{"id":174843,"date":"2021-10-23T02:54:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T21:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=174843"},"modified":"2021-10-23T02:54:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T21:24:30","slug":"arunachal-boy-playing-in-hero-i-league-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/10\/23\/arunachal-boy-playing-in-hero-i-league-qualifiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal boy playing in Hero I-League qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>[ Koj Kano ]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 22 Oct:<\/strong> Gyamar Nikum, the Rajasthan United FC (RUFC) player from Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, has been selected for the Hero I-League 2021 qualifiers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He played his first match in the final round against Madan Maharaj FC. The final match of the qualifiers will be played between Kenkre and RUFC on 23 October.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Son of Labour Officer Gyamar Tajik, Nikum is one of the youngest players in the history of the Hero I-League qualifiers. He caught the attention of coach Vikrant Sharma during<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">the pre-season in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, and since then there has been no looking back for him.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was scouted by RUFC, which offered him a scholarship seat at its residential football school based in Bhilwara, Rajasthan, following his outstanding performance in the BC Roy Trophy Championship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;It is a new beginning for my football career and I want to make the best out of this opportunity by contributing not only on the field but also off it,&#8221; said Nikum, who has earlier represented Arunachal in the BC Roy Trophy Championship and in the U-15 Sub-Junior National Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ Koj Kano ] ITANAGAR, 22 Oct: Gyamar Nikum, the Rajasthan United FC (RUFC) player from Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh, has been selected for the Hero I-League 2021 qualifiers. He played his first match in the final round against Madan Maharaj FC. The final match of the qualifiers will be played between Kenkre and RUFC on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-174843","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\/174843","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=174843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}