47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy: Karnataka crash out

The rookies from Chandigarh caused the major upset of the tournament by walloping 4 goals to the defending champions Karnataka. With this win Chandigarh books their berth to the final and Karnataka departs after showing lot of promises at the earlier stage.

It was a consistent performance by the Karnataka lads form the qualifier stage to the quarter-final round. However, the boys failed to deliver when it mattered most. Though the lads pulled one goal, but it was too late for the defending champs to get back to the game.

Chandigarh plays their final match on Sunday, June 27. In the 2nd semi-final played tomorrow, June 25, 2010, 3 pm, host Bengal, winner from Group B meets Uttarakhand, runner-up from Group A.

47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy: Karnataka top Group A, enter semi-final

Continuing their unbeaten streak, Karnataka played a 1-1 draw against Uttarakhand. The state lads emerged the eventual topper from Group A and entered the semi-final stage. Karnataka was sitting pretty with 2 wins from as many matches and they needed only a point to top the group. Uttarakhand also made to the top 4 by the virtue of a win, a draw, and a loss.

Meanwhile, Goa crashed out of the tournament by loosing to Meghalaya 1-0. The powerhouse state needed a straight win to qualify for the semis.

Karnataka will play with the runner-up team from Group B on Thursday, June 24, 3 pm. The second ranked team from Group A, Uttarakhand will play with the winner from Group B on Friday, June 25, 3 pm.


This is a consistent performance from the state juniors, let us all hope that they will continue their good run for the next matches. With HAL participating in the I-League division 1 and the other teams eying to tap junior talents, surely the lads will come up with a stellar performance to impress them.

Group A points table

	Played	Win	Draw	Loss	Goal For	Goal Against	Goal Difference	Point
Karnataka	3	2	1	-	6	2	7	7
Uttaranchal	3	1	1	1	3	4	-1	4
Meghalaya	3	1	-	2	3	4	-1	3
Goa	3	1	-	2	2	4	-2	3

47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy: Karnataka outdo Meghalaya

The defending champion surpassed the challenge of Meghalaya and registered 2 back to back wins in the Group A quarter final match of the under-19 47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy. In the other match from Group A played today, Goa defeated Uttarkhand 2-0.

Earlier, Karnataka and Meghalaya had played against each other in the qualifying Cluster 1 match, which ended in a draw. With this win, Karnataka cements their position in the semi-final stage. They play their last quarter-final match against Uttarakhand on June 21, 2010, 4 pm.

47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy: Karnataka beat Goa

Continuing the good run from the qualifier stage, Karnataka convincingly defeated Goa 3-0 in their first quarter-final match from Group A. Amouse, Prakash Majumdar, and Nagraj scored a goal each for the defending champs. In the other match played from the same group, Uttarakhand defeated Meghalaya 2-1.

Karnataka plays their next match on Saturday, June 19, 4 pm against Meghalaya.

47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy: Karnataka to start the quarter-final campaign tomorrow

After scoring record 27 goals in the group qualifiers, Karnataka is all set to play their first quarter-final match against Goa, 2 pm. The state lads are placed in Group A, the other teams in this group are Uttarakhand And Meghalaya. 

Winner from each cluster and the 2nd best ranked team have qualified for the quarter-final stage. Karnataka and Meghalaya were tied with same points (7) in Cluster I. Karnataka became the group leader with far superior goal difference, 27 against 9. However, Meghalaya too qualified to the quarter-final by the virtue of the best 2nd ranked team from the 7 clusters.

Quarter-final round:

Group A	Group B
Karnataka - Winner cluster I  Uttarakhand - Winner cluster IV Goa - Winner cluster V Meghalaya - 2nd best team	Orissa - Winner cluster II Chandigarh - Winner cluster III Bengal - Winner cluster VI Manipur - Winner cluster VII

Quarter-final fixture:

• June 17, 2010, 2 pm: Karnataka 3 vs. Goa 0
• June 17, 2010, 4 pm: Uttarakhand 2 vs. Meghalaya 1
• June 18, 2010, 2 pm: Bengal 1 vs. Orissa 1
• June 18, 2010, 4 pm: Chandigarh 3 vs. Manipur 0
• June 19, 2010, 2 pm: Goa 2 vs. Uttarakhand 0
• June 19, 2010, 4 pm: Karnataka 2 vs. Meghalaya 1
• June 20, 2010, 2 pm: Orissa 0 vs. Chandigarh 2
• June 20, 2010, 4 pm: Manipur 2 vs. Bengal 4
• June 21, 2010, 2 pm: Goa 0 vs. Meghalaya 1
• June 21, 2010, 4 pm: Karnataka 1 vs. Uttarakhand 1
• June 22, 2010, 2 pm: Orissa 2 vs. Manipur 1
• June 22, 2010, 4 pm: Bengal 2 vs. Chandigarh 1

Semi-final

• June 24, 2010, 3 pm: Karnataka (Group A winner) 1 vs. Chandigarh 4 (Group B runner-up)
• June 25, 2010, 3 pm: Bengal (Group B winner) 5 vs. Uttarakhand (Group A runner-up) 0

Final

• June 27, 2010, 2.30 pm: Chandigarh vs. Bengal

South Africa-bound junior footballers

Two city-based footballers will accompany the under-16 Indian National team to South Africa. Anto Xavier from Southern Blues and Suhas Narayanaswamy from the Department of Youth Services and Sports (DYSS) is the part of the exposure trip promoted by the soft drink, giant Coca-Cola.

Anto Xavier	Suhas Narayanaswamy

These lads got selected based on their stellar performance during the sub-junior national, Mir Iqbal Hussain Trophy played last year. They will watch the Group A qualifying match between host, South Africa and Uruguay played at Pretoria, on June 17, 12 am India time.

The Indian contingent will be a part of the Coca-Cola International 2010 football camp, Tuks village, Pretoria and will participate in a football tournament comprising junior teams of the FIFA World Cup 2010 participating nations.

This is certainly a great opportunity for the junior players and a matter of pride for the Karnataka state and the football fraternity of Bangalore.

47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy: Karnataka thulp Rajasthan

The state juniors registered a back to back win by crushing Rajasthan 13-0 in their 2nd match of Cluster I in the ongoing under-19 nationals. Last Saturday, the lads defeated Chhattisgarh 14-0.

Sitting pretty with 2 large wins, Karnataka tops the points table, they only need a point to cleanly qualify for the next round. They will play their last group match against Meghalaya on Wednesday, June 9. Meghalaya won their first match against Rajasthan 6-0 and later today they won their second match against Chhattisgarh 4-1.

Lokesh pumped 5 goals and did the bulk of scoring. Prakash Majumdar, who scored 6 goals against Chhattisgarh on the other day, fired 3 goals today. Scoring 9 goals from 2 matches, Majumdar is a real threat to opponents' defense.

Match Result

• Karnataka 13 (Lokesh-5',29',55',85',and 88', Rajkiran-14', Shankar-32', Sridhar-33' and 83' and Prakash Majumdar-49', 65', and 67')
  Mathew-82') Vs Rajasthan
• Meghalaya 4 Vs Chhattisgarh 1 

64th Santosh Trophy: Karnataka in Cluster I

Kolkata will host the 64th edition of the mens senior national football championship, Santosh Trophy from July 15 to August 8. Karnataka is grouped in Cluster I along with Meghalaya and Jharkhand.

The qualifying rounds inlude 8 clusters of 3 or 4 teams. The winners from each cluster are drawn along and play a knock-out round with each other.

The winners along with four seeded teams, semi-finalists from the previous editon are divided into 2 groups of four each. This is the quarter-final league stage, wher each of the four teams in the group play each other. The top two teams from each group then moves to the semifinal.

Cluster I fixture:

• July 15, 2010: Karnataka vs. Meghalaya
• July 17, 2010: Meghalaya vs. Jharkhand
• July 19, 2010: Karnataka vs. Jharkhand

47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy: Big margin win for state

Playing their first match against Chhattisgarh, the Karnataka lads, winner of the last edition, scored an easy 14-0 victory. Karnataka is grouped in Cluster I along with Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan. In the other match of Cluster I played today, Meghalaya got the better of Rajasthan 6-0.

Shankarn scored 2 goals in the 5th and 51st minute of the match. Mujumdar scored 6 goals - 20th, 44th, 64th, 76th, 82nd, and 88th minute, Amouse 3 goals - 8th, 76th,and 81st minute, Lokesh in 50th minute, and Rajkiran - 67thand 90th minute.

The winner of last edition plays their next match against Rajasthan on Monday, June 6. Winner from each cluster plus the 2nd best-ranked team from the 7 clusters will qualify for the quarter-final stage.

Junior the Mariner

Another new season and the flurry of city-bred players looking for greener pastures begin. The latest and probably the greatest just happened today! After having a fine season with HAL and helping them to get promoted to the 1st division I-League, Satish Kumar jr. is all set to start is next innings with the powerhouse century-old national club of India - Mohun Bagan.

The Mohun Bagan management team made a formal announcement of the team for the coming season and introduced the newly appointed coach to the media

This is not the only Bangalore connection for the Kolkata club. The coach for this season is the former Army XI player and MEG coach, Stanley Rozario. Employed with Indian Army, Rozario played all his life and started his coaching stint in Bangalore. With almost 20-years in coaching, Stanley assisted Indian

senior coach, Bob Houghton before moving to EastBangal. After coaching them for half-a-season, he moved to Salgoankar, helped them to get a I-League 1st division promotion, and then took the charge of Shillong Lajong FC last season. He is back in Kolkata to start his second innings with the green and maroon brigade.

Speaking about Bangalore connection with the Garden City Soccer Stars, coach sounded optimistic. Stanley knows very little about Satish Kumar jr. However, whatever knowedge he has gathered about the nippy player from Gowthampuram is impressive.

“Heard that he had an excellent season with HAL and he posses a superb football sense. I’m looking forward to work with him!” said Stanley.

Satish Kumar is aware of the fact he won’t be an automatic choice for the first-11.  He says, “I’ll give my best performace in the practice sessions, impress the coach, and hopefully he’ll give me a chance to perform.”

Satish Kumar sounds confident, “I am comfortable playing in the right and left half positions. In the final round I-League 2nd division matches, I played as a striker and scored many goals.”

Bangalore has a rich tradition of players turning out for Mohunbagan. Arumanaigam in the 60’s, Ulaganathan in the 70’s, Babu Mani and Mastaan Ahmed in the 80’s, RC Prakash in the late 90’s and early 2000 to Noel Wilson and Shanmugam Venkatesh few seasons ago.

Satish is seeking help from Arumanaigam, Ulaganathan, R C Prakash about playing in Kolkata. “They are like my gurdian and providing valuable tips. It is not only about playing a nice game, scoring also matters” chips in Satish Kumar.

The football district of Bangalore, Gowthampuram has produced several Olympians and Internationals, it is upto Satish Kumar jr. to carry-on the flag. He has a task to cut out and he is jolly well up for it.

Garden City Soccer Stars wishes Satish all the luck! Go for it boy, the Bangalore football lovers are behind you!

BDFA lifts 4th Inter District Football Trophy

BDFA played a 1-1 draw against host Shimoga district in the concluding round match of the 4th Inter District Football Trophy at Nehru Stadium, Shimoga. Both the team’s garnered same point and they were even at par in goal difference (7). However, BDFA got the honor as they scored a goal (10) more than the runners-up Shimoga district (9). This is BDFA’s 4th title in as many editions.

HAL medio Karthigyan opened the account for BDFA in the 3rd minute and Stevenson restored parity for Shimoga in the 30th minute.

In the 3/4 classification match, Dakshin Kannada district defeated Kodagu district 3-2. For Dakshin Kannada, Shaharaj scored a brace in the 21st and 49th minute and Jitin scored another one in the 36th minute. Anash and Dinesh scored a goal each in the 23rd and 78th minute respectively for Kodagu district.

Much is expected from the Karnataka state football authority by conducting such inter district tournament - main idea being to promote and spot budding players from the fringe corners of the state. However, with only 11 districts out of 29 districts participating in the recently concluded tourney, one ponders how much of the purpose is achieved. On a bright note, the tournament is still in its nascent stage; would like to see KSFA inducting more districts in the future edition.

4th Inter District Football Tournament: BDFA primed for title clash against Shimoga

BDFA notched 2 back-to-back wins in the final round of the 4th inter district football tournament played at the Nehru stadium, Shimoga. Playing against Kodagu district, BDFA thrashed them 7-2. K Gopi pumped 4, Mohan 2, and Vinod scored a goal for BDFA. Shekar and Abubakar reduced the margin for Kodagu.

BDFA plays against Shimoga in their last match today at 4.30 pm. This match can be virtually termed as the final match as these two are the top teams in the final stage. The host, Shimoga district is formidable side consisting of several BDFA super division players on their rooster.

Both the teams are undefeated, posses equal points, and even identical on goal difference. Shimoga district has scored 8 goals and conceded 1 goal, whereas BDFA has scored 9 and conceded 2 goals. If the match ends in a draw, number of goal scored will be taken into consideration, and BDFA has a goal advantage.

47th under-19 nationals

Winner of last edition, Karnataka is grouped in cluster I of the 47th Dr. B C Roy Trophy, junior national football championship. This national championship for the less than 19 age group will be played in Kolkata from June 5.

A total of 28 states are grouped in 7 clusters. Cluster I consists of Karnataka, Meghalaya, Chhattisgarh, and Rajasthan. Winner from each cluster plus the 2nd best ranked team from the 7 clusters will qualify for the quarter-final stage.

Quarter-final round is divided to two groups, A and B. Top 2 teams from each group will qualify for the semi-final.

Cluster I fixture:

• June 5, 2010: Karnataka vs. Chhattisgarh
• June 5, 2010: Meghalaya vs. Rajasthan
• June 7, 2010: Chhattisgarh vs. Meghalaya
• June 7, 2010: Karnataka vs. Rajasthan
• June 9, 2010: Chhattisgarh vs. Rajasthan
• June 9, 2010: Karnataka vs. Meghalaya

Quarter-final round:

Group A	Group B
Winner cluster I  Winner cluster IV Winner cluster V 2nd best team	Winner cluster II Winner cluster III Winner cluster VI Winner cluster VII