Lampard unsure of Terry staying on at Chelsea

London, July 20: Chelsea vice-captain Frank Lampard says he is not sure club and England skipper John Terry will stay on at Stamford Bridge.his startling admission is the most revealing indication yet that Terry could join Manchester City.

"I don’t know what he will do. I’ve been in John’s position and everyone at the club wants him to stay. I know what he’s going through. I had an option to leave last summer, to go with a manager in Jose Mourinho who I love. But it came to me at a time in my life that, maybe, just wasn’t right," The Sun quoted Lampard, as saying.

"You can never take away what he’s done for Chelsea. He’ll always be a legend. I hope and I’m confident that, whatever happens, he will be considered a legend at the club," he added.

Terry, 28, has yet to be offered a new deal and City’s interest intensifies with every day that passes without agreement between the Blues and their captain.

The Premier League’s richest club are willing to pay Terry over 200,000 pounds-a-week to make the switch but Lamps said that his mate will not move just for the money.
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CRPF sponsors camp

Imphal, July 15: A three-month football coaching camp for the Eastern Sporting Union, Wangkhei, was inaugurated by M.S. Raghava, DIG, CRPF today.

The camp, which is being sponsored by the Group Centre CRPF, Langjing under its civic action programme, features 25 senior male players of the ESU.

The estimated expenditure of the camp is Rs 2.59 lakhs, which includes kits.

The kits contain 50 footballs, 50 boots, six pairs of goalkeeping gloves, 29 anklets and kneecaps, 44 sets of jerseys and six goalkeeping shorts.

The camp will be held under two coaches.

Raghava, today urged the players to take full advantage of the programme. He added that the central paramilitary force would extend all possible help to Manipur’s sportsmen in the future too.

Ch. Birendra Singh IAS (Retd), while welcoming the CRPF effort, asked all the players to give in their best and get ready for the football session.

The coaching camp will serve as a launching pad for the 4th Manipur State League, which is likely to be held in August.

An exhibition football match between Eastern Sporting Union and Group Centre CRPF, Langjing, was held after the inauguration.

Eastern Sporting Union won the match 1-0.
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Real Madrid rules out bid for Liverpool’s Alonso

London, July 8 (ANI): Spanish football club Real Madrid seems to have lost interest in Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso.

The Spanish giants, who have spent around 180-million-pounds this summer, claim they cannot afford the midfielder.

Real wanted Alonso to provide the chances for their new strike trio of Cristiano Ronaldo, Kaka, and Karim Benzema.

But general director Jorge Valdano said: “Alonso is a priority if he fits into our budget and this doesn’t seem the case.

“Liverpool have taken up a difficult stance over Alonso. I don’t like to talk about the private details of negotiations. We are studying many alternatives,” The Sun quoted Valdano, as saying further.
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1st Masters' Cup Invitation Football Tournament, 2009 UVSA beats VSAC to win champion's trophy

Imphal, July 05 2009: As The 1st Masters' Cup Invitation Football Tournament, 2009 organised by the All Manipur Masters' Football Association concluded today at Mapal Kangjeibung, Imphal, United Veteran Sports Association, Lilong Chajing won the champion's trophy after winning the final match played today against Veteran Sports Association Churachandpur (VSAC) in a solitary goal.

It may be recalled that 20 different teams participated the tournament through four groups which was held at 10 different venues.

It was started on June 7 last.

President, Manipur Olympic Association (MOA), MLA Bijoy Koijam graced the closing ceremony as chief guest.

MLA S Kunjakeshwor, Superintendent of Police, CMTW, P Dhanakumar and President, IVFA S Rajen also participated the closing ceremony as guest of honours.

President, All Manipur Masters' Football Association, N Raghumani presided over the function.

Winner UVSA was awarded the champion's trophy along with a cash price of Rs 25,000.Runners Up VSAC was also awarded a cash prize of Rs 15,000 along with the trophy.

USSA, Konthoujam won the best discipline teams' title.

Best goalkeeper's award went to Y Khogen of UVSA.

N Bijoy of UVSA was awarded the title of man of the tournament.

Thangchinhao of VSAC won the title of man of the match.

The title of best striker went to N Muhindro of UVSA.

Earlier, in the final match played today.

UVSA defeated VSAC 1-0 and won the coveted champion's trophy.

Although they won the trophy UVSA players found it hard to tackle the players of VSAC throughout the match.

Condition was same on the side of VSAC too.

They found it hard to tackle the players of UVSA.

Both teams' players played the match with full determination to win.

They played the match with almost equal skills and tactics.

The winning solitary goal of UVSA was scored by N Muhindro in the 32nd minute of the match from a ball crossed by his teammate Krishna from the left flank.

VSAC's players tried hard to equalise the score position but their hard efforts went into vain against their strong opponents.

On the other hand, no players of UVSA too could scored any more goal against VSAC and the match concluded with UVSA winning by a solitary goal.
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Chajing veterans win Masters' Cup

Imphal, July 05 2009: N Muhindro scored off a Th Krishna pass as UVSA, chajing defeated VSAC, churachandpur by a solitary goal in the final of the 1st Masters' Cup Invitation Veteran Football Tournament at Mapal kangjeibung today.

The all important goal in the summit clash was scored in the 32nd minute of the match.

The champions walked home richer with the top cash prize of Rs 25,000 and the trophy while the Churachandpur veterans had to content with the Rs 15,000 runners-up award.

The final match and prize distribution ceremony were held with MOA president Bijoy Koijam (MLA) and president of All Manipur Masters' Football Association N Raghumani Meitei as the chief guest and president respectively.
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