Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, April 18 2010:
UMO and Chingtam won today's match of the 12th Challenge Cup Veteran Football Tournament, 2010 organised by the Manipur Veteran Football Association (MVFA) at Mapal Kangjeibung, Imphal after defeating their goalless opponents.
The first match today was played between VSAN and UMO.
UMO beat VSAN by a solitary goal to win the first
match.
Both teams displayed a eal tough fight against one another throughout the match.
They played the match ith full determination to win.
UMO caught unexpected VSAN by surprise when they scored the solitary winning goal against VSAN in the 2nd minute of the match.
VSAN recovered soon from the shock and began to play the match more substantially and tried very hard to equalise the score.
But they found it impossible to equalise the score against the strong defence of UMO.
In the same time UMO too failed to registered any further goals against VSAN and the match concluded with UMO as winner.
Later in the second match, Chingtam beat goalless DVFA with two goals.
Both teams displayed a tough fight against one another throughout the match.
However lack of better coordination among the players of DVFA resulted to their loss.
The first goal of Chingtam was scored in the 15th minute of the match.
Athui scored the first goal.
The second goal was scored by Angampu in the 21st minute of the match.
With two goals ahead of them, DVFA tried their best to equalise the score.
However they found it impossible to equalise the score against the strong defence of Chingtam.
Chingtam too could not scored any further goal and the match concluded with Chingtam as winner.
Pari of Chingtam was issued a yellow card for his unsporting behaviour during the match.