{"id":222195,"date":"2023-08-12T01:36:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=222195"},"modified":"2023-08-12T01:36:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T20:06:53","slug":"solung-football-tournament-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/08\/12\/solung-football-tournament-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"Solung football tournament underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>YINGKIONG, 11 Aug:<\/strong> A fortnight-long Solung football tournament, being organised by the Central Solung Festival Celebration Committee (CSFCC), was kicked off by Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Director Tadar Appa at the general ground here in Upper Siang district on 10 August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Appa in his address urged the teams to &#8220;enjoy while playing the game with utmost dedication, discipline, and with true sportsmanship spirit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;As per Arunachal Pradesh sports policy, 10% jobs are reserved under the sports quota in the police department and 5% in the rest of the departments for meritorious sportspersons in all disciplines, as well as opportunities to play at the state and national levels,&#8221; he informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">ZPC Lumgeng Liting also exhorted the teams to &#8220;play with team spirit throughout the tournament.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yingkiong Town Market Welfare Association secretary Taram Libang, CSFCC-2023 president Ajong Sitek and general secretary Tagiot Epir also spoke.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Fourteen teams are participating in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The inaugural match was won by Dipu City, after defeating Gobuk FC by 2-0 goals. (DIPRO)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YINGKIONG, 11 Aug: A fortnight-long Solung football tournament, being organised by the Central Solung Festival Celebration Committee (CSFCC), was kicked off by Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Director Tadar Appa at the general ground here in Upper Siang district on 10 August. Appa in his address urged the teams to &#8220;enjoy while playing the game with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-222195","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\/222195","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=222195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}