e sono rimasti in sette...

... come i nanni di biancaneve. certo, poteva essere peggio, pero vorrei tanto vedere adesso come faremo i gol. senza pedro, con paolo da solo davanti, senza possibilita di cambio... la sola scelta che ci rimane (scelta sensata, non pensate ancora al forfait) e di chiedere dei giocatori in prestito... e siccome quasi tutte le altre squadre sono serie, andrano li per vincere, mica sarano disposti a dare una mano a dei poveri sfigati come noi, la sola che potrebbe essere un po piu comprensiva e  la squadra di donne: non potranno vincere il titolo (non rapresentano un'agenzia)

Some more rules... and CHARITY

Fresh message from Danilo (goalkeeper of EMCDDA):

Few more rules:

Referees

We will have 3 professional, even if young, referees that will take of the respect of time and rules during the competition. The set of rules will be communicated to all after Easter.

Pitch

We will play is a grass field (grassy not sandy  (?)) with three pitches of equal size 60x35 and with equal 7aside goals. This is due to the great effort the St Julians School of carcavellos to which we are extremely grateful all. 

Charity

Danilo: "I have asked the project leader of a charity to explain us what they are doing and how we can help. He explained the following:


Project: '12 Dias Diferentes na Adroana' (12 different days for Adroana)


Target group: Adroana is a social housing project in Alcabideche, near Cascais where very low income families from different races and cultural backgrounds live. This project will target 50 children/teenagers aged 10 to 16 living in Adroana.


Aim: For 12 days in July, this project will promote summer activities among these children/teenagers to foster the values of respect, social support and racial and cultural diversity. They will be given the opportunity of visiting interesting sites and given the task of organising a multi-racial, multi-cultural community party in Adroana which will take place in the final day of the project.


Why should we help: This initiative is organised by a charity (CulturSol) entirely staffed by volunteers from social housing projects themselves. Other NGO's (such as the Red Cross) support this project with their own resources, but no funds are available and the Adroana families cannot afford to pay for their children to have this opportunity. Most of the parents in Adroana work long hours and their children are left unattended for most of the summer period.


How can we help: The project's cost  is estimated in €3000. CulturSol and the other collaborating NGOs are trying to raise funds. A contribution from our side would ensure that the project is feasible to implement and any extra funds would be used to organise activities for a longer period of time and to promote training for the young informal leaders of Adroana (mostly aged 16-17) as role models and community workers.


Dear colleagues I propose we tax ourselves (the players 10 € each). We also send an envelop around in our respective agencies to collect little the money basically to sponsor you in your sport endeavor. But the money collected will be donated towards this project. We are thinking to invite some of these children to play football in the synthetic pitch of the St. Julian compound the same day of our competition. We plan to give the cheque during the 'cheque and price ceremony' that will be on the 8th after dinner in the EMCDDA Headquarter. So let's see who will be the winning agency for generosity.


We have created an account number for the transfer. Identity the Agency in your transfer please. You can also give me directly cash even though the first option is preferable."

NIB 0032 0194 00204505068 45
IBAN - Internacional Bank Account Number: PT50 0032 0194 00204505068 45
BIC/SWIFT - Bank Identifier Code: BARCPTPL

The teams

Attached is the list with all the other players, including their status. It's still draft, and the complete set of rules should also arrive soon (red cards? referees? game duration?)

I hope we're the last ones only because we start with T  :-)

ECB is the team to keep an eye on, it's the girls :-)
They're not in our group, we might play with them only if we qualify, I'd say that's a good reason!

(DRAFT) List of Players registered for the 1st EU Agency  football Cup

Lisbon, 8 May 2011

Team

Agency

Town

Listo f Players

Aviation

EASA

Köln

1.     Dan COJOCARU (coach),         EASA employee

2.     Kevin BONFIELD,                        EASA employee

3.     Antonio Gonzalez Gomez,         EASA employee

4.     Georgios Grigorakis,                 EASA employee

5.     Andrei ION,                                   EASA employee

6.     Hasan Koc,                                  EASA employee

7.     Dirk Krappe,                                 EASA employee

8.     Charles Leboeuf,                        EASA employee

9.     Gregory  Lievre,                           EASA employee

10.   Lorenzo PELLEGRINI,               EASA employee

11.   Jose-Luis Penedo del Rio,       EASA employee

12.   Vincenzo Pennetta,                     EASA employee

13.   Rodrigo Priego,                           EASA employee

14.   Roland Toma,                             EASA employee

15.   Alessandro Zanuzzi (tentative), EASA employee

16.   Mahieux Thibaut (tentative).     EASA employee

Bank

ECB

Frankfurt

1.       Mas Guix, Natalia                        ECB employee 

2.       De Stefani, Roberta                    ECB employee  

3.       Borea, Giuseppina                     ECB employee 

4.       Zabielska, Katarzyna                  ECB employee 

5.       Bragoli, Daniela                          ECB employee 

6.       Nikisianioti, Maria                       ECB employee 

7.       Iudice, Cristina                            ECB employee 

8.       van Delft, Stephanie                   ECB employee 

9.       Momferatou, Daphne                 ECB employee 

10.    Pereira, Ricardo                          ECB employee 

11.    Queiros De Faria, Nuno            ex ECB employee

12.    Voges, Daniel                              friend in support 

13.    Abrantes, João                            friend in support 

Chemicals

ECHA

Helsinky

1.       Duarte VIEIRA LISBOA               ECHA employee

2.       Paul RYAN                                    ECHA employee

3.       Dominik SCHUBERT                                 ECHA employee

4.       Eric STILGENBAUER                 ECHA employee

5.       Michal SKOWRON                      ECHA employee

6.       Mirco BUNING                              ECHA employee

7.       Philippe BARRUEL                     ECHA employee

8.       Jaime MARTIN GRANIZO          ECHA employee

Defence

EDA

Brussels

1.       Francesco La Torre                    EDA employee

2.       Tim Van Horenbeke                    EDA employee

3.       Patrick Rey                                    EDA employee

4.       Laurent Donnet                            EDA employee

5.       Kervin Kumapley                         Husband of EDA employee

6.       Alexandre Reicher                       Husband of EDA employee

7.       Jeroen Michels                            Friend in support

8.       Sébastien Pechberty                  EDA employee

Drugs

EMCDDA

Lisbon

1.       Danilo Ballotta (GK)                    EMCDDA employee 

2.       Pedro Ribeiro                               EMCDDA employee 

3.       Andrezej Czarniak                       Husband of employee 

4.       João Teixeira                                Partner of employee 

5.       Matias Linder                               EMCDDA employee 

6.       Dante Storti                                   EMCDDA employee 

7.       Marco Costa                                                 EMCDDA employee 

8.       Felipe Taveira                              Partner of employee

9.       Jean Constant                             Husband of employee 

10.    Tim Surmont                                Partner of employee

11.    Ulrik Solberg                                                EMCDDA employee (tentative)  

12.    Elias Allara                                   EMCDDA employee (tentative)  

Fusion for Energy

F4E

Barcellona

1     Alessandro Bonito-Oliva            F4E employee

2     Antonio De Giorgi                        Husband of employee 

3     Constantin Brescan                    F4E employee

4     Dan-Andrei Ciocionica               Son of employee

5     Gael Nolard                                  F4E employee

6     Georges Dellopoulos                                 F4E employee

7     Gonçalo Serra                              F4E employee

8     Jean-François Arbogast             F4E employee

9     Peter  Readman                          F4E employee

10   Roberto Abad Villanueva           F4E employee

11   Vassilis Stamos                         F4E employee

12   Jose Maria Galabert                    F4E employee

Food

EFSA

Parma

1.       POTIER RODEIA Sérgio            EFSA employee

2.       CARLANDER David                    EFSA employee

3.       SERVATO Fabio                          EFSA employee

4.       ROSSI Gianluca                          EFSA employee

5.       OLIVERIO Gianluca                    EFSA employee

6.       VOS Sybren                                  EFSA employee

7.       EGSMOSE Mark                           EFSA employee

8.       FRANCHINI Bruno                      EFSA employee

9.       GELBMANN Wolfgang                EFSA employee

10.    HERRANZ MONTES Francisco Javier EFSA employee

11.    BINAGLIA Marco                          EFSA employee

Maritime

EMSA

Lisbon

1. Alessandro Petri (GK)                  EMSA employee

2. Jose Baptista                                   EMSA employee

3. Olivier Boonen                                 EMSA employee

4. Raul Gonzalez Fernandez             EMSA employee

5. Nikos Katsoulis                               EMSA employee

6. Koen Peters                                     Partner of employee

7. Yannick Texier                                 EMSA employee

8. Paolo Cassili                                   Husband of employee

9. Andrea Tassoni                               EMSA employee

10. Sifis Papageorgakis                    EMSA employee

11. Oscar Rodriguez Vilaamil           EMSA employee

12. Steven Dunlop                               EMSA employee

Medicines

EMA

London

1.       David Drakeford                           EMA employee

2.       Elias Tavares                               EMA employee

3.       Peter Ferguson                            EMA (FIT) employee

4.       Moqsood Ali                                  Friend in support

5.       Francois Devaux                          EMA employee

6.       Gian Luca de Vincentiis             EMA employee

7.       Franco Colzani                             EMA employee

Railway

ERA

Valenciennes

1.        REBENTISCH Michael (GK)     ERA employee

2.        BALLESTER ALIAGA Ignacio    ERA employee

3.        BORRIELLO Thomas                                ERA employee    

4.        LODZINSKI JP                             ERA employee    

5.        MARCULET Marian                     ERA employee    

6.        MEERT Stefan                             ERA employee    

7.        7 REBOLLO Oscar                     ERA employee    

8.        8 SCHIRMER Andreas               ERA employee    

9.        9 TEUWEN Jean                         ERA employee    

10.    10 VAN HEDDEGEM Yvan         ERA employee 

11.    11 ZAZZERA Natale                    ERA employee

12.    12 Coito Gonzalez Esteban      ERA employee

Translation

CdT

Luxembourg

1.       Tomasz Pijanowski (captain)   CdT emplyoee                                   

2.       Fabio Morello                            CdT emplyoee                                                         

3.       Dermot Cronin                          CdT emplyoee                                                           

4.       Jean-Luc Folny                         CdT emplyoee                                                           

5.       Jacky Gross                              CdT emplyoee                                                            

6.       Peter Race                                CdT emplyoee                                                             

7.       Gregory Rado                           CdT emplyoee                                                                

8.       Nuno Sousa                              CdT emplyoee                                                              

9.       Patrice Talandier                       CdT emplyoee                                                               

10.    Louis Vaquin                             CdT emplyoee                                                                

11.    Pascal Wiame                             CdT emplyoee                                   

Training

ETF

Torino

1.       Fabio Andres Ricci                      EFT employee

2.       Gary Bonge                                   EFT employee

3.       Mircea Copot                                EFT employee

4.       Paolo Murcio                                Husband of EFT employee

5.       Filippo Del Ninno                        EFT employee

6.       Pedro Pujol                                   Husband of EFT employee

7.       Pasquale Marino                         EFT employee

8.       Marco Piccinini                             Husband of EFT employee

9.       Giuseppe Ravelli                         EFT employee

Externals? The Golden Apple of Discord

Should the participation be limited only to Agency Staff? Husbands? Boy friends?

It's not just us, ETF, that put forward a mixed group of employees and friends. Finally, it seems that the composition of the team will not be penalising, but it will rely on fair play. 

For me, I think winning is a remote dream. But starting already knowing that we should loose (because of the composition) each and every game (except maybe the ones where we'll be playing against mixed teams like ours!) would be seriously demotivating, and would throw away all the fun.

The Plea 
(the Organisers, and ETF subscribes):

• We are  now received 09 out of 12 team lists. The non staff members are very few. None in EASA, ECHA, EFSA, ERA and just 2 relatives out of 12 staff in EMSA and F4E and 1 out of 8 in EMA . CdT and EDA did not answer yet.
• The teams with more relatives are 3 ECB (girls) ETF and EMCCDA. 
• The ladies are 9 with 4 male friends, so at the worts there will be in the field 3 girls and 4 boys; 
• ETF with 5 extras out of 9 staff and us with 5 out of 5 (and we do not have more then just 10 people) 
• In our case the question is that we are a pretty small agency and not many players. We usually play againts EMSA  that are many more using also 2 husbands of collegaues and 3 boyfriends. We have friends that play with us normally but they are not playing in the tornament, and not happy about it. We play with the same people since years, even though in an off from injuries. None of us is a pro or semi and we are between 30 and 45, I am 44 myself.
• Also in our original letter we allowed relatives, would be a little unfair to say now you can play but you loose. Given the fact that they are close relatives I would allow that. 

The voice of reason:

For us it is acceptable  but this situation has to be improved in the future.
Please find enclosed the comments I just publish this one that we have to retain for the further organization.

For the sake of the game and the fun I think we should let everyone play as they are, with spouses, boyfriends, friends, as it would be hard for the smaller agencies to even make up a team: the rule, in the end, should affect only the classification and the eligibility to claim the title of winner of the tournament. I’m sorry, but a team made up by a majority of ‘friends’ or players from 2, 3 agencies should not be eligible to claim the title.

I repeat: we all play, but eligibility to the title is limited to those teams that have a majority of employees, including husbands/spouses
(for example, how would your team/Agency claim they won the title when all players are external?)

Anyway thank you very much to launch the EVENT and I understand for the small agencies it is not easy to have a competitive team or to have a team.
You’re reason, the aim is to participate and don’t apply the Schuman Trophy rules, I’m very confident about the fair play of everybody.

Accomodation

We had several choices (thanks a lot Booking.com):  Lisbon, center, 10 pax 


And so we found...

• Vip Executive Suites Eden Aparthotel  (4*)3 Apartamenti (da 4) x 3 notti = 1110€ (se siamo in 10, viene 110€ a testa)

• Rent4days Oliveirinha Apartments 3 apartamenti (3, 3, 4) = 930€ (93€ a testa)

• Lisb'on Hostel All together in one or 2 rooms (of 8 beds each) , 63€ per person (we pay for beds)
  (Se vogliamo piu interaction) 

as I see, the tendency goes for the first one, the only doubt we have is how many of us are going to be...

Ali might still  join as moral support, and we still don't have news about Giuseppe.

The Team

1) GARY BONGE (keeper) - ETF
2) FABIO ANDRES RICCI - ETF
3) MIRCEA COPOT - ETF
4) PAOLO MURCIO - ETF (husband)
5) FILIPPO DEL NINNO - ETF
6) PEDRO PUJOL - ETF (husband)
7) PASQUALE MARINO - ETF
8) MARCO PICCININI - ETF (husband)
9) GIUSEPPE RAVELLI - ETF

Paolo is quite uncertain currently (he's recuperating from an older injury), and Giuseppe still needs to confirm.

We've had three players  (Sam and Ali from ETF and another one Husband of ETF - Thierry ) who got injured in the last 2 months.

On the other hand, we can guarantee that:
1. none of the non-ETFers is above the average ETF level (which is far from "champion")
2. we are a team that plays regularly together, so we're not "importing" players

A higher goal - charity

Charity

Dear all

we have thought that it would be nice to link this event to a more noble cause. We thought that the EU agencies personnel while enjoying some sport can at the same time improve a little the life of less privileged people. We found out of a little project destined to provide a summer camp to 50 disadvantaged children (10-16 years old) of different races and cultural origins (Bairro Social da Adroana, em Alcabideche). These are children of families with very low incomes and many difficulties. Our help could make a difference during ' sometimes dangerous' free time in providing these children with an enjoyable and may be inspiring summer.

If we all agree we could pay a kind of subscription fee (10€/player ?), and we could also ask staff members of your agency to sponsor your team of course against the victory. In this way we might be able to reach about 1500-2000€ to give in charity.

Danilo

Info on Goals

1. Measures of the goal

We need to inform you on a latest development. As you remember, from the calender that we have already sent you, during the qualifying phase teams will be playing in three pitches at the same time. While we have found the space, we did not succeed in finding 3 pair of 7 aside goals (6x2mt). We have 3 pairs of regular (BIG) goals (7,33x2,44mt.) and 2 pairs of 7 a side goal (6x2mt). However the big goals, are really big especially if the pitch is just 60mt. long.

Our idea would be to play the qualifying round using the 2 pairs of 7 a side goal posts (6x2mt) and 1 pair regular goal (7,33x2,44mt). One of the three pitches therefore will have the big goals (7,33x2,44) and each teams will need to play at least once with the big goals. The rule we can enforce is that will not be allowed goals that did not touch anyone in the half field of the team suffering the goal.

The semifinals and finals will be played in 2 pitches therefore using the smaller goals (6x2mt).

2. List of Players

We need to receive the list of players for all teams that have not yet identified the players

3. Hotels and flights

It could be useful to know where you will arrive and will stay. Please let us know