ICTP football team - match report

ICTP info point info_pt at ictp.it
Mon Feb 6 10:54:02 CET 2006


ICTP vs LBM, Monday 30 January

The first game of the new season and the ICTP were ready to go. Or were 
they?
Some teams hit the ground running at the start of a new season, while 
others take a few games to get up to full speed.
Unfortunately, LBM belong to the first category and ICTP to the second.
After a bright opening couple of minutes, during which a shot from 
Gabriele Pesco (Maintenance) shaved the wrong side of the LBM post, 
ICTP fell behind. Two more goals followed and, although ICTP maintained 
good possession at times, their shooting let them down again and again. 
A long distance strike provided the fourth goal for LBM just before 
half time.
In the second half, ICTP blooded two new players. Brazilian Luiz Hayne 
(TWAS) looked solid on the left side of defence and Italian Daneile 
Mengotti (Galileo reception) provided useful balance on the right.
But still the goals would not come for ICTP. With little to fear at the 
back, LBM kept surging forward. By the end of the match it was 8-0 to 
LBM.
A disappointing start to the season for ICTP and two serious questions 
must be asked of the team.
First: Why is it that football-playing physicists and those that work 
in physics institutions don’t seem to be able to shoot?
Second: If a fan were to shout from the terraces (as they do in England 
when strikers don't look like hitting the back of the net) "You 
couldn't score in a brothel", would the ICTP team have the right 
riposte?
Maybe next week's game against EURAND will provide the answer.
Peter McGrath


Peter McGrath, PhD
Tel: +39 040 2240 571
Fax: +39 040 224 559
TWAS - the academy of sciences for the developing world
c/o The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics,
Strada Costiera 11, 34014 Trieste, Italy
http://www.twas.org

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