{"id":170040,"date":"2021-08-25T00:48:48","date_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=170040"},"modified":"2021-08-25T00:48:48","modified_gmt":"2021-08-24T19:18:48","slug":"football-tournament-organized-to-commemorate-50th-anniv-of-1971-indo-pak-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/25\/football-tournament-organized-to-commemorate-50th-anniv-of-1971-indo-pak-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Football tournament organized to commemorate 50th anniv of 1971 Indo-Pak war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MIAO, 24 Aug:<\/strong> The Lekhapani battalion of the Red Shield division of the Indian Army organized a football tournament, the Miao Premier League, for boys under 21 years, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The UMFC Jr team representing Miao won the tournament, beating 4-A FC of Namchik 11-10 via penalty shootout in a highly contested final match played on 23 August here in Changlang district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The winner and the runners-up teams were awarded medals along with trophies and cash prizes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Onkem Tonglim of Tengmo FC, who scored five goals in two matches, won the golden boot award for the highest score.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tournament was organized with the aim of motivating the youths to opt for physical fitness and sportsmanship and to develop their interest in competitive sports by providing them a platform to showcase their talents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The army assured the people of continued cooperation in promoting sports and team spirit in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIAO, 24 Aug: The Lekhapani battalion of the Red Shield division of the Indian Army organized a football tournament, the Miao Premier League, for boys under 21 years, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the victory in the 1971 Indo-Pak war. The UMFC Jr team representing Miao won the tournament, beating 4-A FC of Namchik 11-10 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-170040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}