Maharashtra win & WIFA Baby League to start on Sunday

Ranjeet Singh nets hat-trick 10-man Maharashtra win big

Mumbai, January 12:  A 10-man Maharashtra posted a fluent 5-0 win against Lakshadweep in a Group-B qualifying round league match of the AIFF 72^nd National Football Championship for the Santosh Trophy to be held at Ahmedabad, Gujarat on Thursday.

The feature of Maharashtra’s victory was the fine efforts from striker Ranjeet Singh who netted a hat-trick scoring three of the first four goals, scored in the first half. Sahil Bhokare and Aaron D’Costa scored the other two goals.

Maharashtra captain and goalkeeper Owais Khan unnecessarily came out of his area and handled the ball which prompted the referee to immediately flash the red card at the offending custodian in the 45^th minute.

Playing with a man down, Maharashtra slowed the game down in the second period and they were more intent of keeping ball possession and managed to add one more goal to the four that they had scored in the first session.

Ranjeet found success in the opening moments of the match scoring from Maharashtra first raid on the rival goal. He scored two more in the 26^th minute (penalty) and 35^thminute while Bhokare scored one in the 27^th minute. D’Costa fired home the fifth in the 49^th minute.

Results: Maharashtra 5 (Ranjeet Singh 1^st min, 26th min-Pen, 35th min, Sahil Bhokare 26th min, Aaron D’Costa 49th min) beat Lakshadweep 0

WIFA Baby League set to start from Sunday

Mumbai: The WIFA - Mumbai City Development Centre Baby League will kick off fromSunday, January 14, 2018. This Baby League which is a pilot project of WIFA will be conducted at multiple venues in Mumbai and Pune.

A total of 24 Development Centres across Mumbai and Pune, divided into 5 Zones, will be participating in the league in the Under 8, Under-10 and Under-12 age group category.

The Baby League is an initiative by the AIFF & WIFA along with Mumbai City FC to introduce competitive Football at an early age.

Khelomore have partnered with WIFA for League Operations and League updates will be available on www.wifa.in

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