2018/3/15 Team Arrival and Friendly Match with Iceland 抵達及與冰島友誼賽

Team arrived in Madrid Airport at 7:30AM. The temperature in Madrid is slightly lower than in Taipei. Some of the girls complained the cold but I believed it should be ok since they will stay in the rink and hotel most of the time. 球隊在早上7:30抵達馬德里機場。馬德里氣溫比台北低一些，有球員抱怨太冷，但因為大部分時間不是在冰宮就是在旅館，應該不成問題。 First stop after arrival was Ice Rink Francisco in order to drop off the gears in the lockers room. Girls watched the ice practice of Team Spain for awhile. Newby felt nervous about the different level of strength and intentions with the teams they used to play against. 離開機場的第一站是到冰宮放球具。球員看了一下地主西班牙隊的練球，看得出來某些剛進國家隊體系的球員開始緊張，對手的力量強度及企圖心都跟他們之前碰到的隊大不相同。 Girls took a nap after lunch prior to the friendly match with Iceland. It was obviously not enough to recover from long travel with just a nap. The game started at 4:00PM after the friendly match between Spain and New Zeland (result as 3 vs 0, won by Spain). In my opinions, our girls played too panic and made some not so good judgements during the game. It should due to the jetlag and 15 hours long flight. Actually, most of the girls looked very tired and lost their speed advantage in the 3rd period. We won with 1 vs 0 till the end of 2nd period, and lost the game with the result of 3 vs 1. It was probably the roughest game our girls every played. Vikings are tall and big, and Team Iceland actually hired an ex USA Women’s National Team player as a coach and all of them arrived in Spain for practice 3 days ago. But I still have to say, we really have good chance to win the game after fully rest from long flight and jetlag adjustment. #12 Sydney Pan scored for Chinese Taipei during the friendly match. All girls had their time to play in the game. The expense for hiring a bus back and forth from hotel to ice rink is 450 Euro, very expensive compared with 650 Euro, the expense for me to rent a mini-van for 10 days from Madrid airport. Girls were envy to see a bus to pick up Team Iceland after the game and our girls have to take taxi as transportation before the tournament officially starts. 在與冰島友誼賽前球員用餐小睡了一下。不過看樣子小睡還不足以讓她們從長途飛行的疲勞中恢復。友誼賽在下午4:00開始, 緊接著西班牙隊及紐西蘭隊的友誼賽 (比賽結果3比0, 地主隊勝)。在我看來，我們打得太慌亂，做了一些錯誤判斷。我想大部分應該是時差及15小時長途飛行的影響。我們在第三節幾乎完全失去速度優勢。在第二節結束前我們還是1比0領先，結束時比分為3比1敗給冰島。這大概是大部分球員打過強度最大，肢體接觸最多的比賽。冰島的球員個子都很高大，她們請了一位美國女子國家代表隊前國手來當教練，也在三天前就已經到西班牙練球適應場地了。但我們(球員及隨行家長)都認為只要好好休息調時差，我們贏的機率不小。12號潘昕妮得了我們唯一的一分，所有的球員在友誼賽都有上場機會。雇一輛遊覽車往返冰宮的費用為450歐元，與我在馬德里機場租七人座小巴10天的費用650歐元相比真是貴。球員很羨慕地看著冰島隊球員比完賽搭著遊覽車離去，在正式比賽開始前我們只能搭計程車往返(單趟11歐元)。 Team Chinese Taipei stay in the same hotel with team Turkey and team Romania which have not showed up prior to the arriving date (3/16). Other three teams, Spain, Iceland and New Zeland stay in another hotel. 中華台北和土耳其隊及羅馬尼亞對住在同一個旅館，一直到3/16中午過後其他兩隊都還未出現。地主隊西班牙則和冰島隊及紐西蘭隊住在另一個旅館。 Went to super market for grocery shopping in the evening. Girls were so discipline, all they purchased were milk, juice, fruits, sports drink and personal utilities. 晚飯後去超市採買雜貨。這些女生真的都很乖很自制，他們買的就是牛奶、果汁、水果、運動飲料和個人用品。家裡大人不必擔心了! Too bad there’s something wrong with the camera in my cell yesterday. Could not provide any photo. 很抱歉3/15我的手機鏡頭出了狀況，未能提供照片。