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FEBRUARY NEWS - 2008
Santos F.C beat last year Shield Champion Mahindra United
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28.02.2008:Last year's IFA Shield winner Mahindra Unitrd lost to Foreign
team South African premier division Team Santos FC 2 - 0 in the second match
starting from 6.00 PM of the 113th IFA Shield at the Salt Lake Stadium today
The visitor scorded their first goal by striker Tasleem Paulse in the seventh
minute ( 1 - 0 ). Collecting a ball from their half line, Tasleem sprinted down the
middle and easily beat Mahindra's Sunil Kumar by run and volleyed the ball through
his left foot to the goal.(2 - 0)
The second goal came in the 50th minute of the match when Danny Rodrick cut
the Mahindra defence and pushed the ball to Tasleem who beat Mahindra Defence
by offside trap and easily flick the ball just outside helpless Sandip Nandy( 2 - 0).
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SANTOIS F.C:
69-Eduan Andre Naude,2-Jean Pierre Farrugia,3-Kristopher C.Nicolas,6-Leon Godloza,7-Tasleem Paulse,
8-Clifton Davids,9-Ruzaigh Gamildien(14-Waleed Crotoz),10-Danny R.Rodrick,
11-Ayanda Maqasha(4-Jarrein L.Moultrie),
12-Zuroog Daniels,13-Joswin John Hendricks.
MAHINDRA UNITED: 24-Sandip Nandy,7-Sushanth Mathew, 16-Sunil Kumar(28- Sushil Singh)
, 2-N.P. Pradeep, 29- Djidjia Douhou,5-Harpreet Singh,12- Manjeet Singh(20-Bhola Prasad),
17-Sukhwinder Singh,15-K.Thoi Singh(23- Steven Dias), 8-Andrew Pomyie.10-Yusif Yakubu
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Kolkata Mohammedan made a goal less draw against Dhaka Mohammedan
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28.02.2008: Dhaka's Mohammedan Sporting and Mohammedan Sporting of Kolkata
who just won the Prodyut Dutta memorial tournament, and gained passport to the
IFA Shield this year,played out a goalless draw in the 1st match starting from 3.00 PM of the historical
113th IFA Shield at Salt Lake Stadium today.
The Kolkata team Captain Mike Okoro was set up with a square pass by Prasanta
Chakrabarty but Dhaka goalkeeper rushed out of his charge to pick the ball from
Okoro's boot.Kalia Kulothungan missed an oppertunity to score after collecting a
ball from Jyoti Kumar bur unable to beat the rival goalie Aminul Haque.
Paul MacJames,former Kolkata Mohammedan S.C Player in IFA Premier League,
whose powerful header rebounded cross piece.
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Mohammedan S.C:
1-Nasim Akhrar,6-Sk Azim,10- Mike Okoro,12-Prasanta Chakrabarty,14-Basudev
Mondol (7-Roque Barreto),15-Tapan Giri,27-Jyothi Kumar(24-Nirapada Mondol),
21-Sebi Martins,19-K.Kulothungan(16-Md.Muneer KP),30-V.Premkumar,33-Deepak Singh.
Dhaka Mohammedan Sporting:
1-Aminul Hoque,2-Wali Faisal,4-Razani Kanta Burman,5-Arizul Islam,6-Hasan Al
Mamun,8-Enamul Haque Sharif,10Paul Mcjames,16-Faisal Mahmood(7-Motiur
Rahaman Munna),17-Arman Aziz,20-Hakim Daoudi(11- Md.Rooney),21-Adil Karrouchi
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Churchill beat Mohun Bagan in the opening of IFA Shield
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27.02.2008: I - League runners Churchill Brothers beat Mohun Bagan 1 - 0
in the opening match of the 113th IFA Shield at Salt Lake Stadium today in Group
'A' Match.
In the 30th minute of the match Churchil scored the only goal.Ogba Kalu
of Churchill overlapping down the left and punched the ball towards Bagan's
goal but Mohun Bagan Keeper Sangram Mukherjee came off his line to clear the ball.
The clearance of Sangram landed at Peter Odafe’s feet,but Mboyo Iyomi easily
snatch the ball from Odafe and pushed to Robert Lalthalmuana, whose powerful
25-yard volley found the net( 1 - 0 ).
In the 40th minute when Bagan's Keeper Sangram Mukherjee brought down Ogba
Kalu inside the box and referee awarded a penalty against Bagan. Churchill
ill came close to doubling their lead but Chandam Chitra’ Singh's volley was
acrobatically saved by Sangram.
In the first half Venkatesh,Barreto and Baichung of Mohun Bagan missed several
scoring oppertunites due to brilliant saving of Churchill Keeper Vinay singh.
If Vinay saved the day for Bagan, Churchill was denied because of poor finish.
Kalu, Mbyo and D Raju had lost many positive chances and came near scoring
several times.
In the second half, Churchill maintained their dominance lost another easiest
chance of the match when Mbyo headed the ball defeating Sangram in flight into
the open net only to see N S Manju bring off a goalline save.
MOHUN BAGAN: 1-Sangram Mukherjee; 5-Habibur Rahman (22-Lal Kamal
Bhowmick),14-Peter Odafe, 3-N.S.Manju, 7-Rauf Khan, 16-James Singh,
13-Douglas (9-P.Lalampuiea), 6-S.Venkatesh, 18-Dharamjit Singh(17-Rahul Kumar), 10-Barreto,
15-Baichung Bhutia
CHURCHILL BROTHERS: 1-Vinay Singh,6- Govind Singh, 19-Gouramangi Singh,5-?,
17-Robert Lalthalmuana,13- Genius Zenith; 12-R. Vashum(18-Tjhangjam Singh),
14-C. Chandam Singh, 21-Ogba Kalu ,15-D. Raju, 9-Mboyo Iyomi,
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26.02.2008:Historical IFA Shield will start tomorrow 3.00 PM at Salt Lake Stadium of
Kolkata.Kolkata Football League Champion Mohun Bagan will face recent I -League
runners - up Churchill Brothers of Goa.
22 Goal Scorer of Churchill's Odafa Okolie has not come with the team.
Probable team list of Mohun Bagan like this : Sangram Mukherjee,Habibur Rahaman
Mondol,Peter Odafe,N.S.Manju,Rauf Khan,Venkatesh,James Singh,Douglas,Dharamjeet,
Baichung Bhutia, Barreto.
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SAFF Championship 2008 :Official Draw
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28.02.2008:
The draw for the SAFF Championship 2008 was held at the Paradise Island Resort
in Maldives on Thursday ,28th Feb 08.
The tournament , worth US $ 50,000 to the winners ,will be co-hosted by the
Maldives and Sri Lanka from 3-14 June.
India are the defending champions and four time winners of the competition.
Draw & India’s Fixtures :
Group A : India ,Maldives ,Pakistan & Nepal.
Group B : Bangladesh ,Srilanka ,Afghanistan & Bhutan.
India’s Fixtures
Venue : National Stadium ,Male .
3rd June : India Vs Nepal
5th June : India Vs Pakistan
7th June : India Vs Maldives
All Group A matches including Semi Finals on 11th June will be played in Male ,
Matches of Group B Second Semi Final on 11th June and Finals will be played on
14th June 08 at Colombo.
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Churchill beat Mohun Bagan in the opening of IFA Shield
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27.02.2008: I - League runners Churchill Brothers beat Mohun Bagan 1 - 0
in the opening match of the 113th IFA Shield at Salt Lake Stadium today in Group
'A' Match.
In the 30th minute of the match Churchil scored the only goal.Ogba Kalu
of Churchill overlapping down the left and punched the ball towards Bagan's
goal but Mohun Bagan Keeper Sangram Mukherjee came off his line to clear the ball.
The clearance of Sangram landed at Peter Odafe’s feet,but Mboyo Iyomi easily
snatch the ball from Odafe and pushed to Robert Lalthalmuana, whose powerful
25-yard volley found the net( 1 - 0 ).
In the 40th minute when Bagan's Keeper Sangram Mukherjee brought down Ogba
Kalu inside the box and referee awarded a penalty against Bagan. Churchill
ill came close to doubling their lead but Chandam Chitra’ Singh's volley was
acrobatically saved by Sangram.
In the first half Venkatesh,Barreto and Baichung of Mohun Bagan missed several
scoring oppertunites due to brilliant saving of Churchill Keeper Vinay singh.
If Vinay saved the day for Bagan, Churchill was denied because of poor finish.
Kalu, Mbyo and D Raju had lost many positive chances and came near scoring
several times.
In the second half, Churchill maintained their dominance lost another easiest
chance of the match when Mbyo headed the ball defeating Sangram in flight into
the open net only to see N S Manju bring off a goalline save.
MOHUN BAGAN: 1-Sangram Mukherjee; 5-Habibur Rahman (22-Lal Kamal
Bhowmick),14-Peter Odafe, 3-N.S.Manju, 7-Rauf Khan, 16-James Singh,
13-Douglas (9-P.Lalampuiea), 6-S.Venkatesh, 18-Dharamjit Singh(17-Rahul Kumar), 10-Barreto,
15-Baichung Bhutia
CHURCHILL BROTHERS: 1-Vinay Singh,6- Govind Singh, 19-Gouramangi Singh,5-?,
17-Robert Lalthalmuana,13- Genius Zenith; 12-R. Vashum(18-Thangjam Singh),
14-C. Chandam Singh, 21-Ogba Kalu ,15-D. Raju, 9-Mboyo Iyomi,
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ONGC I-League - 2008 - Super Stars
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27.02.2008 ::: ONGC I-League 2008 Award Winners
Most Valuable Player in I - League - Odafe Okolie Onyeka (Churchill Brothers )
Best Coach (Sayed Abdul Rahim Trophy) - Armando Colaco (Dempo S.C)
Best Goalkeeper - Subrata Pal (East Bengal Club)
Best Defender (Jarnail Singh Award) - Mahesh Gawli (Dempo S.C)
Best Midfielder - Climax Lawrence (Dempo S.C)
Best Forward - Odafe Okolie Onyeka (Churchill Brothers)
Golden Boot - Odafe Okolie Onyeka (Churchill Brothers )
Fair Play Trophy - Dempo S.C
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Mumbai Super Division elite playoff results
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27.02.2008:
Venue :Cooperage Stadium, Mumbai
1:30 PM Rizvi Mumbai Muslims 2 - 0 Sea View
3:30 PM PIFA CYFC 1 - 1 Income Tax
Points table
| #. | TEAM | Game | Points | |
| 1. | PIFA CYFC | 3 | 7 | |
| 2. | Central Railway | 2 | 6 | |
| 3. | Rizvi Mumbai Muslims | 4 | 6 | |
| 4. | Sea View SC | 3 | 3 | |
| 5. | Income tax | 4 | 1 |
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Games remianing
Central Railway vs Sea View SC
Central Railyway vs PIFA CYFC
PIFA CYFC have gauranteed a 2nd place finish, the winner of the PIFA CYFC vs
Central Railway will secure top place.
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Mohammedan S.C beat George Telegraph to enter the Final Face of
IFA Shield
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26.02.2008:Before participating in the coming IFA Shield and 2nd Divn.
National football League 2008 in March, Kolkata Giant Mohammedan S.C has got
some oxygen by winning IFA Prodyut Dutta Memorial Football Tournament today at
Barasat Stadium.
Today Mohammedan did not play so well in the First half. George's midfielder Subho
Kumar and Samar Debnath missed two good chances in the 5th and 28th minutes of
the first half.
Mike Okoro led the Mohammedan Team from the starting of the game.The First
half ended goal less.In the 62nd minute of the match Mohammedan scored their
first goal through a wonderful Free-Kick of Adebao Adewusi .
Md. Muneer who replaced Jyothi Kumar scored another in 76th minute from
a Zero degree angle through a left footer.
By winning the Trophy Mohammedan S.C qualified in 113th IFA Shield and will
play in Group 'A ' alongwith Mohun Bagan,Churchill Brothers and Dhaca Mohammedan S.C.
The club also became richer by received 2 lacs as Prize Money.
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Dempo S.C of Goa lift First I-League title
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23.02.2008:Defending National Football League champions, Dempo Sports
Club, Goa, rout Viva Kerala 4-1 to lift the inaugural ONGC I-League title at the
Corporation stadium in Kozhikode on Saturday.
Dempo,who led 3 - 1 in first half opened their scoring line through Nigerian striker
Edeh Chiddi in the 29th minute minute neatly connecting a D'Cruz pass (1 - 0).
Skipper Ranty Martins then doubled the score in 31st minute through a penalty
kick when Viva Goalkeeper tripped Dempo's Nicholas Borges in Penalty Box(2 - 0).
However, Viva netted one in the 35th minute through S.Saleel who successfully
pushed the ball, coming off a corner hit from Tabia, into the net to make the proceedings
lively at 2-1.Chidi Edeh again scored in 45th minutes to leave Dempo at (3-1)
for Lemon break.
Brazilian Striker Roberto Mendes Silva (Beto) pushed the ball into the net off a
corner from Jonny D'Cruz in 79th minutes of the match, to ensure his team to
lift the league title for 3rd time (2 times NFL) as like as East Bangal and Mohun Bagan.
Dempo Striker Chidi Edeh has been declared Man of the Match today
VIVA KERALA: 1-TG Purushothaman, 2-Ebin Rose, 4-Tutu George,
3-Khelemba Singh, 6-Othallo Tabia (27-TK Manoharan), 22-KV Lalu, 8-S.James
Singh, 7- Bimal Birua (26-Mohammad Helmy), 16-Shahbas Shaleel,10-Baba
Thunde (19-S.Satish Kumar), 17-Wisdom Abbey.
DEMPO: 1-Abhijit Mondal; 4-Cressan Antao, 3-John Charles Dias,
23-Dominic Noronha, 16-Samir Naik; 19-Johnny D'Cruz ( 20-Riston Rodrigues),
8-Climax Lawrence, 11-Beto, 22-Nicolau Borges (17-Joaquim Abranches),
9-Ranty Martins ( 29-Clifton Gonsalves), 30-Chidi Edeh.
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AIFF U - 14 National Football Tournament 2008
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23.02.2008:
Indian Football Association(IFA) announced the names of sixteen boys
that will participate in the AIFF U-14 Football Festival 2007-2008 to be held in
Goa at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from 23 Feb to 4th March 2008.
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1. Subhadeep Bose
2. Md.Tarique
3. Khokon Patra
4. Tubai Dey
5. Saheb Mondol
6. Uttam Das
7. Sonu Karmakar
8. Uttam Sil
9. Souvik Das
10. Aritra Bhattacharyya
11. Jadav Ansari
12. Somnath Dey
13. Souvik Ghosh
14. Binod Nayek
15. Anubrata Maity
16. Debabrata Das
Manager : Arun Chowdhury(IFA)
Coach : Bidesh Bose and Shyamal Banerjee
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AIFF U - 14 National Football Tournament 2008
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23.02.2008:
Western India Footbal Association (WIFA) announced the names of sixteen boys
that will participate in the AIFF U-14 Football Festival 2007-2008 to be held in
Goa at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium from 23 Feb to 4th March 2008.
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1. Arjun Mudliar Kumar (Capt) – SFS, Nagpur
2. Harold Fernandes (Vice captain) – Don Bosco, Mumbai
3. Neel Nirvan Shah – Campion School, Mumbai
4. Siddaharth Vishwanath Nayak – St Francis D’assisi, Mumbai
5. Dion Menezes – Don Bosco, Mumbai
6. Mervin Stephen – Don Bosco, Mumbai
7. Girik Khosla - Don Bosco, Mumbai
8. Arbaz Akbar K.M. – M.M. Rabbani High School, Nagpur
9. Naresh Mohanlal Choudhary – St Augustine High School, Nerul
10. Anil Utsav Maralkar – Kolhapur
11. Siddhart Prashant Mane – New English, Meeraj
12. Fernando Milton Bebito – O.L.P.S, Chembur
13. Allen Selvary Joseph – Gyan Matha School, Amravati
14. Rohit Rajesh Mhaske – St Lawerence, Vashi
15. Asheer Akhtar Mehfooz – D.P.S, Nerul
16. Omkar Jadhav Sambhalee - Private High School, Kolhapur
Manager : Mr Mohammed Abid (Jalgaon Dist.)
Coach : Mr Sunil Poojari (Thane Dist)
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City welcomes Mumbai FC Junior Champs
Close to 1000 teams register for football fiesta
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Come February 22nd, all roads in Mumbai will lead to the football ground as close
to 1000 teams and more than 10,000 players below the age of 18, both boys and
girls, will lace up their boots to kick off the Mumbai FC Junior Champs football
tournament. This novel initiative by the city's newest community based football
club has taken Mumbai by storm and the city's sports loving community has
responded in typical fashion, with teams from Colaba to Dharavi, Churchgate to
Vasai, VT to Navi Mumbai and Bandra to Ambarnath registering in huge numbers.
Where man divides, sport unites. Nothing justifies this better than the response
from the people of Mumbai to the Mumbai FC Junior Champs programme. Cutting
across barriers of economic disparity, caste, creed and religion, football teams
have come together at 16 zones across the demographic spread of the city over
four weekends to indulge themselves in the world's most popular game ---
Football.
The action on the first weekend beginning February 22 kicks off at the Thakur
Ground, Kandivli, the PWD Ground at Malwani, Malad and the St. Andrew's Ground,
Bandra. This will be followed by the tournament at the Bhavan's College ground,
Andheri on February 25 and 26. The following weekend (February 29 to March 2)
will see action shifting to Navi Mumbai, Chembur, Mulund, Vikhroli-Ghatkopar and
Dadar-Matunga and to Saki Naka, Andheri on March 6 and 7. March 7 to 9 will see
football action in the zones of Sion-Dharavi, Mazgaon-Byculla, Mumbai Central to
Worli, which will also cover areas like Colaba, Kalbadei, Girgaum and Mahim, and
the zone of Thane-Ambarnath.
115 teams will be seen in action in Bandra, while 115 teams will play in Kandivli,
with the Malad zone seeing 62 teams in action. The Andheri zone has attracted a
mammoth 149 teams. These teams are divided into the four age categories of
under-10, under-14, under-18 among boys and under-16 among girls. The winner
from each category will advance into the city finals, which will be played at the
Police Ground, Ghatkopar on March 14 to 16, 2008.
For the first time ever in the footballing history of the city has a private club
endeavoured to take on the mammoth task of getting the entire city together on
the common platform of football. The tremendous popularity the game enjoys can
be gauged from the response, which has seen up to 1000 teams registering for
the event. Of course, the response also reflects positively on the commitment of
Mumbai FC towards making true their credo, which is to give every Mumbaikar an
opportunity to play football, transcending all limitations.
Mumbai FC has also set a record of sorts by having all the participants in the
Mumbai FC Junior Champs programme insured against injury
The Mumbai FC Junior Champs will also be the launch pad for talented footballers
to fulfil their potential of going ahead and playing for reputed clubs and their
country as talent scouts will pick them for future intensified football training under
the tutelage of Mumbai FC's reputed coaches.
Every participant will be given a certificate, while there will be a man of the match
award for each match, which will be a certificate, a memento and a free entry
ticket to Esselworld. The winners of the zonal finals in all categories will get a
cash award of Rs 5,000, while the winners of the city finals will get a cash award
of Rs 25,000, besides a goody bag with a replica of the Mumbai FC T-shirt, a
sipper and other gifts. Besides creating a festival atmosphere at all venue with
comperes, live music and food stalls, all spectators who register themselves at the
venues will be given gifts and freebies and will also be eligible to a daily lucky dip,
where the prize will be a Dish TV connection.
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New Delhi Heroes advances to semi-finals
in 4th Lt. Governors Invitational DDA Football Tournament
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20.02.2008
Match :ONDH vs. Ahbab FC
0-1 [Pradeep, 30th minute], 1-1 [Baba Tunde, 87th minute], 2-1 [Baba Tunde,
92nd minute]
Osian’s New Delhi Heroes stomped their supremacy in the tournament by defeating
Ahbab FC in their last league match played at Ambedkar Stadium today. Chima,
ONDH kept the pace and control of the match but could not convert the chances
they created, on the other hand Ahbab FC utilized their only chance in the 30th
minute through Pradeep.
The finish was reminiscent to the 1999 Championship Finals when Manchester
United Clinched the trophy by scoring 3 goals in the last 2 minutes, the same was
repeated when Baba Tunde scored 2 goals within 4 minutes maintaining ONDH’s
clean sheet in the tournament.
In the other Match :
Group A: ONGC, Mumbai 4 - 0 Peerless SC
Goals: Henry 11', Jatin Singh Bisht 44', MC Dhanesh 52', Gour Naskar.
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Osian’s New Delhi Heroes drub Peerless SC
1-0 [Amjad Hussain, 3rd minute], 2-0 [Baba Tunde, 30th minute], 3-0 [Gyan
Moyon, 85th minute]
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18.02.2008:
Osian’s New Delhi Heroes continued their streak in the ongoing 4th Lt. Governor’s
Invitational DDA Football Tournament by defeating Peerless SC today.
N D Heroes broke the deadlock in the 3rd minute itself of the first half when Amjad
Hussain volleyed the ball into the net from the top of the 18 yard( 1 - 0). ND
Heroes, riding high on the confidence netted another goal in the 30th minute
where Baba Tunde gave a powerful chip shot from 25 yards and posted the ball right into the
goal( 2 - 0).
The second half of the match was even faster. Both the teams tried
creating chances and played an attacking game but still ND Heroes made the best
out of the time. In the 85th minute a cross-in from the left flank by Buangpuia led
to a scramble in the dee, while Gyan Moyon took advantage of the confusion and
scored the third goal for ND Heroes( 3 - 0).
Unfortunately the Kolkata side who began as strong contender for the event
failed to display their prowess as they did in the recently concluded Kolkata
League and IFA Shield Qualifier P.Dutta Memorial Tournament where they matched
up strongly to the local giants like Mohun Bagan, East Bengal Cub and Mohmdn
Sporting. Peerless finished a creditable 4th in the Calcutta Premier League.
Peerless shall play its last league match on the 20th February with ONGC
(Mumbai).
Coached by Chima Okorie, ND Heroes lived up to their reputation and remain
favorites to lift the trophy.
Courtesy:IOS Pvt.Ltd.
East Bengal save relegation
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17.02.2008:
After a long wait, three times NFL champion Kolkata Giant East Bengal is returning back
to the football capital leaving behind the relegation speculations after defeating
Viva Kerala (3-1) in an away match at Calicut today.
Manoranjan's boys could have easily ended the match in a draw in order to
save relegation, instead they preferred to win the match in style and earn valuable
three points.
This was the second consecutive successful performance of Captain Syed Rahim Nabi
by changing the position from defender to forward, which has earned him Man of the Match
award on two occasions including the Mahindra match. In the 20th minute of the first half
it was Nabi who led his team 1-0. But in the injury time of first half Ebin Rose
scored an equalizer after getting a cross from KV Lalu. (1-1)
In the second half it was an all East Bengal show. Red and Gold brigade pressurised the opponent
defense by playing attacking shots one after another. And eventually they succeded in scoring another goal
in the 57th minute when Alvito netted a beautiful left footer off a final pass from Nabi. (2-1)
The Brazilian Striker Edmilson hammered the last nail in Viva Kerala's coffin in the
last minute of the match by touching a brilliant free-kick of Alvito(3 -1),which is also his
8th goal.
Now East Bengal's position is 6th in League Table with 18 points along with
Sporting Goa after 17th Round .Next match will say the fate of the East Bengal
position at Barasat(? )against Sporting Goa on 23rd Feb.
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VIVA KERALA: 25-MV Nelson; 2-Ebin Rose, 4-Tutu George, 5-Akshay Das,
6-Othallo Tabia; 8-S.James Singh , 16-C.Shahbas Shaleel, 22-KV Lalu,
7-Bimal Birua; 17-Wisdom Abbey.10- Baba Thunde(18-C.Jatin Singh),
EAST BENGAL: 24-Subrata Pal; 12-Anupam Sarkar, 29-Saumik Dey,
27- Surkumar Singh, 4-Julius Owino, 23-Mehtab Hussain, 40-Vanlal Rova
(34-Snehasis Chakraborty), 26-Mehrajuddin, 9-Alvito D'Cunha,30-Edmilson,
19- Rahim Nabi ,
Bottom placed Salgaocar shockes defending champion Dempo
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In another match at Goa's Nehru Stadium Salgaocar held defending champion
Depmo a 1 - 1 drew.
In the 18th minute of the starting, Dempo's experienced defender Mahesh Gawali,
was injured after colliding with Agnelo Colaco and left the pitch.In the First half
Salgaocar took the lead in the 30th minute of the match through
Joe Rodriges after collecting the pass from Beevan(1 - 0) but after 7 minutes
Ranti Martins leveled for Dempo from a counter attack recieving a brilliant
pass from Johnny D'Cruze(1 - 1).Referee Dinesh Nair showed yellow cards to
Salgaocar's Remus Gomes and Goal keeper Marcus Basumatari
Ranty Martins, Edeh Chidi, Beto and Nicolau Borges of Dempo all missed
sure chances twice with an open goal infront of them.
The draw puts Dempo and Churchill on par at 33 points each from 17
matches. Dempo, who have a better goal difference (+19) than Churchill (+15)
remains the top of the table and Salgaocar remained at the bottom with 11 points
from equal number of matches.
Salgaocar scorer Joe Rodrigues has been selected Man of the Match today.
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SALGAOCAR: 2-Marcus Basumatary; 12-Remus Gomes, 22-Hery
Habimana, 8-Agnelo Colaco, 23-William Colaco; 19- Tulunga(6-Nicholas Rodrigues),
25-Rocus Lamare , 31-Fabio dos Passos, 29-Joe Rodrigues, 27-Bevan D'Mello(30-Francis Fernandez),
10-Boniface Ambani (26-Milagres Gonsalves).
DEMPO: 1-Abhijit Mondal; 4-Cressan Antao, 3-John Dias,
28-Mahesh Gawli (23-Dominic Noronha), 16-Samir Naik, 19-Johnny D'Cruz,
8-Climax Lawrence, 11-Beto, 22-Nicolau Borges; 9-Ranty Martins
,30-Chidi Edeh.
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Mohun Bagan lost points to JCT
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16.02.2008:Three times National Football League winner Kolkata Team
Mohun Bagan drew 1-1 with JCT in the away match of the i-League at Gurunanak
Stadium here.Mohan Bagan lost to JCT 2 - 1 in the home match at Kolkata in
November last year also.
Today in the 26th minute of first half Mohun Bagan took lead through defender
Habibur Rahaman Mondol's solo effort by using his right footer but In the 56th
minute JCT striker Eduardo Escobar sent a through pass at the penalty
Box to JCT Skipper Sunil Chhetri whose powerful volley beat Mohun Bagan Keeper
Sangram easily and helped JCT to equalise
With this draw, JCT now have 30 points and remain at the third position in the
league table just behind the defrnding champions Dempo and Churchil Brothers.
Mohun Bagan remain at the 4th spot with 29 points after 17th Round.
JCT Skipper Sunil Chettri has been declared Man of the Match today.
MOHUN BAGAN: 1-Sangram Mukherjee,2-Subhasish Roy Choudhury,
5-Habibur Rahman , 14-Peter Odafe, 3-N.S.Manju, 17-Rahul Kumar , 16-James Singh,
18-Dharamjit Singh, 11-Isfaq Ahmed ,10-Barreto, 15- Baichung Bhutia
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In the other 2 Matches the results are
Mumbai :: Air-India 0 - 1 Mahindra United ::MU:Yusif Yakubu 85' ::: M.O.M:Yakubu Yusif(MU)
Goa :: Sporting Goa 1 - 1 Churchill Brothers
CB:Odafa Okolie 11' ::SCG:Fredy Mascarenhas 73'
M.O.M:Chinta Chandrasekhar(SCG)
SPORTING GOA: 1-Felix D'Souza; 18-Denzil Franco, 6-Philip Gomes,
3-Mathew Gonsalves, 4-Chinta Chandrashekar; 14-Wilton Gomes (23-Bibiano
Fernandes), 22-Joseph Pereira, 7-Harmanjot Khabra, 27- Bisheshwor Singh,
20-Elijah Jr. ( 9-Freddy Mascarenhas), 11-Lawrence Adjei (8-N Rajesh Meetei).
CHURCHILL BROS: 1-Vinay Singh; 8- Naoba Singh, 6-
Govind Singh, 19-Gouramangi Singh, 13- Genius Zenith;
12-R. Vashum, 14-C. Chandam Singh, 21-Ogba Kalu ,
11-Khemtang Paite (15-D Raju); 9-Mboyo Iyomi, 10-Odafe Okolie
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113th ESPN IFA SHIELD - 2008 FIXTURE
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15.02.2008:
Today IFA has been released the Fixture of 113th ESPN IFA Shield which is going to be started
from 25th February and Finalised the Grand Finale on 7th March.
GRPOUP - A:Mohun Bagan,Churchill Brothers,Dhaka Mohammedan S.C,Winner of Prodyut Dutta Memorial
Trophy 2008
GROUP - B :East Bengal, Mahindra United, Santos F.C (South Africa)
F I X T U R E
25.02.2008:::(Salt Lake) Dhaka Mohammedan S.C Vs W of Prodyut Dutta Memorial Trophy 2008
26.02.2008:::(Salt Lake) Mohun Bagan Vs Churchill Brothers
27.02.2008:::(Salt Lake) Mahindra United Vs Santos F.C
28.02.2008 :::(Salt Lake) Mohun Bagan Vs Dhaka Mohammedan S.C
29.02.2008 :::(Salt Lake) Churchill Brothers Vs W of Prodyut Dutta Memorial Trophy 2008
01.03.2008:::(Barasat) East Bengal Vs Mahindra United
02.03.2008::::(Venue Not Fixed) Mohun Bagan Vs W of Prodyut Dutta Memorial Trophy 2008
03.03.2008:::(Venue Not Fixed ) East Bengal Vs Santos F.C
03.03.2008:::(Venue Not Fixed) Churchill Brothers Vs Dhaka Mohammedan S.C
05.03.2008:::(Venue Not Fixed) 1st Semi final
05.03.2008:::(Venue Not Fixed) 2nd Semi final
07.03.2008:::(Venue Not Fixed) FINAL:: Live Telecast in ESPN
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The Timing of the matches have not been fixed but IFA Secretary Mr.Utpal Galguly expressed todays Press
briefing that the Matches in the month of Feb may Kick-Off at 5.00 PM at SALT
Lake Stadium. Any one Semi Final match will Live Telecast by ESPN
IFA Shield Fixtures Unveiled !
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14.02.2008:Mr. Utpal Ganguly - the Hon. Secretary of IFA, today in a
press conference officially highlighted the details of the 113th ESPN IFA Shield.
According to him, the Winning team will fetch a handsome Rs.7.5 Lakhs, Runners-Up
will get Rs.5.00 Lakhs and Local teams will get Rs.3.5 Lakhs as accomodation and
other expenses.
There will be a clash between 7 teams in total. Already 6 teams have been
confirmed, namely: East Bengal, Mohun Bagan, Churchill Brothers, Mahindra United,
Santos F.C (South Africa), Dhaka Md. Sporting (Bangladesh) but the 7 th team has
not been named yet. Speculations are in the air that the winner of the ongoing
Prodyut Dutta Memorial Tournament may claim to be the 7th team but it has not been
confirmed yet.
Meanwhile, Hon. Sports Minister has assured that the matches during 25th to
29th will be organized in the Salt Lake Stadium itself and not elsewhere.
The match on 1st March is likely to be played in Barasat stadium. Primarily the
matches will be played on any of the Five grounds namely: East Bengal ground, Mohun Bagan
ground, Barasat stadium, Howrah Stadium and Haldia Stadium from 2nd March upto the
Final day 7th March as per IFA Schedule.
IFA fixtures will be officially released within a day or two. Tournament sponsor
ESPN will telecast one semi-final and the grand finale Live and Exclusive.
Source::News Bureau, www.kolkatafootball.com
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Indian amateurs to compete in ManU’s Old Trafford
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14.02.2008 :
The 2008 Budweiser Football Cup (Bud Cup) six-on-six international final on May
5 in Manchester United’s Old Trafford. Organised by crown International. The Bud
Cup is a 20 minute six-a-side football tournament with 18 teams of amateur
footballers from around the world like India,Cyprus, Norway, Sweden, England, Wales,
Scotland, Paraguay, Ireland, South Korea, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Northern
Ireland, South Africa, the Netherlands, Belgium and Italy will participate in this
Tournament.
In India 25 teams from Maharashtra, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
and 200 teams from Goa will be chosen through a lucky draw and compete in the
regional finals in Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Goa on March 29 and 30.
The regional winners will then compete for the title of national champions in
Mumbai in the first week of April. The winning team will compete with 17 other
teams from around the world at the Manchester United stadium at Old Trafford in
Manchester, in the UK.
Most football fans will never have the opportunity to represent their countries on
the worlds stage, but thanks to Budweiser, amateur teams from around the world
will live the dream on Manchester Uniteds home pitch, a Press release issued in Mumbai
today stated Budweiser has a strong legacy of supporting and promoting football
around the world.
The format of the tournament will be 20-minute matches under the six-on-six
format. Six players can play at a time and teams can have up to eight players on
their rosters, allowing for substitutions throughout the game. Budweiser has also
fabricated a special float-on-wheels to recreate the magic of Old Trafford. This
float will embark on a 39-day journey across 10 cities in India to raise awareness
about the Budweiser Cup and allow ardent football fans a chance to Live their
Dream, the release further stated On being selected, the national winners will be
trained at the Manchester United training facilities.
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VISIT OF MOHUN BAGAN AC TO MAURITIUS
12.02.2008:The All India Football Federation has given its green light for the Mohun Bagan
Atheletic Club to play two friendly matches in Mauritius and the latter has
confirmed its availability for the period 10th to 15th March 2008.
A joint committee between the Ministry Of Youth and Sports and the MFA is
being set up to finalise the details of the tour.
The Probable Teams are Madagaskar National Team and Mauritius selected XI.
He will play for Bagan in first half and for Mauritius team in 2nd half. Matches are
scheduled are
11.03.2008 :(Local Time 4.00 Pm) :Mohun Bagan AC Vs Madagascar National Team
at New George Vth Stadium Curepipe ( 5000 Capasity)
14.03.2008: (Local Time 6.00 PM) :Mauritius XI Vs Mohun Bagan at
Anjalay Stadium,Belle-Viue ( 15000 capasity)
Mohun Bagan team will leave the City on 9th March.
Source::Mauritiusfootball.com
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AIFF Announces India Team Camp Players List for SAFF Cup And AFC Challenge Cup
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11.02.2008:
List of 21 players called to report for the Pre - National Football Camp at Goa on
26th Mar 2008 in preparation for SAFF Cup & AFC Challenge Cup 2008
Goalkeepers: Arindam Bhattacharya (Churchill Bros) , Subhashish Roy Choudhury
(Mahindra United) , Karanjit Singh (JCT)
Defenders : Robert Lalthlamyana (Churchill Brothers), Nirmal Chetri (Air India ),
Govin Mojranginem (Churchill Brothers), Noaba Singh (Churchill Brothers ),Rakesh
Masih (TFA), Denzil Franco (Sporting Clube) ,Valeraino Rebello (Dempo SC) ,
Mohun Raj (Mohun Bagan) , Kattimani (Mumbai FC), Rocus Lamare (Salgaocar SC
Goa) ,Vashum Reisungmi (Churchill Brothers , Goa) ,Baldip Singh (JCT ),Chandam
Chitrasen (Churchill Brothers , Goa ),S James Singh (Viva Kerala).
Forwards:Khangebam Thoi Singh (Mahindra United ),CS Sabeet (Karnataka) ,Sushil
Singh (Mahindra United) & Tariff Ahmed (Mahindra United)
List of 24 players called to report for the National Football Camp at Goa on 5th
Apr 2008 in preparation for SAFF Cup & AFC Challenge Cup 2008 :
Goalkeepers: Subrata Paul (East Bengal) , Sandip Nandi (Mahindra United),
Defenders: Surkumar Singh (East Bengal) , Mahesh Gawli (Dempo S.C) ,
Gouramangi Singh (Churchill Brothers), Deepak Mondal(Mohun Bagan),N S Manju
(Mohun Bagan ), Anwar Ali (JCT ), Syed Rahim Nabi (East Bengal),Debabrata Roy
(East Bengal), Sameer Naik (Dempo SC)
Midfielders : Steven Dias (Mahindra United ),Climax Lawrence (Dempo S.C),N P
Pradeep (Mahindra United), Clifford Miranda (Dempo S.C) ,Anthony Pereira (Dempo
S.C ), Bungo Singh (Pune F.C), Ajayan Krishnan Nair (Mahindra United) ,
Mehrajuddin Waddo (East Bengal) ,Renedy Singh (JCT ).
Forwards : Bhaichung Bhutia (Mohun Bagan) , Sunil Chetri (JCT), Manjit Singh
(Mahindra United), Abhishek Yadav (Mumbai F.C)
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Churchill beat 10 Men East Bengal in away match
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10.02.2008:Nabarun Mukherjee::Dipu, the young ERP specialist, working
for a German Multinational who had come to the city from abroad for a project,
was looking utterly dejected as he was coming out of the field. Staying abroad
for most of the year, of course in connection with his profession, one thing that
this East Bengal fanatic does religiously every day is to surf the e-editions of
Bengali News papers- not to know about the happenings of his hometown! but to
find out if there is any line of news of his most favorite passion of life, the Great
East Bengal Club. Well, at this juncture, we are not for a debate as to how great
East Bengal is as of now, but this much we can assure you that the club is in real
real trouble….not because they have lost the match to Churchill today, not
because they are in the brink of relegation form the I-League, not also for the
fact that the players have lost their confidence in them…. but, the worst …..,
the supporters have lost faith upon the team. Trust me, there was not a single
so-called “mother-sister” tongue - twisters (!), no agitation after the match no
protest…. Nothing. As if the supporters knew the destiny long before the match
started! East Bengal fans, so well known for their love and passion for their club
are now dumb…. crestfallen…. And why to blame them! The way East Bengal was
playing in the 2nd session today, it only reminded us the story of the smaller
clubs of Kolkata which used to play football in the air and try to tickle away time
by no means or the other only to be so happy to keep the match draw or keep
the goal margin lower in their favour! At least not expected from a club of the
stature of East Bengal … and this is where that pains millions of Dipu(s) who still
come to the field with the belief that miracle happens and wishes to see East
Bengal in its past glory.
East Bengal however started the match in a positive note. With Owino leading the
defence from the front, both Snehasish and Alvito got ample opportunity to feed
Nabi, who, playing alone in the forward line, did his best to disturb the opponent
defence at regular intervals.
Both the teams took time to settle down looking for counter-attack based scoring
opportunities. But just as the home team started to look focused, some rustic play
by Jayanta Sen forced Referee Arjunan to give him marching orders, which rattled
the entire rhythm of the game. Churchill, now with their manpower advantage
over the rival team gradually took control of the midfield and with Odafe-Mboyo
Iyomi combination creating ripples in the rival defence, it was only a matter of
time as to when East Bengal would succumb to the sustained pressure of
Churchill. However Churchill had to wait as long as 76th minute to get the
desired goal when a viciously turning cross from Naoba Singh was blissfully
headed into the nets by Mboyo, even as Surukumar spotted with him to clear
the cross (1-0). For the first time in the match, goalkeeper Subrata, if he had
been a little more agile about his position sense, might have averted the disaster.
Otherwise, Subrata was rock solid beneath the bars and saved at least a dozen
sure -goals, for which he was rightly awarded the man-of- the match. Both the
teams thereafter lost scoring opportunities and the match ended with a solitary
goal difference between the teams.
EAST BENGAL: 24-Subrata Pal; 27- Surkumar Singh, 4-Julius
Owino, 12-Anupam Sarkar, 5-Debabrata Roy; 23-Mehtaab Hossain, 7-Jayanta Sen,
26-Mehrajuddin, 34-Snehasis Chakraborty (40-Vanlal Rova);
19- Rahim Nabi , 9-Alvito ( 14-Chandan Das, 10-Dipendu Biswas).
CHURCHILL BROTHERS: 1-Vinay Singh; 8- Naoba Singh,
19-Gouramangi Singh, 6-Govind Singh, 17-Robert Lalthalma;
12-R. Vashum (13-Genius Zenith, 18-Saran Singh), 14-C.Chandam Singh,
21-Ogba Kalu, 15-D Raju (38-Jaison Valles); 9-Mboyo Iyomi,
10-Odafe Okolie .
RED CARD:Jayanta Sen(EAST BENGAL 28')
YELLOW CARDS:: Debabrata Roy (90+3', East Bengal), Mboyo Iyomi
32', Robert Lalthalma 63', Jaison Valles 89' (Churchill Brothers)
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JCT beat Air India 2 - 0 in home
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10.02.2008:JCT win against Air India in their home match at Ludhiana today
in the 16th Round of ONGC I-League Matches.
In the First half the match was Goalless.But in the 2nd half JCT Scored twice
through Brazilian Striker Eduardo Escober and Baljeet singh Jr.
In the 52nd minute of 2nd Half JCT striker Eduardu De Silva put the team a 1 - 0
lead throug a Free-Kick. After 15 m inutes Daljit Sing Jr.scored from almost mid
field to consolidate the lead to 2-0 for JCT.
The Brazilian striker Eduardo now avail 2nd position with Churchill's Mboyo Iyomi
with 12 individual Goals in the Tournament after 16th Round.
JCT captain Julious Akpele has been awarded Man of the Match today
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Mohun Bagan - Dempo match ended in a Goal less
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09.02.208: Three Times Winner Mohun Bagan hold defending Champion
and current I- League top spot holder Dempo to a goalless draw in their Round
16 ONGC I-League match at the Salt Lake Stadium today.
Without Captain and 9 goals gater striker Bhaichung Bhutia ,Mohun Bagan
were bery aggressive and could have gone one-up in the very first minute but
failed to score due to Dempo’s surprising defensive strategy through Mahesh
Gawli,John Dias.
Dempo have now collected 32 points from 16 matches and must wait till their last
outing against Viva Kerala to be sure of the title. Bagan are in third spot with 28
points from as many games.
Dempo Striker Beto has been awarded Man of the Match today.
MOHUN BAGAN: 1-Sangram Mukherjee; 5-Habibur Rahman ,
14-Peter Odafe, 3-N.S.Manju, 17-Rahul Kumar (7-Rauf Khan); 16-James Singh,
13-Douglas , 6-S.Venkatesh, (22-Lal Kamal Bhowmick), 18-Dharamjit Singh,
10-Barreto, 9-Lalam Puia ( 11-Ishfaq Ahmed).
DEMPO: 1-Abhijit Mondal; 4-Cressan Antao, 3-John Dias,
28-Mahesh Gawli, 16-Samir Naik; 14-Anthony Pereira, 8-Climax Lawrence,
11-Beto, 22-Nicolau Borges (17-Joaquim Abranches);
9-Ranty Martins, 30-Chidi Edeh.
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Yakubu strikes again for Mahindra's Victory
09.02.2008:Mumbai based Mahindra United defeat Goan outfit Sporting Goa in
ONGC I-League football match at Mumbai today.In the last match they lost to East Bengal at kolkata without Yusif Yakubu.
Today the Ghanaian Striker scored two goals out of 3 - 0 win and overtakes Baichung Bhutia's 81 goals by 82 goals in All time National football League individual scoring.
The first goal came in the 31st minute of the match when Yakubu headed in a
cross from the right flank of N P Pradeep, but Sporting Goa Keeper Luis Barreto
unable to grip the ball properly which was untimetly went to the goal(1 - 0).
Yakubu scored again in 51 Minutes of 2nd half after getting a cross from Andrew Pomyie inside the danger area of penalty Box
after dozing two defenders of Sporting( 2 - 0).In 75th Minute Susant Mathew of Mahindra pushed the final pass to Pomyie after tapping a wrong clearence of Sporting defender Philip Gomes off a Steven Dias Free Kick and Pomyie made no mistake to score( 3 - 0).
Yusif Yakubu has been selected Man of the Match today.
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Salgaocar's First Win in I-League today
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09.02.2008:
Salgaocar Sports Club of Goa have got their first win in home match against Viva Kerala in the 16th round of the ONGC I-League at
Nehru Stadium here today.
Viva Kerala created three scoring chances but were unsuccessful in finding the net.In 15th minutes of the match Viva's Foreigner
Wisdom Abbey failed to score after getting a ball from Tabia Othalo but Salgaocar Goalkeeper Markus Basumatari brought off a
good save from Wisdom Abbey through a corner.In 30th minutes Salgaocar Keeper saved again a strong close range header of
Khelemba Sing offf a corner kick by Bimal Birua. The first half was goal Less
In the 66th minutes of 2nd half the only important goal scored by Beevan D'Mello from a final pass of Tulunga.
Viva Kerala is now in the relegation zone as they remained on 12 points from I6 matches, just two above bottom placed Salgaocar
who have 10 points afer same matches.
Sr. Indian Football Team Coach Bob Houton was present today to observe the match. Beevan d'Mello has been given the Man of the
Match award.
SALGAOCAR: 2-Marcus Basumatary; 12-Remus Gomes ( 16-Nicolau Colaco), 8-Agnelo Colaco, 3-Peter Costa,
23-William Colaco; 19-Tulunga, 25-Rocus Lamare , 31-Fabio dos Passos, 6-Nicholas Rodrigues; 27-Bevan
D'Mello ( 30-Francis Fernandes), 10-Boniface Ambani ( 7-Felix ).
VIVA KERALA: 25-MV Nelson; 2-Ebin Rose, 6-Othallo Tabia, 3-Khelemba Singh, 16-Shahbas Shaleel; 22-KV Lalu,
9-Adama Awudu ( 23-Sunil Thakur), 8-S.James Singh, 7- Bimal Birua; 10-Baba Thunde,
17-Wisdom Abbey ( 18-C.Jatin Singh).
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PIFA – Colaba Youngstar FC won
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06.02.2008:: PIFA – Colaba Youngstar FC won their second match today versus Rizvi Muslims
1-0 in the Elite play off of the Super Division. The lone goal score was Moushin
Khan.
PIFA-Colaba Youngstar FC share the top spot with Central Railway at the halfway
stage with 6 points.
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PIFA have organized soccer camps from India to England & Italy
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05.02.2008::: Premier India Football Academy (PIFA) has once again
organized three exciting soccer camps from India to Europe this summer for boys
& girls between the ages of 10 & 17 years.
Children will be escorted at all times by two adults through out the tour form India .
The camps are specially designed with the children in mind, ensuring that the
children enjoy, learn football and make new friends in a safe and healthy
environment. This experience makes them independent and develops their social
skill.
PIFA have tied with the best football academies in the world for their soccer tours.
The camps have been highly rated by Mr Nirvan Shah, PIFA Director and UEFA B
licensed coach. The camps are of the highest standard with emphasizes on health
& safety of the children.
The tour to AC Milan’s - Milan Team Camp, Sporteventi, will be from 12-21 May
2008
Children will get to see AC Milan play a Serie A match at the San Siro Stadium;
they will visit the stadium and museum that plays host to Inter Milan as well, get
an opportunity to meet the players, tour the cultural city of Verona and visit an
Italian Castle .
Football training will be conducted daily by AC Milan team coaches in the
picturesque town of Vittorio Veneto in Treviso , in the north east of Italy .
The London Tour - Arsenal will be held from 27 April to 6 May 2008.
The tour will consist of an English Premiership game, a chance to meet players, a
tour of Arsenal FC – Emirate’s Stadium & Museum, a fun trip to an amusement park.
Children will be trained daily at the Football Academy by coaches from Inspire
Academy .They will also be trained one day by Premier League Academy coaches just to
give them a feel on how youth academy players are trained.
The BCSSA Summer Residential will be held from 6 July to 15 July 2008
The tour will consist of an a tour of Manchester United FC – Old Trafford Stadium
& Museum, a fun trip to an amusement park in Blackpool.Children will be trained
daily at the world famous football academy that has had David Beckham as a
student – The Bobby Charlton Soccer & Sports Academy, Manchester .
Each child will get to participate in the Skills contest, the winner of
which will be invited for the World Skills Final in July 2008.Each camp will have sessions on Nutrition, Psychology & Fitness. They will also
get to play a match against a local team. At the end of the camp the child will be
awarded a certificate and a photo CD of the tour.The packages include accommodations, all meals & transportations at the camp.
Seats are limited to 20 per camp.
PIFA have been successfully organizing football camps like these since 2003. They
have conducted fourteen camps taking over 350 children to Europe . PIFA ensures
that the child is well taken care.Last year, Aasmaan Bhardwaj & Sahib Thakkar enjoyed the AC Milan camp
organized by PIFA so much that they immediately signed up for the very next
camp to England that left within 10 days of returning to India.
For once children can do what they like during their holidays. Their dream to visit
the best club in the world and an opportunity to be trained by the best football
academy. Undoubtedly making it the most cherished & memorable experience.
Courtesy:Mrs Anjali Shah
Premier India Football Academy
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Air India snatches valuable point from Dempo
05.02.2008 : Amal Pai:The boys of Bimal Ghosh bravely restrict defending
Champion Goan Giant Dempo S.C at Goa today but Dempo beat Air-India 4 - 1 in
their away match at Mumbai few days ago.
In the 75th minutes of the match Dempo striker Ranti Martins missed a great
chance after getting a cross from Anato but he pushed it out from a very
close range.Dempo who dominated the match from the beginning,could have got their win
in injury time through Ranti Martins but unluckly his shot hitted the post.Air India
ciustodian Arnab Das Sharma saved a close range header of Chiddi.Last of all the
match ultimetly ended in a goalless draw.
After the end of 15th Round Dempo is leading with 31 points and closely followed
by Churchill Brothers 29 Points, Mohun Bagan 27 Points and JCT 26 Points while
Air India's current position is 7th with 17 points alongwith Sporting Goa after 15th
Round.
Nirmal Chettri ,the Defender of Air India has been selected Man of The Match today.
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DEMPO: 1-Abhijit Mondal; 18-Valeriano Rebello(4-Cressan Anato),3-John Dias,
28-Mahesh Gawli, 16-Samir Naik; 7-Nacimento Silveria(11-Beto),
14-Anthony Pereira,8-Climax Lawrence, 22-Nicolau Borges ,9-Ranty Martins,
30-Chidi Edeh(17-Joaquim Abranches).
AIR-INDIA: 1-Arnab Das Sharma, 22-Suley Musah, 6-L Uttam Singh,12-Michael
Tayo,27-Bashiree M. Abbas(11-Hrisgsolal Thomte), 8- Samson Singh(18-Zaheer
Abbas),20-Paresh Shivalkar, 2-Napoleon Singh, 15-Sanju Pradhan(10- Narender
Meetai)
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Barreto scored and Mohun Bagan win
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04.02.2008:Salgaocar Sports Club, who put up a good fight in their home
match at Goa and lost 4 - 5 to Mohun Bagan today also shown a good fight but
ultimetly lost 0 - 1 to Mohun Bagan at Kolkata away Match.
The only and important goal came through Barreto's close range header after
Mohan Raj long range thrown from the leftside which was directly flown to the
goal mouth in 33rd minutes of 1st half .
Sangram Mukherjee, the Goalkeeper of Mohun Bagan has been awarded Man of the
Match today for his outstanding Keeping performance.
Mohun Bagan after todays win,moved up to the third spot of league table with
27 points from 15 matches.
Salgaocar, now at the bottom of the table with seven points from 15 ties,
have now pushed themselves deeper into the relegation zone.
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MOHUN BAGAN: 1-Sangram Mukherjee; 5-Habibur Rehman,
14-Peter Odafe, 3-N.S.Manju, 26-N. Mohanra(17-Rahul Kumar),
22-Lal Kamal Bhowmick,16-James singh,18-Dharamjeet Singh,
2-Subhashish Roy Chowdhury, 10-Jose Barreto(9-Lalampuia),15-Baichung Bhutia
SALGAOCAR: 1-Milagrio Medeira, 12-Remus Gomes(11-Anil Kumar),
3-Peter Costa, 8-Agnelo Colaco, 22-Hery Habimana(6-Nicholas Rodrigues), 25-Rocus Lamare ,
23-William Colaco,19-Malswam Tulunga, 29-Joe Rodrigues (26-Milagres Gonsalves)
7-Felix , 31-Favio dos Passos
Sporting - JCT match Goal Less today
04.02.2008:M.O.M:Micky Fernandez(Sporting Goa)
SPORTING GOA:30-Luis Xavier Barreto; 4-Chinta Chandrashekar,
6-Philip Gomes, 3-Mathew Gonsalves; 18-Denzil Franco, 7-Harmanjot Singh
Khabra (22-Joseph Pereira), 26-Micky Fernandes, 27-L Bisheshwor Singh,
14-Wilton Gomes (23-Bibiano Fernandes); 20-Elijah Obagbemiro Junior,
11-Lawrence Adjei ( 9-Freddy Mascarenhas).
JCT: 1-Karanjit Singh; 13-Baldeep Singh Sr, 3-Anwar Ali, 4-Julius
Irabor Akpele, 12-Daljit Singh; 6-Baljit Singh Sahni, 24-Gurwinder Singh,
20-Marcos de Carvalho Pereira (28-Shivraj Singh), 27-Baldeep Singh Jr;
11-Sunil Chetri (8-Jaswinder Singh), 10-Eduardo da Silva Escobar.
Viva lost home match to Churchil 1 - 3
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04.02.2008:An easy 3-1 win win over Viva Kerala in the
15th round tie of the ONGC I-League away match today Churchill Brothers are
now reach into 2nd place with 29 points just behind Dempo, while Viva Kerala
remains in 9th place with 12 Points.
Churchill took lead first in the 11th minutes of first half through Captain
Odafe by collecting a final pass from Paite ( 1- 0). But Viva scored
the equaliser through Sabhas Saleel off a cross pass from James Singh
(1 - 1).
Churchill's Captain Odafe scored again for his team in the 39th minute off
a R.Vassum's measured pass and also crossed his last year's 18 Goal to an individual
tally of 19 goals in 15th match this year and probably going to be the Top
Scorer of I-League.
Mboyo Iyomi,another foreigner of Churchill scored his 11th goal in 82nd minutes
off a timely pass from Naoba Singh by a powerful close range header(3 - 1)
For his outstanding performance and scoring ability Churcill Captain Odefa Okolie
has been awarded Man of the Match Today
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East Bengal : A Tale of Two Sundays
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03.02.2008: That was a sunday when Eastbengal went to the relegation
zone after being defeated by their arch rival Mohun Bagan. Interestingly today is
also a sunday when they beat Mahindra United and somewhat revived from the
relegation nightmare. Though 3 more matches are remaining which may decide their
fate and final position in the I-League points table.
East Bengal picked up three valuable points with a solitary goal victory over
Mahindra United in an I-league match in Kolkata on Sunday
Syed Rahim Nabi once again proved to be a better Striker than being a left Back.
Today, coach Monoranjan Bhattacharya made a few unconventional changes
making Alvito and Nabi play in Striking positions. His innovative change soon paid
off when Nabi netted a gem in the 5th minute of play, off a marvellous final pass
from Alvito who got that from Jayanta Sen( 1 - 0).
The first half was completely dominated by Eastbengal and they looked
fearsome by their body language and aggressive attack on the opponent Mahindra
United. The mighty Mahindra continued to show a poor streak of performance
missing on a good number of occasions.
Overall it was a crucial match for Eastbengal to survive in the I-League. After
today's match, Eastbengal stand in the third 8th position with 15 points from 15
matches.
East Bengal Captain and only scorer Syed Rahim Nabi has been selected Man of the
Match
EAST BENGAL: 24-Subrata Pal; 27- Surkumar Singh,4-Julius
Owino, 12-Anupam Sarkar, 5-Debabrata Roy; 23-Mehtab Hossain,7-Jayanta Sen
(Vanlal Rova), 26-Mehrajuddin Wadoo, 34-Snehasis Chakraborty,19-S.Rahim Nabi,
9-Alvito D'Cunha(Vimal Parier).
MAHINDRA UNITED: 1-Subhashish Roy Chowdhury; 7-Sushanth Mathew,
16-Sunil Kumar, 2-N.P. Pradeep, 26-Bello Rasaq; 23-Steven Dias, 29- Djidjia
Douhou, 17-Sukhwinder Singh(27-Noel Fernandez), 9-Surajit Bose(K.Thoi Singh),
28-Sushil Kumar Singh(11-Md. Rafi), 8-Andrew Pomyie.
Yellow Card: Debabrata Roy 58', Snehashish Chakrabarty 63' (EB)
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Maradona Denies:I never said Sorry
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Argentina legend Diego Maradona denies he has ever apologised for the "Hand of
God" goal he scored against England in the 1986 World Cup.
The former playmaker said he was misquoted by The Sun newspaper as apologising
to English fans for the illegitimate first goal he scored in their quarter-final clash.
"I said that a long time has passed since that and that history can't be rewound,"
Maradona told radio station La Red.
"They changed my words. I'll have to talk with the translator who was there to
ask him for an explanation."
The World Cup winner, who won 91 international caps, has also repeated that he
is waiting for a call from the Argentinean Football Association (AFA) for a chance
to work with the national team.
"They never gave me the opportunity to work with the national team," he said.
"They told me that the doors were open for me, but they never gave me the key.
"Sadly, when you face Blatter (Sepp, FIFA president) and Grondona (Julio, AFA
president) all the doors close."
Courtesy:www.teamtalk.com
AIFF announces the Teams of 2nd Divn. NFL expected to be started from 2nd week of March
02.02.2008:AIFF Executive Committee Meeting was held in New Delhi
today .Important Decisions taken at the AIFF Executive Committee were :
Following 12 teams will participate in the Second Division I League:
Mohammedan Sporting(KOLKATA) ,HAL S.C(BANGALORE),Chiragh United(KOLKATA)
,Vasco SC (GOA),ONGC -(MUMBAI), Mumbai FC (MUMBAI),Pune FC(PUNE) ,Amity
United(HARYANA) ,New Delhi Heroes(DELHI),Indian Bank(TAMIL NADU),SBT(KERALA)
& Oil India - (ASSAM). Probably the Tournament to be played from 2nd week of March. Venue may be in Pune,
Kolkapur and Guahati.
Federation Cup will be conducted on the lines of FA Cup this year.
Qualifying Round :The format will involve each State & Zone.The qualifying round
will be on Zonal Basis and will involve champions team of each zone (1st and 2nd
Division I League teams excluded).Winner and Runner up from each Zone will
qualify.
Preliminary Round : 10 Zonal Champions and 2nd Division Teams divided into Four
Groups for the Knock Out Tournament .One team from each Group will qualify.
Quarter Finals : Four Group Champions and 12 I League Teams will play ,divided
into Four Groups of 4 teams each.It will be single leg League.Champions qualify
for the Semi Finals.
Bhaichung Bhutia was congratulated by President & Members of the Executive
Committee on being conferred with Padam Shri on the occasion of Republic Day
2008.
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Mohammedan - Eastern Railway match drawn at Barasat
02.02.2008:In the opening match of Prodyut Dutta Memorial Knock out
Football Tournament played at Barasat Stadium today Mohammedan Sporting
made a 1 - 1 draw against CFL religated Team Eastern Railway who lost 2 - 3
and 0- 2 to Mohammedan S.C in last Kolkata Premier League.
Mike Okoro,Adebayo, Sebi Matins all failed to the tight defence of Eastern Railway
to open first.First half it was goal less.
In the 2nd half 74 minute Eastern Railway took lead through Niladeri Sekhar
Chakrabarty( 1 - 0) but Kalia Kulothungan equalised for Mohammedan by a header
in the next minute.
Eastern Railway keeper Kalyan Lodh played well and saved several attacks of
Okoro,Sebi Martins, Prem Kumar's of Mohammedan.
After ending the match Mohammedan Coach Sabbir Ali told that his Boys did
not played well but he hoped that the team would improve in the next few
matches gradually and make it to the main Round of IFA Shield.
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New Tournament before IFA Shield
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01.02.2008:The Indian Football Association West Bengal is going to start an
another Football Tournament before historical 113th IFA Shield from tomorrow.
In memory of former IFA Secretary PRODYUT DUTTA , the name of 6 sided
Tournament is "PRODYUT DUTTA MEMORIAL KNOCK OUT FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT -
2008".The winner Prize is Rs.2 Lakhs and Runner Prize is Rs.1 Lakh.
The 6 Kolkata Premier Football League Teams Mohammedan Sporting,Peerless,Chirag
United S.C.,Peerless S.C,Railway F.C and Eastern Railway will participate in two
Groups in this Tournament.
All matches will be played at Barasat Stadium from 2.00 PM starting from 2nd February
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If I could apologize, turn time back and
change the facts, I would do it."MARADONA"
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01.02.2008:Maradona apologizes for tipping God’s hand.World Soccer
ICON, Diego Armando Maradona, who spent a few days in England this week,
gave an exclusive interview which was published in the The Sun newspaper
nearly 22 years after his handballed effort cheated England out of the 1986 World
Cup and apologized for having scored a goal with his left hand in the 1986 World
Cup match between Argentina and England that the Argentina won 2-1.
In reference to the goal, which he described at the time as having been made by
, Maradona told : “If I could apologize, turn time back
and change the facts, I would do it.
The Argentina captain at the time also netted the second goal of the match — in
which he left behind five defenders and goalie Peter Shilton to score what is
considered the greatest goal in the history of the World Cups. Argentina won the
Cup by beating Germany 3-2 in the final.
Maradona also took a swipe at former England captain David Beckham — and love
rat left-back Ashley Cole.He added: “Beckham is a nice man and I’m sure he will
reach 100 appearances for England. But he is just a good player, nothing more.
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01.02.2008:The Mumbai Football League - Super Division elite play off kicked off on 31 January
2008 at Cooperage Stadium.
The top 5 clubs that qualified for the play offs are
1) Central Railway,2) Income Tax,3) PIFA CYFC,4) Sea View FC,5) Income Tax
On 31st Jan 2008
Central Railway beat Rizvi Muslims 3-0
Sea View FC beat Income Tax 1-0
On 3rd Feb 2008
Central Railway beat Income Tax 1-0
PIFA Colaba Youngstar beat Sea View FC 1-0
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Courtesy: PIFA Football Academy
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