Sitaram Mill Compound Municipal Public School dished out a combined attacking display and charged to a 2-0 win against Sai Baba Path Municipal Public School in the girls’ under-16 final of the QPR South Mumbai Junior Soccer Challenger 2019, played at the Western Railway ground. The tournament, is a Milind Deora initiative, and conducted in association with renowned English club Queens Park Rangers (QPR).
The event was conceived and managed by Saran Sports.
The final contested between the two Municipal schoolgirls was an exciting affair as both the teams played an open attacking game and there were plenty of spills and thrills at either end.
The Sitaram Mills Compound managed to score twice through their hard-working and enterprising striker Aditi Pandhire and her teammate Priyanka Kanojiya to get the better of the Sai Baba Path outfit and emerge champions.
Aditi winner of the QPR Talent Hunt early this year and having visited London to train with QPR coaches in October was overexcited on their maiden success. “It’s very exciting to emerge champions. We all worked hard together and achieved the victory,” a cheerful Aditi admitted.
NSS Hill Spring International clinched the boys’ under-16 title defeating Christ Church 1-0 in an evenly fought summit clash. Striker Jahan Kapadia netted the decisive winning goal to seal Hill Springs triumph.
“The highlight of this year’s tournament was the commendable efforts from the Sitaram Mills Compound and Sai Baba Path Municipal Public Schools. The played beyond expectations and defeated some the established schools coached by renowned and experienced coaches. The Municipal Schools showed they can match best and justifies our decision to include their participation,” said Sanjiv Saran Mehra, MD, Saran Sports.
This year the tournament attracted participation from over 6600 children from more than 160 schools, which were represented by 800 teams and champions were decided after over 1000 matches.
This tournament, which is India’s largest and longest running community football event, witnessed 75% of the participants were from municipal and government aided schools.
Result (all finals) –
Boys – under-8: St Mary’s ICSE 2 (A. Buhsara 2) beat Campion ‘A’ (I. Lehry).
Girls – under-10: Bombay International School 3 (T. Thauria 3) beat Navy Children School 0.
Boys – under-10: JBCN 2 (Agasthya D., Kahaan M.) beat Navy Children School 0.
Girls – under-12: JBCN 3 (Krisha Gala 2), Abhisha Jhavar) beat Sai Baba Path Municipal Public School 0.
Boys – under-12: Navy Children 4 (Abhimanyu P. 3, Nikola Kiho) beat Christ Church 2 (P. Vishwakarma 2).
Girls – under-14: Convent of Jesus & Mary 3 (Riya Bapat, Jelina Jain, Vilina Kolwalkar) beat NSS Hill Spring International 2 (Pari Lodha, Aditi Kanungo).
Boys – under-14: Holy Name 3 (Shreyesh Yelui 2, Piyush Jadhav) beat ANZA 1 (Maaz Ansari).
Boys – under-16: NSS Hill Spring International 1 (Jahan Kapadia) beat Christ Church 0.
Girls – under-16: Sitaram Mill Compound Municipal Public School 2 (Aditi Pandhire, Priyanka Kanojiya) beat Sai Baba Path Municipal Public School 0.