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Panjim Table Tennis Club in association with Panjim Sports Festival Committee will be organizing a Table Tennis 'Forehand, backhand and counter skills" tourney at D Bandodkar Campal Football ground, from April 27-29, 5 pm onwards. The event will be held during the Football Fun Fest which has been organised to support the reconstruction of a state-of-the-art football stadium at Campal.

Categories will be:

• Under 15 (Boys and Girls)


• Under 19 (Boys and Girls)


• Mens


• Ladies

Emmanuel Souza and Marc D’Cruz from St. Britto’s High School, Goa, are among the 22 probables selected on the basis of their performance in the MahindraYouthFootballChallengeInter-Cityleg to attend the three-day special coaching clinic to be conducted by coaches from Celtic Football Club at the Bangalore Football Stadium from April 25 to 27, 2012.



 

The clinic will be conducted by Mark Reid (Youth Academy Coach/Senior Football Development Officer), Jose Romero & Mark Tobin (Centre of Excellence coaches and Tom McKay (Development Centre Goalkeeping coach). The clinic will be conducted in two sessions (8.30 am to 10.30 am and 4.30 pm to 6 pm).

Following this clinic two to four players will be picked to travel and train at the Celtic Football Club in Scotland for ten days.

Winner Pandua SBS High School, Kolkata have ten players, with two from St. Aloysius High School, Bangalore, two from Don Bosco High School, Mumbai, two from (MSP HSS, Kerala), two from St. Britto’s High School, Goa, and four from CRPF School, Delhi.


 

Following are the selected players:

Vikrant Belwalkar, Nathan Fernandes (Don Bosco High School, Mumbai), James A., Singreipam R. (St. Aloysius High School, Bangalore), Mukesh Kumar, Anuj Kumar (GK), Gaurav Bora, Abhishek Yadav (CRPF School, Delhi), Emmanuel Souza, Marc D’Cruz (St. Britto’s High School, Goa), M. D. Sajid Khan, Sufaid Ali (MSP HSS, Kerala), Srimanth Paul, Premananda Singha, Mangal Murmu, Sk. Raju, Jagannath Singh, Jayanta Murmu, Sunil Tudu, Palas Das, Pardip Rajak, Prakash Khetrapal (GK) (Pandua SBS High School, Kolkata).

After a horrifying run in the Manhindra Youth Football Challenge, St. Britto's HS, Goa finally saved the pride of the state by clinching a narrow 1-0 win over St. Aloysius HS, Bangalore.

Both the teams were out of the competition despite have this last match in hand. The Goan lads managed to return home with at least one victory at the national level. The all-important goal came in the 11th minute through the boots of Emmanuel D'souza.

Pandua SBS HS, Kolkata and CRPF HS, Delhi will lock horns in the finals of the Manhindra Youth Football Challenge. This tournament is an initiative of the Manhindra Group as part of their commitment to develop football at the grassroots level. Mahindra have partnered with Scottish Football giants Celtic Football Club that will take the responsibility of training and developing the young talented players identified through this competition.

Mahindra Racing, the first Indian team to compete in the Italian Championship, created history when their Indian rider, Sarath Kumar, scored his first points in the competitive Championship during the second round in Imola. The team got off to a spectacular start in its maiden entry in the Italian championship this year with ex-Italian champion, Riccardo Moretti, winning the opening two rounds in the 125 GP class. Kumar finished seventh in the second round for a personal tally of nine points after a technical issue forced him into early retirement in the opening race.

“We are delighted by Sarath’s performance at Imola and are confident that he will only get better. Mahindra Racing sees the Italian championship as an opportunity to nurture and grow rising Indian talent like Sarath. Riding in a championship with such high standards is a great opportunity for him to hone his skills and develop into a world-class rider,” said Mufaddal Choonia, Chief Operating Officer, Mahindra Racing, at a special ceremony in Chennai to felicitate Sarath for his achievement.

“This is a moment of great pride for me as the Italian Championship is one of the most competitive breeding grounds for emerging talent on the racing circuit. I would like to express my gratitude to the Mahindra Group for all their support and encouragement and I look forward to delivering a strong performance in future races,” said Sarath.

Round 3 of the eight-round Italian championship with Mahindra Racing on top will be held at the Monza circuit on April 29, 2012.

The Italian Road-Racing Championship is the leading national track competition in Italy and a launch pad for Italy’s best young motorcyclists as they head towards the international arena. It is staged on the country’s best race tracks from March to October over six weekends and 8 rounds. The event is organized by FMI- Federazione Motociclistica Italiana and CIV -Campionato Italiano Velocità.

In the past, world-class riders like Valentino Rossi, Giacomo Agostini and Marco Melandri, amongst others have been Italian Championship winners.

St. Britto's faced their fourth successive defeat after losing 0-2 at the hands of CRPR, New Delhi in the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge played at the Bangalore Football Stadium, on Sunday.

Only the top two teams can make it to the finals. Mathematically, the Goan side are out of the tournament now but have one more game in hand. The Mapusa school failed to secure even a single point from the four games and are left looking at the last match against St. Aloysius HS, Bangalore which they would be playing only for pride.

Can the Goan lads save the pride of the state? To know whether they do, watch out for this space on April 23, 2012.

St. Britto's title aspirations suffered a serious jolt after their second consecutive defeat in the Inter-city league match of the Mahindra Youth Football Challenge, held at Banglore Football Station. On Friday, the Goan side lost to Malabar Special Police Higher Secondary School, Kerala by a 3-0 margin.

Having the physical advantage, the Kerala side got the better of their Goan rivals by scoring through MD Sajid Khan (9^th & 18^th minute) and Wahidur Rehman (35^th minute). MD. Sajid Khan was declared the star performer of the match for scoring two spectacular goals.

In another match, Pandua Sasibhusan Saha High School, Kolkata defeated Don Bosco High School, Mumbai 3-0. PSS High School, Kolkata -3 [Srimanta Pal-1(8^th min), Jayanta Murmu-1(15^th Minute), Premananda Singha-1(21^st Minute)]

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Panjim Sports Festival Committee in association with Sports Authority of Goa are all set to launch their premier Football Fun Festival during which a mega ‘Panjim Gold Cup’ Football Championship will be organized from April 20 - April 29.

In addition to the football championship matches, the highlight of this event will be a ‘Fun Fest’ which will be held from 27-29 April. The Fun Fest will be 3 days of fun family evenings for young and old to celebrate Football in the backdrop of fun, music and entertainment.

The Football extravaganza is being organised to welcome the State Government's decision to declare Football as the Official State Sport and to support a State-of-the-art Football stadium at the historic Dayanand Bandodkar Campal Football Grounds, Panjim.

Committee Members Brahmanand Shankwalkar(President), Dr Rufino Monteiro(Vice-President), Sandeep Heble(Secretary), SAG Officials and other committee members will address a press conference on April 18 to announce the same.

Rajasthan Royals today announced the signing of Essel Marketing & Promotions as the team's official merchandise partner for the fifth season of the Indian Premier League (IPL). The Mumbai based strategic marketing company will be responsible for producing a range of high quality fan cheering equipment / licensed products that will be sold at cricket stadia and through retail channels across Rajasthan.

The company will have the exclusive rights to source innovative promotional products from around the globe for the team.

Commenting on the association with Essel Marketing and Promotions, Mr. Raghu Iyer, CEO, Rajasthan Royals said, 㔨e merchandising business plays a big role from a business point of view and also because it helps us connect with our fans. The business has been doing well all over India and especially in our home state of Rajasthan. We are glad to be associated with Essel and are trust this partnership will be a mutually beneficial one.

Mr. Bhavin Thakkar, GM Sales & Marketing, Essel Marketing and Promotions said, thrilled to be associated with Rajasthan Royals as official merchandising partner and look forward to driving this business and producing fan cheering merchandise during the upcoming IPL season. We are sure true Rajasthan Royals fans will be delighted to buy and own licensed merchandise.

Rajasthan Royals co-owner Shilpa Shetty Kundra recently unveiled the team's new jersey. The team also bolstered its line-up by acquiring five new players including England all-rounder Owais Shah.

Rajasthan Royals today announced their newly acquired fast bowler S Sreesanth will entertain crowds before the team plays its first match of IPL 2012 at Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium on 6th April 2012.

Sreesanth, a passionate musician, will perform for the team’s fans with his experimental music band S36, which he formed with his brother-in-law and close friends in 2010. As part of the pre-game concert, the band will play an all-new version of Halla Bol, the Rajasthan Royals official team anthem, and other numbers from 6:20 p.m. to 7:20 p.m. before the team’s opening match against Kings XI Punjab.

Commenting on the upcoming performance, Royals pace man, S Sreesanth said, “Music is something that is very close to my heart. Besides cricket, it gives a lot of energy and strength. The performance on the 6th is a tribute to our fans and marks the beginning of IPL 2012 for us as a team. I am eagerly looking forward to the season ahead.”

The band’s name is a combination of the first letter of Sreesanth’s name and the player’s lucky jersey number. Rajasthan Royals recently announced that their box office at Jaipur’s Sawai Mansingh Stadium would be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day.

 

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