The Confederation of Indian Industry organised a soccer festival inviting 4 selected school teams and 24 corporate teams. The school teams were to participate in the age group of 5-15 years and our School participated in this 6 (six) a side tournament for the first time which was to encourage the school students to experience the shorter version of the game and enhance great skill, footwork and ball control during the game.
The rules of the game were very different to that of a normal soccer game. The duration of the match was for 20 minutes and was played in two halves of 7.5 minutes each with a break of 5 minutes. The game was a much faster version compared to that of a full time soccer game. 10 students representing our school between the age group of 10-15 years played this tournament. The 4 teams were divided in 2 pairs (Lottery system), Pair A & B. The winning teams from each pair were to qualify for the final, Champions Cup to be played on 24 February, 2013.
All the 10 players who participated were given a jersey upon registration desk much to our delight!
[gallery columns="2"]The inauguration in the Indian tradition, entailed applying tilak on each of the players as they lined up. Fitness First, Gatorade and Medanta were the main sponsors for this corporate cup who also provided some fitness drills for the players, health drinks and medical attention in case of any injury to the players.
The 4 participating school teams were CRPF School, Bal Bharati School, DAV school and The Indian School. TIS played it's match with DAV school in the first game of this corporate cup.It was a very good experience for the children who learnt the trait of the game in their first outing.
The stadium was filled with cheering by students accompanying the teams. They came in large numbers and motivated and cheered for their schools and players. There were exciting prizes and a quiz for these cheering students and our Bhavika Sharma of class 7A won a gift hamper worth Rs. 3000 from Fitness First for her performance in one of the events. It was an exhilarating experience for all the students and they look forward to more such tournaments from CII in the future.
Name of the participating players:
1. Chirag Narang 2.Prajjwal Roy 3.Naman Sehgal 4.Nischay Luthra
5. Rohan Singh 6. Ranuaq Bhalla 7.Taha Ahmed 8.Jivesh Malawalia 9. Raghav Kapoor
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