Excelsior Sports Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 30: Chairman State Sports Club, J&K and MLA Jammu East, Rajesh Gupta, while addressing the media persons announced that first ever mega Football tournament will be organized at Jammu from December 1 to December 11 at Mini Stadium, Parade Ground, here.
24 teams from J&K and outside, including Army, BSF, Punjab, J&K Bank, Local Clubs will be participating in the Tournament.
Mr Gupta was flanked by Rakesh Khanna, Balbir Ram Rattan, Sunil Dogra, SM Gill and Bharat Bhushan.
He said that this new event named Pandit Premnath Dogra Memorial Football Gold Cup Tournament will have its first and inaugural match tomorrow and there will be a total of 23 matches.
He said the winners will be given Rs one lakh and the runners-up team Rs 50,0000, adding that the tournament will be inaugurated by Deputy Chief Minister and Chief Patron, Dr. Nirmal Singh, alongwith BJP State President, MLA and Patron Sat Sharma, Minister for Sports & Patron Imran Raza Ansari, Minister of State and Patron Sunil Sharma, Chairman State Sports Club, J&K, Rajesh Gupta (MLA) and President / Organizer State Sports Club, Rakesh Khanna.
He further said that for the smooth conduct of the entire tournament, various committees have been constituted. The Referee Committee includes Moon Stephen, Dheeraj Meenia, Rahul Sharma, Rakesh Kumar, Ricky Kumar, Suresh Gupta, Vijay Kumar, Koushal Kumar, Rinku Gill and, Eliza Sotaq.
The Technical Committee comprises of David Coach, Vishwa Mittar, Prem Singh, Shennaz Iqbal, Kamaljeet and Manoj Kumar.
Protest Committee has Dr. Niumolak Singh, Ramesh Chander, Ramesh Kumar, Moon Stephan, Mohit Verma and Yousuf Doni.
Similarly, Officers of the Disciplinary Committee has S.M. Gill (Chairman), Bharat Bhushan, Narinder Gupta and Sunil Khajuria.
Prominent Members of tournament committees include SM Gill, Mohan Lal, Bharat Bushan, Don, Fiestous Sohtra, Sunil Dogra, Kuldeep Kandhari, Rajinder Gupta, Raj Kumar, Sunny Sehgal, Arun Jasrotia, Gagan Kumar and Anil Sharma.
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