SABCHALTE Nagar Football Club (SNFC) emerged champions in the Dhabe Memorial Slum Soccer Tournament on Monday. The event was organised by Krida Vikas Sanstha at Police Line Takli ground. Undefeated on their way to the final, SNFC defeated BPS Football Club 2-0 to lift the trophy. Akshay Gawli scored both the goals for the winners.

After a brisk start to the game, Gawli found the target in just fifth minute of play to put the side 1-0 up. Four minutes later, he doubled the lead scoring in ninth minute of play. Both teams continued to play pacy soccer but succeeded in scoring any more goals in the summit clash.

 

Chief guest Kishore Jichkar, Dr Sharda Naidu, Pramod Singh Thakur and Rupesh distributed the prizes. As many as 18 teams including, Surendragarh, Chhaoni AG College, Hill Top, Gittikhadan, Ravinagar, Police Line, Star Boys, Gondpura, TV Tower Football Club, Gorewada Football Club took part in the meet. Shikha Kalakoti, Vikas Meshram, Shahryar Ali, Anas Attar, Shivani Chaudhary, Shiba Marker, Pankaj Mahajan, Umesh Deshmukh and others worked hard to make the event a big success.