Curtains down on 8th SIRTI football tournament : Japhou A emerge champion
Source: The Sangai Express

Chandel, February 10 2014: The 8th SIRTI (Monsang) Football tournament 2014, organized under the aegis of Sirti Olympic Association (SOA) concluded today at Liwa Sarei Village in Chandel District with Japhou-A winning the Championship title.

The tournament which was started from January 15 at Liwa Sarei with President, SOA Ts Kothar and Chief of Liwa Sarei, Ts Ngamtin as the Chief guest and Guest of Honour respectively were participated by 7 women, 7 veteran and 11 open men's team from various Monsang Clubs.

The finals of the women and veteran category was held on the February 8 with Kl Hringkham, MCS, District family welfare Officer Dr Ng Romy and Principal of Maha Union Govt Higher secondary School, Japhou as Chief Guest, Guest of Honour and Functional President respectively.In the keenly contested finals, Japhou blanked out Monsang Pantha 2-0 in the women's category while Japhou-B Veterans overcame Liwa Sarei Veterans via tie breaker after being locked 1-1 during the normal time.

Whereas in today's open men's final, Japhou-A claimed the title after defeating Changning -A, 6-1 .

Japhou's W Helky Jersey No 6 netted the first goal in the 12 min.

he was joined by Ts Wartung Jersey No 9 who added one goal in the 42th min.

On the other hand, the first goal in favour of Changning came from Monigwar Jersey no 12 in the 43th min thereby helping his team reduce the margin by 1 at the end of the first half.

During the second half, Sh Alfred Jesey No 20 from Japhou kicked two goals for his team in the 49th and 76th min while K Agustine Jersey No 21 scored two goals in the 59th and 89th min of the match.

Th Joyshing Monsang,Ts Joyning, Kh Angningjoy, Kh Bardhan and Ng Bormantry officiated today's open men's final as centre referee, 1st and 2ndassistant referees, fouth official and commissioner respectively.

The closing ceremony of the tournament was held prior to the open men's final kicked off attended by Social Worker Sh Manglem and President of Sirti Upa Ruh, Ng Benithan as Chief Guest and Functional President respectively.

During the prize distribution, Chief Guest of the closing ceremony Sh Manglem gave away a cash prize of rs 25000 and rs 20,000 to the champion Japhou-A and Changning-a respectively.

The top scorer of the open men's football tournament was bagged by Sh Alfred Jersey No 20 of Japhou-A while the best goal keeper and Best player was bagged by Sh Meshor of Japhou-A and Kh Thangkin of Changning-A .

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