Srinagar, Dec 18 2011:
Director Information Khawaja Farooq Renzushah inaugurated the 1st Valley Winter football seven-A-side tournament at Polo ground here on Sunday.
In the event first of its kind organised by Football Players Welfare Association (FPWA) under the aegis of J&K Football Association (JKFA) 32 teams from all over Valley participating.
While inaugurating the event Renzushah hailed the organisers for making efforts to keep football activities alive during harsh winter season of Valley.
“It is great to see FPWA and JKFA coming together to organise winter football tournament in the month of December. Normally in this part of the year sports activities including football comes to standstill due to cold weather which effects overall performance of JK players and teams” he said.
“I think more and more activities like this should be organised in order to make Valley an all weather sports destination. It is also good to see so many teams participating in the event” he added.
On the inaugural day two matches were played in which City Sports and Novelty Club emerged out as winners.
In the first match, which was high scoring encounter City Sports outplayed Chattergam-XI by 6-3. For winning side Naveed scored thrice while Adnan, Ubaid and Tabish scored one each. Showkat scored two while M Hussain scored one for Chattergam-XI.
In the second match, Novelty Club defeated Ncantidos by 1-0. Burhan scored the winning goal for Novelty.
The event is open and any team from the Valley is eligible to participate. Already super-league teams like Maharaja Sports, Solina Sports and Food and Supplies have already confirmed their participation. Keeping that in mind the event is going to be high quality tournament.
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