Forbidden City FC 紫禁城足球俱乐部

Hello Lads,

After the October Holiday (for some of you) I hope you enjoyed it but kept fit and a raring to lose those extra pints added while watching the Rugby. etc.

Training will resume as usual at the Lido Pitch, this Wednesday at 8pm.  With some big games coming up this Sunday (Afrika and Azurri), fitness is key.  Be there each week.

For the rest of the season, you can look on the IFFC1994 website as below or see the provisional schedule in the attachment.  You will see Palace are mostly Saturday with a couple of Sundays thrown in, and City are the opposite.

Summer Palace
http://www.iffc1994.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1865&Itemid=126

Forbidden City
http://www.iffc1994.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1864&Itemid=125

We also play in the 5-aside leagues, with the new season kicking off this Tuesday - speak to the relevant people if you are keen to play on a regular basis.

See you on Wednesday.
Get Involved
Pikey

hi guys,

Training in the afternoon tomorrow at the canadian school outside pitch. for maps follow the link below.

http://www.cisb.com.cn/page/contact_us/maps.php

nearest subway stop is liangmaqiao on line 10

Cheers,

see you all there!

Philippe

City/Palace,

We are planning to have a training session tomorrow evening, Wednesday 5th, at the usual place, Lido pitch, and the usual time 8-10pm.  However, as we could not confirm with the management that we’ll have the pitch for sure (nobody is picking up the phone), please check your email again tomorrow afternoon in case we have to cancel the training session. If the training is confirmed, and if you’re in Beijing, please make an effort to attend the training session. Both teams need it.

Cheers,
Patrick

PS: Jason is also trying to get the pitch at the Canadian school for a kick about on Saturday afternoon. Again, check your email tomorrow for more details about that one

Well done this weekend!

Palace couldnt quite keep up with their winning streak losing against a very good team. good battle though!
City charged forward and won in style against the Strollers 5-0.

Make it to training this Wednesday 8-10pm Lido pitch Maps here

Cheers,

Philippe

Hello All,

While we at Forbidden City bombard you with emails, delete the rest, this is the most important!

The Easter weekend of April 6th 2012 is the German All Stars 11 a-side (and 7 a-side veterans) football tournament in the delightful city of Bangkok. We will be taking a full squad of footballers and party-goers.

So for those:
- Poor students: start saving those Renminbi to convert into 5 times the amount of baht.
- Busy executives: book the time off work, or even better, book a work trip to Bangkok the week before.
- Under the thumb: start making the excuses to the wives and/or girlfriends and promise her lot’s of nice things (even a week’s holiday on a Thai beach starting on Monday 9th April!).
- Ex-Beijinger’s: come and meet up in Bangkok for the weekend, you can’t have a better excuse (especially a short hop from Hong Kong, Phuket or Singapore – you know who you are!).

All are welcome for a great weekend of football and partying (and even some like Philippe may bring girlfriends too).

Save the Date!

Get involved!

Yours,
Pikey
Tour Captain

Palace,

I’ve finally made some progress regarding the organization of a friendly game for this bank holiday weekend vs the Barbarians A/B Club.

The best we could get is to play on Monday afternoon (3pm kick off) at the Western Academy of Beijing (WAB) – see attached Google map link for the location.

http://maps.google.com.hk/maps?q=western+academy+beijing+map&hl=en&ll=39.982645,116.516533&spn=0.129955,0.21801&fb=1&gl=hk&view=map&cid=1872001232261131045&brcurrent=3,0×0:0×0,0&z=12&vpsrc=6&iwloc=A

the address is:
Western Academy of Beijing
10 Lai Guang Ying dong Lu
北京市朝阳区来广营东路10号
北京京西学校

Are you available?
Please reply ASAP.

Cheers,
Patrick

Citizens,

Friendly against the French this Sunday @ Chaoyang Stadium 2pm please RSVP now to let me know if you can make it.

Its a classic pre-season warm up!

Cheers,

Philippe

Evening All.

Training is on again this Wednesday at the same time and place as last week (full details below).

With the start of the BTV6 9 a-side tournament along with the all day 7 a-side tournament taking place this weekend, we are going to use this session to get the two squads playing together.  There will be a warm up followed by some attacking drills, then we will spend the majority of the session playing 9 a-side (with substitutes).
All are welcome as usual.

Please can you bring a white top as well as a dark (black/blue) top to make it easier to split the teams.  Also bring water with you as there is nowhere close to the field to buy it.

Date: Wednesday 10th August

Time: 8:30 – 10:00pm (try to arrive early so we can start on time)

Location: 9 a-side pitch at Chaoyang Park (50m on right after entering east gate 7)
Cost: 30Rmb

See you there.
Cheers,
Ally