State TT team announced for National meet
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha State Table Tennis team has been announced to participate in the 76th Senior National and Inter State Table Tennis Championship-2014 ,which is going to be held at Rajiv Gandhi Indoor Stadium, Uppalam, Puducherry from January 12 to 17.
Men team: Tousif Haque, Sagar Ghatge. Kalol Ganguly, Saswat Samal, Md Azhar, Women’s team: Anannya Basak, Samartha Prusty, Poushali Ghatak, Raj S Subramaniam (coach), M China Rao (manager).
Football Tournament held at Jodabandha
Rayagada: Dangajore team defeated Chandanpur team by 3-0 goals in the football tournament being organised by Sri Chaitanya Cultural Association at Village Jodabandha under Champadeipur gram Panchayat. Six teams from lanjigarh block and three teams from Narla block took part in the tournament. Chief operating officer of Sesa Sterlite limited Karuna Kant Dave inaugurated the meet as the chief guest. Among others, .Jalak Malpani(CFO), Ranjan Sharma(CSR Head), Sidharth Behera(PRO), youth leaders namely Phakir Majhi Gobind, laxmidhar Santosh Ray, Rama Sahu graced the occasion as guests of honour.
Overseas coaches cannot do miracle: Jude Felix
Bhubaneswar: Neither can overseas coaches do miracles nor they can win matches, the defending champion Delhi Waveriders lead by coach Cedric D’Souza who is Indian. With the overseas coach lancers finished in the bottom. So the things which matter most are for the team is to make use of the situation in their favour, said Kalinga lancers coach Jude Felix in the practices seasons at Kalinga Stadium here. “The Hero HIl 2015 will be a real challenge for us. The previous season was like testing the water as that was the inaugural season for lancer. This season, we have better strength, well-settled players and new recruits. We have brilliant players, such as Gonzalo Peillat of Argentina, Glenn Simpson of Australia and Ramon Alegre of Spain and Devinder Walmiki, lalit Upadhaya, Rosan Minz all of Indian players who have the ability to turn the game on any given day. We are working hard for the Hero HIl 2015 and hope to do well in this tournament.” Said Kalinga lancers coach. In the inaugural match on January 22 the lancers will take on Ranchi Rays here. All the 13 Indian players reached here and the overseas players would join the practice on January 14. last time we got only 10 days for the preparation but this time our players will spend half a month in the grounds. I am confident the lancers would do better in this edition, he said.
Sepak Takraw team announced for national meet
Bhubaneswar: A 32-member State Sepak Takraw team would leave on Friday to participate in the 17th Sub - Junior National Sepak Takraw Championship schedule to be held at Kurnool, Andhra Pradesh from January 11 to 14. Braja Mohan Sahoo, international referee and Manoj Kumar Pattnaik national referee would join the national meet as officials.
Boys team: Sk Samiullha Dabir, Abhinash Nanda, Sumya Ranjan Dash, Sk Kalam, Jogesh Behera (all Cuttack), Bhabani Sankar Jena, Anil Kumar Mukhi, Nikhil Kangari, Babru Bahana Naik, Kumar Abhisekh Naik, Diptesh Nayak (all Keonjhar) and stand bye; Sk Farhan, Ansuman Swain (both Cuttack), Sanjay Nayak, (manager), Gouranga Nayak, Kalandi Kumar Jena (both Coach).
Girls team: Susama Sahu, Roopali Sahu (both Bhadrak), Ritanjali Barik, laxmipriya Sardar, Sushree Sangita Munda (both Keonjhar), Stiti Prangya Mohapatra, Swarna Prava Mandal, A Srabani, Anupama Dalei, Bhabani Patra, Yasmin Begum, laxmi Priya Mohanty, Barsha Rani Behera (all Cuttack), Stand bye; Ritul Das, Bharati Nayak (both Cuttack), Rita Behera (manager), laxmi Priya Nayak, Kalandi Kumar Jena (coaches).