Contributed by Dylan Chen

Orchard Cineleisure, Saturday, February 6, 2010 – The 2010 season may have just begun last week, but Asraf Rashid bagged some early bragging rights for Woodlands Wellington as football rivalries among the various S. League clubs took to the pavement outside Orchard Cineleisure.

The S. League Ultimate Move 2010 was a 3-a-side street soccer tournament where 12 S. League players from different clubs led 24 other participants to vie for the top prize.

The participants were lucky winners from a contest in which they had
to state in 50 words or less, who their favourite S. League player was and why they should be chosen to play at the competition.

Joey Sim's team was the first to be eliminated. In very unfortunate circumstances, his team played two consecutive games without interval, missed a penalty and conceded a dubious penalty for handball.

Guntur Djafil, a last-minute replacement for the injured Jeremy Chiang, was the man to benefit, as after beating Joey Sim's team with a 1-0 score, his team went on to a goalless draw with Aliff Shafaein's team and became the first team to qualify for the quarters.

However, their progress towards the final was halted when Asraf Rashid's team beat them 2-1 to become the only team to come from behind and win.

Victory was sealed when Chen Zhihao equalized and Asraf scored the winning goal late in the game.

Following up on their good performance, they then eliminated the high-scoring team that included Lionel Lewis in the first shootout of the competition.

Asraf scoring against Lewis while a member from Lewis' team hit his shot to the roof of the competition arena.

Meanwhile, in another tense semi-final, Hariss Harun's team, who were hot favourites, were eliminated by Hassan Sunny's team through a solitary goal. Tackles were robust and many players were tripped.

In the final, both sides wasted little time to stamp their own authority over each other and were not conservative in their approach.

Hassan Sunny was at the receiving end of a sliding tackle while Asraf was also pushed from behind and he fell after losing balance from taking a shot.

The score read 0-0 at full time and the winner had to be decided by sudden-death penalties. Asraf converted another penalty against another
national goalkeeper while Hassan's team missed theirs.