In the first match, a strong second-half display gave FSI all three points in a crucial Maharashtra Zone match at Cooperage. After a great start, IFSA were left on back foot when FSI started to take control of the match with a dominant display, especially in the midfield.

Although it was the second-half when FSI stepped up their game and started to look like favorites to snatch a win. Midway into the second-half, FSI’s resilience finally paid-off. Yashwardhan More find the back of the net with a spectacular free-kick from almost 35-yards, leaving IFSA’s goalkeeper with absolutely no chance to keep the effort out. The goal turned out to be crucial as FSI recorded an important win.

In the second and final match of the day, Kenkre FC snatched a late winner after displaying a splendid performance against IFA to win the tie 3-2. Right from the kick-off, Kenkre FC looked lethal in front of goal. The boys in navy-blue opened the scoring midway into the first-half.

A delightful through ball by Manan Dang found Rishab who was one-on-one with the onrushing goalkeeper; the number 8 cut past the goalkeeper and scored a sublime goal to give Kenkre FC a vital lead.

A couple of minutes later, Kenkre’s winger Aman scored from close-range to double the lead. But IFA responded brilliantly after going 2-0 down in the first 25 minutes. They soon pulled a goal back when Siddhant Shetty scored a superb goal in the first-half to keep IFA’s hope alive.

IFA played superbly in the second-half and with the match going towards Kenkre’s way, a flying header by Shlok leveled the score for IFA in a spectacular move. But there was a late twist in the match as a superb counter-attack move by Kenkre FC saw them snatching a late winner, courtesy of Arya’s fine strike.

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Reliance Foundation Young Champs (RYFC), PIFA, Mumbai Warriors Sports Club (MWSC) and FC Mumbaikars (FCMB) are grouped together in Group A while Group B contains the likes of IFSA, MSSA, Football school of India (FSI) and Indian Football Academy (IFA)

Matches are scheduled every alternated day for each teams with Group A playing on 27^th, 29^th and 31^st October while Group B teams play on October 28, 30 and November 1.  All matches except two will be held at Cooperage Stadium, while two matches of RYFC of Group A fixture will be held at Reliance Corporate Park.

The league will open with PIFA playing against RYFC at Reliance Corporate park which will be followed by the second game at cooperage between FC Mumbaikars (FCMB) vs Mumbai Warriors SC (MWSC)

Top two teams from each group will then be selected for Maharashtra Zone Qualifiers where they will be joined by the likes of Kenkre FC and FC Pune city. The winner of this group will then be selected for Nike Premier league.

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Fixtures for Pre-Qualifiers are as follows:

Group A:

27^th October:

RFYC             vs        PIFA               Reliance Corporate Park

FCMB            vs        MWSC            Cooperage Stadium

29^th October:

MWSC           vs        RFYC             Cooperage Stadium

PIFA               vs        FCMB            Cooperage Stadium

31^th October:

RFYC             vs        FCMB            Reliance Corporate Park

MWSC            vs        PIFA              Cooperage Stadium                                

Group B:

28^th October:

FSI       vs        IFSA                 Cooperage Stadium

IFA       vs        MSSA               Cooperage Stadium

30^th October:

IFSA    vs        MSSA               Cooperage Stadium

IFA       vs        FSI                   Cooperage Stadium

1^st November:

IFSA    vs        IFA                   Cooperage Stadium

MSSA  vs        FSI                  Cooperage Stadium

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In pursuit of creating a robust football structure across the length and breadth of the country, the All India Football Federation has always been supportive and encouraging to the Grassroots Football.

Teams from I-league, Indian Super League, Second Division League (as per last year only), Sports Authority of India and accredited academies under the AIFF Academy Accreditation Program are going to participate in the three separate Youth Leagues (U-13, U-15 and U-18 age-groups). It’ll be the first season of the U-13 Youth League while the U-15 Youth League will fall into its third season.

Speaking on the huge participation in the youth leagues, Mr. Sunando Dhar, CEO of I-League said, “206 is a huge number and it rightly depicts that we’re heading towards the right direction to broad base the youth football across the country.”

This is the first instance when the AIFF will implement the ‘Home-grown’ rule which signifies that each of the 206 teams has to register a minimum number of 6 home-grown players in the squad. A player who is born in the same state where the parent club is registered will be tagged as a ‘Home-grown’ player.

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Mr. Dhar stated, “This Home-grown rule will not only help us reach out to every nook and cranny of the country but also aid the State associations to build a strong football pyramid. Eventually, it’ll serve its purpose to pick the talents across the whole nation but not from certain pockets of the country.”

When 80 teams have already confirmed their participation in the U-15 age group, 70 and 56 teams will take part in the U-13 and U-18 Youth League respectively. U-18 Youth League qualifying round is scheduled to start in Chennai, Maharashtra, Kolkata and Delhi at a time on November 20, 2017.

Having the pre-qualifying rounds for U-15 and U-13 Youth League already kicked off in New Delhi, the U-15 and U-13 Youth League qualifying rounds are scheduled to start on October 26, 2017 and October 28, 2017 respectively.

– Courtesy AIFF Media

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Team Line up:

Kenkre FC:

Surendra Walmiki(GK), William Chettiar, Amaan Shaikh, Aryan Singh (c), Sanaathan Sridhar (Moiz Lakhana 80’), Siddhu pawar, Nathan de Rozario (Smit Udeshi 90+2’), Jay Bhavnani, Shivnarayan Gupta, Marc Mendonca, Subodh Shah (Kishan Jadhav 67’)

Unused Subs: Ankush Palande, Parth Dave, Amir Ghadially, Shaurya Motwani (GK)

Football School of India:

Yash Trimbakkar(GK), Ganesh Konar, Aman Sayyed, Kamran Siddiqui (Pruthvi Sawant 41’), Kartik Bele, Kevin Soni (Manish Shingare 56’), Anuj Lal (Shivansh Rao 90+2), Arman Jirait, Nakul Shelke (c), Mohammed Kaif, Firoz Shah

Unused Subs: Arashdip Singh, Utsav pradhan, Harshal Jain, Ritvik Khanna (GK)

Bookings:     Yellow- Marc Mendonica 19’, Siddhu Pawar 78’

                        Red- William Chettiar 76’

Score:

Kenkre FC 3 (Jay Bhavnani 21’, 57’, 86’) – 4 Football School of India (Mohammed Kaif 9’, 77’, Firoz Shah 60’, Karthik Bele 90+2’)

For Match Report: http://www.footballcounter.com/2016/u-16-youth-league-10-man-kenkre-lose-fsi-4-3/

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