The State Level Chief Minister's Football Cup Competition 2022 was inaugurated on Monday by Secretary, Tourism, Art, Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs Department, Manoj Kumar by lighting a lamp and blowing a balloon at Birsa Munda Football Stadium in the State.
On this occasion, Director Sports, Sarojini Lakra, Deputy Director, Devshankar Das, SAI In-Charge, Vinod Kumar Singh, Treasurer of Jharkhand Olympic Association Shivendra Dubey former Hockey, Olympian Manohar Topno, Assistant Football Coach, Sunil Kumar, Sports Consultant, Devendra Kumar Singh, besides 24 District Sports Officer were present. Guests and distinguished guests were honored by giving shawl and momento.
Inaugurating the tournament Chief Guest, Manoj Kumar said in his statement that sportspersons will get a lot of support after the formation of the sports policy. “A guide related to day boarding and residential coaches has also been made, due to which all possible help will be provided to the coaches by the department. It is the endeavor of the State Government to arrange sports stadiums, playgrounds, residential centers and others in all the districts and all Sports kits and sports materials will be provided to the players. For the Competition 2022, all the participants have been provided with complete football kits to about 85000 players,” he added.
While giving a welcome speech on the occasion of the inauguration ceremony, Deputy Director, Dev Shankar Das said that the Chief Minister's Football Cup competition is being played on a very large scale, in which players from panchayat level to State level participate.
Lakra said she has also been a player and understands the pain and suffering of the players, she will remove problems as much as possible so that one can perform better in the coming times as well as national and Illuminate the name of the State and the Country at the international level and make identity.
In the men's section of the match played on Monday, the winner team of Dhanbad zone defeated the runner-up team of Ranchi zone by 2-0. Rajkumar Murmu scored the first goal for Dhanbad in 53 minutes and Amar Murmu in 62 minutes. The second match was played with the winner team of Ranchi zone and runner-up team of Dhanbad zone. Both the teams scored one goal each to draw the match. Rajvansh from Ranchi scored in 44 minutes and Rahul Kumar from Dhanbad in the 7th minute.
Two women's category matches were also played in the temple ground. The first match was played with the winner of Ranchi zone and the winning team of Dhanbad zone. In which the winning team of Ranchi zone defeated the runner-up team of Dhanwad team by 2-0 from Ranchi side. Poonam Kumari in 35 minutes and Soni Kumari in 48 minutes gave victory to their team while the second match played in the same ground with the winner of Dhanbad zone and the runner-up of Ranchi zone remained goalless. The match is still going on.