{"id":6565,"date":"2012-05-25T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T10:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6565"},"modified":"2012-05-25T10:03:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T10:03:55","slug":"santosh-trophy-tamil-nadu-to-face-manipur-in-semis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=6565","title":{"rendered":"Santosh Trophy: TN to face Manipur in semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/tamil-nadu-coach.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Santosh Trophy: Tamil Nadu to face Manipur in semis\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Cuttack<\/strong>: Manipur, who are still to have an I-League Club from the State look up to the Santosh Trophy to make a mark. \u201cWhen you look around, you will see footballers all over \u2013 on the streets, on the fields, on the grounds. The Ball stays an inseparable part of our lives,\u201d Premakanta Singh, Manipur\u2019s Assistant Coach, a former Senior Women\u2019s National Team Coach says in one breath. \u201cTo break into an I-League Club, you need the exposure. Santosh Trophy stays the platform for us,\u201d he quips.<\/p>\n<p>Kiron Khongshai, Gunabir Singh, Rennedy Singh, Tomba Singh, Gourmangi Singh \u2013 the list of Manipur players stay endless. It seems to be in the blood not only of the Manipuris but of the entire North-East region. After all, the first National Team Captain of Independent India Dr. T Aao also hails from the region, Nagaland.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know they will be nippy and come hard at us,\u201d Former India International, Syed Sabir Pasha, presently the Tamil Nadu Coach, maintains. \u201cThe average age of our side stays 24 and for 85 percent of our boys, this is their first major Championship,\u201d he informs. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s futile to expect a boy to stick to state team when they have offers from I-League teams. Sadly, we don\u2019t have any I-League team from our state. So the Santosh Trophy stays of utter importance to us,\u201d Pasha, who also works as the assistant Coach to Colm Joseph Toal, adds.<\/p>\n<p>Speak to Pasha and his eyes lit up about his association with the Santosh Trophy as a Player. \u201cDuring our days (in the 90s), it was different. Santosh trophy was all about glamour. West Bengal were the toughest to beat. They had almost the entire India XI line-up playing for them,\u201d he goes nostalgic. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNowadays, the concept is different as the tournament is all about development and for us; it stays our I-League.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNone of the four semifinalists in the tournament boast of an I-League club (Chirag Kerala have already been relegated). This proves there is talent all over. Give them the platform and they will entertain you,\u201d he ponders.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indian Sports News Network<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/football\/tamil-nadu-coach.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Santosh Trophy: Tamil Nadu to face Manipur in semis\" width=\"250\" style=\"float: left; margin: 6px;\" \/>Cuttack<\/strong>: Manipur, who are still to have an I-League Club from the State look up to the Santosh Trophy to make a mark. \u201cWhen you look around, you will see footballers all over \u2013 on the streets, on the fields, on the grounds. The Ball stays an inseparable part of our lives,\u201d Premakanta Singh, Manipur\u2019s Assistant Coach, a former Senior Women\u2019s National Team Coach says in one breath. \u201cTo break into an I-League Club, you need the exposure. Santosh Trophy stays the platform for us,\u201d he quips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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>Santosh Trophy: TN to face Manipur in semis - 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=6565\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Santosh Trophy: TN to face Manipur in semis - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cuttack: Manipur, who are still to have an I-League Club from the State look up to the Santosh Trophy to make a mark. \u201cWhen you look around, you will see footballers all over \u2013 on the streets, on the fields, on the grounds. 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