Dec 7: SSU, Singjamei today became the first team to enter the pre quarter final of the ongoing 54th edition of the Churachand Memorial Football Tournament, 2010 being played at the Mapal Kangjeibung.
In a hard fought match today, SSU, Singjamei defeated IBSA, Yumnam Leikai, who had just qualified for the meet from the Imphal West 1st Division Championship, by a solitary goal.
The important goal for SSU was scored by L Gogocha in the 59th minute of play from a long throw from T Raju. The referee awarded a yellow card to Kh Sushilkumar of SSU for time wasting.
Meanwhile the second match of the day turned out to be more interesting, with XI Star reaching the pre quarter final with a 3-2 defeat of NLYC, Churachandpur.
The Churachandpur team led twice during the match with Thaggouliam opening the score-board for NLYC in the 15th minute from a beautiful Lianmuansang free kick, which was soon leveled by Ch Risk in the 20th minute. Lianmuansang of NLYC who provided the beautiful free kick for Thaggouliam’s previous goal, scored in the 54th minute and lead by 2-1. However Ch Risk found his opponents net twice in the second half of the match to make his score a hattrick and end the match with a 3-2 defeat of NLYC.
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zomi kahi said,
January 11, 2011 @ 10:32 pm
Thanggoulian of NLYC is the next star for manipur, though his team did not qualify for the knock out round, he still end up being the top scorer, tremendous achievement!!!!!