Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, May 05 2010:
IVFA and FLAM beat their goalless opponents and won today's matches of the 12th Challenge Cup, Veteran Football Tournament, 2010 organised by the Manipur Veteran Football Association (MVFA) at Mapal Kangjeibung, Imphal.
The first match today was played between IVFA and VSAI, Thangmeiband.
IVFA beat goalless VSAI by two goals to win the match.
Both teams played the match with full determination to win.
However lack of better coordination among the players of VSAI resulted to their loss of the match.
The two goals of IVFA were scored byMS Wilson and Ch Deven in the 24th and 54th minutes of the match.
On the other hand no players of VSAI could scored a single goal against IVFA and lost the match.
Later in the second match goalless TRVSA, Malom was defeated by FLAM with stunning three goals.
Both teams displayed a tough fight against one another throughout the match.
However lack of better coordination among the players of TRVSA can be seen in the first half of the match.
Taking full advantage of the situation K Joy Rongmei of FLAM scored the first goal of the match in the 24th minute of the match.
The second goal was scored by N Bobo just after three minutes.
With two goals ahead of them TRVSA tried their best to equalise the score.
But all their hard work went into vain when they lost their hope with the third goal of FLAM against them scored by Md Rehaman in the 33rd minute of the match.
However hard they tried TRVSA failed to score a single goal against FLAM.