The Chandigarh Football Stadium at Sector 17 saw a huge turnout of hopeful participants from one of the power houses of Indian football. A total of 35 schools and 20 colleges participated in the respective tournaments held for the last two days.
Head Scout Jamshid Nassiri, a former Iranian international, was very pleased with the local Chandigarh talent. The Iranian legend commented, “As always Chandigarh has not let us down, we have found some very talented footballers who could become stars in the future.”
In the inter-school leg of the tournament, DAV Senior Secondary School, Sector 8 emerge as champions after beating St.Stephens School, Togan 2-1 in the finals. Anirudh Thapa was adjudged as the player of the tournament in the school-leg of the tournament. He was representing St.Stephens School, Togan.
Khalsa College was crowned the champions of the college-leg of the tournament after defeating DAV College, Chandigarh in the finals. Saurav Routlla representing Khalsa College was selected as the Most Valuable Player among the 200 odd footballers who participated representing 20 Colleges from all across Chandigarh.
IFB Boca Juniors Football Champs will now move to New Delhi where the tournament will take place on December 7/8.
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