Rathore urges to develop Indian football
kolkata: Union sports minister Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore on Saturday said India must work hard towards bringing back the lost glory of football. "We need to bring up the Indian football and develop in a lot of other sports," the Olympics silver medallist said on the sidelines of the FIFA U-17 World Cup final. The sports minister earlier met Indian football legend PK Banerjee and inaugurated a dressing room in his name at the Sports Authority of India Eastern Centre. "A lot of spectators today might not know that we won gold medal in football in Asian Games and the captain of that team was from Bengal," he said about the Chuni Goswami-led Asian Games triumph in 1962. Impressed with the facilities at the Salt lake Stadium, he said: "The infrastructure here is good. I want the facilities to be regularly used by the players. If the infrastructure remain unused then what is the point of maintaining itIJ"
Shiva, Manoj in semi-finals
Visakhapatnam: Defending champions Shiva Thapa and Manoj Kumar were assured of their second successive National Championship medals after the celebrated duo advanced to the semi-finals of the event here on Saturday. World Championships bronze-medallist Shiva, who is representing Assam, defeated Andhra Pradesh's V Durga Rao in his quarterfinal bout to enter the last-four stage. The three-time Asian Championships medallist will be up against Punjab's Palwinder Singh in his lightweight (60kg) semifinal clash on Sunday. Commonwealth Games gold medallist Manoj, representing RSPB defeated Pawan of Haryana in the 69 kg category.
Indian women beat Singapore 10-0
Kakamigahara (Japan): Indian eves got off to a roaring start at the Women's Asia Cup 2017 with a dominating 10-0 victory over Singapore here on Saturday. Navneet Kaur (3rd & 41st minutes), Rani (15th & 18th) and Navjot Kaur (30th & 50th) netted the ball twice, while lalremsiami (18th), Deep Grace Ekka (25th), Gurjit Kaur (41st) and Sonika (45th) scored once each to ensure India notched up winning points in their opening match of Pool A.
India lose to Great Britain, fail to reach final
Johor Bahru (Malaysia): The Indian Junior men's hockey team lost 1-2 to Great Britain in a hard-fought encounter, thereby failing to qualify for the final of the 7th Sultan of Johor Cup, here on Saturday. India will play bronze medal play-off match against Malaysia on Sunday. Raushan Kumar's goal in the 25th minute was not enough for India to win the match as Tom Sorsby (20th minute) and Jack Waller (52nd minute) helped Great Britain in qualifying for the Final.