Meghalaya lift AG East Zone football trophy
Shillong: AG Meghalaya defeated AG Bengal 2-1 to lift the Indian Audit and Accounts Department East Zone Football Tournament trophy at the JN stadium in Polo on Sunday. The Bengal team opened their score-sheet through Pradip Mohanraj in the 36th minute. After conceding the goal, the host team got pumped up and manage to draw level through midfielder Ronnie M Nongbri who scored in the 48th minute. In the dying minutes of the match, Ailad Kynta scored through a penalty to win the final for Meghalaya. Kitbok Pale of AG Meghalaya was adjudged as the Best Player of the Tournament. Larsing Ming Sawyan, President of the Meghalaya Football Association was the Chief Guest who gave away the prizes to the winners and the runners up team. Meanwhile AG Meghalaya and AG Bengal have qualified to represent East Zone for the Inter Zonal Tournament which will commence from February 6. The other teams qualified from the zonals are AG Punjab and AG Haryana from North Zone, AG Karnataka and AG Telengana from the South Zone and AG Nagpur (Maharashtra) and AG Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh) from the West Zone.
Invitation knock-out football tournament in Jowai
Shillong: All Hynniewtrep People United Front(AHPUF) will organise first Invitation Knock-out football tournament 2017 at Jerisalein play ground in Chutwakhu, Jowai. The winners will take away a cash prize of Rs 80,000- while the runner-up will get Rs. 40,000/-. The entry fee per team is Rs. 2,500/- and for individuals is Rs 100/-. The last date to register is March 23.
Celta Vigo-Real La Liga match suspended
Vigo (Spain): A La Liga football match between Celta Vigo and Real Madrid scheduled for Sunday has been suspended after the stadium in Galicia was damaged by a storm. The council of the Galician city of Vigo said the match suspension was due to a storm that hit the region and damaged Celta’s Balaidos Stadium, where the match was scheduled for Sunday, reports Efe. The bad weather also led to the cancellation of Friday’s La Liga match between Deportivo La Coruna and Real Betis, after Deportivo’s Riazor stadium was damaged by the weather in A Coruña. (IANS)
Bolt aims for global growth of Nitro team concept
Melbourne: Usain Bolt says he is looking to spread the Nitro team athletics concept globally after the success of the inaugural event in Melbourne on Sunday. The charismatic eight-time Olympic gold medallist led his Bolt All-Stars team to victory on the first of three Nitro Athletic meets in Australia and said he was looking for ways to make the event more popular with fans.
Six teams of 12 male and 12 female athletes competed in a mixture of old and new events with the 30-year-old Jamaican superstar racing in the mixed 4x100m relay, which his All-Stars won. More than 7,000 fans crammed into Melbourne’s small Lakeside Stadium to see a rare appearance of Bolt competing in Australia. Bolt said he believed the track and field concept, which organisers describe as “revolutionary”, could catch on around the world. “I think it could work. I think we’ll find different events to do,” Bolt said. “I don’t think every event caught on, so we probably have to change it up. A few of the events were wonderful. “I know in time it will catch on and will do great because it’s for the people, and I think the people really enjoy something different and also the athletes really enjoyed it, so I’m happy about that.” (AFP)
Sports talent hunt portal to be launched soon: Goel
Ahmedabad: The Union Minister for Youth Affairs and Sports (independent charge) Vijay Goel on Sunday said his ministry will soon launch a web portal to find out talented sportsmen who can be groomed with proper training. During his interaction with media in Gandhinagar on Sunday, Goel also said the Centre is committed to encourage sports culture in the country, said a PIB release. “We will soon launch a sports talent hunt portal to find out talented sportsmen from across the country. We will provide them training as well as scholarships,” Goel was quoted as saying in a PIB release. The minister also informed that as per the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the sports Ministry has established various task forces to select and train sports-persons for the coming Olympics in 2020. Goel was in Gandhinagar on Sunday to lay foundation stone of the boundary wall of the country’s first Centre of Excellence for Differently Abled sports-persons. (PTI)