Who wants to be the goalkeeper? Indonesian footballers use burning coconut as a ball in fiery 60-minute match

ဘယ္သူဂုိးဖမ္းမလည္း... မီးအုန္းလံုးေဘာပဲြ...

ေဘာလံုးပြဲအေႀကာင္းသံုးသပ္ေႀကၿငာသူေတြအေနၿဖင္ ့အဂၤလိပ္ပရီးမီးယားလိဂ္ၿပဳိင္ပြဲရဲ  ့အႀကိတ္
အနယ္ ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ကစားႀကပံုေတြကုိ အားပါးတရေႀကၿငာေၿပာႀကားေလ ့ရွိႀကပါတယ္...
သို ့ေသာ္လည္း တစ္ကယ္ ့အဆင္ ့ၿမင္ ့ေဘာလံုးကစားသမား ဂယ္ရီလီနီကာနဲ ့အန္ဒီဂေရး တုို ့
အေနႏွင္ ့အကယ္၍သာအင္ဒုိနီးရွားနုိင္ငံမွ ဤေဘာလံုးပဲြမ်ဴိးတြင္ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ကစားရပါက၎
တုိ ့အေနၿဖင္ ့ထုိကစားသမားမ်ားႏွင္ ့ေၿခရည္တူကန္နုိင္မွာမဟုတ္ဘူးဆုိတာ သိသြားႀကမွာအ
အေသအခ်ာပါပဲ....
ထုိအင္ဒုိနီးရွားမွ အထူးေဘာလံုးပဲြတြင္ပါ၀င္ကစားလုိသူေတြအေနႏွင္ ့မကစားမွီ ၂၁ ၇က္မွ်ႀကာ
ေအာင္ ၀တ္ၿပဳဆုေတာင္းၿခင္း၊ ဥပုတ္ေဆာက္တည္ၿခင္းမ်ားအၿပင္ မီးႏွင္ ့ယဥ္ပါးေစရန္ေလ ့က်င့္
ၿခင္းမ်ားၿပဳလုပ္ႀကရေသာေႀကာင္ ့ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္....
အားလံုးေလ ့က်င္ ့မွဳၿပီးစီးကာအဆင္သင္ ့ၿဖစ္မွပင္ ထုိကစားသမားမ်ားအေနၿဖင္ ့၂ ရက္ႀကာ
ေအာင္ေရနံဆီစိမ္ထားသည္ ့အုန္းသီးအား မီးရွဳိ  ့ထားသည္ ့ေဘာလံုးၿဖင္ ့မိနစ္ ၆၀ ႀကာေအာင္
ကန္ရသည္ ့ေဘာလံုးၿပဳိင္ပြဲတြင္ ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ႀကရတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္... 

 အၿပင္းအထန္ႀကဳိးစားယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ခ်က္ကေတာ ့အဂၤလန္ ပီရီးမီးယားလိဂ္ထက္ပုိပါလိမ္ ့မယ္...

အင္ဒုိနီးရွားနုိင္ငံ၊ ေကဒီရီ မွ လာဘုိယုိ ေဘာ္ဒါေက်ာင္းမွ မီးေဘာလံုးကစားပဲြပါ...

Scorchio! A game that's hotter than the Premier League, students play fire football at the Lirboyo boarding school in Kediri, Indonesia

 အၿပဳိင္အဆုိင္၊ ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ႏႊဲ.... ကန္တဲ ့မီးေဘာပဲြ...ဂုိးသမားအတြက္ေတာ ့သက္သာမယ္မထင္...

Players try to get the ball in the hopes of getting a shot in - good luck to the player who drew the (presumably burning) short straw and ended up as the keeper

မီးေလာင္ေနတဲ ့အုန္းသီးကုိေဘာလံုးအၿဖစ္လုပ္ၿပီးကစားတာမုိ ့အခုလို ေဘာကန္ဖိနပ္

မပါပဲ ေၿခဗလာသက္သက္နဲ ့ေဘာလံုးကုိႀကာရွည္ထိေနဖုိ ့ဆုိတာ မလြယ္ပါ....

Ouch! Hot! Hot! One player plays keep-it-up with the flaming ball - perhaps the foot equivalent of when you need to juggle a hot potato fresh from the oven

သတိၱရွိမွကန္နုိင္မွာေနာ္...

Rising temperatures: The Indonesian strikers show they have fire in their bellies as they play the beautiful (hot) game

 ေဘာလံုးကုိပုိင္ဆုိင္ဖုိ ့လုႀကေပမယ္ ့လည္းတာရွည္ေတာ ့ထိန္းမထားနုိင္ပါဘူး...

It takes two: Players wrestle for the ball - probably because neither of them want it

 ကစားေနႀကမုိ ့ထင္ပါရဲ  ့ေၿခဗလာသက္သက္နဲ ့မီးေတာက္ေနတဲ ့အုန္းသီးေဘာလံုးကုိ

ကန္ေနတာမ်ား ေအးရာေအးေႀကာင္း....

The heat is on: One player seems quite relaxed about the flames lapping away at his bare naked flame

 

ၿမန္ၿမန္ဆန္ဆန္ကန္ယင္ကန္...မကန္ယင္ေတာ ့မီးေလာင္ခံရမွာအမွန္...

Quick! The ball's on fire! Stamp it out! Another player shows off his skills on the pitch

မီးေတာက္ေနသည္ ့ထုိေဘာပဲြဟာ မိနစ္ ၆၀ ႀကာၿမင္ ့ေလ ့ရွိၿပီး ကစားသမားမ်ားအေနၿဖင္ ့ပဲြၿပီး

သည္အထိ မီးအုန္းေဘာလံုး ၄ လံုးခန္ ့အသံုးၿပဳ ရေလ ့ရွိႀကပါတယ္...

ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ကစားေနသည္ ့တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုးအုန္းသီးေဘာလံုးမီးေလာင္ေနေစရန္ ၂ ရက္မွ်ေရနံဆီစိမ္

ထားရပါတယ္...

ပဲြစရန္အတြက္ ကြင္းလယ္တြင္အုန္းသီးေဘာလံုးကုိတည္ကာ စတင္မီးရွဳိ  ့ၿခင္းၿဖင္ ့ကစားပဲြစတင္

ၿခင္းကုိၿပဳလုပ္ႀကပါတယ္...

ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္သူမ်ားဟာ မီးေလာင္ေနသည္ ့ေဘာလံုးအား ေၿခဗလာၿဖင္ ့ပင္ ဆဲြယူတုိ ့ထိကစားၿခင္း၊ အလြတ္တည္ကန္ေဘာမ်ားကန္ၿခင္း စသည္တုိ ့ၿဖင္ ့ကမာၻ ့ဖလားေဘာလံုးသမားမ်ားကဲ ့သုိ ့ပင္

 အလိမ္အေခါက္အေကြ ့အပတ္မ်ားကုိေၿခဗလာၿဖင္ ့ကန္ကာ ဂုိးသြင္းခြင္ ့ရေအာင္ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ႀကပါ

တယ္....

ကုိယ္ ့ရင္ထဲမီးေတာက္တာေတာ ့မဟုတ္၊ ကုိယ္ ့ေဘာလံုးမီးေတာက္ေနတာအမွန္...

Step one: Kick the ball at the other player's face. Step two: Score a goal

မီးေဘာလံုးတစ္ခုဖန္တီးဖို ့အုန္းသီးတစ္လံုးကုိ ေရနံဆီႏွင္ ့၂ ရက္တိတိစိမ္ထားရပါမယ္...

Ready to play? The ball is actually a coconut, soaked in kerosene for two days before the match

အလြမ္းမီးမ်ားၿငိမ္းပါလွည္ ့... အုန္းမီးမ်ားၿငိမ္းပါေလ...

Streaks of fire: Commentator Andy Gray would have no need for his felt tip pens to draw the line the ball had travelled

အဆုိပါ မီးအုန္းသီး ေဘာလံုးပြဲမ်ဴိးအား အင္ဒုိနီးရွားနုိင္ငံ၊ အေရွ  ့ဂ်ာဗားကြ်န္းတစ္၀ုိက္ရွိ အစၥ
လာမ္ေက်ာင္းအိပ္ေက်ာင္းစား စာသင္ေက်ာင္းမ်ားတြင္ ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ကစားႀကၿပီး လူႀကဳိက္မ်ားလွ်က္
ရွိေနပါတယ္...
တစ္ဖက္လွ်င္ ၅ ေယာက္စီပါ၀င္သည္ ့အသင္း ၂ သင္းဟာ အင္ဒုိနီးရွားရုိးရာ ကုိယ္ခံပညာတစ္
မ်ဴိးၿဖစ္သည္ ့ပန္ဆက္ဆီလက္ ပညာႏွင္ ့ဆက္စပ္သည္ ့အဆုိပါ အုန္းမီးလံုးေဘာလံုးပြဲကုိ ယွဥ္
ၿပဳိင္ကစားႀကေလ ့ရွိပါတယ္...
" ေက်ာင္းသားေတြရဲ  ့စြမ္းရည္သတၱိကုိ စမ္းသပ္တဲ ့အေနနဲ ့ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ ့အေနၿဖင္ ့အုန္းသီးကုိ
မီးရွဳိ  ့ၿပီးေဘာလံုးကန္ေစတာၿဖစ္ပါတယ္..." လုိ ့ပြဲစီစဥ္က်င္းပသူ အလီအက္ခ္ရာ ကဆုိပါတယ္..
ကရီဒီေဒသ လာဘုိယုိအရပ္မွာကန္သည္ ့ပြဲတြင္ပါ၀င္ယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္မည္ ့ကစားသမားမ်ားဟာ ပြဲမစ
ခင္၊ ၂၅ မီတာအလ်ားအနံရွိသည္ ့ေဘာလံုးကြင္းထဲမ၀င္မွီ၎တုိ ့၏ေၿခေထာက္မ်ား မီးမေလာင္
ကြ်မ္းေအာင္ ၀တ္ၿပဳဆုေတာင္းႀကရပါတယ္...
ထုိကဲ ့သုိ ့ပဲြမ၀င္ခင္ ဆုေတာင္းၿခင္းႏွင္ ့သဲသဲမဲမဲယွဥ္ၿပဳိင္ကစားၿခင္းတုိ ့ကပင္ ကစားသမားမ်ား
အေနၿဖင္ ့စိတ္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာႀက ံ ့ ခုိင္မွဳ၊ အသိဥာဏ္ပုိင္းဆုိင္ရာႀကံ  ့ခုိင္မွဳတုိ ့အတြက္ၿဖစ္ေစဖုိ ့
ရည္ရြယ္ပါတယ္...
ဒီလုိမီးေလာင္ေနသည္ ့အုန္းသီးကုိေၿခၿဖင္ ့ကန္ကာကစားသည္ ့အတြက္လည္း ကစားသမ်ား
အေနၿဖင္ ့အေရၿပားအပူဒါဏ္ခံနုိင္၊ မီးေလာင္ခံနုိင္မည္ ့အေၿခအေနကုိပုိမုိခံနုိင္ရည္စြမ္းရွိလာေစ
ဖုိ ့ရည္ရြယ္တာလည္းၿဖစ္ပါတယ္... 

 အုန္းသီးကုိအေပၚယံသားေလးခြာၿပီးအုန္းဆံေတြခ်န္ကာ ၂ ရက္ ေရနံဆီစိမ္ရပါတယ္...

Soaked: The fuel for this match is kerosene, in which the coconut gets soaked for two days

 အုန္းသီးကမီးၿငိမ္းေတာ ့မယ္၊ ပဲြကမၿပီးေသးဘူးဆုိယင္ေတာ ့ေနာက္တစ္လံုးမီးထပ္ရွဳိ  ့ၿပီး

ဆက္ကန္ႀကရပါတယ္... ေဘာလံုးပြဲတစ္ပြဲမွာ အုန္းသီး ၆ လံုးေလာက္မီးရွဳိ  ့ၿပီး

အသံုးၿပဳရေလ ့ရွိပါတယ္...

Burning: As the flames begin to die, the players prepare for another ball - they might go through six balls during a match

 အုန္းမီးလံုးေတာ ့ပုိင္ပါေပ ့.... ေၿခေထာက္အေရခြံေတာ ့မီးေလာင္ကြ်မ္းမွာေသခ်ာတယ္...

Keep 'em up: Another play practices his skills on the pitch - and and probably loses some skin at the same time

ကဲ... မီးအုန္းေဘာလံုး...ကစားႀကဦးမလား...

Commentators are always talking about the red-hot football action of the Premier League.
But with respect to Gary Lineker and Andy Gray, our top-flight players could well find themselves outclassed if they played a match in Indonesia.
For these players have been preparing for these football matches for 21 days - praying and fasting and learning to 'tame fire'.

When they are ready, the tough 60 minutes of football begins - played in bare feet with a burning coconut which has been soaked in kerosene for two days.

The burning matches take place over 60 minutes - and the players may go through four coconuts before the game is over.
Each coconut soaks for two days, ensuring it is drenched with flames and ready to burn.

Then the players place the ball in the centre-spot, and prepare to play - lighting a match to the match-day ball.
They play with bare feet - tackling, taking free-kick and scoring their way to victory in an imitation of World Cup stars.

The scorching version of the beautiful game is popular in many Islamic boarding schools across East Java.

The teams, which consist of five players, are playing the game in a tradition related to pencak silat, a traditional Indonesian martial art.
Match organiser Ali Akhyar said: 'We make a fireball to test the guts of the students.'

The players at this game in Lirboyo, Kediri, prayed not to get burned before heading out on to the 25m by 25m pitch.
The aim of the pre-match rituals, and the match itself, is to give the players psychological toughness and spiritual strength.
The methods aim to make the players 'heat resistant', to the point where fire does not burn their skin.