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[ Bengia Ajum ]<\/strong><\/p>\n YUPIA, 24 Dec:<\/strong> Capital Complex Football Club (CCFC) won the 8th edition of the Eagle Trophy Football Tournament after thrashing Keyi Panyor Football Club (KPFC) 8-0 in the final match played at the golden jubilee outdoor stadium here in Papum Pare district on Sunday.<\/p>\n In a completely one-sided match, CCFC totally dominated the match right from the start. They were leading 3-0 in the first half, and scored 5 more goals in the second half.<\/p>\n Nabam Ropo of CCFC scored the first goal of the final match, which opened the floodgate. Akash Taw scored 3 goals, while Hage Serbo, Olik Tayeng and Dorjee Tsewang scored a goal each. KPFC wasted a few good opportunities to score. On the other hand, CCFC was very clinical and grabbed most of the opportunities to pump in 8 goals in the final.<\/p>\n Akash Taw of CCFC, who scored a hat-trick of goals in the final, emerged as the highest goal scorer of the tournament with 7 goals. Nabam Peri and Jagom Loyi of CCFC were declared the best player and the best goalkeeper, respectively.<\/p>\n Itanagar Municipal Corporation Mayor Tamme Phassang gave away the trophy, along with a cash prize of Rs 3 lakhs to CCFC, while the runner-up team went home with a trophy and a cash prize of Rs 2 lakhs.<\/p>\n Earlier, Phassang in his address urged the state government to extend more support to the field of sports in general and football in particular.<\/p>\n “Sports are the future of our nation and our state. Youths need to start taking this profession seriously. I am also hopeful that the government will pump more money into this field,” the mayor said.<\/p>\n A large crowd turned up to witness the final match.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the stadium itself is undergoing renovation in preparation for the Santosh Trophy tournament. This was the first time that matches were played in the newly laid Astroturf.<\/p>\n Also, for the first time, the matches were live-streamed on the YouTube channel of the Arunachal Pradesh Football Association (APFA).<\/p>\n “We engaged the best people, who are experts in this field, to live-telecast the matches. This is a beginning and we have more plans to improve stadium experience as well as broadcast technology in the days to come,” APFA secretary Kipa Ajay informed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ Bengia Ajum ] YUPIA, 24 Dec: Capital Complex Football Club (CCFC) won the 8th edition of the Eagle Trophy Football Tournament after thrashing Keyi Panyor Football Club (KPFC) 8-0 in the final match played at the golden jubilee outdoor stadium here in Papum Pare district on Sunday. In a completely one-sided match, CCFC totally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[390,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bengia-ajum","8":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231532","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=231532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}