{"id":16500,"date":"2013-07-30T05:15:30","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=16500"},"modified":"2013-07-30T05:15:30","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T05:15:30","slug":"saff-u-16-cship-india-beat-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=16500","title":{"rendered":"SAFF U-16 C&#8217;ship: India beat Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-16499\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aiff-football-U-16.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"161\" alt=\"aiff-football-U-16\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aiff-football-U-16.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aiff-football-U-16-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Kathmandu: The Indian U-16 National Team beat Afghanistan U-16 Team 4-3 on Penalties to book their place in the Final of the SAFF U-16 Championship, at the Army Ground in Kathmandu, Nepal on Sunday (July 28, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>India will be playing Nepal in the Final on Tuesday (July 30, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>The semifinal clash headed straight into the Tie-Breaker after ninety minutes failed to separate the two outfits.\n<\/p>\n<p>For India, who are being represented by AIFF Regional Academy\u2019s U-15 boys, Bedashwor Singh, Prosenjit Chakraborty, Surya Tirkey and Aaron Rodrigues found the back of the net. Krishna Pandit\u2019s effort from eight yards, hit the woodwork.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We missed the first penalty. But in spite of that, my boys showed a lot of character to comeback and win the game,&#8221; Head Coach Goutam Ghosh said afer the match.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People say tie-breakers are all about luck but I don&#8217;t completely agree. It takes lot of skill to take and save penalties. I am proud of the way our Boys kept their calm and took the upper hand today in the tie-breaker,&#8221; added Ghosh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-16499\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aiff-football-U-16.jpg\" width=\"260\" height=\"161\" alt=\"aiff-football-U-16\" style=\"margin: 4px; float: left;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aiff-football-U-16.jpg 260w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/aiff-football-U-16-150x93.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 260px) 100vw, 260px\" \/>Kathmandu: The Indian U-16 National Team beat Afghanistan U-16 Team 4-3 on Penalties to book their place in the Final of the SAFF U-16 Championship, at the Army Ground in Kathmandu, Nepal on Sunday (July 28, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>India will be playing Nepal in the Final on Tuesday (July 30, 2013).<\/p>\n<p>The semifinal clash headed straight into the Tie-Breaker after ninety minutes failed to separate the two outfits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football-football"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>SAFF U-16 C&#039;ship: India beat Afghanistan - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=16500\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"SAFF U-16 C&#039;ship: India beat Afghanistan - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Kathmandu: The Indian U-16 National Team beat Afghanistan U-16 Team 4-3 on Penalties to book their place in the Final of the SAFF U-16 Championship, at the Army Ground in Kathmandu, Nepal on Sunday (July 28, 2013). 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