New entrant Friends, Friends Club win league
Bhubaneswar : New entrant Friends and Friends Club Unit-6 bagged the 10th Gati Krushna Memmorial Bhubaneswar Football league title by defeating Kishor Club by 3-0 goals in the final match at Unit-1 High School Ground here on Saturday, being organised by Bhubaneswar Athletic Association.
Nigerian Amino Kanu stalls the show by nailing double goals. He started the party in the 35th minute of the play. After change of sides, Ramesh Murmu doubled the lead in the 80th minute. However, in the injury time Amino scored his second goal in the 91st minute. Sudipta Das, Siba sankar Panda, Shekhawat Khan and Sujit Patra were conducted the final match as the referees. Altogether 20 teams were participated in the 46-day-long tournament. Former Indian Women football team captain Sradhanjali Samantray distributed the trophies as the chief guest of the closing ceremony. Among others, Bhubaneswar Athletic Association president Suresh Kumar Routary, secretary Sauraya Ranjan Parija, Arabinda Mitra, Ashok Mohanty, Naba Ranjan Pattnaik and Siba Prasad Panda were present.
Ranjib Biswal to be team India manager
Bhubaneswar: ICC World Cup winning Team India's manager and Odisha Cricket Association (OCA) president Ranjib Biswal would accompany the Team India in the Champions Trophy as team manager.
After the world cup former Parliament member, Biswal confirmed that he would no more take up the assignment as the manager of the National team. RsRsFrom now onwards, I would devote more time for my family and for cricket administration in my state,'' told earlier.
“As the BCCI president Srinivas talk to me over phone and told that this will the last ICC Champions Trophy and I must accompanied the team, so I agreed,” said Biswal.“Earlier, I did duty as the manager of India's World Cup team. I also had the experience of playing for the country. So, it is not difficult for me to work with the team. I enjoyed the experience and felt proud about my performance,'' said former India under-19 captain Biswal. “Present team India is having a fair chance to get the title, said Biswal.