Bureaucrats-XI retains Football title
Bhubaneswar: Defending champion Bureaucrats-XI emerged champion by defeating last year runners-up Tata Steel team by 3-0 goals in the Tata Friendship Football Tournament at Kalinga Stadium here on Sunday. Amitav Thakur, SD Durga and Anup Krishna of the champion team scored a goal each and dominated the final match. Earlier in the semifinals, Bureaucrats-XI edged out MlA-XI by 4-2 goals via through penalty struck. Phulabani MlA Debendra Kanhar lost an easy chance, he could not converted a field penalty shoot. But all credit goes to Bureaucrats-XI custodian Dabi Biswal and the match ended in goalless draw. Midfielder Saswat Mishra of the winning team bagged the man of the match award. Similarly, Tata team pipped Media-XI by 2-0 goals. Somen Chakrabarti and Mukesh Kumar of the wining team scored goal each. Asit Satapathy of the winning team received the man of the match award. Debi Biswal, Manoj Ahuja of the champion team bagged best goalkeeper and man of the tournament award respectively. Somen Chakrabarti of the runners-up team received the best forward award. Arun Sahu and Niranjan Pujhari of MlA’s team claimed the best half and defence awards respectively. Minister I and PR Arun Kumar Sahu distributed the prizes in presence of Vice-president Tata Steel Kalinga Nagar project Anand Sen, Deputy vice-president corporate services Sunil Bhaskaran, CRE Manikanta Nayak and Mohit Das in the closing ceremony.