Mahilpur, December 19:- The audience watched the two matches of Group-A of the 79th National Football Championship under the Santosh Trophy being organized by the Punjab Football Federation at the Principal Harbhajan Singh Football Stadium in Sri Guru Gobind Singh Khalsa College Mahilpur here with bated breath. In an important match, Punjab's football team has secured its place in the final by defeating Jammu and Kashmir by a margin of 1-0. The final match will be held in Assam in the coming days.
Earlier, in a separate match of the championship, Ladakh's team defeated Himachal Pradesh by a margin of 1-0. Deputy Speaker of Punjab Vidhan Sabha Jai ??Krishan Singh Raudi attended as the chief guest on this occasion. He got acquainted with the players and inspired the players to play with sportsmanship. On this occasion, Khalsa College Mahilpur Principal Dr. Parvinder Singh, SP Shaminderjit Singh Bains and Arjun Awardee Footballer Gurdev Singh Gill presided over the sports function.
In his address, he said that the football lovers of Mahilpur have been very enthusiastic about the Santosh Trophy matches and in the coming time also efforts will be made to organize matches related to such a prestigious championship in Mahilpur. On this occasion, the winning teams were honored with trophies by the organizers.
On this occasion, Dr. Harvinder Singh Bath, Arvinder Singh Haveli, Commander Hardev Singh Dhillon, Principal Tarsem Singh Bhinder, Harjinder Singh, Dr. Parampreet Singh Candowal, Master Baninder Singh, Engineer Tarlochan Singh, Iqbal Singh Khera, Vijay Bali, Dr. JB Sekhon, Dr. Rajkumar, Coach Charanjit Singh, Coach Harinder Sunny etc. were present along with many sports spectators.