The Maharashtra team is drawn to face hosts Goa, Daman & Diu and Lakshadweep.

The team was selected after grueling weeks of trials and training at The Cooperage ground. The team boasts of many exciting talents who have the potential to take the tournament by storm.

The Team: Nathan Murzello, Rony Chowdhry, Joel Barnes, Arya Kumar, Shane Aranha, Shubham Chafe, Nihal Dudwadkar, Sunil Maurya, Anirudh Ruke, Athar Ansari Ahmed, Zeeyan Nevrekar (all Mumbai); Anish Gaware, Neerav Pillai, Abhishek Pardeshi (all Pune); Pratham Pendam, Ayush Yadav, Anurag Solankee (all Nagpur); Rishabh Singh (Thane); Mohamad Shahbaz (Hingoli); Shreyas Bosekar (Solapur).

The Head Coach of the team is AFC ‘C’ License holder, Siddheshwar Shinde, who is being accompanied by Manager Prashant Jadhav (AIFF ‘D’ License Certificate Holder), Asst. Coach Samrat Rana (AFC ‘C’ License Certificate Holder) and Physio Neeraj Churi.

The top team will qualify from each group for the Final Round.

Match Schedule:

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Mumbai is gearing up to host it’s first ever   International football match to be  held at Andheri Sports complex  on this weekend 3rd September.The news comes as pure delight for Mumbai Football fanatics  as they  we”ll be witnessing International football after a gap of 48 years in city of Mumbai.

The Idea of holding match came up in January  when  BMC  sent  a report to the  Federation of  Inetrnationale de Football Association (FIFA) . International governing body  of Association football. Prior to that preparation were on full swing for the Recreation of  Andheri Sports Complex.

” “In November of last year, a FIFA representative had inspected the football stadium at the sports complex. Post the visit of their official, FIFA had tendered a list of necessities which were a must for the stadium,” The officials said.In matter of six months  BMC  accumlated  the basic infrastructure  of  the   stadium  including  improved floodlights , renovated dressing rooms , player’s tunnel’s entry and have  also organised  player’s accomodation.

They have also laid new grass on the field which has been imported from Indonesia. The civic body is also revamping the  audience  seating gallery with  plans to construct  special sectionsand enclosure for VIP’s. It looks like the prepartion are in  final stages for the  match. And the stadium is all set to soak up the Internatinal Soccer atmosphere.

Due to such excellent work by ground officals there are also talk of hosting  U -17  FIFA  football world cup which is to be scheduled in September of next year. But the  final call on this decision holds on the court of FIFA which is still pending.However  Saturday’s friendly reamains to be the main course  action for now  which might open doors futurstic growth of Indian Football in  near future  from our very own city of Mumbai and the well  decked up stadium & BMC  have left no stone unturned for that.

So don’t  forget to cheer our Blue Colts against  Puerto Rico this Saturday   on 3rd of September.

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Inform Pooja Dhamal scored brace, whereas Rita Cassia Ukachukwu, Kimberly Fernandez and Akansha Khandalkar netted one each to register a comprehensive victory over a strong Kolhapur side.

It took Mumbai just three minutes to open the scoring when Pooja Dhamal scored from close range, fourteen minutes later she doubled Mumbai’s lead through a fine goal past Kolhapur’s goalkeeper Manali Bagdi.

Mumbai started to take the control of the match and pushed forward for a third goal. Just before the break Mumbai did managed to score their third. Rita Cassia Ukachukwu danced past her marker and swiftly found the back of the net to take Mumbai into the break with a three goal lead.

In the second half, Mumbai scored two more goals through Kimberly in the 32^nd minute and Akansha in the 45^th minute to wrap up the match.

Mumbai await the winners of the second semi-final which will be played at the completion of the second phase of the competition to be contested between teams from Group-B and Group-D and which commences at the Karnatak Sporting Association ground, from Sunday, May 1, 2016.

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