Bureaucrat’s XI retain Tata Friendship Cup
Bhubaneswar: The Kalinga Stadium witnessed a unique battle on Sunday with the defending champion Bureaucrat’s-XI team trouncing the Tata Steel XI in the finale of the 8th Friendship Cup Football Tournament organised by Tata Steel. The Bureaucrat’s-XI won the match by 2-1goals via through sudden death and retained the title. The event was flagged off in the presence of TV Narendran, MD, Tata Steel, India and South East Asia. The nail biting final match ended in 1-1 goal draw in the stipulated time. Tata-XI edged out leaders-XI by 2-1 goals in the semifinal round. Another semifinal match between Media-XI and Bureaucrat’s-XI ended in goalless draw and the Bureaucrat’s won the match by 3-2 vie through penalty strike. Debi Dutta Biswal of the champion team bagged Manuel Neuer award (Best Goal Keeper) and IM Vijayan Award (Man of the final) awards. Similarly, Saswat Mishra, Ramaswamy and Ajaya Mohapatra received the Baichung Bhutia Award (Man of the Match), David luiz Award (Best defence) and lionel Messi Award (Man of The tournament) awards respectively. Sanjeev Dogra and Digza Prasad of runners-up team received Jr. Neomar Award (Best Forward) and James Roderiguez Award (Highest Scorer) award respectively. Arun Kumar Saho and Ramachandra Hansda of the leaders-XI received Valbuena Award (Fair Play) and Sunil Chhetri Award (Man of the Match) awards respectively. Bikash Marandi of Media-XI received Mesut Ozil Award (Best Half).
Independent Club beats Sports Hostel
Bhubaneswar: Independent Club edged out Sports Hostel by 2-1 goals in the super league round match of the FAO 1st Division Football league at Barabati Stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. Nelson of the winning team scored double goals in the fifth and 35th minutes respectively. After the change of sides, Sunil Sardar of the Sports Hostel netted the solitary goal in the 77th minutes. In another super league round match, East Coast Railway got a walk over from Odisha Police. The officials who conducted the match were Bhanu Bauri, Nabin Naik, Subrat Purohit and Sujit Patra as referees. SAI Cuttack and Radha Gobinda Club would meet Kishore Club and Sunrise Club respectively on Monday.
lalbagh win in FAO 2nd Division Football league
Bhubaneswar: lalbagh Club defeated Milita Harijan Seva Sangha by 2-0 goals in the FAO 2nd Division league at Satyabrata Stadium in Cuttack on Sunday. Biseswar Tanty of the winning team netted two goals in the 20th and 49th minutes. Another match of the day between Anchalika Sports Association and OFRC ended in 2-2 goal draw in the stipulated time. The goal scorer for O.F.R.C were Suresh Samal one goal at 11 mins and Md. Abid one goal at 46 mins and the goal scorer for Anchalika Sports Assn were Manguli Das one goal at 36 mins and Prabhakar Senapati one goal at 38 mins. The inaugural day match on Saturday, Club N Club and Jay Mangala Club was stopped after 6 minutes of the game because of incessant rain. The remaining part of the match will be played at a later date. Match between Udya Club and Eleven Gun Club was ended in goalless draw.