Imphal, May 16: Undeterred by a two goal setback early in the game, MBSU, Wahengbam Leikai carved out a well facile 5-4 victory over NISA, Thangmeiband in the final of the FUTSAL Cup tournament at Mapal Kangjeibung today.

Even though NISA had opened the lead within the first minute through N Momocha and doubled the advantage with Kh ratan scoring his first of two in the match in the eighth minute the Wahengbam Leikai showed no sign of letting their opponents dictat terms in the keenly contested final to ultimately wrest the tournament title.

resilience of MBSU resulted in David bridging the score gap in the 14th minute, as Surchand exhibited clinical finishing to help his team finish on top with a four goal salvo that came in the 24th, 36th, 39th and 46th minutes.

Kh Ratan (17th) and Kh Kiran (38th) scored the other goals for NISA.

The tournament participated by five teams was organised by Imphal West District Football Association since May 5 under the joint sponsorship of mobile phone service provider Airtel and Nungshirabi Leikol.

FUTSAL competitions are being held as off-season tourneys with the objective of not only sustaining the players' momentum and enthusiasm to the world's most popular sport but to explore and improvise technical aspects of the game/players.

The winning team was awarded Rs 5000 while the runners-up had to be content with the Rs 3000 prize.

MBSU's David was adjudged best player of the tournament with the top scorer award going to his team-mate Surchand on eight goals.

Reception of teams that participated in the Manipur State League was also held as a part of the Futsal Cup closing ceremony which was held with AMFA president A Santoshkumar Singh and president of IWDFA H Nabakumar Singh as the chief guest and president respectively.

Chief Manager of Airtel Relationship Centre A Bipinchandra and head mistress of Nungshirabi Leikol Child Development School (Uripok) G Dayabati Devi graced the occasion as the guests of honour.

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