
In the semifinals this time there will be two duels that are very much awaited by Indonesian football lovers, especially at a young age. The two matches presented in the semifinals will be duels with high-level rivalries, equivalent to duels of two clubs that have a long history in Europe there.
It is commonly known as Derby Match. A special match between two clubs with a long history of rivalry.
The first match was Batavia Fort FC against Sparta Bandung FC. The match between Batavia Fort FC against Sparta Bandung FC has been going on for a long time, even before the league format became I-LEAGUE and I-YOUTH as it is today.
In the past when the Indonesian Football Federation was still PSSI, the format of the league was also different as it is today. If the league format is now a little bit oriented to Japan with its J1 League. Persija Jakarta was the pride club of Jakarta residents before the emergence of clubs that have the J-LEAGUE format.
In Jakarta alone a lot of big clubs that stand and compete in the first or second caste in the I-League or in I-Youth. Call it for example Jaksel Yankees, Benhil Wanderers, Jakarta Meterion FC and the largest among them is Batavia Fort FC.
Batavia Fort FC itself is a club that plays in the highest caste in the I-League and includes a big club, namely, because they belong to a big club then they also follow in the footsteps of other big clubs to create satellite teams that play in I-Youth for the development of their academy players or their young players.
Because Batavia Fort FC is a club from Jakarta, their eternal rivals are a team from the city of Bandung. Just as in the past when the league format was still not as modern as it is now, Persija Jakarta is the eternal rival of Persib Bandung and the duel between the two big teams was always a special attraction among Indonesian football lovers.
There are many histories created because of the meeting between Persija Jakarta and Persib Bandung. And now, Batavia Fort FC and Sparta Bandung FC will continue what their predecessors have done.
Sparta Bandung itself is a team from the city of Bandung who managed to advance to the semi-finals of I-Youth. Sparta Bandung itself is a club that began to develop at the level of the I-League, so that way they try their luck to make a satellite team competing in I-Youth to accommodate their young players to get high playing hours.
As the only team representing the city of Bandung and West Java, Sparta Bandung FC certainly does not want to disappoint the citizens of Bandung and its surroundings. They want to prove that they are not inferior to other Bandung city clubs such as Paris Bandung FC, Bandung Sea Fire, or the biggest Bandung city club, Bandung United.
So at this time, the Sparta Bandung FC players train very hard and hard to show their best performance during the game later. In fact, their current main goalkeeper whose name is on the rise due to his slick performances over the last few matches, Wawan Angga is also training very hard.
Wawan Angga has done some exercises, then he trained to dispel penalty kicks because several times he was always faced with penalty situations. Wawan Angga told some of his colleagues to kick the penalty and he will brush it off as much as he can, after doing that his rescue record was arguably very good.
From 10 kicks, Wawan Angga managed to pull 6 kicks, 3 kicks managed to get into his goal and 1 kick wide far to the right side of the goal.
"Come guys, we try 10 more penalties" said Wawan Angga when after successfully brushed off the last kick.
His other colleagues have been met with the behavior of Wawan Angga, they are almost no longer able to stand and kick the ball once again. "We want to rest first Wawan, we are no longer able!" said one of his colleagues who was too tired, even to talk he was too tired.
Hearing what was said by Wawan Angga earlier made his colleagues stand back and take penalties again with the rest of their energy, with the rest of their energy, and Wawan Angga smiled could return to dismiss the kicks that would come to his goal quickly.
In the second round of penalties, Wawan set a good record. Wawan Angga managed to pull out 8 out of 10 kickers, and the rest went into his net. Of course with the increase made Wawan Angga a little confident before the match against Batavia Fort FC.
While in the next camp, Batavia Fort FC team also undergo heavy training also before their next match. Batavia Fort FC did a mini game exercise 11 against 11.
Raffi Putra as the defender who is the most talked about by the crowd in I-Youth this time joined the A team, and he faced off with Wildan Hutami who is a rising star owned by Batavia Fort FC today.
The ability of Wildan Hutami is no doubt, he has the ability above the average Batavia Fort FC other players. But in front of Raffi Putra, Wildan Hutami could not do much.
Wildan Hutami had a chance after successfully passing team A players, he had arrived in front of the penalty box team A and the goal of team A he could already see with his eyes, he had arrived in front of the penalty box team A, Wildan Hutami also began to aim where he would throw a hard kick.
When Wildan Hutami had set his target, Wildan Hutami immediately did the horses prepare to kick the ball, he wanted to do a drive shot that he had learned over the past few months. However, when about to kick the ball, Raffi Putra immediately did a clean slide tackle and managed to take the ball from the feet of Wildan Hutami without touching Wildan Hutami in the slightest and without making a foul at all.
Raffi Putra immediately gave a long pass forward, which was successfully used by the forward of team A to make the score change and make an advantage for team A.
"Damn it! Senior Raffi is indeed very great" Wildan Hutami said after he did not make it past Raffi Putra during this mini game.
Raffi Putra reached out his hand to raise Wildan Hutami who was still sitting after being hit by a tackle from him earlier.
"Thank you senior!"
"It's not a big deal" Raffi Putra said with a slight smile, then he went to his position again and started preparing again to continue the mini-game match.
Wildan Hutami continues to look towards his senior, Raffi Putra, he really likes the figure of Raffi Putra even he made it as an idol and he wants to surpass the figure of his idol. So Wildan Hutami smiles back and is excited to start the mini-game again, as he wants to show him that senior of his is about his true abilities.