{"id":79688,"date":"2019-09-23T01:00:01","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T19:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=79688"},"modified":"2019-09-23T01:00:01","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T19:30:01","slug":"swnfc-manipur-to-face-railways-in-summit-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/23\/swnfc-manipur-to-face-railways-in-summit-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"SWNFC: Manipur to face Railways in summit clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>PASIGHAT, Sep 22:<\/strong> Defending champion Manipur and the Railways will meet in the summit clash of the 25th Senior Women&#8217;s National Football Championship (SWNFC) on 24 September.<br \/>\nManipur, who have won the championship title 20 times since its introduction in 1991-92, stormed into the final, defeating Tamil Nadu 5-0 at the College of Horticulture &amp; Forestry playground here in East Siang district on Sunday.<br \/>\nManipur took the lead 10 minutes into the play with a goal from Captain Bala Devi. H Daya Devi netted the second goal in the 14th minute, before Irom Prameshwari Devi made it 3-0 in the 35th minute. H Daya Devi scored the fourth goal for Manipur in the 39th minute. She scored the team&#8217;s fifth and her third goal in the 84th minute.<br \/>\nThe Railways beat Odisha 3-1 in the first semifinal.<br \/>\nY Kamala Devi of the Railways scored a brace in the 10th and the 60th minute, while Mamta netted the third goal in the 23rd minute.<br \/>\nThe lone goal for Odisha was scored by Jasoda Munda, two minutes before the final hooter.<br \/>\nRailways striker Kamala Devi and Manipur\u2019s Bala Devi have been in top form in the tournament, having scored 20 goals each in five matches.<br \/>\nDaya Devi, Kamala&#8217;s Manipur teammate, stands third in the list of top goal scorers with nine goals in four matches.<br \/>\nThe Railways have won the championship title once, in 2015-16, beating Manipur 4-3 via penalty shootout.<br \/>\nManipur have reached the final of every edition of the SWNFC, except in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PASIGHAT, Sep 22: Defending champion Manipur and the Railways will meet in the summit clash of the 25th Senior Women&#8217;s National Football Championship (SWNFC) on 24 September. Manipur, who have won the championship title 20 times since its introduction in 1991-92, stormed into the final, defeating Tamil Nadu 5-0 at the College of Horticulture &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79688","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\/79688","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=79688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}