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Charbaria, Moghachari champs

Festive end to Primary School Football tournaments

Anisur Rahman
The second edition of the Bangabandhu Gold Cup Primary School Football Tournament was completed successfully yesterday with Charbaria Govt Primary School of Barisal emerging champions after a 3-2 win over Rangamati Govt Primary School of Dinajpur at the Bangabandhu National Stadium.
At the same venue, Moghachari Govt Primary School of Rangamati clinched the title of the inaugural Bangamata Begum Fajilatunnessa Mujib Gold Cup Primary School Tournament beating Paalichora Govt Primary School of Rangpur 2-0.
The matches lent the arena a carnival-like atmosphere as school kids from the government primaries inside the capital turned up in numbers. Even supporters of the participating schools travelled on hired buses all the way from Rangpur and Barisal adding lustre to the occasion. Some overenthusiastic spectators of Rangpur even invaded the pitch to halt the girls' final for five minutes in protest of the cancellation of a goal from Paalichora Govt. Primary School.
On their way to the final, the finalists had to play a total of 14 to 15 matches each in the knockout rounds, which started in June involving some 120,000schools across the country.
However, the event could have been made even more memorable had the organisers, paid a tribute to those schoolchildren who lost their lives in the Mirsarai tragedy on July 11, 2011 while on their way back home after participating in a match.
Playing football is nothing new for the girls of Rangamati and they dominated the show against the girls from a village 13 kilometres away from Rangpur town who just started playing football eight months ago and only recently learnt to take a shot or head a ball. Even then, there were some individual performances from the Paalichora girls that merit mention. Roksana, Ratna, Mousumi, Swapna, Nargis and goalkeeper Rashida were remarkable performers for Paalichora School. Roksana, who was adjudged player-of-the-tournament and also became the highest scorer, has been dubbed “Messi' by her teammates for her dribbling skills and speed with the ball. Nargis, the free-kick expert, even got one to bend into the back of the net, but unfortunately it was ruled out. Ayna Chakma and Nadi Chakma struck one goal each for the champions.
In contrast, the boy's final was more entertaining as both sides put in organised displays. The eventual champions Charbaria dominated the first half with three goals by Al Amin, Rimon and Kawsar Ali, but the runners-up enjoyed superior ball possession in the second half and man-of-the-tournament Antan Todu scored both goals in that half.
The champions in both tournaments were awarded Tk 1 lakh each while the runners-up got Tk75,000.
However, there was a bone of contention as many of the boys looked over-aged and were also reportedly high school students. But the initiative by the Ministry of Primary and Mass Education was praised by many as the school kids are getting the opportunity to take part in sports as well as gathering knowledge from travelling to different places.