A football tournament was taken place on Sunday, September 29, at Flight Training Center Stadium 117 Hong Ha St., Dist.2, Tan Binh between Engineer team of Southern Airport Aircraft Maintenance Services (SAAM) and Malaysia Engineer team (MH)
SAAM provides technical and non-technical at Tan Son Nhat, the largest and busiest airport in Vietnam. Setting up in 2010, SAAM had ramped up quickly with 70 staffs, han-dling over 761 flights com-prising of 705 passengers’ flights and 56 cargo flights both Ho Chi Minh & Hanoi’s station.
After hard working days, for relaxation and in purpose of enhancing relationship be-tween SAAM - service pro-vider and customer’s side, football league is a wonderful way for the things. Mr. Seng Leng Chuan, SAAM’s General Director said: “Given the diverse varie-ty of culture co-existing in the market place, we hope this football league will unite each of us under one banner of mutual friendship”.
Participants in the league football include 24 SAAM’s staffs joined football match as players and supporters. It was excited from a very first minute even though there was a heavy rain from the beginning of the match. The crowd and the buzz were like around the ground.
The referee’s whistle came and MH’s Team had the ball. SAAM’s team was pushed back and desperately prevent-ed friend’s team scoring. After a good run to the left flank of football yard by Mr.Nguyen Van Thanh, cap-tain of the team, there was a threatening attack and we scored the first goal in 12th minute. In spite of heavy rain, both SAAM’s team and Malaysia engineer team seemed to be swept into the football match with mud, thrill, and even injuries.
The fan was about closely following the match and stayed enthusiastic. With skills and tactics, SAAM’s team played good attaching football but just could not find the cutting edge. MH’s Team hit the ball and scored their first goal in 30th minute of the match. From that mo-ment till the first half game, the game kept going and there was no sign the winner could be found.
In the second match, the MH’s team was a bit stronger and more tactical, especially since they changed strategies. They scored another three goals every 15 minutes. Final-ly, MH’s team was the win-ners with the ratio of 4-1. After handling the trophy for League Football, both team shake hands each other, cheered the crowd and had had memorable photos. Even not be the winner for league ootball trophy, SAAM’s team has done a great job with great story. What we built not only the relaxation, team-work spirit but also good memories in the unforgetta-ble competition. It brought us a mutual friendship, both and MH’s team.
(Ho Chi Minh City ,September 29th, 2013)