Sporting tips from top coach:
Kokrajhar, Dec. 21: Mohammedan Sporting Club coach Sabir Ali has asked Assam to “invest in youth” if it wants to improve the standard of football.
The piece of advice came after Ali’s team won the 8th Bodoland Martyrs’ Gold Cup in Kokrajhar on Tuesday.
“Although we have won the trophy, we need to keep improving. Teams from Assam have been playing well and can pose a challenge if they focus on youth at the grassroots. The OIL team is good; ASEB is good as well. The football grounds are great and Assam is the only state that is hosting so many tournaments,” he said.
On Mohammedan Sporting’s performance in the Gold Cup, he said: “We were 10 players in the second half of the final. That made it difficult for us but we prevailed.”
Ali praised the organisers and the people of Kokrajhar for their support.
“We enjoyed our stay here. The spectators were supportive, though I was surprised to see so few people on the ground. I am thankful to the crowd and the organising committee for their support.”
This is the second time that Mohammedan Sporting have won the Bodoland Martyrs’ Gold Cup. They won the fifth edition of the meet in 2004.
The champion team went home with Rs 50,000 and the gold cup, while the runners-up received Rs 25,000 and a trophy.
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Saturday, December 22, 2007
Assam Club Football Championship
OIL to play ASEB in final:
Deragaon, Dec 21: Oil India Limited (OIL), Duliajan, will lock horns with ASEB, Guwahati in the summit clash of the 12th Assam Club Football Championship at Bokakhat on Sunday.
In the second semi-final of the championship at Bokakhat on Friday, OIL outshot Food Corporation of India, Guwahati, by an aggregate of 5-2 goals via tie-breaker.
In the regulation time, the match was locked 1-1 and in the penalty shoot out OIL fired four on the target against FCI’s one.
Mintu Boro put OIL ahead in the ninth minute off a flag kick taken by Marlanki Suting. But in the second session Aroanjit Brahma restored parity with a header off a floater from Thomson Langthasa in the 67th minute.
In the tie-breaker, Manoj Gayari, Marlanki Suting, Durga Boro and Biplab Sonowal were the successful shooters for the winning team while for FCI only Hemanta Kumar Brahma could hit the target.
Source: The Assam Tribune
Deragaon, Dec 21: Oil India Limited (OIL), Duliajan, will lock horns with ASEB, Guwahati in the summit clash of the 12th Assam Club Football Championship at Bokakhat on Sunday.
In the second semi-final of the championship at Bokakhat on Friday, OIL outshot Food Corporation of India, Guwahati, by an aggregate of 5-2 goals via tie-breaker.
In the regulation time, the match was locked 1-1 and in the penalty shoot out OIL fired four on the target against FCI’s one.
Mintu Boro put OIL ahead in the ninth minute off a flag kick taken by Marlanki Suting. But in the second session Aroanjit Brahma restored parity with a header off a floater from Thomson Langthasa in the 67th minute.
In the tie-breaker, Manoj Gayari, Marlanki Suting, Durga Boro and Biplab Sonowal were the successful shooters for the winning team while for FCI only Hemanta Kumar Brahma could hit the target.
Source: The Assam Tribune
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