Annual Inter DPS North Zone I U-14 Boys Football TournamentPosted by anthony on August 19th, 2011
The Annual Inter DPS North Zone I U-14 Boys Football Tournament was hosted by DPS Pinjore. This tournament was organized on August 12 and 13, as per the Sports Activity Calendar chalked out for the session
2011-12 by the DPS Society.
Six Teams namely DPS Jammu, DPS Chandigarh, DPS Jhakhari, DPS Amritsar,DPS Bhatinda and the hosts DPS Pinjore took part in the Tournament . Initially DPS Manali had also sent its consent for participation but due to an indisposed coach, the team could not come for participation in the Tournament.
All the teams except Chandigarh, stayed on the premises where all the necessary arrangements had been made by the hosts for a comfortable stay of the players and other officials who accompanied their respective teams.
The Opening Ceremony commenced at 11 am on August 12 .The Chief Guest for the ceremony was Capt. Ajay Singh Yadav,Minister for Power, Forests and Environment, Haryana. The ceremony was also attended by The Pro-Vice Chairman Dr. DR Arora along with many dignitaries of Govt. of Haryana. The Principal Mr Samson Masih extended a formal and floral welcome to the guests.
The Chief Guest declared the Tournament ‘OPEN’. This well attended ceremony which was studded with a cultural treat – celebrating football with an opening dance on the famous song Waka-Waka. The participating teams were introduce while marching before the audience
Followed by this was the oath taking by the players who vowed to abide by all the rules and regulations laid down for the Tournament.
The Chief Guest then addressing the audience congratulated all the teams for participating in such a prestigious event which play an important part in strengthening the Family Ties. He also urged the students to take up Sports as a career as there are umpteen opportunities in the field, He said.
On Day 1 Of the Tournament the ground was action packed. The detail of the matches played during the day along with the scores and the results is as follows;
The details of the matches played during the day are as follows:
POOL MATCHES SCORE WINNERS
DPS AMRITSAR VS DPS PINJORE 0 : 2 DPS PINJORE
DPS CHANDIGARH VS DPS JAMMU 1 : 0 DPS CHANDIGARH
DPS PINJORE VS DPS BHATINDA 4 : 0 DPS PINJORE
DPS JAMMU VS DPS JHAKRI 4 : 1 DPS JAMMU
DPS AMRITSAR VS DPS BHATINDA 1 : 0 DPS AMRITSAR
DPS CHANDIGARH VS DPS JHAKRI 3 : 0 DPS CHANDIGARH
SEMI FINALS
DPS PINJORE VS DPS JAMMU 2 : 1 DPS PINJORE
DPS CHANDIGARH VS DPS AMRITSAR 2 : 0 DPS CHANDIGARH
FINALS
DPS JAMMU VS DPS AMRITSAR 0 : 1 DPS AMRITSAR
DPS PINJORE VS DPS CHANDIGARH 2 : 0 DPS PINJORE
Day 2 DPS Bhatinda left for their home Town after breakfast on the morning of Aug 13.
DPS Jammu and DPS Amritsar played for the Third position in the semi finals at 8;30 am
DPS Amritsar won to bag the third position by defeating DPS Jammu by goals to .
The final match scheduled to be played at 11;30 am between DPS Pinjore and DPS Chandigarh had to be postponed due to rain. The match could finally started at 1 pm. The first half of the game saw DPS Pinjore taking the lead with 2-0.In the second half too , Pinjore dominated the game with continuous attacks .They maintained the lead emerging winners of the Tournament.
Mr. Bhupinder Singh, a renowned football coach from Panjab University presided over the Closing ceremony in which the winners along with the Runners-up1 and Runners –up 2 teams were given away Trophies. The Winning team of DPS Pinjore ,beaming with joy ,posed for the photograph. Besides the first three position holders of the tournament, The coaches of the teams were honoured and the certificates of their players along with the photographs were handed over to them. The Match officials ,who had helped in steering through the proceedings of the Tournament in a most systematic and unbiased manner ,were also felicitated by the Principal Mr. Samson Masih.
DPS Pinjore ,the North Zone I Champions and DPS Chandigarh ,The First Runners-up have qualified to play the Inter DPS (U14boys) Football Tournament to be held in the month of December,2011 at DPS Dwarka according to the Activity Calendar of the DPS Society.