Faisalabad regained the National Youth Champion of Pakistan title as both Faisalabad Yellow and Faisalabad White snatched berth in the 19th National U-18 Soccer Championship final at the Model Town Football Club (MTFC)'s colorful venue at C-Block, Model Town.
Faisalabad last won the title in 1990 when they won against Lahore in their own city. Faisalabad joined Army and Dhaka as two-time champion. Balochistan with Karachi and Railways have the honour of winning the National Youth Soccer title thrice.
Karachi and Dhaka were once the joint winners in 1966. The teams winning the event once are Sargodha, Multan, Rawalpindi, Punjab and Pakistan Steel. Organising Secretary Mian Rizwan Ali, match commissioner Yunus Kiani and three Technical Study Group members picked several players representing the Pakistani teams in the future.
Star players who had represented the teams were Chaudhry Asghar, Yunus Changezi (1964), Ali Nawaz (1966), Akbar Raisani, Muhammad Ali Shah (1972), Naushad Baloch, Mukhtar Ali (1979), Sharafat Ali, Khalid Mehmood, Jamshed Rana (1981), Mateen Akhter, Fayyaz Siddiqui (1982), Haji Sattar, Fidaur Rehman, Tariq Hussain, Abdul Wahid (1985), Qazi Ashfaq, Zahid Luqman, Imtiaz Butt, Nauman Ibrahim (1990).
Comments
Comments are closed for this article.