![]() Today I keep saying to myself that it was worth giving him the chance and I have a good feeling that he will lead this team to the top if not in our first season then maybe the second for sure. I didn’t have any problem and gave him the job. That’s when he spoke out and said, “I have experience, I can give it a shot if you would give me a chance.” It was perfect having a medic and a coach in one. His primary job with the team was that of a team doctor, I didn’t know that he was licensed to coach.Īfter losing a second consecutive match under my hands, I spoke to the committee saying that we needed to find a coach that knows what he’s doing unlike me as I never had the experience of coaching. How good of an appointment is Etienne Grech Sillato as coach?īefore Etienne came to the team we weren’t as united as we are now, his arrival inspired a lot of top players in to the team. Givova Kit samples used to help decided the team’s kits. The Purple shirt, I got because we have used GIVOVA as our kit provider and when we had to choose our home and away kit, we went with the home kit as the gold with black line on the side and for the away shirt we went with Purple because it had the touch of gold which we wanted to use as a main team colour. The colours, we decided to stick with the gold as the Santa Lucia local council flag, you find an all black flag with the Golden Sun inside. This is when I decided to add it all up and I came up with Santa Lucia Falcons FC. The name “Falcons” came from there and Santa Lucia came from the town that I lived in for 25 years before I got married and I had to move. I used to play for several clubs, which included Valletta Lions RFC, Birkirkara Alligators RFC and I finished my rugby career with Qormi Falcons RFC.įinishing my career with Qormi Falcons was a great feeling, we were always happy together, and there was a great team spirit. ![]() Santa Lucia Falcons captain, Chris Fardell (bottom, third from left) His name is Chris Fardell a former MFA 2nd and 3rd division player who is an inspiration to all the players in the team. ![]() Today he is the Santa Lucia Faclons club’s Captain. I asked him to help me out in constructing this team of ours. That’s when I picked a player out of the team, one who was very disciplined and one who followed all orders given by the coach. We were going down for matches and losing every single one of them, I knew that if there wasn’t going to be any discipline in the team, I wasn’t going to let myself be a laughing stock of the opposing teams. I was appointed Secretary of this club and I was extremely proud of this achievement.įive months after, I noticed that when we were still searching for the players, a lot of these players coming in lacked discipline, and training was never happening. A friend of mine then came up with a plan to begin a football club that would go into an Amateur League. To start with, I wasn’t always a football fan but when you start working in a new job, you have to try to adapt to what your workmates enjoy talking about.Īfter a couple of months, I over enjoyed myself speaking about the subject. Why did you choose to set up a football club? I enjoyed spending time at Santa Lucia Falcons. I have been lucky enough to speak to Teuma about entering the big world of being a football club chairman and founder. The Maltese football fan/ club owner was very enthusiastic about getting myself down to the club in order to get a taste of Maltese football. I was regularly in contact with the club’s founding member, Robert Teuma in the lead up to my trip to Malta. ![]() I recently spent time training in Malta with Santa Lucia Falcons. Last month during my time in Malta I spent time training with Santa Lucia Falcons.
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