✍️By Special Correspondent
First of its Kind School Football League (Bingo! Tedhe Medhe Kolkata School Football League (KSFL- 2022). Kolkata Sports Football League) hosted to mark out the young star players
Kolkata, August 12th, 2022: Kolkata, also known as the Mecca of Indian Football, is surely the sporting capital of India for the sheer passion and madness for most of the popular sports played in India. Kolkata proudly conducted once more the first of its kind football tournament for local Schools “BINGO Tedhe Medhe Kolkata Sports Football League”. The finale was graced by former International football stars Monoranjan Bhattacharya along with Bhaskar Ganguly, Goutam Sarkar, Samaresh Chowdhury. Also present were Srinjoy Bose, Honorary Assistant Secretary Bhawanipur Club, Ajit Banerjee, President IFA , Debasish Sen, Chairman NKDA. Sports Connect felicitated former Olympian and the legendary footballer Sukumar Samajpati alongwith another former India footballer Tarun Bose and other stalwarts.
Sports Connect, a sport Management Company based out of Kolkata believes in nurturing future Indian footballers and what better than to identifying the young football talents of the city and encourages the entire student community to play football on a bigger and better platform. For the first time, the city of joy saw an annual football league for its top ranked English Medium Schools. Students from La Martiniere for Boys, Jadavpur Vidyapith,Patha Bhavan, Delhi Public School Ruby Park, St. ThomasBoys’ School Khidderpore, St. Francis Xavier School, Kendriya Vidyalaya Barrackpore, Albany Hall Public School, St. Thomas’ Day School and Calcutta Boys’ School, engaged in the turf-burning and fierce battle. Each school team had a football player of national repute as their mentor. The mentor was instrumental in guiding the young talents through the tournament and selected those players who have performed exceptionally well in the tournament.
“In recent years, we see a vivid progression in guiding the passionate footballers to hone their talent. We are extremely happy to have given a chance to the youth of our society to shine &make a dream career in football. The tournament was a great opportunity for the youngster to hone their craft from the pioneers of IndianFootball. The participants of the league were enthusiastic as it opened the door of opportunity to enhance their skills. We are planning to scale up the tournament in the coming years to identify the skilled players at their tender age mould them into complete brilliant players.”
The final match was between JRS Public School Vs Kendriya Vidyalaya Barrackpore (Army) and the winners were JRS Public School, 3-0. – Suman Dey of JRS Public School was adjudged as Best Player of the tournament (Golden Ball).
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