The Tournament

The tournament

On saturday, we woke up at 8:00 a.m. to get to the Complutens University as fast as dad's motorbike would take us.  We arrived right on time. While the A team started the tournament's first match, me and my friend R.F. put up all the sponsor posters. Then we watched a bit of the game until it was our turn to play. We played againt La Única from the Basque Country and lost miserably. All the day's matches gave us no doubt of the fact that we would get the "wooden spoon", an expression that says that that team has lost all their matches. All 5 games we played, we lost all of them. With the scores getting worse and worse, we had a breakthrough in our last match when we played against Colmenar Viejo. Our fast runner J. scored our first try in the tournament. Well, we all felt bad, but the consolation came soon. You see, one of our sponsors was Telepizza, something like England's Pizza Hut. We all had pizza and chicken nuggets after all the matches.

The Cisneros captain pondering the team's next move

 On Sunday we woke up at about the same time as on saturday. We got to the pitch really early, so we had some time to muck about on the pitch. But then the rest of the teams started to pour in and we decided to continue after the tournament was over. Well, the B team had 2 remaining matches in the tournament. We lost the first but we won the second. Afterwards, the A team had to play the final against a portuguese club. They lost, but all the team, including the losing B's, got the silver medal.

The Cisneros captain smashing into the opponent's defence with two helpers

 So, that was that. We cleared the pitch up and that was the end of the Rugby tournament.

For safety reasons I will not write the full name of plaayers, coaches, etc.