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Convincing win for AIFF Goa Regional Academy boys
26 Nov 2013

AIFF Media Team

NEW DELHI: Riding on Striker Shubham Sarangi’s hat-trick All India Football Federation’s Goa Regional Academy defeated U-16 Betalbatim SC 4-1 in a Friendly Match at the Chowgule Sports Complex in Goa.

Sarangi scored in the 9th, 12th and the 25th minute to complete the trick as AIFF Academy led 3-1 at the half-time. Abuthaheer scored the fourth goal in the 60th minute. The AIFF Academy fielded two different Teams in both halves.

Coach Narayana Menon praised his lads after the match. “It was nice to see the boys playing to a plan and keeping possession. They were never concerned about the age, size and strength of their rivals,” he told www.the-aiff.com.

It was one-way traffic right from the kick-off. Sarangi scored the first goal when he placed it past the rival Goalkeeper after Abhijit Sarkar’s through pass had found him in the clear. It happened in the 9th minute.

The score was doubled three minutes later when Sarangi cashed on a faulty clearance and lobbed it over the onrushing Goalkeeper. And then, the hat-trick was completed in the 21st minute when he cut in from the left and hammered it in.

The rout was completed post resumption when Abuthaheer, who had substituted Sarangi, blasted in a volley from around 35 yards.

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