Bangladesh Krida Siksha Protisthan grabbed the last quarter-final berth available in the 57th Subroto Cup international football tournament at Ambedkar Stadium in the capital on Monday.
Bangladesh Krida Siksha Protisthan grabbed the last quarter-final berth available in the 57th Subroto Cup international football tournament at Ambedkar Stadium in the capital on Monday. The BKSP boys made the last eight with an all-win record in the group stage.
BKSP now join teams from Manipur, Jharkhand and Afghanistan in the quarter-finals.
In their last pool game, BKSP thumped The Air Force School 8-0 to edge out Ashoke Nagar Boys Senior Secondary School from 24 North Parganas (West Bengal), who beat Holy Spirit Institute from Margao (Goa) 2-0. But BKSP progressed to the knock stage by the virtue of beating the West Bengal boys 3-2 on Sunday.
Morsalin and Usuf Ali scored a brace each for BKSP, while A. Rehmat, Abbdul Kader, Mohammad Rakib and Tuhidul Islal struck once each to complete the rout. On the other hand, S. Afzal and Arindam Roy scored for the West Bengal squad in their match against Holy Spirit Institute.
In other inconsequential matches, St Xavier’s Higher School from Chhattisgarh scored 16 times without conceding a goal in Pool D, MSP Higher Secondary School from Kerala, helped by Shigil’s brace, beat Kendriya Vidyalaya (Gorakhpur) 2-0 in Pool C while Utkramit HS from Jharkhand downed Emerald Heights International School from Indore 6-0.
