Pakistan Sports Talk (Part II)

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Football championship Pindi move into super league

ISLAMABAD, May 24: Rawalpindi’s Young Rising Star joined their namesakes from Vehari in four-team super league of first National Women InterClub Football Championship when they overwhelmed Peshawar’s FATA Club 3-0 at OPF Ground, Sector H-8, here on Saturday.

Asima Tehseen and Nadia Bhatti, who have scored in every match so far, got two and one goals respectively. Midfielder Asima broke the deadlock in the ninth minute and four minutes later winger Nadia Bhatti moved in from right wing to make it 2- 0. Asima scooped her second with 26th minute free kick as winners led 3-0 at interval.

There was no scoring in second session. Both Asima and Nadia kept themselves in hunt for top scorer’s award with four goals each.

In Group C, the identical scoreline was recorded when Islamabad’s Margalla Club were caught in off-colour day and suffered 0-3 defeat at the hands of Balochistan United at Jinnah Sports Stadium, Islamabad.

Fast-moving front-runner Riffat Mehdi gave no room to rivals with two solo-effort goals in the 16th and 25th minutes. Balochistan United led 2-0 at interval and added the third in the final minute of the game through midfielder Shahida.

Meanwhile, in a Group-A match, WP Club brushed aside Fatima Club 4-0 in all-Lahore affair at Punjab University, Old Campus Ground, Lahore.

Midfielder Aqeela Naseem and striker Shabana Kausar struck twice in the match in which Fatima Club failed to show anything of praise and went out of contention with no point in two outings.

WP club led Group A with six points, followed by Sports Science WFC and Lahore Fighters with three points each.

WP Club put the things under control three minutes after kickoff when she hammered the opener. Striker Shabana Kausar made it 2-0 in the 19th minute as WP club led 2-0 at interval. Shabana netted her second goal in the 52nd minute and Aqeela rounded off the tally with her second few seconds before final whistle.

There will be no match on Sunday.The event will resume on Monday when WP Club will take on Lahore Fighter at Punjab University, Old Campus Ground, Lahore.

The following are the standings, tabulated under played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, against and points:— Group-A P W D L GF GA Pts WP Club 2 2 - - 5 0 6 Sports Sciences 2 1 - 1 8 1 3 Lahore Fighters 2 1 - 1 1 8 3 Fatima Club 2 - - 2 0 5 0 Group-B P W D L GF GA Pts YRS, Vehari 2 2 - - 11 0 6 Channan, Bhagwal 2 1 - 1 2 7 3 Channan, Sidhaar 2 - 2060 Group-C P W D L GF GA Pts YRS, Rawalpindi 3 3 - -8 2 9 Balochistan United 3 2 - 1 12 2 6 Margalla Club 3 1- 2 7 6 3 FATA Club 3 - - 3 0 17 0 —APP

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Looks like a gori

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Margalla Festival Twenty20 cricket tourney starts today

ISLAMABAD, May 24: Chairman Capital Development Authority (CDA) Kamran Lashari will inaugurate ICA-CDA Margalla Twenty20 Cricket Championship — the first floodlight tournament of the federal capital — here on Sunday.

The championship will be played in colour-clothing at Margalla Cricket Ground, G-9 Markaz. All 37 teams affiliated with Islamabad Cricket Association (ICA) will take part in this month- long tournament as a part of CDA’s Margalla Festival, an annual feature to engage community in healthy activities.

“It will be memorable championship and all the organized cricket clubs of Islamabad will enthusiastically participate in it,” said CDA’s Deputy Director General (Works) Sanaullah Aman, who is also head of the sports department of the Authority.

The championship to be played in colour-clothing with white cricket balls has jointly been organised under auspices of the ICA and the CDA for which special arrangements have been made.

Two matches will be played daily from 6.30pm. King’s Gymkhana will meet National in the inaugural match and the second match on the day will be contested between Essco and Model Town Gymkhana.—APP All the 37 teams have been divided into four groups:

Group-A: Rawal Town, Essco, Model Town, Junoon, Capital Gymkhana, Islamabad Gymkhana, Imran Memorial, XIStar, Islamabad Hawks.

Group-B: Al-Muslim, Margalla, Classic, Quaid-i-Azam, CDA, Mehran, CRA, Asif Memorial, National.

Group-C: Shaheen, Evan, Hassan Memorial, PBC, Muslim, Al- Fateh, Diamond, All-Young Stars, Millat.

Group-D: National, King’s Gymkhana, Ghouri, Young Capital, Majid Memorial, Lucky Star, Punjab, All Lucky Stars, Islamabad Greeners, P and T.—APP

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Stick in our throat

By A. Majid



Last week, the Pakistani hockey team put up another disap pointing show by finishing fourth at the Azlan Shah Hockey Tournament in Ipoh, Malaysia. One wonders what’s going to happen at the Beijing Olympics.
The team, led by fullback Zeeshan Ashraf, reached Malaysia on May 5, and according to the programme, the team was scheduled to fly from Kuala Lumpur for its European tour.

The Pakistan Hockey Federation had planned a five-nation tour starting with Malaysia, followed by the European trip to Germany, France, Belgium, rounding off with the fournation tournament in Dublin (Ireland). The expensive 42-day tour is aimed at team build up and regaining the gold medal that it last won for a third time 24 years ago at the 1984 Los Angles Olympic. The tour ends on June 15, and the squad leaves for Beijing in the first week of August to take part in the Olympic Games.

Argentina and India, who have failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics, met in the keenly contested final of the Azlan Shah cup. Argentina managed to win the tournament for the first time in its second appearance in the event defeating India by a golden goal in the sudden death phase of the match after playing a 1-1 draw in the regulation time.

India, out of the Olympic Games for the first time in 80 years, had 12 young (junior) players in its side. The Indian squad was virtually outplayed (1-5) by Argentina in the league match but later on India put up a better performance to reach the final of the event by beating Pakistan and Malaysia. On both occasions the margin was 2-1.

In its first leg of the tour, Pakistan’s performance turned out to be quite humiliating because it was the highest ranked of the seven teams that took part in the event. The green shirts should have won the Azlan Shah cup which they had last won five years ago.

Pakistan is among the top six teams for the Beijing Olympics. It was the hot favourite side to win the Ipoh tournament since the reigning Olympic champion, Australia (ranked No. 2 in the world), did not enter the tournament to defend the title. Moreover, in the absence of other topranking teams [Germany (No.1), the Netherlands (3) Spain (4) and South Korea (5)], Pakistan had a fairly good chance to win back the Azlan Shah tournament. Apart from Pakistan, the three Beijing Olympic qualifiers at Ipoh were New Zealand (No. 10), Belgium (12) and Canada (15).

Hockey pundits are of the view that in the absence of the world’s five leading teams, the 17th edition of the Azlan Shah cup was not a grade 1 event, and Pakistan’s failure is a matter of grave concern.

Pakistan, though, began the tournament on a promising note by beating last year’s runner-up Malaysia (32) in the first match, followed by an impressive 6-3 victory against New Zealand, and played a draw (3-3) against Argentina in the third match. It secured seven points from three matches and subsequently increased its points tally to 10 after registering a 2-1 win against Canada. But then Belgium gave an extraordinary performance with a surprising 5-3 result against Pakistan. However, Pakistan still had a chance needing just one point for a place in the final when the green shirts met India’s youthful side, but lost the match (2-1). Had Pakistan played a drawn game it would have reached the final.

As a result, Pakistan’s hopes for getting into the final rested on Malaysia’s victory against India on the last day of the single league matches on May 17. India defeated Malaysia 2-1 and reached the final, and Pakistan was out of the race.

Pakistan suffered another humiliation when New Zealand beat it in the match for the third position.

The final standings were: 1Agentina, 2-India, 3- New Zealand, 4Pakistan, 5-Canada, 6- Belgium, and 7-Malaysia. The points table at the end of league matches Played won drawn lost GF GA Points Argentina 6 4 2 0 19 8 14 India 6 4 0 2 17 16 12 Pakistan 6 3 1 2 18 16 10 N. Zealand 6 3 0 3 14 14 9 Belgum 6 2 0 4 15 17 6 Canada 6 1 2 3 17 12 5 Malaysia 6 1 1 4 9 16 4

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So the Argentinian and the Indian team failed to qualify for the Beijing Olympics! WOW!

[FK]

Continue here

If you want to look at the previous thread:

Pakistan Sports Talk (Part I)

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Originally Posted by FahadKhan

Continue here

If you want to look at the previous thread:

Pakistan Sports Talk (Part I)

NO!

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Can you please move all the posts I made today in that thread to this one?

[FK]

Ok

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Thanks.

Hopefully our hockey team can get a medal at the Olympics. Our only hope

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LAHORE, May 26: Four players of Pakistani origin settled in England and Germany will be contesting for the top honour under the newly-appointed captain Zahid Hameed in the South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) championship to be held jointly by Sri Lanka and Maldives from June 3.

Atif Bashir from the Welsh Premier League Berlin, Germany, will be making his debut for Pakistan while Adnan Farooq of the Tranmere Rovers Club, Zeeshan Rehman of Queen’s Park Rangers and Kashif Siddiq from Eckerd College, Florida, have represented the country earlier as well.

“Atif’s entry has further brightened Pakistan’s chances in the championship as he, like the other three foreign-based players, also happens to be in perfect form,” secretary Pakistan Football Federation (PFF) Ahmed Yar Lodhi told Dawn after the federation’s announcing a 20-member team for the contest.

While Atif and Kashif have already joined the ongoing training camp for the championship, Adnan and Zeeshan are expected to follow suit by May 28.

Pakistan, who are bronze-medallists of the 1997 championship at Kathmandu, have been placed in Group ‘A’ along with four-times gold medallist India, Maldives and Nepal, who will be playing their matches at the National Stadium in Maldives’s capital Male.

“The overseas players played their part brilliantly enabling us to achieve a score-less tie with the Asian powerhouse and champions Iraq in the 19th World Cup Qualifier in Damascus last year and their presence in the side this time will hopefully help Pakistan earn laurels,” he added.

Meanwhile, Pakistan coach Akhtar Mohiuddin stated that Atif’s inclusion should provide strength to the national side’s defence and midfield.

Atif returned to the Welsh Premier League in January 2008, switching from the Haverfordwest Welsh League side ENTO Aberaman. His previous spells include 19 league appearances with Afan Lido and Grange Quins clubs in the Top Flight.

Born in Germany, Atif was the youngster Cardiff City trainee when he moved to Wales. He has also played in the Welsh League for Maesteg Park and Taffs Well.

Meanwhile, Zahid, who led the Pakistan under-21 team in the Asia Cup qualifying round where his side beat Singapore in a home and away series, has been named captain in place of the injured Mohammad Essa, who aggravated an old thigh injury in the recently held National Football Challenge Cup in Karachi.

Squad:

Goal-keepers: Syed Sultan Ali, Bilal Rafiq (PIA).

Defenders: Samar Ishaq, Mohammad Ahmed (KRL), Naveed Akram (Wapda), Mohammad Imran (Army), Zeeshan Rehman (Queen’s Park Rangers), Mohammad Irfan, Nasrullah Khan (PIA).

Midfielders: Farooq Shah, Abdul Aziz (NBP), Adnan Farooq Ahmed (Tranmere Rovers), Atif Bashir (Haverfordwest County AFC), Jadid Khan (Afghan FC, Chaman), Imran Niazi (vice-captain), Zahid Hameed (captain), Kashif Siddiqui (Eckerd College, Florida).

Strikers: Arif Mehmood (Wapda), Mohammad Qasim (KRL), Asif Mehmood (Navy).

Officials: Akhtar Mohiuddin (coach), Mohammad Habib, Sajjad Mehmood (Assistant Coaches), Noman Ibrahim (GK coach), Kamran Mehdi (physiotherapist).

[KB]

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WTF!!! Just look at the last pic! How the hell is she able to play with all of her face covered??? She looks weird.

[KB]

I am actually glad to see that pic and the one previous...you can wear shorts or naqab. Thats a good thing that both are welcome and that her naqab didn't prevent her from playing.

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Shorts aren't welcome! None of them is wearning shorts.

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i guess cricket will also be posted here only??????
ne one watched IPL....?????

sohail tanveer got d purple cap.... (leading wicket taker)
his team won,,,got more then 8 crores...
****
rameez raja describes sohail's action as a helicopter action.. that he bowls twice @ d same time

but shahid afridi dissappointed...didnt fire @ all

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LMFAO @ the girl with the burqa

And yeah, Tanvir and Gul were the only Pakistanis to do well in the IPL. Glad to know Tanvirs team won, they looked like the best side.

I heard they're starting the PPL in 2009. Can't wait. I'll go see matches at the stadium as many times as I can.

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Geo Super Football League Final, 2007.



Believe it or not they even have cheerleaders.

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That was actually very good.

[siamu maharaj]

Originally Posted by brightside.

Geo Super Football League Final, 2007.



Believe it or not they even have cheerleaders.

Any videos of cheerleaders?