Bend It Like Beckham (!)

From our headline, you can tell what career are we going to talk about. Obviously it is the most popular career among the guys, football. However, we are not only sharing a profile of a part-time male player. There is also a female player that we are going to share about. Let us see, what do our players say about being a part-time soccer player and also as a full-time student.

Saiful Nizam, born on the 30th of October 1994. In late November 2008, he started his career as a part-time soccer player. He played for Tampines Rovers Football Club. We were told during our interview with this goodlooking player that he was chosen as the team's goalkeeper during a match between the Football Galacticos and Tampines Rovers.

OH,before we forgot, he was also featured in the Football Galacticos programme that was telecast in OKTO channel. He was one of the players that was chosen to be filmed in this programme. The main objective of this programme is to form a dream team, turning them into superstar in just 8 weeks! There we 3 students from Siglap Secondary School that was chosen. One of them was a girl, Roszieva. Saiful was crowned as the man of the match against Tampines Rovers.

Back to the interview, when we question him about how he manage his time with his studies and football, he answered proudly that he could manage his time well. He just have to focus in class and train hard during training. This young and talented teenager also added that he enjoyed being a soccer player as playing football is one of the best things he enjoyed in his life. He had planned his future well too as he intend to play football until he get the best of himself. We were also told that he would recommend this career for those who are talented.

Lastly, our glory player is very proud to be a soccer player even if it only represent his school. Especially when he is wearing his club or school jersey.

Here are some photos.


The Football Galacticos :D

Saiful Nizam ! :D

And now, we are going to share you our female part-time soccer player. She is Nur Azima. She was born on the 1st of August 1993. She started her career since young,like at the age of 11 or 12. Her dad has been encouraging her and supporting her in football. Other than soccer, she also took part in silat. She represented Singapore in many tournaments. Her position is centre midfield. She is now in young women team which is the official women team in Singapore.

"Do you enjoy you career?" asked the media.

She replied with all smiles, "Hell yea. I really enjoyed it. I love sports thats why. I am energetic and rough too!"

As she is still a student in Siglap Secondary School, she told us on how she balance her time between studies and football. When it comes to study, she is very serious. No soccer for the moment. At the same time, she had to sacrifice a lot too as she have to rush from school to national training. Furthermore, the national training is not only once a week. Sometimes, when tournaments is drawing near, trainings could be held almost everyday.

Conflict always arise when we are in a team. Despite the miscommunication or misunderstanding among the players, Azima has always shown the best of her moves in every game. She also perform well during trainings. They would talk things out after training if there is any problem between them. This pretty lady has confessed that she would play as long as she live. She also added on how she was selected into this team. She just had to show the coaches her strength and skills and never give up.

As you know that football is not just about kicking balls, the players also need stamina, good health and good attitude to stay on as professionals. Even when she is tired, she rarely complains how tired she were. and when we asked whether or not she would recommend this career of her to others, she answered with high spirits that she would recommend it to anyone. No matter how bad that person is,as long as he or she is very keen to practice well. She told the media that she was bad herself last time however,she develop into a better player through every trainings.

Lastly, Nur Azima is very proud to be in a women's team to represent Singapore.

Here are some pictures of Nur Azima and her team :