Khyber Karwan Lion advanced to next round after recording victories on the opening day of the Peshawar Football League which got under way here at Qayyum Sports Complex on Thursday. In the first match Khyber Karwan Lion defeated DC Chitral Markoor in a thrilling 3-2 battle. Khyber Karwan Lion was two goals down at the end of the first session but it staged a strong comeback by scoring three consecutive goals in the second session to make the tally 3-2. Muhammad Nouman and Alamgir netted two quick goals through field attempts.
In the second match City Eagles and Islamia College Stoori played a 1-1 draw before City Eagles was leading 1-0 at half-time. Hashim scored a beautiful goal on the field attempt for City Eagles while Mehmood slammed in the equalizer in the second session.
In the third match of the days processing Town-3 Jagwar and Abaseen also played 1-1 draw. Yasir scored for Town-3 Jagwar and Abbas leveled the tally 1-1 for Abaseen. Vice Chancellor Sarhad University of Science and Technology Peshawar Salim Ur Rehman was the chief guest on this occasion, who formally made the commencement of the opening of Peshawar Football League in which a total 10 teams are taking part.
Director CECOS University Sohaib, Secretary KP Football Association Basit Kamal, international footballers Qazi Asif, Atiq Shinwari, Jamshed Khan, Allouddin, Zeeshan, officials of the other participating teams, players and large number of spectators were also present. In his welcome address organizing secretary and Chairman Youth Gleam Gul Haider thanked Director General Sports Junaid Khan and Director General Youth Asfandiyar Khan Khattak for extending their all-out financial and moral support in holding the event.
He said before holding the League, they have conducted open trials wherein 2000 football aspirants turned up for the trials and a selection committee headed by Basit Kamal short-listed 10 teams out of that short-listed players in order to involve maximum numbers of youth from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The teams comprising Qisa Khawani Darwash, City Eagles, Sarhad Nangayali, Islamia College Stoori, DC Chitral Markoor, Town-3 Jagwars, Hayatabad Tooryalay, Town-1 Tigers, DC Sarkar Peshawar and Khyber Karwan Azmari. The winner will be awarded Rs 0.1 million while the runners-up will get Rs 50,000, best goal-keeper, best player, best scorer, best emerging player and best referee will be awarded Rs 10,000 each.
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