The following words are taken from our website home page:
''We are Olympique five a side football team based in Leeds. We currently play our trade at the Goals Soccer Centre Leeds branch in the Kirkstall area of the city.
We currently play in a yellow Adidas kit with blue stripes. We pride ourselves on playing attractive football and our style of play is very creative, although can be our downfall at times.
Feel free to browse our website. Team Captain and Secretary / Organiser is Richard Joyce''
FACEBOOK:
http://www.facebook.com/richardjoyce.joycinho
TWITTER:
@joycinho and @rjrugbyleague
For more in depth information on our team, visit our History section on the links above or below.
Thanks, Olympique.
Source: Olympique club website
Taken from our team website
written by Richard Joyce,
"Olympique were first formed in 2006 under the name of FC Galacticos by founder members Richard Joyce and Jonny Roberts.
Our first competitive fixture was in the St Georges Cup tournament at Goals Soccer Centre in Leeds, despite two wins, we failed to reach the knock out stages due to goal difference.
Our adopted home was the 3g pitches at South Leeds Stadium (now John Charles Centre for Sport) and our first competitive league we competed in was the FA affiliated Striker 5s Premiership at South Leeds Stadium. We quickly became a stronghold established team in the Premiership, although our highest league position finish was 4th in 2006/2007 season.
Under FC Galacticos we won our first piece of silverware in the same season defeating Bowyer 4 England, the reigning Premiership Champions 6-5 in the Monday Premiership League Cup.
We developed from strength to strength over the next couple of seasons, taking part in the national FA Cup of five a side - the Umbro Fives and reached the semi finals of the strong Goals Bradford Powerade Fives tournament.
However, in a transitional period in 2008 we were sadly relegated from the Striker 5s Monday Premiership and took a short break from competitive football.
We were soon back in action however at the Goals Soccer Centre in Leeds in 2008. We took Monday Division 4 by storm in our inaugural season at Goals by gaining promotion as runners up of the division. However, the success was a false sense of security as we soon dropped out of Division 3 after a poor finishing position of 5th to defect back to South Leeds Stadium's Striker 5s set up.
Our next 'major' silverware came under the banner of 'Roman Galacticos' - our feeder team on a sunday, we won the Striker 5s Sunday League Cup (see picture) in convincing fashion thanks to goalkeeping heroics by Jonny Roberts and great finishing from attacker Richard Joyce, both the founders' of the original team, very fitting for the lads.
After struggling for a regular settled team at South Leeds Stadium in 2009, Richard Joyce made the decision to re-brand the team and set up at Goals Soccer Centre in Leeds to play in the Monday Night League system.
Our new team name after much debate was to be Sick Int Teeth. We began our assault on Goals Monday Night Football in spectacular fashion gaining promotion two seasons running, runners up in Division 4 (known as Serie D), then winning Division 3 (known as League One), following up with the double winning the Division 2 (known as Championship). We finished runners up the following season in 2011 before a dramatic drop in form where we now lie in League Two (fourth division) at the start of 2013 under the banner of Olympique.
To breathe some new life and confidence into the team which has existed since March 2006 we again re branded to become OLYMPIQUE."
GO OLYMPIQUE - 2013 and beyond.
Source: Olympique club website
Check out our FC GALACTICOS shirt from 2006-2008. If you look on the sleeve, you will see the name of Afzal Fazal. He was our original goalkeeper from the day we formed the team, he sadly passed away in 2006, only months after we formed our team. So as a tribute we had his name printed on our sleeves. To this day he is one of the best five a side goalkeeper's I have ever seen.
In the above gallery, you can see all the statistics of every player that laced a boot playing for my team whilst we were under the banner of FC Galacticos. The team was a passionate hobby for me and I wanted other players in the team to have something to look back on in future years and say ''yeah, that's when I was at my peak'', or ''I scored the most goals in the team back then'', or ''I was the top appearance maker in that squad''. I think it is always nice to give other players a piece of history.
If anyone from our team or who has previously played for FC Galacticos and wants to see the original records book, feel free to ask me and I will show you it and let's have a few catch up beers while we reminisce too :-)
Left Picture:
The all-time captain and vice-captain records for FC Galacticos. An interesting account of which captain's inspired the best out of the team.
Right Picture:
We even used to host our very own five a side football tournaments (organised by me really haha) in what we used to call 'The Roman Gods Of Football Academy'. Our tournaments were quite successful at times, sometimes attracting five teams. Our tournaments were called 'RJ Sports Galacticos Challenge' as we invited teams to challenge one of our teams and we also used to have an 'invitational' player to join our team. A bit of fun but also quite competitive. Each tournament we organised we added a 'Roman Numeral' to the tournament name.
Example: Galacticos Challenge II, Galacticos Challenge II etc etc.
Below is a gallery with the biography description of all the current regular Olympique players. Click or zoom into each image to read them.
In the biographies, it states how many appearances, goals and assists the relevant player has made.
ON A PERSONAL NOTE...
It will also be interesting to add up all my goals and appearances from my FC Galacticos (FCG) statistics from the all-time FCG records picture earlier on the page and my Olympique statistics from my biography below and work out how many of my 1,013 goals on my 'all forms of competitive football statistics' have come from playing with FCG and Olympique?
You can view my blog on reaching my 1,000 goals miles stone by clicking on the link below:
CLICK HERE FOR 1,000 GOALS BLOG
There are bio's for the following players:
Daryl Boland, Dennis Harwood, Jonny Roberts, Matthew Stephenson, Michael Stephenson, Nathan Long, Richard Joyce (me), Richard O'Brien (although he doesn't play for us now, I still feel his bio deserves a mention he was such an influence on the pitch for us), Tim Marks and Wayne Stephenson.
For a period of about a year and a half, I made the effort to write match reports for almost every game, but due to time consuming issues I had to stop as I struggled to make time for it. What started out as a hobby began feeling like a chore and there is no point doing it if I wasn't enjoying it anymore.
So as an alternative I kept updating the match facts, statistics for every game and a game headline news feed on our website. However, even that became time consuming. I gave that up too but I still add photos and bits of media to the website to keep it running. It is now becoming more of a nostalgia website for our team to look back at the good times, the bad and the ugly - all part of the fun.
Below is a picture of an article / match report from one of our games which I wrote - so feel free to have a read.
@rjsports1