{"id":54777,"date":"2018-12-15T01:59:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=54777"},"modified":"2018-12-15T01:59:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-14T20:29:50","slug":"excitement-high-as-arunachal-to-take-on-odisha-for-hero-sub-jr-nf-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/15\/excitement-high-as-arunachal-to-take-on-odisha-for-hero-sub-jr-nf-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Excitement high as Arunachal to take on Odisha for Hero Sub-Jr NF championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>NAHARALGUN, Dec 14:<\/strong> Excitement is running high for Saturday&#8217;s historic Hero Sub-Junior National Football Championship (NFC) final to be played between Arunac-hal Pradesh and Odisha.<br \/>\nThis is the first time that Arunachal Pradesh will play a final match in any major football event.<br \/>\nArunachal reached the final beating Mizoram 2-1 in extra-time in a nerve-wracking semifinal on Thursday.<br \/>\nIn the group level, they had beaten Maharashtra 1-0 in the opener, and drubbed Punjab 5-0 and Tamil Nadu 9-1 before going down fighting 0-1 to Odisha in their last match.<br \/>\nWith four wins and a draw, Odisha has remained unbeaten in the championship so far.<br \/>\nThey entered into the final with a morale-boosting 6-2 win over Jharkhand in the semifinal on Thursday.<br \/>\nWith both teams not having much to separate between them, it will be difficult to guess the clear victor. However, Arunachal will have the home advantage.<br \/>\nHead coach of Arunachal, Rocky Ramch-ing, was optimistic with his team, stating that the boys would perform up to their potential and win the match.<br \/>\nHe said Thursday&#8217;s semifinal win against Mizoram definitely boosted the morale of the team.<br \/>\n&#8220;I believe the boys will give their best,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\nThe match will start at 1:30 pm at RG Stadium here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter NAHARALGUN, Dec 14: Excitement is running high for Saturday&#8217;s historic Hero Sub-Junior National Football Championship (NFC) final to be played between Arunac-hal Pradesh and Odisha. This is the first time that Arunachal Pradesh will play a final match in any major football event. Arunachal reached the final beating Mizoram 2-1 in extra-time in [&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-54777","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\/54777","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=54777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}