who is the sponge man for Pionsat, one or two other players and a couple of infants, were playing against the girls team.
And when they took the lead, they eased off so that the girls equalised and the match went on to penalties.
It's true to say that at the beginning François, given his pedigree as a keeper of a team in the eleventh level of the French pyramid, didn't exert himself as much as he might and I don't think that anyone would criticise my comment.
Having said that however, we saw this girl score a thumper earlier on and that should have set the odd alarm bell ringing somewhere.
One of François' team mates - one of the adults - came out and scored an equaliser. He didn't really give the girl in goal much chance despite his apparently laid-back attitude.
Next up was one of the junior members of the team. His penalty is a good high one but our gallant keeper is equal to it. This puts the pressure on the other team.
François really needs to save this shot and he goes all-out to do it. But one again it's a lovely thumper right into the corner that catches him and everyone else totally unawares.
Well, not quite everyone, for she scored a belter earlier on that is recorded for posterity a little farther up the page.
There would be many players in regular organised teams who would have been proud of scoring a penalty like the one that she just scored.
And it can only get worse as the final player pumps a high shot too close to the keeper and she grimly hangs on to win the game for her team.
One or two red faces around here right now, methinks. It's a cardinal sin to underestimate your opposition, no matter what the circumstances.
François is now back in the big time playing in goal for a team of players from the Marcillat football club.
They are in a match against a team of kids aged in the range of about 10-12 or so. And these kids are surprisingly good for their age. They aren't afraid or intimidated by playing against adults and they go quite some distance in this tournament.
And rightly so.
The player taking this kick is I think Christophe, one of the players from Pionsat's 2nd XI.
This is a beautiful kick right into the side netting. I doubt if the keeper would have saved that even if he had chosen the right direction.
Christophe is in the team for which Damien is keeping goal.
The other keeper fancies his chance and sends Damien the wrong way.
This is another one of the players from the Pionsat club. His name escapes me but he usually plays in the centre of defence for the third team.
This is a nice penalty that leaves the keeper with no chance at all.
And Damien can't quite manage to get over to this one.
Referee of this match by the way is Cedric from the First XI and son of Bernard the club president.
Damien has a go now at his opposite number. This one is straight down the middle and the keeper stands his ground and parries it.
Damien is sent the wrong way by this kick.
If you're putting the ball wide of the keeper in a penalty situation, you need to go high into the corner. This one isn't quite high enough and not quite wide enough and the keeper manages to get a hand onto it.
Damien goes literally one better than that, as he manages to get two hands onto this ball and hangs on grimly.
It's Christophe (I think) again and he's up against another familiar face - Philippe who kept goal for the Pionsat First Xi at the start of the season until he retired.
One of the perils of a keeper diving so early, apart from the fact that he isn't supposed to until the ball has been kicked, is that he leaves an open net for a quick-thinking player to tap into.
Just like here in fact.
Damien isn't left much of a chance with this shot.
Now the team that Damien's lot is playing against is called Les Hobbits. Some of the players I recognise from the Pionsat teams and some of them I don't, even though they are wearing Pionsat colours. And the ones I don't recognise are clearly footballers of some standard, just like this guy here.
This kick was another one that was really whacked into the goal. Philippe managed to read it at the last moment and dropped on it but the force of the kick carried it under his body.
Philippe expressed his dismay at letting in the goal, but I'm not going to record his comments on here. This is a family web page after all.
This is another one of the players that I didn't recognise. And you only have to look at where he has put his penalty to see that he has done it before.
And not just a couple of times either, I bet.
But Damien's team is still in there competing and the 3rd team defender sends Philippe the wrong way with this good kick.
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Now that's just about the right height to put a penalty but it would need to be much wider of the keeper.
Damien will be disappointed that he didn't manage to keep this out.
And this time it's Damien's turn to take on Philippe. Not quite high enough, not quite wide enough, but it makes no difference when it's hit with sufficient force. You can see that Damien's given it everything that he's got.
This grubber has effectively sold Damien a dummy and caught it off-balance. Just as well for the scorer for low penalties like that within the keeper's reach are the easiest ones to save and it's quite a gamble to try something like that on a regular keeper.
You can see exactly what I mean in this photo. Philippe gets his dive right and the low ball doesn't pose him any problems at all.
The final ball in this game is at a nice height for a keeper to save, but only if he is going in the right direction. Players selling a dummy to the opposing keeper is quite an art and probably the most important part of penalty taking. No goalkeeper need feel any anguish about going the wrong way to a really good dummy.
We're now back with François and the Marcillat side playing against the pompiers. The guy taking the kick plays full-back for Pionsat's second XI and makes it look easy against François, sending him the wrong way.
François sees the dummy just at the last minute but he's committed to the other direction and can't get back.
and when I get my hands on the guy who took that kick, he and I are going to have what is best called a "frank exchange of views".
I was standing behind the goal wearing a bright yellow jacket and it was clearly that he was aiming for. But he put it too high and it skimmed the crossbar and came so close to me that I felt it brush across the top of my baseball cap. Not too impressed with that, was I.
Michael guesses right with this kick, but getting the direction right is only half the battle. The other half of the battle is actually getting to the ball and that is something else all together.
I can't remember in which team I've seen this pompier play but he certainly knows his stuff. A good thump of the ball wide of the keeper, with the keeper going in the wrong direction and he made it look easy.
Michael always had this penalty covered, in every sense of the word.
There were occasionally goals scored from open play while I was around. Here, one of the Pionsat teams was far too strong for a scratch side and not surprising too seeing as how it featured Thomas and Cedric who have always impressed me whenever they have been on form.
Here, they combine to shred the defence to ribbons and with the keeper pulled miles out of his goal, Thomas has the easiest of tasks to pop one into the far corner.
In goal for Thmas and Cedric's team is Matthieu, the current first-choice keeper for Pionsat.
And as the gloom descends onto the affair with still another couple of hours to go before the end of the evening, it's his turn to face a round of penalties.
Here, he guesses not only the direction of the shot but also the placement of the ball and manages to get his hand onto it without too much by the way of difficulty.
We've said about the dangers of putting the ball too low and too close to the keeper before. But that's why you need to be able to sell him a good dummy to get him going in the wrong direction.
And the other alternative to selling the keeper a good dummy if you are sending it low and close to the keeper is to whack it really hard so that even if he does guess the right way to go he's still not going to be able to get to it.
Exactly like this one in fact. The keeper wouldn't have been able to get to that if he had come by TGV.
And remember me talking about a team of kids earlier? We're late on in the evening now and well into the knock-out stage and these kids are still storming on.
This young keeper is doing really well and isn't frightened at all by some of the shots that these adults are raining in. He's certainly equal to this shot.
His team mates aren't backwards in coming forwards either. And while the opposition is a team of all ages with a goalkeeper who is probably 14 or 15, the young lad taking the kick would have beaten most goalkeepers of any level with a kick like this.
Not very much he could do about this kick unfortunately. It's one of those occasions where you need to guess correctly and commit yourself fully, but that kind of thing will come with age and experience.
Still, as long as your mates are still banging them in you are still in with a chance. This was a delightful dummy that even had all the spectators leaning the wrong way.
But nevertheless, the keeper's job is to keep the ball out of the net and it doesn't matter at all how he does it. And if you put the kick too close to him that all he needs to do is to fall onto it, then it's a save just as much as an impressive full-length dive.
Now this lad taking the kick was a kid who really impressed me for his age. he seems to have something in the way of talent and you can see from his stance and where he has put the ball that he means business. This was another kick that would have beaten many a goalkeeper at any kind of level.
The young lad in goal stands up well to this penalty as his team mates and the opposition look on. You can see by his stance that he understands the basic techniques of goalkeeping.
If you look at this photo and the previous one featuring this goalkeeper you will see that they are almost carbon copies of each other.
This time however the ball is put in his direction but if I remember correctly it was too quick for him to get to.
Meanwhile, the pompiers are still marching on and they are having to do it by penalties again. Michael guesses the right way to dive for this kick.
This was an excellent penalty and it beat Michael easily. It is however the kind of ball that the keeper would save quite comfortably if only he were to stand his ground, but it is of course very easy to say this kind of thing from the touchlines.
It's getting quite late now but there's still a good many matches to get through. It's just as well that the early matches were only 4 minutes each. Anything longer and we would still be here tomorrow.
Here we are treated to one of those rare events - a goal from open play.
And the pompiers are still here and once again their match is decided on penalties.
Their opposition is the team from the Desertines football club and they were a pretty useful outfit. This penalty is much too strong for Michael.
In order to get his own back, one of the pompiers sends the Desertines keeper the wrong way and puts a beautiful ball into the corner of the net.
And Michael was unlucky not to get his hands on this shot. He managed to pull up on his dive but the shot was still too strong for him and found the net.
And it's a similar situation here, except that the ball is on the ground. The keeper stops his dive but that's about all he can do.
This was a really good dummy that had Michael well-beaten and he didn't really have too much of a chance to get to this.
And the same thing here again. The keeper goes one way and the ball goes in the opposite direction.
Exactly like this one in fact. And what an exellent penalty this is - exactly in the right place and only just a little bit too low. Another 6 inches higher and it would have been perfect.
And again the Desertines player sends Michael the wrong way with his shot. It was round about now that I had a feeling that this penalty shootout might still be going on tomorrow.
Another good dummy and the Desertines keeper goes off in the wrong direction leaving an open goal for the pompier to shoot home.
And this one was right down the middle and if the keeper had stayed on his line he would have had this. His desperate flailing leg wasn't all that too far away from making contact.
This time he guesses right and makes a valiant effort to get at the ball. But it's hit too hard for him. he was really unlucky here.
One of the shots that didn't work out was Michael making a good save from a kick and that was the deciding moment of the game. Desertines were out and the pompiers go marching on.
We also have the deciding matches for the consolation prize, and one of these goes to penalties too. This was a good one tucked into the far corner with the young keeper nowhere.
But his mates are still here too and this was a lovely penalty that would again have beaten any goalkeeper at any level of football.
And not many keepers would have stopped this penalty either. It was certainly hit hard enough and right into the far corner of the net.
But the young lad who impressed me throughout the tournament demonstrates exactly why. He's beaten the keeper all ends up here with a beautiful kick of which he ought to be really proud.
But our keeper is starting to tire and in any case he has little chance of getting to a shot like this. But earlier on I did see him throw himself across the goal on a couple of occasions to prevent a certain goal.
And this is the decisive moment in this game. The keeper doesn't fall for the dummy and goes the right way to block the penalty.
This team of young kids was knocked out at this point, but they can go out with their heads held high having managed to compete with and beat teams of older and fitter players. Getting this far in a competition against adults is no mean feat.
There was at least one player in the team who impressed me a great deal, and if the keeper can work seriously hard on his fitness and his diet there's no reason to suppose that he couldn't come back next season and make a major impression. He certainly knows the techniques and he clearly has the ability.
And we're back in the main competition and the pompiers are trying their best to reach the final. We're on penalties again and here's another keeper sold a dummy and going the wrong way.
But they aren't having it all their own way and it's not just the opposition keepers who are going the wrong way either.
This time Michael goes the right way and manages to get a hand on the ball. It's advantage pompiers at this moment.
The opposition keeper needs to save this one but he moves too early and the pompier sends it straight down the middle of the goal. The keeper can feel disappointed about this.
It makes no difference anyway as his colleague also sends on straight down the middle. But Michael hasn't moved from his spot and takes it quite comfortably.
So with the pressure off Michael fancies his chance. And although the keeper guesses the right way, the ball finds the back of the net and the pompiers are through to the final.
Les Hobbits are another team in contention for the final but their semi-final is shrouded in controversy. There was a loose ball into the Hobbits penalty area and Philippe rushed out to get it. But there's "a collision" between Philippe and an opposition player a good couple of yards away from the ball. The opponent appeals for a penalty and I have to say that from where I was standing, had I been the ref I would have awarded it.
But if I had have been refereeing the match I wouldn't have been where I was standing and maybe I would have only had the same view that the referee had, and would have had no option but to do what he did, which was to wave "play on".
So this is another match that goes to penalties and although the keeper, someone else who seems to be no novice at this, guesses right, he can't stop the ball.
As an aside and nothing to do with the football at all, I took this pic in ISO3200 at 1/1500 speed and f2.8 in *.RAW format. It needed some enhancement with Paint Shop Pro and Irfanview but that mostly concerned the brightness.
There is "much debate" about the use of high ISO in photography and it is quite true that a high ISO gives a finish that is exceptionally grainy. But theres a fine line to be drawn between the question of graining and the question of sharpness of focus and on any less than ISO3200 a shot at 1/1500 wouldn't have come out with anything like this sharpness. I'll take the sharpness any time.
It needs to be remembered that at most of the larger sports stadia the standard of lighting is a minimum of 500 lux but out here in the wilds it's probably not even a quarter of that. And until someone invents a powerful flash that doesn't interfere with the players' vision or pays to upgrade the lights in the stadium, then this is the best that you can realistically hope for.
And back at the football, the controversy didn't end in normal time either.
This kick was hit so hard (as you can tell by the body language of the player) that it beat Philippe completely even though he had it well-covered. It crashed into the bar, bounced down onto the ground and then away from the goal.
The player who took the kick was convinced that it had crossed the line and dashed over to remonstrate with the referee. I'm not sure why because there was no Tofik Bachraminov running the line and the ref wasn't ideally placed to see the goal line. And how he expected anyone to make a snap judgement of a ball travelling at that speed is totally beyond me.
Whether he said something unrepeatable and unprintable to the ref during the discussion, well I dunno. But the ref made it clear that regardless of the rights or wrongs of the player's argument he had not chosen the best manner in which to present it.
The goal was not awarded (and in fairness I don't see how it could have been) and Les Hobbits progressed to meet the pompiers in the final.
The consolation prize final took place next and it was a draw at the end of normal time. It thus went to a penalty shootout and it was first blood to the team that had beaten those young lads in the semi-final.
The opposition pulled one back in spectacular fashion while Bernard looked on in amazement.
And even though the keeper guesses right, he can't do anything about this firm shot into the corner.
This is effectively the end of the contest as the player puts his shot far too near Matthieu, the Pionsat 1st XI keeper, and he makes a comfortable save.
Matthieu's team now just needs one more goal to win and the following player duly obliges. It's the right height and in the right place and with the keeper already committed elsewhere, the result is inevitable.
And so with the finalists - the pompiers and Les Hobbits lined up on the pitch ready to start, the ref blew his whistle and this signalled the arrival of one of the most impressive storms I have ever seen around here.
And in a locality that is known for its impressive storms this one was certainly a good 'un.
I had left the camera on its high-speed setting and so the white grains that you see on the image aren't imperfections, they are actually hailstones.
It teemed down for about 10 minutes like this, and during that time it was just not possible to move.
As an aside, the road home was covered with broken branches and fallen leaves just as if a whirlwind had passed this way. 9mm of rain had fallen during that 10 minutes and the hailstones had done for my cabbage and lettuce.
Ironically, Liz at Besserve 20 kms away and a friend of Claude at La Celle just a few kms away had received nothing at all in the way of precipitation. They had however certainly had an impressive lightning show.
And the final? A bit of an anti-climax I'm afraid. Les Hobbits had clearly been playing at something less than full capacity during the tournament and once they changed into top gear they saw off the pompiers without any great difficulty.
So 10 hours and more of entertainment, all for free. This was a really good day out. I'll have to do this kind of thing more often.
And on a much more involved basis too. The quality of some of the teams was such that I'm sure I could put together a scratch team for this kind of thing and the way that the tournament is arranged, everyone would get their money's worth.
And if you are a goalkeeper and you've read my comments, don't forget that that is what I used to do back in my youth. And for all my remarks and so on, I doubt if I could do it now. So if I do get up a team for next season you can all come along and tell me how it ought to be done and get your revenge. Keeping goal is not easy and so you deserve all of the applause for simply being brave enough to pick up the gloves.
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