Sports &; Allied News
JAMMU, Oct 12:
Chhatra Shaheed Memorial Football Tournament, 2018 organized by Jammu Joint Students’ Federation (JJSF) under the aegis of JKFA, Jammu and sponsored by J&K Bank Ltd. today entered into the stage of pre-quarter-finals. The last match of the first qualifier stage played was Hero Club V/s Young Star Football Club. The match was won by Hero Club by 2-1 score. The other match of the tournament which was played today was 1st Pre-quarter final played between Young Hero Football Club V/s Sainik Colony Football Club. The won the pre-quarterfinal with by score.
Sh. K D Singh was the Chief Guest of the pre-quarter final match and Rakesh Khajuria @Raju Pehalwan was the Guest of Honour on the occasion. Pushvinder Singh while welcoming the guests told that Sh. K D Singh is known for his services to the society. He remained President, All India J&K Bank Employees Association during 1991-92, he remained Provincial Secretary of NC, he is at present Chairman, Kandi Belt Movement, founder member of Dogra Swabhimaan Sangathan (DSS). He further told that Raju Pehalwan was a renowned wrestler of the state who brought laurels to the state by winning several medals including Bronze Medal at National Level. At present he is the State General Secretary of J&K Wrestling Association. It is pertinent to mention here that the said tournament is played on Knock-out basis and 20 registered clubs are participating in the tournament. Today, two matches were played, first match played was Hero Football Club Vs Young Star which was won by Hero FC by 2-1. The first goal of the match was scored by Tarvinder in the 21st minute of the match for Young Star but that was the only goal which Young Star could score. The 2nd goal of the match was scored by Lakshit of Hero FC in 41st minute of the match and the 3rd goal of the match and 2nd goal for Hero FC was scored by Kamal in 70th minute of the match. With this match the qualifying stage of the tournament ended and pre-quarterfinal stage of the tournament started with today’s 2nd match played between Young Hero FC and Sainik Colony FC. No team of could score any goal and the score of the match was 0-0 till end. The result of the match was decided during tie-breaker where Hero FC won with 4-3 score. The referees who officiated the first match were Suresh Gupta, Rahul Sharma, Honey Mehra and Dil Bahadur and the referees who officiated the second match were Honey, Suresh Gupta, Amit Verma and Rahul Sharma. On 13th of October, 2018 two pre-quarterfinal matches of the said tournament shall be played. The first match shall be played between Param FC and Shaheen FC at 1:00 pm and 2nd match shall be played between Hero FC and SFA Jammu at 3:30 pm.
Prominent among those who were present on the occasion include Ramesh Kumar (Vice-President, JKFA, Jammu, Sat Pal (Ex-En, PHE), Charan Dass (Retd. BSNL officer and Vetran Football player) Rajesh Sumbria, Rajan Gupta (Org. Secretary), Sagar Singh, Aman Singh, Atul Singh, Shivam, and Ashu Gupta (Prop. Ashu Book House).
