Lolab 21 April 2015.: There are few games as graceful as football with its elegance in execution and its demand for peak of human performance. And when it is organized in place crazy about the game, makes it the icing on the cake.
It is such an endeavour which commenced on 21st April when 36 Football teams of Lolab will clash in the Lolab Premier League Soccer being organized by the Rashtriya Rifle unit based at Lolab under the aegis of Chinar Corps which is going to be a mega event which will be nothing short of a festival to the sports loving people of Lolab.
The event commenced yesterday in a fantabulous ceremony witnessed by about five hundred people, all enthusiastic to witness the manifestations as it unfolds in the coming days.
The League will have a pool phase of round robin matches, which will be held at four locations: JNV Putshai, Model Village Chandigam, Degree College Sogam and Higher Secondary School Tekipura. With 09 pools of 04 teams each the top two teams of each pool will advance to the Quarter Finals on 01 May. The semifinals will be held on 03 May 15 followed by the all awaiting grand Finale on 05 May 15 which will crown the Soccer Kings of Lolab.
Besides rendering a boost to the budding Christiano’s and Messi’s of Kashmir the league organized by Army is also offering a lot of prizes for the Winners. Winners will bag a cash prize of Rs 16,000 along with a complete football kit and Runners Up will carry home a cash prize of Rs 8,000 and football kit. The local populace and the teams are all excited and expressed their unbound gratitude to the Army for organizing such a Mega event which will sure be creating ripples in the sporting realm with already requests being made to Army to make it an annual event.
As the whole of Lolab swings into the soccer festival mood we can expect some sparking matches on ground which will etch the lovely meadows of Lolab with the elegance of the game of feet.