William Chettiar and Roger Cordeiro scored a goal each for the winners Silver Innings.

It was the similar case with Friends United, after a good start against Sporting Option in their first match they went down 2-1 to We Care.’We Care’ and ‘Friends United’ played out a game of 35 minute each way, in which goals from Ryan Gracias in the 30th minute, Alan D’souza in the 38 minute were enough to secure the win for We care, Vrajesh Bajaj reduced a deficit in the 67th minute with a quick paced counter attack.

In the match played earlier Our Lady of Fatima beat PIFA Colaba U-17 2-0. The Fatima boys got their goals through Sagar Pandey in the 10th minute and Wayne Trinidade in the 19 minute to win the match quite comfortably

MDFA League 2nd division match played at St. Xavier’s ground, Parel on Thursday 25th September 2014

Classic Sports Vs Gray Athletic [4-0]

Classic Sports => Momin Usaib 40th minute, Khan Amir 48th minute, Zaid Ansari 57th minute, Tarique Shaikh 68th minute

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High Flying Falcon Brothers

Falcon Brothers registered a record 10-0 win over hapless Lakers FC in the Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) 1st Division league match played at St. Xavier’s ground, Parel on Tuesday evening.

Lakers FC never expected they would get caught in a ‘goal storm’ when they took to the field in a first division match against the young and energetic Falcon Brothers side. Their two strikers Llyod Vaz and Rohan Thomas jointly scored more than half of the tally of goals, Llyod surely had a magnificent day on the field, grabbing 4 goals (8th ,20th ,55th,59th minute). The nippy left footed Rohan Thomas scored a brace (7th,17th minute), while Clyde Antao 33rd minute, Wayne Oliver 46th minute, Saif Rajwani 50th minute, and Justin Nurupel 68th minute struck a goal each for the winners.

With their recent performance the Mazagaon outfit surely look like a force to reckon with in this Division of the MDFA League

Earlier, in another 2nd division match Young Guns (Vikroli) beat Sachivalaya Gym 3-1, goal scorers for Young guns => 1st goal – Neel Vaz 35th minute, 2nd goal – Ganesh Chaudhari 65th minute, 3rd goal – Sachin Gaikwad 67th minute. Whereas Sachivalaya reduced the margin through Virendra Tandel in 40th minute.

In another 2nd division match Catholic Gym beat Dadar XI ‘B’ 2-1.

Catholic Gym => 1st goal- John Fernandes 8th minute, 2nd goal – Amey Kadam 15th minute
Dadar XI ‘B’ => Rohan Shukla 29th minute

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ICL ‘A’ were rescued by Vibhor Sharma who’s equalizing goal just before the final whistle leveled the score at 2-2 in a close encounter against Sea View of Mumbai District Football Association (MDFA) 1st division league, played at St. Xavier’s ground, Parel on Monday.

ICL were leading in the 11th minute with a goal by Shane Menezes, but Sea view’s Pratik Patil got one back for Sea View just two minutes before the lemon break. It was a wake up call for Sea View and that’s exactly what happened, after just 5 minutes of play in the 2nd half they got a 2-1 lead with the help of Saurabh Gajra. ICL ‘A’ were trying hard to get an equalizer that finally come through Vibhor Sharma’s late goal at the end in 80th minute just before the final whistle could be blown.

In another 2nd division match, I.C.United & Air-India settled for goalless draw at St. Xavier’s ground, Parel.

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This season Desperados fielded more of a different team as compared to last season, Coach Arik Dass and manager Jayesh Dadarkar have changed others perception towards the Desperados team. Surely their lethal weapon is Aniket Shipe who has now scored 5 goals in two matches, but all this was possible because of their midfield and defense doing their bit very effectively.

Desperados vs Juhu Beach United

Aniket Shipe does have a striker’s sense of how to play in an opponent’s box, not once, not twice but he managed to hit the net 4 times, he grabbed his first in 7th minute when he latched onto a through ball from Kishor Bamania and nicely converted it into a goal. Just after 5 minutes his second goal came through Rajesh Damne. By now Aniket was in the mood, he completed his hat-trick by making a solo run from the half line and slotted home the ball beyond the Juhu Beach United’s goalkeeper in 26th minute. Kishor once again turned provider with his long through ball he nicely set up Aniket, who perfectly lobbed the ball over the onrushing goalkeeper to score his 4th goal.

The Juhu boys were very close to some scoring opportunities but they failed to convert their chances. If they had taken their chances at the right time we would have been in for a very interesting game towards the end. Rajesh Damne hit the cross bar twice, which came to the rescue of Juhu Beach United helping them keep the score line respectable.

Other 2nd division matches played at St. Xavier Ground, Parel.

G.K.W Rangers drew with Saki Village [1-1]

G.K.W.Rangers => Subodh Manjrekar 59th minute
Saki Village => Tayyeb Penwala 12th minute

Naseeb Reloaded beat Indian Gymkhana [2-1]

Naseeb Reloaded => 1st goal, Trinal Das 5th minute, 2nd goal – Sunny Mathias 26th minute.
Indian Gymkhana => Pradeep K.P scored 1 goal through penalty

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HDFC Bank and Hearts FC players chasing for the boll

HDFC kept the ball possession and dominated the midfield throughout the game. Dennis Menezes one of the most experienced campaigners, lead their midfield with his effective distribution, along with former Customs & Mumbai FC player Nelson Cardoz, were the striking force for HDFC. Keeping the momentum right from the kickoff whistle they got the lead just after 4 minutes of play. The HDFC scoring account was opened by the very skilled Nelson Cardoz. Their lead did not last long though, within the next 4 minutes Heart FC equalized the score with a neat finish by Jeevan Jain. It was the only effective move that Hearts FC had initiated, most of time they were busy defending the ferocious HDFC attack, till the end of first half HDFC had a 3 goal lead. Rakesh Yadav and Blaise Fernandes scored the 2nd and 3rd goals respectively.

The 2nd half was evenly poised, both teams were likely to score, but HDFC looking to make the most of the lessons learnt from last season were all out to better their goal average. For HDFC, Siddharth Puthran is a key element on the right wing, his contribution met its worth in the final 10 minutes of the game, he took a long-range shot which hit the crossbar bar and the rebound set up an easy opportunity for Jayesh Naik to tap in the 4th goal.

Hearts FC player controlling a ball

Results from the other 2nd division and 1st division matches played at St. Xavier’s Ground, Parel

2nd Division : Classic SC beat Joshua Generation [1-0]. Shaikh Tarique scored all-important winning goal for Classic SC.

1st Division : Chedda Nagar Fanatics beat Vintage, Dahisar [1-0]. Ferdinand D’cruz.

2nd Division : FC MIthanagar drew with Dadar XI “B” [3-3]

FC MIthanagar => 1st goal – Yash Salvi 19th min, 2nd goal – Priyesh Chalkar 24th min, 3rd goal – Siddharth Sindhe 74th min.

Dadar XI “B” => 1st goal – Rohan Shukla 35th min, 2nd goal – Faizal Khan 47th min, 3rd goal – Edric Fernandes 68th min

2nd Division : Century Rayon beat Gokul Mitra Mandal [3-0]
Century Rayon => Ashwin Thak, Chihan Khamrang, Sunny Janyani

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Franco Sports club team

The players from Magic Bus were little inexperienced in keeping ball possesion whereas Franco SC utilized their passing to great effect and kept most of the possesion. In the second half Magic Bus created some magic of their own and reduce the margin through Sunil H. Rathod in 65th minute.

Franco SC keep their momentum going and played attacking football more frequently, their 3rd goal come through penalty spot when Nickson Koli was brought down in the box by Magic Bus defender Satyam Dhongle, Referee Tapan Ghosh awarded a penalty which was perfectly finished by Aniket Khedekar. Dustin made it 4-1 just before the referee’s final whistle and got his second of the game.

Franco SC and Magic Bus payer in action

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