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| India enters into quarter finals Football League Results | | Military World Games | | Early Times Reporter
Jammu | Oct 14
India has entered into the quarterfinals in Football of the 4th Military World Games, Hyderabad today. In a do-or-die encounter, India defeated Afghanistan by 1-0 at AOC Ground. HAV N GURUILAL scored the loan goal for India at the 5th minute.
Apart from India, the other countries who entered the quarterfinals are Cameroon, Korea, Egypt, Guinea, Brazil, Qatar, and Ireland. The quarterfinal matches would be played from 16th October onwards at AOC and 1 EME grounds.
In a one-sided match at 1 EME ground, tournament favourites Egypt beat Ireland 7-0. A Bassyonia of Egypt netted 2 goals. He is the maximum goal scorer in the tournament so far are with 5 goals in 2 matches.
Another favourites Qatar stunned Brazil by 3-1 at 1 EME ground. ANAS NASIR opened account for Qatar at 7th minute followed by ABDULQADIR ILYAS (67th minute) and MOUSSA ALBARAKA (77th minute). A MARCUS scored the only goal for Brazil at 78th minute.
At MCME ground Guinea Republic defeated Canada by 4-0. In a well contested first half both teams could not convert good moves into a goal. In the 53rd minute, a beautiful header by M Mara of Guinea Republic floated into the Canadian goal. Three minutes later Bangura dribbled past the Canadian defence and shot a powerful right footer to which the Canadian custodian N Stankov had no answer. In the 72nd minute Soumah made no mistake in pushing the ball in from a cross he got from M Mara to take the tally up to 3-0. With barely 9 minutes to go, O Koulibaly was fouled by the Canadian custodian N Stankov in the goal area for which he was shown a red card and a penalty awarded to the Guineans. IS Conte made no mistake in increasing the tally to 4-0.
Korea beat Germany by 3-1 at MCME ground. A tackle in the 24th minute by the German midfielder A Muller earned him a yellow card. The Koreans kept the pressure on the German defence and were soon rewarded in the 31st minute by S Han with a well angled shot that beat the German custodian to give Korea a 1-0 lead. With barely a minute for half time, Germany equalised through A Gerdes who toed in the ball from curving corner kick. A lightening move from the right flank in the 65th minute was headed into the goal by Y Kim to give the Koreans a 2-1 lead which was further consolidated in the 84th minute by K Kim to make the final tally 3-1 in favour of the Korerans.
Women football league matches started today with Korea beating USA 4-0. U RI (28th minute), K RI (41) and Y KIM (61 and 87th minute) scored for Korea. In another match at Artillery grounds, Netherlands defeated Canada 4-0. TROMP LEONI (20), WMR1 M KELLY (53), NICOLLE TUEL (88) and WMR1 K JUDITH (90th minute) scored for Netherlands. Tomorrow, Germany women’s football team will face USA and Netherlands will take on France. |
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