{"id":53230,"date":"2018-12-02T02:02:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=53230"},"modified":"2018-12-02T02:02:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-01T20:32:16","slug":"football-fever-catching-up-in-capital-complex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/02\/football-fever-catching-up-in-capital-complex\/","title":{"rendered":"Football fever catching up in Capital Complex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>NAHARLAGUN, Dec 1:<\/strong> With the final round of the Sub Junior Boys&#8217; National Football Championship all set to start here from Sunday, football fever is catching up in the Capital Complex.<br \/>\nHost Arunachal Pradesh, who, along with Mizoram had qualified for the championship from the North East zone, will take on Maharashtra in the opening match at 2 pm at the Rajiv Gandhi Stadium here.<br \/>\n&#8220;Arunachal will be playing in the championship for the first time since Arunachal Pradesh Football Association (APFA)&#8217;s inception 27 years ago&#8221;, said APFA secretary Kipa Ajay.<br \/>\nArunachal Pradesh has been placed in group &#8216;A&#8217; along with Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Odisha and Punjab. Telengana, Goa, Mizoram, Jharkhand and Haryana have been drawn in Group &#8216;B&#8217;.<br \/>\nThe winners and runners up of each group will qualify for the semifinal.<br \/>\nThe APFA has introduced e-ticketing for the convenience of the audience.<br \/>\nThe audience can book tickets in advance by logging onto www.henkako.com. The price per ticket has been fixed at Rs 100.<br \/>\nThe gates will open two hours before the start of the match.<br \/>\nTwo matches will be held in a day, and the match will be played under floodlights.<br \/>\nBoth the semifinals will be held on 13 December, and the final on 15 December.<br \/>\nThe APFA has strictly prohibited objectionable items, including water bottles, gutkha etc inside the stadium throughout the championship.<br \/>\nDrinking water arrangement will be made by the organizing committee.<br \/>\nDeputy Chief Minister Chowna Mein and Sports Minister Dr Mohesh Chai will attend the inaugural ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter NAHARLAGUN, Dec 1: With the final round of the Sub Junior Boys&#8217; National Football Championship all set to start here from Sunday, football fever is catching up in the Capital Complex. Host Arunachal Pradesh, who, along with Mizoram had qualified for the championship from the North East zone, will take on Maharashtra in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53233,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-53230","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\/53230","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=53230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}