Origins Of Pankota F.C

The Turf

The idea of establishing this fantastic team came from a close friend whom I can’t remember which one in the year 2002 said’Since we all gila football,why not we do a team among ourselves’.So this is the opportunity to find all the kaki bola in my circle of friends.I began searching raw talents working in Mahkota Parade from Nike Shop to Micky Trading.
When the search is done,we have to find a field to train among ourselves so I found a field in the Bukit Serindit recreation park which is the perfect place for my team.

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So the time for training started as early as 7.00 a.m and ended around 9.00 a.m.The field was the good spot to motivate my players who are still stoned from their interrupted slumber because the presence of chicks from all ages also jogged near the field.We started with a goal post in a form of a rugby post which left my keeper hapless whenever the ball was kicked very high as though they are playing rugby.Sometimes the ball landed in the parking lot which causes near misses accidents to the cars nearby.We even got a few challenges from the opposition team that also trained there who called themselves ‘The Store’ football team.We sparred with them a few times and we came out in victoriously until they gave up everytime we trashed them before the game was over.The training session was held on Monday,Wednesday and Friday.

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After a memorable times playing at that field,we changed our training venue to a school near Air Leleh that was called Seri Kota.The field was great because of the pitch condition is less muddy unlike the last one and they have a real football goalpost to train our shooting skills which we call the legendary ‘Cracking Session’ where you can see our ball went over the post or spectacular goals was scored.We have learnt a thing or two when playing at that field because of challenges from other teams such as ‘Shaolin Soccer’ football team which gave us lesson by thrashing us due to their experience in playing in a big field game.We even got challenges from Liverpool Supporter’s Club Malaysia which they only won us by one goal deficit after a few fantastic saves from my goalkeeper who was in his top form.The biggest game that we played is against ‘Alliance Bank’ football club because they use a real referee and linesman to control the game.We learnt a few things such as catching offside or being offside.We even kick off before the referee even blowed his whistle and that cause a few laughter in the game due to our inexperienced in big game matches and yes, we got trashed in that game too. Then we have a few recruits from Pantai Hospital that was the perfect time to give a name to our nameless football team.My loyal goalkeeper Jerry Tan came out with an idea by combining the name Pantai and Mahkota and became ‘Pankota F.C’.The logo of our team is a combination of Man. United,Arsenal and Liverpool whom we supported respectively.
Anyway,it’s been a pleasure playing with the lads who consists of a multiracial team which doesn’t see the colour of the skin or should I say not a racist.
We enjoyed playing footie in the hot Sunday morning every week and I hope it will last until we got old or be called veteran football players.Long live Pankota! ’Together,We Stand Stronger’.That’s the motto of the team.Cheeerioo!!!

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