Both teams had earlier secured promotion to Tier 1 for the upcoming edition as the finalists of this season.

After an intense first half, the deadlock was broken in the 53rd minute when Uttar Pradesh’s Niti Kumari converted the rebound after her penalty kick was saved initially. In the 65th minute, Garima capitalised off a weak clearance from the Kerala goalkeeper, making it 2-0 for Uttar Pradesh.

Kerala stepped up and struck back immediately in the 66th minute, with Evana Biju finishing off a long ball from Samantha Saan to make it 2-1. Despite their late chase for an equaliser, Kerala were unsuccessful in breaking down the Uttar Pradesh defence.

FT: Uttar Pradesh (Niti Kumari 53′, Garima 65′) 2 – 1 Kerala (Evana A Biju 66′)

– Credits: AIFF Media

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A product of the Rani Laxmi Bai Sports academy in the district Siwan in Bihar, Ranki has so far scored eight goals in two matches. On Wednesday, she destroyed Gujarat almost singlehandedly, scoring all the five goals.

Bihar, who led 1-0 at half time, have so far scored 15 goals in the tournament, without conceding one. With six points from two matches, they are now strong contenders for a place in the semi-finals.   

In another Group B match, Karnataka proved too good for Meghalaya and won 6-1. Derrin Treesa Sumesh was the leading scorer for the winners with three goals. Pratiksha (2) and Nida Shekih were the other scorers. Meghalaya’s lone goal came through Shirley Nongkhlaw Marbaniang.   

In Group A, in Malda, Manipur notched up their second consecutive victory defeating Tamil Nadu 7-2 after trailing 1-2 at the breather. While Chingkhamayum Redima Devi and Laitonjam Linthoi Chanu scored two goals each, Laishram Rani Devi, Thoudam Malemnganbi Devi and Dasila Senjam were the other scorers. Sahana K and S Dharshini struck both goals for Tamil Nadu in the first half.

The Group A witnessed another high-scoring match as Haryana were runaway 9-0 winners over Mizoram. The bulk of the scoring was done by Nidhi, who found the mark five times. Revika and Sonia scored two each to complete the rout.  

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Ash D’Silva has been named vice-captain of the 18-member Mumbai team. The team will be accompanied by Chief Coach Preetam Mahadik and Manager Jai Juvekar.

The team was selected after an over two-week long selection trials and training sessions at the Neville D’Souza ground, Bandra. Mumbai team which reached Palghar on Tuesday, will take on Nashik in a second round match on Wednesday.

The Mumbai team:

Bhumika Mane (Captain), Ash D’Silva (Vice-Captain), Neha Samre (Goalkeeper), Tanisha Laud, Tracy Monis, Dhiti Varma, Nishka Prakash, Janhavi Shetty, Anshita Pant, Ira Mahkhijani, Kavya Jaiswal, Riya D’Souza, Mmehak Lobo, Simone Todankar, Dharitri Nandy, Tanushree Shetty, Kiara Pinto, Gaia Ferro.

Coach: Preetam Mahadik, Manager: Jai Juvekar.

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Interested players must be at the venue on December 21st (10:00 AM). The Age cut off for players to participate in the tournament is between  1st January 2003, to 31st December 2007. The trials will be held on Neville D’souza Ground, Bandra in Mumbai.

The Tournament will be held from January 5th, 2020 to January 11th, 2020 in Palghar District

Trials Details:
Inter District Football Championship Trials (Sub Junior Girls)

Date : 21st Dec 2019

Reporting Time : 10 AM

Age Cut-off: 1st January 2003, to 31st December 2007

Venue: Neville D’Souza Ground, Bandra (West), Mumbai

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Soni Munda and Basanti Lakra scored a brace each to help Jharkhand waltz to their first National Football Championship victory this season. Earlier this year, the state had also made it to the Final of the Hero Junior Girls’ NFC in Kolhapur where they lost to Himachal Pradesh.

Jharkhand got off to a quick start in the first half itself as they looked to use the width of the pitch to stretch the Arunachal defence. It took them only 15 minutes to break the deadlock, though. Forward Soni Munda made the perfect run in between the two Arunachal centrebacks, as she was played into the box before she placed it past the keeper and into the net.

Arunachal tried to get their game going but the Jharkhand defence kept cutting them off in the final third. Soon, Jharkhand doubled their lead through Basanti Lakra, who only had to tap it into the empty net after Arunachal keeper Bumpasai Manyu collided with one of the attackers.

The Jharkhand defence was at the top of its game on the day as they neutralised the threat posed by the Arunachal duo of Simran Zeeba and Tallo Ana. The former, who is the captain of the North-eastern side, had even released the latter, who is the top scorer of the tournament, with an aerial through ball towards the end of the first half, but it was expertly cut out by the defence.

Jharkhand captain Salina Kumari came into her own in the second half, chasing down lost causes which led to the third goal of the evening. The left winger hounded after a stray ball that was somewhat equidistant between the two Arunachal centre backs and the goalkeeper. She managed to get to the ball before the onrushing keeper and cut past her to expose an empty goal.

While the angle was too tight for Salina, she simply squared it across the face of the goal for Lakra to tap it into an empty net and score her second of the game. Arunachal did try to get some of their counter-attacks going through captain Simran Zeeba but the North-eastern side’s wingers Zila Kamchi and Bamang Yaro were played too narrow and were often crowded out by the Jharkhand midfield and defence.

The highest scorer of the tournament, Tallo Ana, was heavily marked and often had to drop deep into the midfield, in order to find space, which meant that Arunachal missed her goalscoring instinct up front.

Arunachal Pradesh Head Coach Kipa Bharat brought on Gumku Rani, while Ana operated in the hole. This freed up some space for the latter, who had the perfect opportunity to pull one back. With a little over 10 minutes of regulation time left on the clock, Rani played Ana through on goal, but the latter’s out-step shot lacked any venom, as Jharkhand keeper Jyotsna Bara slid in to claim the ball.

However, this push from Arunachal Pradesh came too late as they ran out of time. With just a few minutes of regulation time left, Soni Munda scored her brace, as she slipped the ball past the Arunachal keeper to make it four. There was no coming back from that, and Jharkhand ran away with their first National Football Championship title of the season.

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With the three goals in this game, Ana moved her tally to 15 goals, the highest so far, in this edition of the tournament.

The North-eastern side got off the blocks early on, as Tallo Ana rounded off Gujarat goalkeeper Ankitaben Prajapati Thakor, before firing it into the net in the sixth minute. Arunachal doubled their lead just before the water-break, when captain Simran Zeeba struck a long-range free-kick that sailed over the Gujarat keeper and into the net.

Gujarat did come out with more initiative in the second half, but they soon ran out of steam, and Arunachal capitalised on that, as Ana netted her second from a goalmouth melee. The Arunachal striker put the proverbial cherry on top of the cake, when she dribbled past the Gujarat defence on the 80th minute and slotted it past the keeper to make it four.

Arunachal are now set to square-off against Jharkhand in the final on Thursday, June 20, at the Barabati Stadium, in Cuttack. The match will kick-off at 03:30 PM.

Gujarat 0 – 4 Arunachal Pradesh (Tallo Ana 6’, 73’, 80’, Simran Zeeba 22’)

– Courtesy of AIFF Media

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It was a close start to the game as Jharkhand looked to take the early initiative passing it around. However, Bihar took the lead against the run of play, as Lucky Kumari broke free on the counter and plonked it over the keeper’s head.

They soon doubled that lead, when captain Pallavi Kumari tapped a square pass across the face of the goal into the net. However, Jharkhand took just a minute to pull one back, as Soni Munda ran on to a low cross and put it past the Bihar keeper. Bihar captain Pallavi, however, ensured that her side headed into the tunnel with a two-goal lead at half time, as she nodded in a cross in the third minute of time added on at the end of the first half.

Jharkhand came hard at Bihar in the second half, and only got the fruits of their labour in the last couple of minutes of regulation time, when captain Salina Kumari pulled one back, before Soni Munda scored her second to level the scores at 3-3.

With the scores still level after Extra Time, Jharkhand went on to win it on penalties, as Sindhu Kumari and Sabara Khatun missed two early penalties to put Bihar on the back foot. While Sonam Kumari also missed the fourth penalty for Jharkhand, Modita Kujur converted their fifth to put them in the final.

Jharkhand [Sony Munda 39’, 90+1’, Salina Kumari 88’] 3 (4) – 3 (3) Bihar [Lucky Kumari 33’, Pallavi Kumari 38’, 45+3’]

– Courtesy of AIFF Media

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Excerpts:

Sub juniors will be held in Orissa, How well is the team’s preparation and what is the atmosphere?

Firmin: Well, this time we have more time in our hand to prepare for this tournament. Few girls have missed this camp because of their vacations but the ones who have turned up are giving their 100%. They have shown their interest and commitment to this game. My aim is to ensure that they learn as much as possible and as a Coach I want to make sure they are becoming better players.

India will be hosting a FIFA U17 Women World Cup soon what do you make of this tournament for women’s football in India.

Firmin: It is certainly a major boost and very much inspiring factor for the girls in India. Women Footballers especially the young girls will be very excited that the world cup is happening in India and this tournament can lead to inspiring a lot of young girls to take up football professionally.

How are the girls’ participations in WIFA baby leagues? Has it shown improvement in numbers?

Firmin:  Well specifically in U8 leagues you will find a lot of girls are participating alongside and boys and are playing together in the same team. This shows the commitment and interest level. Even for women football, these girls at U8 – U12 are at the right age to get in to the game. So it is definitely an improvement.

Finally, you are coach of the India U15 Girls team, a crucial role now that this team will go on to participate in the U17 world Cup. What do you think of this responsibility and how prepared are you for it?

Firmin: Well, I am not certain, whether I would be leading that team or not, it is up to the federation to appoint or change the coach. However the girls under me are capable and have lot of potential and whoever is the coach we hope the team performs in the World Cup and we can show that even we have an identity in Women football and inspire the next generation of young girls to take up football.

So whoever is the coach he has to give his best for the team and make sure that the girls are doing the same because at the end of the day they are playing and representing 130 crore people of India.

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Being held at Kolhapur, Maharashtra, Jharkhand registered the a mammoth 21-0 win over J & K while defending champions Tamil Nadu outclassed Madhya Pradesh 5-0.

Results of other group matches:

GROUP A

The first encounter of the day saw Jharkhand rack up a comprehensive victory over Jammu and Kashmir at the Rajarshi Shahu Stadium, with the score line reading 21-0. Forward Sumati Kumari notched up five goals in the game, while Captain Astam Oraon along with substitutes Anu Radha Kumari and Priya Kumari all picked up a hat-trick apiece. Salina Kumari, Amisha Baxla, Kuwari Indwar all contributed with braces while Santoshi kumara scored the remaining one goal before being replaced by Priya Kumari to complete the 21-0 rout.

GROUP B

At the Polo Ground meanwhile, defending champions Tamil Nadu began their campaign with a comfortable 5-0 win over Madhya Pradesh. M Saritha opened the scoring for her side in the 21st minute and added a second just before half-time, with Mariyammal B recording a second-half brace and Priyadharshini S finding the net four minutes from time.

GROUP C

Three time champions Manipur started off their campaign with a 4-0 thumping win over Uttarakhand. S Lynda Kom opened the scoring in the 20th minute after which UttaraKhand showed some resilence in defence however, T Kritina Devi doubled the advantage in the 62nd minute before N Priyangka Devi and H Shilky Devi converted their chances to wrap up the game 4-0.

Meanwhile joining Manipur at the top of the table will be Goa, who recorded a 3-1 win over Tripura. Striker Karen Estrocio got all three goals for the Goan team while Anjali Debbarma scored a consolation in the 89th minute.

GROUP D

In one of the two group D encounters, West Bengal picked up three points with a 1-0 win over Arunachal Pradesh courtesy of Arunabag’s 15^th minute goal.

Meanwhile in the other Group D game, Haryana started off their campaign with a 9-0 win over Karnataka, with Rajni Bala scoring four goals and captain Raveena finding the back of the net thrice while Kamna and Ritu chipped in with a goal apiece.

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Nagpur came into the final on the back of a thrilling win against Pune. With the score locked at 3-3 in normal time, the match went into the penalties where Nagpur edged Pune 5-4. Meanwhile, Mumbai District had defeated Kolhapur 3-2 in a mouth-watering encounter.

Just like in the semi-final match against Kolhapur, Mumbai started off perfectly after Mehak Lobo opened the scoring in the 4th minute. A well-taken corner by Tanisha Laud was superbly turned in by Mehak who had an outstanding campaign this season as well.

Fourteen minutes later, Tanisha and Mehak combined again as Mehak’s glancing header doubled Mumbai’s lead. Nagpur responded positively after conceding the second goal and defended well to avoid any further goals. But in the second half, Mumbai went all guns blazing as they scored thrice to complete a sensational win.

Priyanka set up Riya D’Souza who scored Mumbai’s third goal before Riya served Angeline Anthony who grabbed the fourth goal in the 44th minute. In the closing stages of the game, Ash D’Silva was set up by Sai Sankhe who bagged Mumbai’s fifth and final goal.

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