In the morning on November 28th, the 9th Guangzhou Friendship Games opened in Guangzhou Tianhe Sports Center. The overseas athletes from SCUT achieved excellent results through their great efforts. The men's football team won the championship, the men's basketball team was the third winner in the game and student Adi took the fifth place in woman's table tennis competition. In addition, A'long took the eighth place in men's single badmintion and Ruan Shihe also took eighth place in women's single. As a contestant unit invited to the games, SIE organized 104 overseas student athletes to participate in this sports games. Owing to SIE's excellent organization ability, SIE was awarded as Top Ten Organizing Unit by the organizing committee.
All the players in the champion team - SCUT North - played seven games in two days and overcame all the difficulties in the way, standing out among 40 teams participating the contest. When falling behind by one goal, SCUT North got an equalizer at the very last moment. Then it beat the team from Southern Medical University 3-2 in a penalty shootout and advanced to the final. During the session of fianl, SCUT North, by the tactics of counter attack, beat the team from Guangdong University of Technology 2-0 and won the championship.
(News Wrote by Zhang Shaozhe,Photo Edited by Zhang Shaozhe)
Time:2015-11-28