{"id":202803,"date":"2022-10-16T01:15:08","date_gmt":"2022-10-15T19:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=202803"},"modified":"2022-10-16T01:15:27","modified_gmt":"2022-10-15T19:45:27","slug":"3rd-along-aboh-memorial-football-tourney-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/16\/3rd-along-aboh-memorial-football-tourney-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Along Aboh memorial football tourney begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>KHONSA, 15 Oct:<\/strong> Lapnan Football Club (FC) defeated Borduria Legends FC 7-6 via penalty shootout in the opening match of the third Along Aboh Memorial Football Tournament at Nehru Stadium here in Tirap district on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">PHE&amp;WS Minister Wangki Lowang, who kicked off the tournament, said that organising such events &#8220;are great ways to pay tribute to a loved one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He lauded the organisers and the sponsor of the event, MLA Chakat Aboh, who is also the mother of Along Aboh, for giving the football players of the district a platform to show their hidden talents.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He advised the players to play the game with sportsman spirit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All Arunachal Pradesh Students&#8217; Union president Doji Tana Tara highlighted the government&#8217;s job reservation policy for meritorious sportspersons in various departments, and appealed to the people of Tirap, Changlang and Longding to &#8220;cooperate with respective district administrations and not wear camouflage clothing to avoid untoward incident during counter-insurgency operation carried out by security forces.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirty-one teams from different parts of Tirap district are participating in the tournament, informed organising committee secretary Menwang Hakhun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The winning team will be awarded Rs 1 lakh, while the runners-up will be given Rs 50,000. Rs 10,000 each will be awarded to the best player, the best goalkeeper and the highest scorer, Hakhun said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The tournament is being organised under the aegis of the Dadam Youth Association, in collaboration with the district&#8217;s sports department.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On 16 October, Bera FC will play against Field Colony at 11 am, before Borduria Youth Association take on Fozo Sporting Club at 1:30 pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Besides Aboh, DC Taro Mize, SP Kardak Riba, 36 Bn CRPF CO Pawan Kumar Singh, and Dadam ZPM Jamwang Lowang witnessed the inaugural match. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KHONSA, 15 Oct: Lapnan Football Club (FC) defeated Borduria Legends FC 7-6 via penalty shootout in the opening match of the third Along Aboh Memorial Football Tournament at Nehru Stadium here in Tirap district on Saturday. PHE&amp;WS Minister Wangki Lowang, who kicked off the tournament, said that organising such events &#8220;are great ways to pay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202803","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=202803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202803\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}