Seema to tie knot with Dinesh in New Year
Bhubaneswar: Seema Dung Dung and Dinesh Ekka both represented Odisha in different field of sports but they are going to start their life together from January 2014. International repute Canoening and Kayaking player Seema daughter of Thomas Dung Dung and Nilima Dung Dung would marry son of Charlesh Ekka and Jaimali Ekka hockey player Dinesh in the coming year. Seema native of Dulhapur village of Sundargarh district represented our State in various national championships. She also part of the national squad and participated in the Asian Games held at Guangzhou, China. She is presently working in the Commissionerate Police at Bhubaneswar as traffic constable. Sundargarh district lulkadihi village pride Dinesh Ekka represented Odisha for eight continues year in various hockey tournament. He played in the Odisha Premier Hockey league for three years. Dinesh now posting at Delhi in ONGC. Fortunately for the first time we meat each other in a camp at Bhopal in 2005. Since that day onwards we are eagerly waiting the day to start our life together, said Dinesh.
State level hockey coaching camp begins
Bhubaneswar: A-25-day long State level Hockey Coaching Camp inaugurated at Kalinga Stadium Hockey Complex on Tuesday, being organised by Hockey Gangapur Odisha (HGO). Altogether 35 players from Sports Hostel (Pansoh), Sports Authority of India (Sundargarh center), KISS school and players from the rural hockey Olympiad are participating in the camp. Olympian lajrus Barla and Suredra Barla would accompany the campers as coach. The reach experience of Barla would help the young players. After the inauguration of the new synthetic ground here, this is the first time Hockey Gangapur using the international standard facility and players would enjoy the new ground, said HGO secretary Debasish Gouda. This is the first we are hosting camp for the development of the players in our State, in future we will take many development program for the benefit of hockey as well as for the players to regain our stake in the national and international arena, added Gouda.
Players Participating: Kuldeep Kulu, Rajesh Oram, Gyan Prakash Minz (all goalkeeper), Anand Kujur, Santosh Majhi (full back), Bilas Barla, Rajendra Oram, Anukaran Tirkey, Suresh Toppo, Praful Ekka, Antony Kira, Masidas Tirkey, Binod Burh, Abhiram lugun (all half), James Munda, Roshan lakra, Deepak lakra, Francis Toppo, Amit Ekka, Bisram Munda, Roshan Kujur, Anthony Dung, George Dung (all forward) .
15 jr footballers selected for TFA final trail
Bhubaneswar: UK based Sheffield’s United Football Club development manager and coach lee Walshaw and Tata Football Academy (TFA) coach Prakash Vijay Kumar finalised a-15-member squad from the two-day-long TFA trail camp, which concluded at Unit-6 High School Ground here on Tuesday. Altogether 148 players participated in the camp, we have finalised 15 players and they would join the final trail camp to be held at Jamshedpur in February. They have to fight against many young talents of the country to get into the final 20 list, said Vijay Kumar. We have shortlisted the name on their performance in the camp. The foremost criteria of the selection were knowledge about football basics. The physical strength and height they would develop in future. We have selected players who were born after January 1998, so they will stay in the academy three to four years where we will take care of their skill, said lee Walshaw.
Selected player list: Baruna Bihari Pradhan, Sailesh Mohanty, Rajesh Nayak, Debi Prasad Mishra, Kartik Bhola, Rajesh Naik, Deepak Digal, Akhaya Kumar Nayak, Bikash Nayak (all Bhubaneswar), Partha Sarathi Das, Rajesh Nayak, Santosh Kumar Maharana, Md Irsad Alam, Prakash Nayak (all Cuttack), Sk Shina Munir (Khurda).