The Karnataka State Football Association (KSFA) announced their squad for the Manindra Dutta Roy Trophy, the 19th U-21 National Football Championship.
This tournament will be played in Gurgaon, Haryana from February 11 to 21. Karnataka is grouped in Cluster I, they will play their first match against Rajasthan on February 13 and next match against Punjab on February 15.
Early last month, the state association conducted a coaching-cum-selection camp in Bangalore. The state association officials are pinning high hopes on this team, especially, after winning the recently-concluded Dr. BC Roy Trophy, the U-19 National Football Championship.
Players list:
- R Dayalan (ADE)
- Biman Nandi (ASC Boys)
- S Vinodh Kumar (HAL)
- Clement Anthony (Southern Blues)
- Rakesh Babu (KSP)
- S Kiran Kumar (Bangalore Mars)
- Ramesh (BEML)
- Madhu Karan (SAI)
- Rajesh (Bangalore Mars)
- Karthigayan (HAL)
- Don Bosco (BEML)
- Akram (Davangere District)
- Sanoj (SAI)
- R Kiran Kumar (KSP)
- Lokesh C (Vinayaka)
- Gopi (Captain) (HAL)
- Karunakaran (ASC)
- Kewal Lama R (ADE)
- Deepak Kumar (Government Press)
- V Vinodh Kumar (RWF)
- Abhilash (Mysore District)
Officials:
- Imtiaz Ahmed, Manager
- C Ravi Kumar, Chief Coach
- Shantha Kumar, Coach
Bangalore District Football Association (BDFA) is organizing Dowlath Khan Trophy, a knock-out tournament for the C-division teams.
One of the oldest football tournaments of the Karnataka state, Dowlath Khan Trophy is revived by the BDFA. Record numbers of 38 BDFA C-division teams are participating in this tournament and will be played on a knock-out format.
Duration of each match will be 70 minutes (35+10+35). When a match ends in a draw in the regulation time, no extra-time will be played, and the match will go straight to the tie-breaker. All the games will be played at the Bangalore Football Stadium.
The association expressed satisfaction with the number of teams coming out to play such tournaments. They feel that organizing such tournaments should help the player’s caliber and their talent will be displayed, which will ultimately help the players as well as the teams scouting for budding talents.
In the first match of the tournament on Friday, February 12, 1.30 pm, Bangalore Blues takes on Young Gems. Later, Mohd. Sporting, Bangalore will play against Young Blues.
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Source: http://tinyurl.com/yekbux5Few years back, he compared Muralitharan’s bowling action with a javelin thrower. In the cricketing context, He has expressed his reservation with the word doosra.This is Bedi’s holistic take on doosra:Q: What is doosra? Bedi: The other man in a women’s life is doosra. The other woman in a man’s life is doosri. So basically doosra is unethical, immoral, and illegal.Albeit lucid and not disjointed!
