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On Saturday afternoon, 2nd April, 2016, Hedgewar Boys featured against Ruffian Football Club (group E) and Sachivalayala Gym played versus Naunehal (group E) in the Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) Division 3 matches at the St. Xavier’s ground, Parel.

Hedgewar Boys vs. Ruffian Football Club

In the 1:45 p.m. kick-off, Hedgewar Boys comprehensively beat Ruffian Football Club by three goals to zero; scoring goals at timely intervals, and converting a dominant performance into goals. Ruffian Football Club played their best spell of the match in the opening 5-6 minutes of the match, but failed to create let alone convert a genuine goal-scoring possibility. As the away-side’s grip on the proceedings stumbled, Hedgewar Boys carried-on on their game-plan, which fruitfully resulted in an opening goal scored in the 9^th minute of the match by no.13 Rohit Kanojiya.

Ruffian Football Club, who were still recovering from the opening strike lost complete control on the on-goings, when a 14^th minute strike from Ritesh Kalia put the home-team in complete control of the situation.

The away-team (Ruffian Football Club) held Hedgewar Boys away from their goal for a majority portion of the second-half; but, any dim hopes of a comeback into the game were blighted, when 2 minutes into the second-half, Himanshu Sawant put his team further clear of its opposition, making the possibility of a win an inevitability. With the referee’s full-time whistle, the final result cleared (if) any doubts about the result and a full-bore performance with a clean-sheet for Hedgewar Boys.

Sachivalayala Gym vs. Naunehal

In the other group E game, Sachivalayala Gym clinched a narrow victory over Naunehal by one goal to zero. A first-half strike from Sachivalayala Gym’s Pratap Waghela proved to be enough to gather maximum points at the end.

The match lacked an overall tally of goal-scoring chances created and a dominant team performance from either side. Sachivalayala Gym’s first-real chance of the match, in the 14^th minute was converted by a neat finish from Pratap Waghela, putting his team on the positive end; despite future failures in the game.

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The youngsters from Sneha Sadan

To run a team, there is a big need of appointing coaches, managing players and most importantly the finance, which is very necessary to keep the team running in the future.

We would appreciate if you could sponsor whatever you can for the upbringing of the young and talented players of this team, so that one day they could come up as one of the top clubs from Mumbai, and hopefully a few of these players can make a carrier for themselves by representing some of the big clubs on the national level .

We hope you accept our petition in making the dream come true for this budding football team. Those interested in sponsoring for this cause please contact Fr. Noel Pinto on 9969479735

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Result of other played matches

2nd Division
Jet Airways F.C. VS. Bad Boys F.C. [0-0]

1st Division
Bomby F.C. Vs. Juhu Beach [1-2]

1st Division
H.D.F.C VS P.R.S Bacon [3-0]

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Lawrence Dias is unstoppable; in the previous match he had scored 4 goals and done fabulous job for his team Jolly Boys throughout the entire league. He is ordinary local boy from Sahar village but not an ordinary striker on the field, he has the remarkable sense of playing football, he is not only the performer but also the achiever has all the achievement except the India color. Under-19, Under-20, Under-21, under-23 National, Mumbai district, Santosh Trophy, all certificates are in his locker.  A hero for his Village, teammates calls him “BABA” as his pet name. He works in Dubai and he is on leave, in Dubai he was declared the player of the tournament for his brilliant display of football in the

tournament call “Friday The 13 Premier Cup”.

After Thursday’s win Jolly Boys Sahar has qualified for the semi-final and probables to qualify for MDFA league 2nd division too, MDFA will take the final call on it that how many team they will pick, indication was earlier to pick all 8 quarter finalist team but not confirmed yet.  This team is formed few years back, all the senior players have taken the initiative and carrying the team with local players. It is just the beginning, they have to go very far, wish them good luck for their future.

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