New Stadium

On the 16th of August 2014, the first football match at the Kallang National stadium was being held. The match was being played between Juventus Football Club vs Singapore Selection. Joel Antony and his father were one of the 28 thousand people that were turning up at the national stadium. Many people came to watch the game just to catch a glimpse of their favourite player and team. There are many famous players in Juventus like Andrea Pirlo, Paul Pogba, Arturo Vidal, Carlos Tevez, Gianluigi Buffon etc. The players came out for a short practice session just to warm up for a match that will go down in the history books. At about 5:55 pm, the players came out on the pitch on the Kallang stadium dawning their team jerseys. The national anthem of Singapore was played and a loud roar was heard after the national anthem was played.

It was finally time for the match to commence. Juventus started the game off. Both teams got of to a good start but 13 minutes into the match, Juventus got a free kick just outside the penalty area. Andrea Pirlo stepped up to take the free kick and managed to score. It was a gem of a free kick and the crowd went crazy. After that goal, Juventus started controlling the game and were making the Singaporean players run a lot. Whenever a player who majority of the fans liked touched the ball, there would be a loud roar. Singapore had a few chances but Juventus managed to get a penalty at the verge of half time. Andrea Pirlo was in charge of taking the penalty and he managed to cooly slot the ball in the back of the net. The crowd went wild again and it was half time shortly after that. Joel Antony and his father were pretty impressed with the proceedings and were looking forward to the second half.

Two members of UWC East met up during half time. Their names were Joel Antony and Nikhil Shah. On asking Nikhil Shah about what he thought of the first half, he mentioned, “Singapore should have played better as it was the first match at their new stadium and I felt that the two goals scored by Andrea Pirlo were really skilful and only a player like him could have scored those goals.” There were many other interesting activities during half time like Samba performances and people being shown on the big screen.

It was time for the game to resume. Singapore started this time as Juventus started in the first half. Many Juventus players were substituted as they had to be rested for the Italian Premier League. Singapore started strongly but Juventus managed to find the goal thanks to Paul Pogba. Two more goals were scored on the second half and both those goals were scored by substitutes. The final score was 5-0 and it was truly a one sided game. All the players created history that day and Andrea Pirlo was declared the man of the match for his contributions to the game and Juventus got an iconic trophy presented by the sports president of Singapore. All the fans were happy and that match was going to be on people’s mind for a long time. Joel Antony and Nikhil Shah met again and he mentioned

“ It was an amazing game and I enjoyed myself thoroughly. Even though I wanted Singapore to win, I am still happy with the result.”