{"id":633,"date":"2015-11-24T05:09:25","date_gmt":"2015-11-24T05:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/morningpost.today\/eng\/?p=633"},"modified":"2018-03-08T04:59:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T04:59:26","slug":"manglore-overcomes-amankot-in-football-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/manglore-overcomes-amankot-in-football-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Manglore overcomes Amankot in Football final"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

MINGORA:\u00a0Prince Football Club Manglore defeated Young Man Amankot 1-0 in the final of the Major General Sanaullah Memorial Football Tournament here on Monday.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

The tournament which saw 30 top teams from Swat district take part with General Officer Commanding, Swat, Major General Nadir Khan distributing trophies and prizes at the closing ceremony.<\/strong><\/p>\n

More than the game, though, the tournament was a celebration showcasing the locals\u2019 love for the game where\u00a0thousands of football fans turned up to witness the final.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen every game of the tournament thanks to our great passion for the game,\u201d Khan Azam, a spectator from Mingora, said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFootball has been played and watched with passion here since the time Swat was a princely state [till it acceded to Pakistan in 1969]. The state rulers loved the game and constructed many grounds in Swat.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mohammad Pervez, the organising secretary of the tournament, said that the tournament began on November 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re really happy that a huge crowd turned up for every match of the tournament as football is the favourite sport of the Swatis,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Nisar Khan Alias Cemeti, a former Pakistan footballer, said Swati players were the best in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with many of them representing departmental teams.<\/p>\n

But as is the case with the rest of the country, the lack of resources was hampering their growth.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe don\u2019t have any facilities from the government for football and despite few facilities, the youngsters are good at the game due to their passion,\u201d Nisar told this scribe.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are only the grounds which were built by the former state rulers and if we are given more facilities, I\u2019m sure this region can give Pakistan international level players.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zarak Khan, a player from Manglore, was of the view that the tournament not only provided them with a chance to show their skills but also gave them the opportunity to meet players and people from different areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t merely a sport but a big source of socialising and promoting peace,\u201d he told Dawn. \u201cFootball is a very healthy pastime and we\u2019re always eager for such tournaments as huge crowds come to see us play.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Fazal Khaliq\u00a0 MINGORA:\u00a0Prince Football Club Manglore defeated Young Man Amankot 1-0 in the final of the Major General Sanaullah Memorial Football Tournament here on Monday.\u00a0 The tournament which saw 30 top teams from Swat district take part with General Officer Commanding, Swat, Major General Nadir Khan distributing trophies and prizes at the closing ceremony. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[159,160,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morningpostnews.pk\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}