Hostel, Jobra win in FAO Football league
Bhubaneswar: State Sports Hostel and Jobra Durga Club defeated Town Club and OGP Club respectively by 6-1 goals each in the FAO 1st Division Football league at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Thursday.
The goal scorers for State Sports Hostel were Sunil Sardar ( 5th), Surendra Soren (25th), Sudam Soren ( 30th, Subas Pradhan (37th and 58th) and Purna Chandra Samal (73rd) and Paramanand Nayak of the Town Club scored the solitary goal in the 77th minute just to reduce the winning margin.
The officials who conducted the match were Subrat Purohit, Bhanu Bauri, Sujit Patra and BN Mohakul as referees. Similarly, Santaram Nayak (2nd and 3rd), Bidyadhar Hemram (12th), Nipen Das 51st), N Sekhar Chakrabarti (57th) and Rupei Hansada (73rd) were the winning team scorer. Pipili Nayak og the OGP netted a goal in the 44th minute.
G Suresh Kumar, Prasanta Kumar Pal, Bhanu Bauri and Y Chandrasekhar Rao were conducted the matches as referees. In the group-E league match, East Coast Railway would meet SBI on Friday.
40 mini stadiums to be set up in blocks: CM
Bhubaneswar: Everybody should be involved in sporting activity, which not only make you fit and healthy ,it also develops team spirit, discipline and crime free society, said Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik while distributing Rs 1.10 crore cash awards to 122 outstanding sportspersons of the State at Jaydev Bhavan here on Thursday.
To strengthen the sports infrastructure, the State Government will develop 40 mini stadiums in different blocks of the State.
The cost of each stadium has been planned Rs 25 lakhs each, added Patnaik. Now- a-day’s sports is not limited to the city only, many raw talents are in the rural parts of the State.
Provide better infrastructure and scientific training to nurture the talents the Sports Department is having a plan to set-up weightlifting academy at Gopalpur in Ganjam and archery academy at Keonjhar. As international standard hockey stadium has been already set-up in the capital city the hockey academy is slated to be start here, added Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik.
Odisha girls always dominate the national platform in football.
Further to develop new generation players a football academy will be set up at Kalinga Stadium. In the future activities an indoor stadium will be constructed at Kalinga Stadium with a cost of Rs 17 crores.