A total of five football players of Raipur has been selected in the State team who will take part in the Senior National Football Championship (East Zone) being organised in Jharkhand. The names of the players are— Sudhanshu Gupta, Ganeshram Koram, Rajkumar Karma, Jugen Minj and Pritam Yadav.
Earlier, a trial was held at Bhilai in which a total of 97 players, including 16 from Raipur district, from across the State participate in it. Apart from Chhattisgarh, Odisha, West Bengal, Jharkhand, Sikkim , Bihar and Railways will be the other teams participating in the Championship.