Cold treatment for legs

The training on the second camp was pretty hard… The girls needed cold treatment for their legs to recover. Luckily the sea is still quite cold, since the ice has been gone for only a week or two.

New sponsor

Helsingin Energia sponsors our team in the WUGC 2008 project. We thank them for the support!

Sore toes

The second training camp was a success. Sun shined and every one was motivated. It is challenging to fit the different styles of different teams together, but as the weekend got further the playing got better.

The weird part of the weekend was the reservation system of the field. Apparently football players are used to having access to the field at all times. It was very hard for them to comprehend that we really did have the whole field reserved for us. And that we actually needed the whole field for ourselves. And that we didn’t want to let them use the grass and go to the sand or to the park. Luckily we got the field manager on our side and were able to keep the valuable field time to ourselves.

The weekend was hard, at least on our toes. Half of the people had found their old worn out cleats for Sunday because it was too painful to put the new fitting cleats on. Black toe nails is the new trend among us…

Weather for the weekend

Spring has arrived to Finland, which is nice since we head to Espoo on the weekend for our second training camp. It may not be very warm, but at least the sun is supposed to shine. And I think we’ll run enough to keep ourselves warm…

First training camp

Our first training camp was held in Tapiola, Espoo 29.-30.3. Almost every player was there to show their skills and have their first outdoor practice of the year.

The Finnish nature decided to make it a bit more challenging for us. During the week before the camp it snowed properly for the first time this winter. Our artificial grass field was covered with snow, but luckily the sand field next to it had already melted. Which made it very wet. Luckily the sun was shining and we were all thrilled to be outdoors after the long winter.

It was a lot of fun to play, and it was a lot of fun to get to know all the people who are applying for the national team this year.