Player Profile #3

Arthur Tse
aka. A-Train
aka. Captain Arthur the Conqueror

Dedication is what makes a footballer great, and what better player to show this than Arthur Tse. He has shown that no matter if your on or off the pitch, work is needed to keep the team in good working order. And his performance on the field? Unbelievable.

Arthur is the star of the defensive midfield. We say defensive midfield, but he can play anywhere from goalkeeper to attacking midfielder with no problem. He can even play striker. Patrick Viera has said that "Even though Arthur is at least five years younger than the best players around, he was still our boyhood idol".

Arthur played professionally for Wairirapa when he was twelve and joined Perth Glory when he was fourteen. He was then offered many contracts in Europe, but, as he was so young, he did not want a serious injury playing in a hard league, so he played the next five years at Dundee United. he was offered places in Barcelona, Beyern Munich and Juventus at the end of his contract, but he recieved word of a new club being set up in his homeland, and quickly returned to be one of the premier players in The Sam. He and Sam set up the commitee of players in The Sam in October of 2005, in which 6 The sam players would come and discuss rules of conduct and team structure. Arthur is responsible for the non-renewal of the contract of player and commitee member Chris Desousa.

Arthur became captain of The Sam in January 2006 from De-Facto captain Sam. He played brilliantly in The sam's first encounter of the year but then disaster struck. Arthur ripped his achilles tendon while training and is now out until the end of the year. A string of poor performances by The Sam in Feburary and March shows how much the team missed the talent of Arthur.

Arthur is skilled in enabelling the defence to become a greater entity. That is, The strikers of The Sam (Charles, Nick, Seung, and Geoff) get the most media attention, and Arthur is able to not only outplay our own strikers, but he is able to get the rest of the defence to do the same, thus avoiding the strikers getting too cockey.

Arthur has easily the greatest experience in the team and can always put players in their place without causing anger in the ranks. We at The Sam are not biased towards any player, but we say that if a list was made of all The Sam players, Arthur would and should be first.