WITH less than 48 hours before the final of this year’s Petra/COURTS Pee Wee Under-11 football competition takes place, challengers St Agnes have embraced the title of underdogs with the intention of using it to their full advantage.Coach Troy Wright relayed this message while speaking of his team’s chances. He said he is confident his team has the quality to claim the 5th Annual COURTS Pee Wee Football Championship.
“We are the underdogs, but most of the teams we have beaten are either former champions or finalists.
“We beat Stella Maris (2014 winners) who are former champions; Marian Academy who are former champions (2012), and West Ruimveldt (2013 finalists and 2012 third-placers) and now we are facing off with the current champions,” the coach stated.
He added, “It’s going to be a tough match. They (St Angela’s) don’t want to lose to us, they want to win back-to-back titles and we don’t want to lose to them. It’s going to be a war. Even without football they normally have problems between the schools so with football it’s going to be a war.
The guys are really fired up and have high expectations and they want to be victorious.”
When quizzed about his game plan, the coach added, “The basics and technical skills as well as discipline. Once we can stick to the basics, be disciplined and execute our game plan, we will be successful. I was watching St Angela’s and they have openings certain teams can capitalise on. I am working to capitalise on these areas so we can upset them.”
“We are working on some of our weaknesses that I saw on Saturday and also on our game plan against St Angela’s. We are confident, once we work to the game plan we will be successful,” he declared.
St Agnes will face 2015 champions St Angela’s tomorrow at Thirst Park.