Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, January 04 2008:
THE U-19 Boys Football team of Manipur entered semi final as group winner of group A in the ongoing U-19 Boys 45th National Football Championship for Dr BC Roy TGrophy 2008-09 at Bhillai, Chhattisgarh.
In the third and last quarter final match of the tournament, Manipur beat Punjab 1-0 and won the match.
It may be recalled that Manipur team had triumphed in all its quarter final match in the tournament entered semi final round.
Manipur team bagged nine points altogether from the quarter final matches won entered semi final as group winner.
In the first quarter final match, Manipur beat Gujarat 5-0.In the second quarter final match too Manipur beat its opponent Meghalaya 2-0 and had already confirmed its chance to enter semi final.
The opponent team of Manipur for the semi final will be known tomorrow after the quarter final matches of other groups.
From the very begining of today's match, players of Manipur played the match with full coordination and attempted many attacks.
As a result, Kh Joykumar of Manipur scored one goal against Punjab in the 16th minute of the match.
Players of both team tried at their best level to dominate one another.
Punjab team tried hard to equalise the score position but all their efforts went into vain when they could not scored a single goal against Manipur tillthe end of the match.
On the other hand Manipur team too could not scored any further goal against Punjab.
The match concluded with Manipur winning and entering semi final.
Punjab had to leave the tournament as they could not win today's match.