{"id":13979,"date":"2022-12-15T07:42:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-15T07:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/assam-rifles-conducts-first-ever-north-east-sentinels-football-cup\/"},"modified":"2022-12-15T07:42:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T07:42:10","slug":"assam-rifles-conducts-first-ever-north-east-sentinels-football-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/2022\/12\/15\/assam-rifles-conducts-first-ever-north-east-sentinels-football-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Assam Rifles Conducts First Ever North East Sentinels Football Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New Delhi (India), December 15<\/strong>: Assam Rifles as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and the Government of India Initiatives of \u2018Khelo India Abhiyan\u2019 and \u2018Fit India Movement\u2019, organised the first ever Assam Rifles annual football tournament across the football loving states of the North East. Branded as the Sentinels Cup in line with its motto of the Sentinels of the North East, the football tournament comprised of a total of ten teams from Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram, Tripura, Meghalaya, Assam, besides teams of DG AR, 164 Territorial Army, Kohima and 165 Territorial Army, Manipur. The tournament league phase was conducted in Dimapur, Nagaland. The semifinals and final were played at the Laitkor Garrison of the Assam Rifles at Shillong.<\/p>\n

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The Sentinels Cup was kicked off on 30 Nov 2022 at the Assam Rifles Training Centre and School at Dimapur, Nagaland amidst a grand opening ceremony that was graced by Shri Yanthungo Patton, the Honourable Deputy Chief Minister of Nagaland. After a very exciting competition between the ten teams with few nail biting finishes, four teams to include 165 Territorial Army Team, Hnahthial District Football Association Team from Mizoram, DG Assam Rifles Team and 164 Territorial Army Team qualified for the semifinals that was played at Shillong. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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The Final of the Sentinels Cup was played between DG Assam Rifles Team and 164 Territorial Army Team. Lt Gen P C Nair, AVSM, YSM, PhD, DG Assam Rifles was the Chief Guest.  The witnessing crowd was mesmerized by the quality of football played by both teams during the Final. DG Assam Rifles Team was crowned as Champions of the \u201cAssam Rifles Sentinels Football Cup 2022\u201d after defeating the 164 Territorial Army Team by 6-0 in the Final match played at Laitkor Garrison, Shillong on 12 Dec 2022.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Assam Rifles popularly known as the \u2018Sentinels of the North East\u2019 and \u2018Friends of the North East\u2019 already has an MoU with the Bhaichung Bhutia Football Academy and has an ongoing residential Football School programme as part of its Assam Rifles Public School (Sports). Tapping the football rich talent of the North East youth will further boost the Government of India Initiatives of Khelo India Abhiyan and Fit India Movement. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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New Delhi (India), December 15: Assam Rifles as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and the Government of India Initiatives of \u2018Khelo India Abhiyan\u2019 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[623],"class_list":["post-13979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livemumbai.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}