I-day Cup Football tourney: Rosario, Aloysius College emerge champions

Mangalore, Aug 16: Rosario Degree College and St. Aloysius PU College and High School teams emerged as the champions of 17th Independence Cup Football tournament on Thursday.

The tournament was organised by Dakshina Kannada District Football Association (DKDFA) at Nehru Maidan.

Rosario college of Mangalore had to play against Meridian College, Ullal in the finals. However, as both the teams were equally good, the match had to be decided in a tie-breaker.

During the tie-breaking penalty shoot-out, Rosario scored four goals, while Meridian scored the first and failed in scoring the second and third.

As a result, Rosario emerged as champions.

In PU section, the final match was between St Aloysius College 'A' team and St Aloysius College 'B' team. In the tie-breaker phase, the 'A' team scored 1 and 'B' failed to score the goal.

In High School Boys level match, St Aloysius and Milagres High School played against one another and Aloysius won with four goals in the tie-breaker and Milagres scored three.

In High School girls Level match, St Joseph team, Bajpe won against Sacred Hearts, Kulashekhar.

In primary school Girls match, Sacred Hearts girls defeated Morning star Bajpe team.

In primary school Boys, Sayed Madani school Ullal defeated the boys of Morning star school.

Valedictory

The winning and runner teams were feted in the valedictory by the District-in-charge Minister B Ramanath Rai.

Speaking on the occasion, Raman Vijayan former player of National Football Team said “Mangalore has got a lot of talent and potential. However, they lack encouragement and guidance. In this regard, players in this regard, would be trained under the Bangalore South United Club”.

Prizes were distributed among the winners of primary and high school teams. The referees and guests were also felicitated on the occasion.

D M Aslam, President of DKDFA submitted a memorandum to the minister urging the development of football ground in Mangalore.

Sadanand Shetty, president of Sports Promoters presided over the ceremony. Vijaynath Vittal Shetty, manging trustee, Bhootanatheshwar temple, Jayaram Hande, chief manager of Karnataka Bank, K.P. Acharya,assistant chief manager of Union Bank of India, corporators including Abdul Latheef, Mohammad Kunjathooru, PIC M. Diwakar, businessmen Shekhar Putran, Manohar Kumar Bengre, Sathish Kumar, Vijay Suvarna, member of Karnataka State Football federation, Abdul Rehman, Nemiraj Bengre former football player, Anil PV treasurer of DKDFA and others were present.

Mohammad Hussain Bolar, secretary of DKDFA welcomed the gathering while Dinesh Karkera proposed the vote of thanks and also compered the programme.