Overseas Venture
Machado Menace
Grilled finally filed the proper paperwork to invite a foreign club to Singapore, and their very first visitors were Umeå IF from the Swedish Division Six, a side only a few months Grilled's senior. Grilled paid them no special favours, outgunning them three goals to one.
Near two thousand curious souls had assembled to see the Swedes, who made the most of their height when Björn Tobiasson won a header off a corner effortlessly to knock one past Bertolin, who should have done better. That had nothing on Grilled, who erased the lead in seconds as pacy Indian local
Svarpati Attimarad stole behind the Umeå defence to net. Machado then had the terraces chanting "Spanish Sens-sa-tion" with his cheeky moves and outstanding goal scored when sandwiched between two men.
Raw young striker
Rushanizam Yunos put too much attitude into the friendly as he upended more than one opponent, and the referee gave him a stern warning to stop all that. Anders Toresson and David Matsson were slow in attack for Umeå, who otherwise would have put up a better fight. Defensive winger
Xing Hua shut them down as he burst through in the middle, stumbling a little but still getting the third goal in.
