{"id":20881,"date":"2018-02-27T01:14:25","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:44:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=20881"},"modified":"2018-02-27T01:14:25","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T19:44:25","slug":"dr-t-ao-memorial-nec-gold-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/02\/27\/dr-t-ao-memorial-nec-gold-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr T Ao Memorial NEC Gold Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Big win not enough for Arunachal to advance to semis <\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GUWAHATI, Feb 26:<\/strong> RD Karma scored hat-trick as the Arunachal U-21 football team registered a thumping 6-0 victory over powerful Manipur in their last group match of the Dr T Ao Memorial NEC Gold Cup at Guwahati on Monday.<br \/>\nUnfortunately, today&#8217;s impressive result could not propel the team into the next (semifinal) round. They ended the championship campaign with a loss, a draw and a win.<br \/>\nArunachal started the match brilliantly with RD Karma scoring his and the team&#8217;s first goal within five minutes of the play. He netted two more goals to become the first player to score a hat-trick of goal in the ongoing tournament.<br \/>\nTaw Akash, Vivek Gurung and Karli Ngomdir scored a goal each.<br \/>\nDado Sham was adjudged &#8220;Man of the Match.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Our young lads have shown great character and professionalism against the much fancied team and the result is more than satisfying. The boys displayed all round performance,&#8221; said Tapi Apa, head coach of the team.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that we could not reach the semis, but we are going home with a lot of positivity and learning experience, which will definitely help improve our performance in the future.&#8221; said Gibbs Taba, the team manager.<br \/>\nTo pay homage and as a gesture of solidarity for the recent minor rape victims, the team wore black arm bands during their matches in the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big win not enough for Arunachal to advance to semis GUWAHATI, Feb 26: RD Karma scored hat-trick as the Arunachal U-21 football team registered a thumping 6-0 victory over powerful Manipur in their last group match of the Dr T Ao Memorial NEC Gold Cup at Guwahati on Monday. Unfortunately, today&#8217;s impressive result could not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20881","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\/20881","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=20881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}