AIL: AMAC x Russia, 2:3 30/03/2011
That was a very unlucky game for AMAC. We started pretty well with almost the best setup we could have. Sam in front, Fatih left and Michal on the right in the middfield together with János as the centre midfielder made the ball running among us very well. With a solid defence by Mustafa (MD), Ilker (RD) and Amir (LD) which always broke any attempt to attack we manage to by in lead 2:0 by the end of first half. As there are 3 new players in the team (János - HU, Amir - AZ, Ruslan - AZ) we were really enough to play this time. The first to substitute was Meder for Michal when he felt he cannot rely on his knee on 100%. Starting with second half russians shifted in the second gear. They pressed our defenders much more and we begun with long passes to our forward. We made some changes to let players rest a bit. As Ruslans played first game he tried his best and made couple of nice passes. On the other hand Ahmet was lost on the field, good running but without a position. One penalty gave our opponent even more power. Second goal and third before the end has to make us think about our eager to score goals and determinations to play as a whole team which I lacked in the second half. We have 3 more games to play and I am sure we can still gain some points. Add Comment AIL: AMAC x France - 1:1 17/03/2011
AMAC started the spring season of Ankara International League on Wednesday 16 March. Prior the match started the teams entered the pitch together with the referee under the supervision of TV cameras and honered the memory of people whose lives went out in the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan recently.
We started without any ambitions for this match which gave us free "hands" to play. And it was us who scored first. After a scrum in front of the french goal Meder (I guess) aimed and it ended in the net. It was around 15 min in the first half. Since then we tried to keep the ball on our shoes but with the skilled oponnent players it was sometimes quite difficult. Second half was remarked with many interruptions caused by french fouls. These were well observed by the ref however the clear hand ball played with intention from the last french defender was not recognised. It would lead Fatih (CM) to the open counter attack one on one. But excuse for this. We had our chances to score more. Solid defence with passes from Wolfgang supported by Yancho and Fatih was one of our plus. Ankara International League games postponed 09/03/2011
 Due to heavy snow in Ankara the games scheduled for Wednesday 09 March 2011 have been postponed until later notice. The first match for AMAC in spring season will be played on Wednesday, 16 March 2011 at 20:00 hrs against France. AIL: AMAC X Nordics - 2:2 08/12/2010
Yesterday AMAC Football Team has qualified to the champions group "A" for the spring season of Turkish Airlines International Football League. With only one lost match and 11 points we go from 3rd position of group "B". We will be seeing France, UK/Ireland, Russia, IIS-TA, Portugal and Germany or Nordics (Nordics have one more decisive match to play with Italy) Well played with a solid defence we did not alow Nordics any big chances but one. Scored the first goal and with controlling the ball most of the game nobody would assume we would be loosing at the end 1:2. Yes, they equalised with a lucky goal shot from a fair distance when Ilker could not properly see the ball. And after a nice combination going through our midfield and defence Nikolai took the lead for Nordics. Since then Nordics were still pressing our players. This made us to overcome their midfield quite easily several times but we could not get scored. Finally at the end the luck turned to us. Whistle, penalty, Mustafa takes the ball...GOAAAAL! Well done AMAC! Let´s celebrate at our Annual AMAC Football Dinner this Friday. AIL: France x AMAC - 3:4 03/12/2010
Friday 03 December 2010 - one of most important matches in the league fo AMAC. Except Meder and Brian who were not able to show up we gathered in full strenght. Mustafa, Wolfgang, Ilker in defence, János and Rupert in midfield and Sam in forward - this was the setup which managed to play an equal match with the leader of our group. At the end of first half Fatih changed Ilker and we scored the first goal - 0:1 (halftime). Second half started in similar style but French used their chances and took the lead - 2:1. When Ahmet, very eager to join the game, replaced Sam and went to defence, we were up again. With no major mistakes from both sides but some emotions showing up the importance of the game the players performed very well how to play football. János and Fatih scored 2 additional goals against 1 from France keeping us still ahead. Although being under pressure at the end we used our chance again and giving a hatrick János scored again for the final score 3:4 for AMAC. Having 10 points AMAC team is currently at the 3rd place in the table of group A and have 1 more match to play (Nordics). Anyway with this last win we have most probably qualified for the A group for the spring season of AIL 2010-11. AIL: AMAC x Germany, 4:4 25/11/2010
Yesterday evening the team played a league game after three weeks off in the league. We menaged to setup a team almost asi identical as in previous two matches with exception of Mustafa who did not show up due to his business. He was really the point which we missed in the defence. Although Fatih with his very good skills on the ball was the central defender he is better on the ball in forward. The game was typical to our style most time of the match. Not too many passes and if yes we were pressed by germans and that made us some complications and provoked our mistakes. Anyway and also the wet weather helped more our opponent to get the balls. First half we were a bit dominating the game which resulted in leading 2:0. After the break our defender were under much higher pressing and we lost our winning positions. We menaged to score two more goals in the second half against one from Germany and were keeping it so till the last minute. And as it is usual for us we let one of our rival players to be alone and to draw the match to 4:4. AIL: AMAC x Italy, 4:2 20/10/2010
Second game in the league brougt us first points. Although we missed Kaya who started his studies at a university in Izmir and will no longer be able to play for AMAC, we nominated another good player - Fatih. The begining was a bit nervous from both sides. As the pitch was a little wet and ball slippery it was not very easy to control it. It took us some time to get used to it. Anyway somehow we managed to score first goal. And that was the point when the game started to be more interested and we were up. In several minute italy scored too - 1:1. Luckily we also responded in several minutes - 2:1 and added one more on top to be safe - 3:1. Italians started with presure which ended up at 3:2. and several minutes before the end we topped up to the final 4:2. Although we won the team performance was not the best. We need more to communicate during the game, we need to keep the ball more on our shoes and definitely we need to play more compact as a team - not individually. After all good points and thank you for playing to everybody. get ready for next match. AIL: AMAC x UK/Ireland - 3:6 15/10/2010
Wednesday 13 October 2010 was our first game for the IIS Football league and we played against UK, the league winner from the previous two years. We expected that it will be a tough game and we did our best to gain at least one point. Unfortunately the UK team was a bit too strong for us, so finally we lost this game 6:3. Nevertheless we should be proud of our performance yesterday, we never gave up, we played (lost) in a collective way and we did not forget our main aim. Come together to have fun, play football and meet other friends. At that point we should congratulate our opponents, the UK team for their victory. It should be mentioned, that we beat the UK team in the second half 3:1, but unfortunately, a game consists of two halfs. By the way, our top scorer seems to be Rup (he scored all goals) and not Kaya :-) AIL 2010-2011 start soon 15/09/2010
As it was announced by International Interaction Society (IIS), the organiser of Ankara International League (AIL), the new season of AIL 2010-2011 will start on Wednesday 06 October 2010. AMAC Team has 17 players for this season and will do the best again. The fixture will be set on Sunday 26 September 2010 and you will be notified about it as well as other important information. AIL: Bad start = good end. 19/03/2010
Hope the meaning of words in the title works. Or at least for our team in the second half of the league this year. Or have we taken it at the first half? The first match against Russia which we managed not play as we used to in previous years we lost 1:5. Thank to the fast and young Russian attackers. It was almost whole match when we were unable to play our football. Then a useless red card for Kadir (after a non whistled foul) which made us even more nervous and unstable. Then the last match AMAC x UK/Ireland. AMAC played less Kadir but Kaya instead. UK/Ireland in a full strength. Very fast UK goal and our very cautious begining. Then we started to show our strength. With of piece of bad luck while hitting a post twice UK scored to our goal again. We showed we can play better with UK then with Russia, we controled the ball, we made our chances but did not scored. On the other side 2 more standard situations and the result was set. AMAC x UK - 0:4. |
